Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can last for anything between a weekend and three weeks and they involve journeying to a place ( sometimes a large house has been rented for the time ; sometimes a college ) where you will eat , talk , be taught , sleep , live writing in a totally concentrated way for the length of the course . |
| 2 | Just keep social engagements that involve eating to a minimum . |
| 3 | Lisa had been fully occupied explaining to a rather elderly lady why she could n't pick out the exact blooms that were to be delivered to her daughter-in-law in New Zealand . |
| 4 | But by comparing the bodies of two adult animals that are known to differ according to a single gene , they can see what effects that single gene has . |
| 5 | The watch , left , was designed according to an original Thirties blueprint . |
| 6 | With the exception of parts of the coastal plain , the late Saxon ‘ open field ’ pattern , with two or three large units divided into strips scattered according to a complex local hierarchy , was practically unknown in Sussex . |
| 7 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |
| 8 | To this end , the material will be reorganised according to a single system and an index and guide will be created . |
| 9 | All the remaining 25 patients ( 54% of the original 46 and 81% of the survivors ) were interviewed according to a standard formula , using Visick grading of general clinical condition , recording heartburn , regurgitation and dysphagia with DeMeester-Johnson reflux scale . |
| 10 | Making matters worse there were slip ups too when she tried miming to a backing tape . |
| 11 | Would you consider going to a doctor if he developed any mental instability ? |
| 12 | Warden then starts miming to a Ray Charles number , ‘ Do n't tell me your troubles , ’ in the manner of a Dennis Potter TV play . |
| 13 | Hosepipe bans over recent summers have meant keeping watering to a minimum — and digging out the old watering can . |
| 14 | Once the system is fully operational , then one may consider moving to an in-house installation if the economies are worthwhile . |
| 15 | And business executives have disliked travelling to a special studio . |
| 16 | It is clear that the Banks are preoccupied with keeping staffing to a minimum ; have no regard for retaining Key Posts and have totally disregarded Relief Staff . |
| 17 | To appreciate how an s-plane diagram can reveal the Fourier spectrum of a signal , first consider for simplicity the Laplace transform corresponding to an exponentially decaying signal . |
| 18 | The two claimed they were engaged , since an lranian woman caught talking to a man not related to her by blood or marriage is considered a prostitute . |
| 19 | In Saussure 's theory we identify and attach meaning to an individual word in a sequence by placing it mentally against the background of other words , not present in the sequence , which are both similar and different to it . |
| 20 | Expenditure related to the EAGGF ( Guarantee Section ) while officially justified according to a number of criteria ( Coleman 1983 ) , is certainly protectionist in effect . |
| 21 | Although most of the work reported in the literature has examined chaining to a separate overflow area , this is not the most effective way of using chaining . |
| 22 | DNA effectively ‘ makes ’ the proteins ; or at least , it provides the code which , after due translation , determines that each protein is formed according to a prescribed pattern . |
| 23 | All cases were regarded according to a classification of Isaacson et al into high grade and low grade B-cell mucosa associated lymphoid tissue . |
| 24 | Thus the system of exogamy prevailed , according to which a bride had to be obtained from another clan , ‘ bride-price ’ and dowry being given according to an agreement between the parents . |
| 25 | Meeting anybody in Baghdad these days involves listening to a hard-luck story , most of which is likely to be true . |
| 26 | The Yek who ruled this world lived according to a complex code of law at the very core of which was a presumption which affected every part of their existence — the belief that technological advancement was to a great extent incompatible with the maintenance of civilisation . |
| 27 | The capacity of a watercourse and the tolerable limits of polluting effluent are calculated according to a mathematical model , which ideally should be applied routinely and objectively to all dischargers regardless of their means , the costs of treatment , their prior efforts , or the demands made of their competitors . |
| 28 | Central government subsidies are to be calculated according to a complicated formula that takes into account house prices in each area . |
| 29 | Sale agreements commonly provide for the value of the pension rights to be calculated according to a formula set out in the agreement and for the detailed calculations to be agreed between the parties ' actuaries , or , if they do not agree , to be determined by another actuary acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator . |
| 30 | Rodomonte came crashing to a halt as withdrawal pains shot through his arms and legs . |