Example sentences of "and [v-ing] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was among the founders of the Association of Cricket Statisticians in 1973 , playing a prominent role in their series of publications on the players of each first-class county and producing the A to Z of Cricket Records in 1976 : ‘ I had seen a book on the football records and persuaded the publisher to try a similar volume on cricket records — not only listing them by explaining them . |
| 2 | Other goals for Ontos this year include , introducing Microsoft Corp Windows 3.0 client support for Ontos DB in June and porting the software to Windows NT . |
| 3 | She caught her usual bus , but instead of getting off at Frankfurter Allee and catching the S-Bahn to Biesdorf , she stayed on it , all the way to Ostkreuz where , like Herr Nordern once before her , she made her way to Ostkreuz Police Station . |
| 4 | Rain and wind swirled in , scattering papers and banging the door to Class 2 's room . |
| 5 | Instead of dispensing advice and controlling the purse strings , elders may find themselves servicing the young family by doing shopping and escorting the children to school . |
| 6 | With a certain creepy deference to the impassive head on its platter , the governor opened the meeting by onswitching a tridvid record and passing the conch to Dr Groome . |
| 7 | Now , it is by becoming and remaining the counterparty to contracts that LCH ensures performance by its own commercial strength and integrity , under the supervision of the Securities and Investments Board ( SIB ) , the regulatory agency under the 1986 Act . |
| 8 | De Klerk denied that this proved the existence of a " third force " operating within the SADF with the objective of fostering violence and impeding the transition to democracy [ ibid . ] . |
| 9 | Intended for middle managers with at least two years ' relevant experience it is based on distance learning course and assessment materials which can be integrated with the individual 's work-place activities , thereby minimising career disruptions and maximising the benefits to employee and employer alike . |
| 10 | He said Labour would boost agriculture by encouraging the production of food at home to improve Britain 's balance of payments deficit ; reforming the common agricultural policy , and shifting the emphasis to decision making at national and regional level . |
| 11 | Oliver 's permanent expression of sadness was very suitable , the undertaker thought , for collecting dead bodies from houses and accompanying the coffins to funerals . |
| 12 | The system is based on Intuitive 's IS/2 development tools , which can be used for customising and tailoring the system to client needs . |
| 13 | In the passage , he refers to the same combination of righteousness and giving the honour to God : |
| 14 | Singing and performing the actions to nursery songs form an important part of the class . |
| 15 | The new law legalizes the already common practice of felling native forests and converting the land to plantation use , reflecting the lobbying of an expanding and powerful forestry industry . |
| 16 | ‘ That would be like each doing their own version of NFS or TCP/IP and handing the advantage to Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , which has no systems management API yet , ’ warns Moss . |
| 17 | Unable to stand it any longer , Sheila went up to him and before he had time to react seized both envelopes , feverishly tearing open her own and handing the other to Mona , who appeared almost unable to take it . |
| 18 | With staff who are expert in many fields — from woodland , farmland and river management to socio-economics and interpreting the countryside to visitors — the RSPB can give valuable , practical and commonsense advice to those who have a responsibility for looking after the countryside . |
| 19 | And yet what was there to stop him walking down the hill that very morning and putting the question to Martha ? |
| 20 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 21 | We were drinking out of glass tumblers with British Rail logos on and generally chewing the fat and putting the world to rights . |
| 22 | This not only produces a balanced form to the plant , carrying and showing the blooms to advantage , but reduces hindrance to air movement to a minimum . |
| 23 | The CRP value is a surrogate for direct assessment of cytokine generation , and is valuable in confirming the presence of inflammation , assessing its severity , and monitoring the response to treatment and the development of complications . |
| 24 | Not that it would have mattered so much : we could have gone on , wrangling over terms and leaving the outcome to chance , and there is , after all , quite a lot to be said for anticipation . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , Miss Hardbroom , ’ agreed Mildred , dragging the cat from her front and reducing the cardigan to shreds at the same time . |