Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their big forwards made a science of gaining the hard yards up the middle , purely as a prelude to sending the ball wide to their backs . |
| 2 | Looking specifically to women 's issues , the participants agreed to start compiling a directory of women involved in the media in each country as a prelude to revitalising the Federation of African Media Women . |
| 3 | The intention of the assailants is obviously to create an ‘ ethnically clean ’ Serbian corridor in eastern Bosnia as a prelude to partitioning the state . |
| 4 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 5 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 6 | The purpose here essentially is to outline what we know as a prelude to tackling the themes and patterns which emerge in a more analytical way in subsequent chapters . |
| 7 | An agreement in September to create a racially bipartisan administration , as a prelude to returning the country to full democracy , prompted Rabuka to stage a second coup on Sept. 25 . |
| 8 | These ideologists were dedicated to formulating correct views of world problems , as a prelude to changing the world . |
| 9 | The status of a foetus in Scots damages law has been the subject of conflicting judgments and yesterday 's hearing at the Court of Session is seen as a prelude to having the controversy resolved by the House of Lords , the country 's highest civil court . |
| 10 | And she made clear only last week the depth of her opposition to giving the European Parliament more power . |
| 11 | While the ecclesiastical commission was deliberating , the government put its mind to resolving the complex set of problems which had arisen in the universities . |
| 12 | Instead Westminster Bank made him a junior at its Darlington branch : ‘ I did all the jobs from making the tea to fetching the ledgers from the safe . ’ |
| 13 | I shall give some space in this chapter to considering the single threads , the first strands , how they are chosen and set into place . |
| 14 | Much attention will be given throughout this chapter to monitoring the environment on a global basis . |
| 15 | However , before proceeding to the techniques of controlling extraneous variables , we must devote a chapter to discussing the logic of the procedure . |
| 16 | The authors also devote a chapter to describing the UMW 's violent conduct during strikes in 1977 and 1981 . |
| 17 | From starting a new loving liaison to celebrating the joys of wedded bliss this is your chance to show your other half just how much you love and adore them . |
| 18 | There is a useful analogy here with Monte Carlo significance testing which could be used to add a further degree of inferential screening to assessing the descriptive significance of the uncertainty bands in the context of a particular application . |
| 19 | If you are yearning to sling your hook , the short cut to learning the skill is to book a course with an experienced instructor . |
| 20 | Your generation will be the key to shaping the new Europe and seizing the new opportunities that could not be imagined during the Cold War . |
| 21 | A BIZARRE tale of heroin addiction , drug peddling , police raids and the missing page from an old chemistry journal lie behind the chance discovery in California of a chemical that may be the key to unlocking the mysteries of Parkinson 's Disease — a debilitating and incurable disease of the nervous system that afflicts the elderly . |
| 22 | Slavery is the key to unlocking the third chamber of Kane 's theorem about why blacks excel in sport : ‘ Of all the physical and psychological theories about the American black 's excellence in sport , none has proved more controversial than one of the least discussed : that slavery weeded out the weak ’ ( Kane , 1971 , p.80 ) . |
| 23 | The key to unlocking the secret of the system of precedent is the ability to unravel lengthy individual judgments in order to identify the key propositions of law relevant to the essential facts of the litigation . |
| 24 | On Dec. 17 in The Hague , 45 states and organizations signed the European Energy Charter ( agreed in November 1991 — see p. 38602 ) , described as " the key to unlocking the resources of the former Soviet bloc countries " in which 35-40 per cent of the world 's gas , half its coal and half its petroleum were located . |
| 25 | Training is also the key to unlocking the vast , untapped potential of individual women and men . |
| 26 | This is really the key to getting the economy stabilised but the Chancellor did n't have the courage of his convictions to do it . |
| 27 | The key to getting the reform through was held by business , which found itself confused . |
| 28 | The key to enjoying the martial arts is perseverance . |
| 29 | The key to completing the design was to add the input-output interface of Motorola 's 88110 RISC to the IBM chip , something that turned out to be easier than anticipated . |
| 30 | And the key to maintaining the regularity and discipline would be to walk out of my front door and do a circuit around the block and back home again . |