Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also useful is regular exercise , taking adequate daily calcium and not smoking or drinking alcohol to excess . |
| 2 | Information has been collected on households ' patterns of donating money and volunteering time to charities , individuals ' motives for giving , their attitudes to charities , and their knowledge of and views of covenanting and bequeathing money to charities . |
| 3 | ‘ What we Willis Brothers try to do , ’ Milton said , ‘ is take the magic out of shaping and apply number to art . |
| 4 | All of those things were barriers , discouraging and preventing access to education for the poorest people in our society . |
| 5 | The report noted that the industrialized countries could improve the lot of 1,100 million people living on an average per capita income equivalent to less than US$370 a year by increasing and targeting aid to countries committed to reducing poverty . |
| 6 | The general principle is that net gains can be made by identifying and giving effect to decomposability amongst the organization 's activities . |
| 7 | have gained some illustrative experience of observing lessons taught , and of preparing and presenting material to classes |
| 8 | The very intensity of their land-hunger , however , forced up the cost of both renting and buying land to levels which were quite unrelated to the land 's yield . |