Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Besides contributing to a deeper comprehension of the function of to , this study has also led to a fuller understanding of the role of the category of person in the infinitive . |
| 4 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 5 | This was an entirely false statement , obviously damaging to a thriving professional musician . |
| 6 | Either way he or she returns to disturb the heterosexual norm , especially in its masculine form , and does so according to a psychic and/or social dynamic which is intrinsically perverse : deviance emerges from the terms of its exclusion , eventually undermining that of which it was initially an effect , and which depended upon its exclusion . |
| 7 | English is finished as a common language , but that 's only according to a Frenchman . |
| 8 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 9 | Total , or , elsewhere , global , history assumes a spatio-temporal continuity between all phenomena , and a certain homogeneity between them insofar as they all express the same form of historicity — Althusser 's essential section — whereas in general history the problem is precisely to determine the relation between different series : whereas a total history draws everything together according to a single principle , a general history analyses the space of dispersion and heterogeneous temporalities . |
| 10 | Such groups may cohere together according to a wide variety of principles , e.g. by identification with a particular locality , a particular herd of livestock , a particular parcel of seed ( annually replaced ) , a particular lineage name transmitted from parent to child , and 50 on . |
| 11 | American troops were deployed more or less according to a plan , Operation 90–1002 , developed in the early-1980s to contain a southward thrust by the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | What we were criticized and several senior councillors quite rightly said , the five thousand pound we were spending was only going to a very few . |
| 13 | At the Yair ford , in mass , they turned to cross , the English guards there prudently withdrawing to a discreet distance , while trumpets sounded in all the enemy encampments . |
| 14 | ( This perhaps indicates that it was tactically inept in this case for the plaintiffs to seek to persuade the court that the whole package of information was confidential. ) 5 Whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired in the course of his career , but is merely selling to a third party information which he acquired in confidence in the course of his former employment Goulding J drew no such distinction . |
| 15 | In Section 12.7 there is a discussion of a number of factors which favour the use of short maturity contracts ( dividend risk , interest rate risk and mispricing risk ) for hedging , so leading to a rise in volume as delivery approaches . |
| 16 | A reduction of ozone would also cause more ultraviolet and visible radiation to reach the ground , so leading to a warming of the lower atmosphere and the earth 's surface . |
| 17 | But there are ways of gradually increasing daily physical activity without necessarily turning to a specific form of sport . |
| 18 | But the beauty and the loving care with which many a smaller city had been built and adorned in the early days of the Greek cities is a vital element in the history of the Greek city , obscurely pointing to a time , not of peace — for in Greece the lion never lay down with the lamb , and neighbouring cities constantly fought each other — but of more equal prosperity . |
| 19 | The advocates of the Government 's ‘ competing currencies ’ approach suggest that many of these gains would occur by merely moving to a ‘ hard ’ EMS in which currencies became progressively more fixed ( 3 ) . |
| 20 | We view it with pleasure for some time , and then , inevitably , at the right psychological moment , we turn back to the Parthenon with our interest renewed , perhaps moving to a different viewpoint , to see things differently . |
| 21 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 22 | I like to wear a lightweight windproof while travelling and trekking , only resorting to a waterproof when it is really wet . |
| 23 | He began to remark to others that he could not make the necessary synthesis , perhaps referring to a marriage of his romantic inclinations with the aim , inculcated in him by Colquhoun and MacBryde , to make it ‘ tight ’ , to achieve the kind of fully integrated compositional resolution often associated with classical art . |
| 24 | During the afternoon , while he sat idly chatting to a few men in the masons ' lean-to , James Menzies arrived , his brown horse soaked black . |
| 25 | Only later did Sukarno reveal the full venom of his animosity ( ‘ While I was taking hammer blows on the head his entire underground effort can be summed up by saying he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio ’ ) . |
| 26 | He threw out a hand , clutching at empty air , then fell backwards , tumbling head over heels down the steps , finally crashing to a stop at the bottom , where he lay in a spreading pool of blood . |
| 27 | A minority of landlords commanded sufficient capital to adapt successfully to farming based on hired labour and greater mechanization , thus contributing to a very sharp rise in Russia 's grain exports . |
| 28 | Derrida , of course , endorses this formulation , but stresses the principle of arbitrariness and differences as against the notion of the sign itself , since it risks degenerating into an entity and thus reverting to a metaphysical concept . |
| 29 | This will not affect anyone who was already contributing to a pension plan prior to July 1988 unless , that is , they actually wish to change . |
| 30 | It 's easy to forget that you are not listening to a mate in a pub telling her latest , raucous , embellished anecdotes . |