Example sentences of "[adj] to [v-ing] the " in BNC.

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1 This chapter is about determining the norms of usage that characterize real speech communities and about the relevance of this to determining the direction of change within the communities .
2 What is the relevance of all this to understanding the nature of left hemisphere speech specialisation ?
3 Prone to throwing the stage into complete darkness , he then allowed a single candle , or dancing firelight , to illuminate his face , while the stage manager cast a white calcium beam on the actor 's head .
4 The figures may be particularly prone to underestimating the income of the highest earners , who have more opportunities to hide substantial amounts of income than middle and lower income groups .
5 Our way now should be clear to accepting the propriety of applying these principles to the modern-day working environment , calling the slaves , workers and the masters , bosses .
6 He feels searing anger , not constructive , not realistic , not tolerant ; no way clear to seeing the other point of view .
7 ‘ It reaches more people than other media too , ’ she suggested , never averse to singing the praises of radio .
8 Charles the Cheesemonger was not averse to using the parish church to record the existence of his children , but on this occasion he may have been under more pressure than usual from the Anglican minister to arrange this triple baptism .
9 This is not surprising : even Pilâtre de Rozier , the French balloonist , once filled his mouth with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen with a few to blowing the gases into a flame .
10 By instinct , the Americans are geared to winning , the British to playing the game .
11 For instance , a certain amount is allocated for the storage of stitch patterns A , B , C , or whatever , some to running the Form section , some to the technique and so on .
12 First of all there is the project document of which the format and content are so often quite unsuited to tackling the formidable tasks required for a successful conservation programme .
13 And then they would come from North Ronaldsay and that to the different to working the harvest again .
14 But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting .
15 Her attitude is central to breaking the deadlock .
16 We will begin by discussing the role of sugar puckering which we have recently suggested is central to characterising the fine structure of the DNA double helix ( 17 ) .
17 Isolation of those at the foot of the pyramid of authority , the Panopticon principle , was central to maintaining the image of the force on the street .
18 Hegemony has to be won and is central to maintaining the status quo in legal enactment .
19 Also , the Commission has taken the view that pure R&D agreements involving no restrictions on the behaviour of the parties may nevertheless be caught by Article 85(1) where the R&D is central to developing the market in question and the market is oligopolistic in structure .
20 To classify and measure the extent of immorality — to quite literally put it into discourse — was central to getting the problem under control .
21 To appreciate why certain questions are currently preoccupying psychobiologists , why they favour the particular answers that are in vogue , and why they seem to have neglected , until recently , many of the issues that non-psychologists would consider central to understanding the biological bases of behaviour , a short lesson on the history of psychobiology is relevant .
22 All of these descriptions of literacy practice , which I shall deal with in more detail below , suggest that attention to the ‘ interpersonal ’ , socially-conditioned aspects of literacy is central to understanding the nature of that practice .
23 As a result , women 's issues are often seen as irrelevant , or at best of low priority , and yet tacking women 's needs is central to improving the status of the most deprived — most of whom are women .
24 The main menu ( fig 6 ) presents some options additional to starting the text analysis , and figure 7 shows the next screen where a request is made for input specifying the required forms of output and the text file specification .
25 But where the BBC Governors appointed a Director-General to run the service , the ITA selected companies from competing applicants and awarded franchises to run the service in different geographical regions , subject to meeting the ITA 's programme standards .
26 To that end she had a place at Norwich City College to read for a B A in hospitality management subject to achieving the right grades in her A levels and achieving O level maths or its equivalent .
27 Part II privilege extends , subject to affording the victim a reasonable right of reply , to fair and accurate reports of : Findings or decisions ( not necessarily the evidence on which they are based ) of any association ( or committees of associations ) formed in the United Kingdom , and empowered by its constitution to exercise control over , or adjudicate on matters relating to : ( a ) art , science , religion or learning ( b ) any trade , business , industry or profession ( c ) persons connected with games , sports or pastimes and who are contractually subject to the Association .
28 Record the salient terms of the sale ( eg the purchase price , whether the property is freehold or leasehold , desired date of completion , etc ; in the case of a buyer , that the purchase is subject to selling the buyer 's own house or seeking a mortgage and to keep you informed as to his or her success ) .
29 Obviously , if there is not such a situation , the company should invest in every positive-NPV product available to it , subject to having the capacity to manage investment on that scale .
30 Here was another example of the capriciousness and artificiality of our adversarial system of justice , geared as much to stifling the truth as to revealing it .
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