Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 2 | He said , love goes on happening to you . |
| 3 | That community not only traverses frontiers , to form an invisible college ; it also extends , for some subjects , beyond institutions of higher education to include research institutes , industrial laboratories , professionals working in the field , and the individual scholar who ( no longer based in an institution ) still goes on contributing to the literature . |
| 4 | One day , in the dim and distant future , I expect that I shall want to move into different arenas , but I imagine that I shall continue as an NCT member , not just to receive my favourite journal , New Generation but also to carry on contributing to my favourite charity . |
| 5 | Unemployment now is set to go on rising to 3.3 million . |
| 6 | Because of the continuous pressure exerted by Irish , Black and other women over the years , some English Women 's Movement has died and that if they want must wake up to the fact that the middle-class , gentile English Women 's Movement had died and that if they want to go on referring to us as ethnic minorities then they will have to include themselves as a separate group . |
| 7 | THE GOVERNMENT told British firms to go on exporting to Iraq , even though it knew parts were being used to build up Saddam 's war machine . |
| 8 | Or would it be a sign of still greater maturity for their staff to go on contributing to a national system , a system in which the collaboration of the entire academic community could raise standards higher and judge quality more surely ? |
| 9 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 10 | That evening the periti were thanked for their help , and urged to go on talking to bishops now that they had learned to do so . |
| 11 | Two of them are ‘ common ’ sails , in which slats could be adjusted manually according to the speed and direction of the wind . |
| 12 | These schemes and the benefits they provide , in general , are organised hierarchically according to employment status and occupational class ( James , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | Strange as the taste of defeat was , however , Kylie shrugged off the episode and instead carried on looking to the future . |
| 14 | With any luck , it should not need much doing to it over the next few years . |
| 15 | The colour may be varied perhaps according to the type of tools put out with it ; ‘ natural ’ for pastry cutters and patty tins , for instance . |
| 16 | The lighter the line the less stiff it is , and the more supple the line the more the bait will behave naturally according to the nuances of the current . |
| 17 | I am sure that they did not consider just talking to London Transport about that . |
| 18 | Americans knew far too much about the reality of strikes to accept a film in which , in the words of James Shelley Hamilton , ‘ the trouble arises not from working conditions but from a professional trouble-maker and is solved not according to any principles but by an act of sheer moronic terrorism ’ . |
| 19 | Serious cinema 's attempts to portray sexual passion have generally succeeded best according to the extent they have ignored this temptation : think of Brando , obese , with straggling grey hair and face plastered with pan-stick , howling obscenities as he floors Maria Schneider ; or Dennis Hopper , jumping on Isabella Rossellini like a mad dog with velvet , scissors , and mask . |
| 20 | In this one episode we find interconnections with race , class , colonialism , and ( cultural ) imperialism , and in ironic , domestic , tragically intricate ways : witness Gide finally capitulating to the class , racial , and cultural prejudices of his own culture , as voiced through his mother , who in turn speaks through her servant . |
| 21 | The trouble is that there are just not enough places available at the moment , and in recent years local authorities have been unable to provide more owing to the shortage of funds and the cash limits imposed on local authority expenditure by central government . |
| 22 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 23 | We only feel emotionally comfortable when everything can be tidily sorted out according to categories . |
| 24 | The differentiation within the examination is to be carried out according to strict criteria , laying down in detail what the candidate is expected to know , understand , and be able to do . |
| 25 | Suicide is carried out according to a culturally standardized formula : after two weeks of sulking , one finally withdraws into the deep forest away from all human habitation , and hangs oneself from a tree . |
| 26 | The Stone of Destiny was in alien hands , but in other respects the coronation ceremony on 25 March 1306 was carried out according to tradition . |
| 27 | The ultimate criterion for the presence of pollution in law , in contrast with other more familiar forms of offence , is a test carried out according to the supposedly ‘ objective ’ precepts of natural scientific ( predominantly chemical ) analysis . |
| 28 | Routine river sampling is carried out according to a schedule arranged by the laboratory , standardized as to place and , as far as possible , time . |
| 29 | The starting point was the issue of the opportunities offered to socialists by the current form of capitalist property in Britain , and my conclusion is that the socialised deployment of the personal sector financial surplus would permit a greatly accelerated rate of productive investment , yielding dividends in terms of socially useful output and employment , provided that the deployment of funds be carried out according to fairly well-defined criteria of rationality rather than merely in response to ad hoc political pressure . |
| 30 | PCR amplification was carried out according to Perkin Elmer Cetus instructions in a final volume of 50 µl with 50 pmoles of 5' and 3' primers , 200 mM dNTPS , 0.5U of Taq polymerase ( Cetus Corp. ) in PCR buffer ( 2.5 mM MgCl 2 , 50 mM KCl , 10 mM Tris-HCl [ pH 8.3 ] , 0.001% gelatin ) . |