Example sentences of "and [v-ing] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Blackburn v. Attorney-General a declaration was sought to the effect that by becoming a party to the Treaty of Rome527 and submitting to the law-making competence of the European Communities , Britain would partially surrender its sovereignty contrary to its law . |
| 2 | The existence now of eight to ten established galleries in Taiwan selling first generation paintings and catering to the contemporary market indicates the potential size of the market to which we can appeal . |
| 3 | There were strict controls over the export of capital and the City 's ability to invest abroad ( outside the group of countries known as the Overseas Sterling Area and consisting to a large extent of former members of the Empire ) was restricted . |
| 4 | Until the end of April Margot Gordon and Marcello Aldega will be showing a number of pictures from their 1992 catalogue , including : Fra Bartolommeo 's ‘ Holy Family with the infant St John the Baptist ’ dated by Chris Fisher to around 1515–16 ; a ‘ Nativity with Saints ’ by Penni , attributed by Nicholas Turner ; a late ‘ Male Profile ’ by Parmigianino , possibly a self-portrait ; a ‘ Putto ’ by Annibale Carracci , attributed by Oberhuber and relating to the upper part of the S. Gregorio altarpiece , Bologna ; two sheets by Simone Cantarini , ‘ Jove and Ganymede ’ and a ‘ Male figure ’ . |
| 5 | Time and again , witnesses told parliamentary commissions that women workers were either girls living at home with their parents and contributing to a multi-income household , or that if married , they were earning " pocket money " . |
| 6 | A number of our teachers are particularly interested in the field of SPECIAL NEEDS , attending , organising and contributing to a wide range of in-service training to update their knowledge through lectures , seminars , workshops etc . |
| 7 | Much of the Colombian countryside has been turned over to the growing of soya and sorghum to feed chickens , thus depriving the Colombian peasants in the area of a food supply and contributing to the increased protein deficit in Colombia . |
| 8 | All those aged 16 — 64 are gainfully employed and contributing to the social welfare support of the two age extremes of the population . |
| 9 | 6 The exercise is completed by landing and returning to the crouched position . |
| 10 | This is an unpleasant discovery which may shock you into giving up and returning to the relative comfort of Stage 1 . |
| 11 | The ending of the novel is too pat and contrived , but in the course of it Tabucchi has created an India which is constantly surprising and challenging to the European traveller/narrator/reader without ever allowing its mysticism or its exoticism to run away with it , for the sub-continent is also an ironically observed tourists ' India of hotels , buses , taxis , sights and restaurants . |
| 12 | The communiqué outlined five principles for drawing up and implementing the five- and 10-year plans : ( i ) " firmly follow the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics " ; ( ii ) " firmly push forward reform and opening to the outside world " ; ( iii ) " firmly implement the principle of developing the national economy in a sustained , stable and co-ordinated manner " ; ( iv ) " firmly follow the principle of self-reliance , hard struggle and building up the country through thrift and diligence " ; and ( v ) " firmly implement the principle of promoting both material civilization and socialist culture and ethics " . |
| 13 | There are English law cases of the late fifteenth-century for not providing meat , drink , and lodging to a retired father-in-law , while Swedish High Court disputes of two centuries later show grievances ranging from poor food to cursing and physical violence . |
| 14 | When you are sleepy the muscles around your eyes relax and your vision may become blurred — remember what it is like sitting and listening to a boring speaker and how difficult it is to focus clearly upon him . |
| 15 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 16 | They were hot and prickly to wear , and impossible to keep clean , but they charmed the child so thoroughly that she was content to sit as still and silent as a doll eyeing the dazzling frills and listening to the faint crackle of the underskirts . |
| 17 | My first memory is of sitting on a gravestone in that churchyard one cold , grey , December afternoon , looking out at the dark , flat , wild marshes divided by the black line of the River Thames , and listening to the rushing sound of the sea in the distance . |
| 18 | After a long while , watching the attack and listening to the screeching wood , Tallis had had enough . |
| 19 | Dustin spent hours watching and listening to the old man . |
| 20 | I sat with one eye on the clock , waiting my turn and listening to the twenty-fifth rendering of ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 21 | Actors in travelling companies used to set up their stage in a town or village , mix among the inhabitants , watching and listening to the local news , gossip and scandal . |
| 22 | On Saturday I sat there watching his team lose at home to Chelsea and listening to an Australian Evertonian who was back at Goodison for the first time since he emigrated in 1985 . |
| 23 | ‘ If only one were going to court freely and looking to a bright future — 't is different for you ! ’ |
| 24 | ( fl. 796–821 ) , king of Mercia , son of Cuthbert , and according to a contemporary genealogy descended from Cenwealh , brother of King Penda [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | More than 10,000 Soviet troops had left Hungary since the start of a partial withdrawal in April 1989 [ see p. 36595 ] , and according to a Soviet announcement on Dec. 28 the withdrawal of another 8,000 troops was envisaged for 1990 , but this would still leave a Soviet presence estimated at between 37,000 and 44,000 troops . |
| 26 | Band G is for properties assessed at upwards of £106,000 , and according to a recent information leaflet the assessment is based on 1991 values . |
| 27 | In a tribal village , in Africa say , a boy is born to a particular woman who , obeying the customs of her people , proceeds to rear him either under conditions of high sociability or relative isolation and according to a particular regime of toilet training and weaning . |
| 28 | It was a Sunday and according to the official explanation , the airline fax and computer was not in operation . |
| 29 | Patients referred for diagnostic studies were grouped according to their symptoms , whether symptoms developed after operation , and according to the stated anticipation of the result , slow or fast emptying , recorded by the referring clinician . |
| 30 | Again , according to Bernstein ( 1975 ) , Ball ( 1981 ) , and many more , schooling can have opposite effects on children according to whether children have been socialized into working-class or middle-class aspirations , and according to the actual way the schooling process is structured by the state , the teachers , and the subject-disciplines . |