Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [verb] [noun] 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 The most basic of all human drives is directed towards forming and sustaining attachments to others .
3 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 .
4 Although dating and attributing coins to mints require different methods , the preliminary step is the same in both cases .
5 ‘ What we Willis Brothers try to do , ’ Milton said , ‘ is take the magic out of shaping and apply number to art .
6 All of those things were barriers , discouraging and preventing access to education for the poorest people in our society .
7 She is seeking funding for a range of projects from tailoring and knitting bazaars to poultry raising .
8 The subcontractor will also have an increased administrative burden in providing annual accounts for the Inland Revenue , preparing estimates and calculating and monitoring payments to employees irrespective of whether they are self-employed or engaged on the PAYE scheme .
9 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 .
10 The general principle is that net gains can be made by identifying and giving effect to decomposability amongst the organization 's activities .
11 The Animal Welfare Foundation is the British Veterinary Association 's charity which aims to utilise the veterinary profession 's expertise in identifying and finding solutions to animal welfare problems .
12 have gained some illustrative experience of observing lessons taught , and of preparing and presenting material to classes
13 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 .
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