Example sentences of "of [noun] [v-ing] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the chivalry of Abyssinia going forth to war , unchanged as yet from the armies of the past . |
| 2 | A further factor in the clearing of forest leading directly to farming is warfare . |
| 3 | Consumers pay either through insurance or income tax for health services , hence there is no true test of the New Right model of suppliers reacting directly to consumer preferences in the market place . |
| 4 | My Dad used to say , ‘ Now look what you 've done to your mother , ’ and if I answered back , he would start pelting things at me — plates , cups , his dinner , the carving knife , and once a picture of Jesus floating up to heaven with a lamb tucked under each arm . |
| 5 | Simultaneously , they propose the general liberalisation of prices applying both to enterprise and the public . |
| 6 | The development of relevant critical factors needs to be based on a properly sequenced series of requirements leading logically to success in the market place and hence NPV . |
| 7 | The only way round this conclusion is to suppose that instead of the chain of justification stretching away to infinity , it turns round on its tail and joins up with itself at some point , forming a circle . |
| 8 | A further set of issues contributing significantly to globalization concerns the environment . |
| 9 | York Euro MP Edward McMillan-Scott welcomed the move which he says overturns 1000 years of history dating back to Viking raids on Britain . |
| 10 | And yet the proportion of women going out to work has doubled over the last thirty-five years ( from 30% to 60% between 1951 and 1987 ) , and almost all this increase is in part-time work . |