Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 2 | That magnificent engineering achievement the Humber Bridge is further opening up the area , improving communications and eventually leading to an East Coast motorway , linking up with newly completed roads on the north bank . |
| 3 | However , there were a few outliers with values of over 0.4% , and so marking to the market occasionally had an important effect on arbitrage profits . |
| 4 | Others have set up one-year and two-year training courses in church planting , encouraging those being trained to pay for the privilege and so contributing to the financing of church planting , as well as providing workers in training . |
| 5 | Although many go unrecognized , stray finds are more commonly discovered than sites , and every one is potentially important , adding to archaeological evidence , and perhaps leading to the discovery of a new site . |
| 6 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 7 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 8 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 9 | A statement may be entirely false , and deeply upsetting to the person about whom it is made . |
| 10 | Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment . |
| 11 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
| 12 | Aware of how precarious his position was , and still clinging to the Entente as the only hope in the shifting pattern of the European system , he had taken the unusual step of sending Eugénie to visit Queen Victoria at Osborne in the July of 1867 in order to find out the Queen 's reactions to the situation . |
| 13 | Slowly but surely Carter are on the move again , still pertinent and still clinging to the plot . |
| 14 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 15 | The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition . |
| 16 | It is one in which young people often start life in improved or ‘ gentrified ’ housing in inner urban areas , thence progressing to large family homes in the outer suburbs and later retiring to a house purpose-made for well-off home owners . |
| 17 | Speaking of ex united players , how much was Cuntona valued at and also according to the sun today ( come on Sean there 's no excuse for buying the Torygraph the Sun 's only 20P ! ! ) |
| 18 | The years were not numbered in a linear succession but according to a particular pharaoh 's reign , each mounting the throne in the year 1 , and also according to the levy of taxes . |
| 19 | We have been eating together quite a bit , and also travelling to the University together on the bus — the University being about 8 miles from the city centre . |
| 20 | INTEGRAL will follow up observations from the Russian GRANAT mission ( which uses the French gamma-ray telescope SIGMA ) launched in 1989 and now coming to the end of its mission , and the US Compton Gamma Ray Observatory , which was launched by the space shuttle in April 1991 . |
| 21 | With a revised scale for its deficiency payments , in effect a reduction of 50% grant-aid to WEA classes in the county , the LEA with only marginally increased costs was seen to be acceding to public demand for continuity and simultaneously responding to the recommendation of the Carnegie Trustees . |
| 22 | First , they will be required to distribute most ( possibly around three-quarters ) of these funds ( the ‘ aggregated schools budget ’ ) between schools strictly and even-handedly according to a formula , to be devised by each LEA but requiring approval by the DES . |
| 23 | This is mainly what we are concerned with here , as it these areas that can cause us problems when designing and then transferring to the console . |
| 24 | UI president Peter Cunningham believes the new ABI could mean up to 75% commonality between the systems for the software programmer , initially on the client side and then moving to the server . |
| 25 | St Louis would be a nearly two-hour flight , and then getting to the university and making polite conversation … |
| 26 | When she looked up , Daak 's headless body was still stumbling forward , collapsing slowly and then crashing to the floor like a felled tree . |
| 27 | We thought about going down on the saturday and staying at Great Yarmouth and then driving to the match . |
| 28 | It ended in a choking splutter as Sir Thomas , following Nancy 's tragic end , collapsed to his knees , clutching at and dragging over the lectern , and then falling to the floor where he lay as insensible as Nancy herself . |
| 29 | That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root . |
| 30 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |