Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into the computer enabling them to be further processed without the necessity of reproducing the original . |
| 2 | People born since the 1890s have been unnaturally large because they have eaten too much protein believing it to be essential for growth , says survey author Geoffrey Cannon in New Woman magazine . |
| 3 | Thames will have a 15 per cent stake in the unnamed channel , with BBCE limiting itself to 20 per cent . |
| 4 | We expected handshakes all round , the departure of the PM to affairs of state , and an aide leading us to an ante-room for ginger snaps and coffee . |
| 5 | In this speech , Mr Patten confirmed himself as the leading exponent in the Cabinet of a traditional Toryism owing nothing to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | They carry on average only 2.5 grains each and , as the corollas fall in the morning , they ny back up to the canopy , where they effect pollination , any slight wind drifting them to other trees . |
| 7 | He was in the courtyard , unfastening a pair of skis , his jet-black ski-suit moulding itself to his body in a way that drew her glance whether she liked it or not . |
| 8 | Sandwiched between them are Gloucester who lost their 100 per cent record at Saracens , the London club holding them to a 12–12 draw . |
| 9 | He 's got a nerve asking you to , well letting you do this . |
| 10 | But one day in 1977 a rather special envelope arrived , bearing an engraved card inviting me to be a guest of honour at the Women of the Year lunch at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 11 | The children were killed when masked gunmen opened fire on the minibus taking them to school . |
| 12 | I remember mummy putting us to bed at six . |
| 13 | As we approached we could hear the real Chairman of the Ontario Jockey Club welcoming everyone to the adventure and we could see Zak and the other actors waiting for him to finish so that they could get on with the mystery . |
| 14 | They shouted from their car telling him to cycle properly . |
| 15 | Instead , he had a blue card telling him to be at the hospital for his first appointment with a National Health psychotherapist , a photograph of a fair-haired woman with green eyes , a driving licence , a library ticket , a yellowed old newspaper cutting about a forgotten murder , and a much fresher , more succinct bit of print torn from last Sunday 's newspaper . |
| 16 | Prime ministerial power , and therefore prime ministerial government is challenged ; Cabinet government and collective responsibility are challenged because of the claim that the first allegiance of a Labour minister is not to the Cabinet but to the mandate given by the party conference ; parliamentary government and the autonomy of MPs to deliberate as representatives is challenged through the notion of mandate reducing them to delegates ; and liberal-democracy itself is challenged because of a refusal to accept limits to participation and to the role of the state in the struggle to attain socialism through democracy . |
| 17 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 18 | The two-seater training planes — to go into service from 1994 — have night vision equipment allowing them to be used on a battle frontline . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm interested in knowing more about you , ’ he said musingly , leaning back in his chair , the heavy-lidded grey gaze unsettling her to a degree she found hard to accept . |
| 20 | The wind was tugging at her hair , the setting sun turning it to false and fleeting gold . |
| 21 | It was a dish owing nothing to Sammut 's sex and everything to Provence . |
| 22 | Parliamentary sovereignty is still intact in so far as Parliament can still repeal the act committing us to entry . |
| 23 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 24 | A further door led off to the right , with a tiled passage taking her to the bathroom , and another large square room at the end , which was probably the dining-room . |
| 25 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 26 | Additionally , the holder clamp for the lower bearing of the main rotor drive shaft had torn away from the bracket mounting it to the airframe structure . |
| 27 | Then it surged upwards and forwards with a noise like a washing machine spinning itself to oblivion , and crashed into the underside of the platform . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , dear , ’ Fabia muttered , trying to look intelligent but an alternator meaning nothing to her . |
| 29 | She turned her face away , embarrassment bringing her to the brink of tears . |
| 30 | Even in the half-tones of night she could see the narrowing of those dangerous sapphire eyes , see sparks of desire bringing them to their full colour . |