Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As well as all the obvious advice about not smoking , becoming too fat or drinking to excess , there is the important question of exercise . |
| 32 | From the defender 's point of view , the initial choice is between taking the case to Procedure Roll or agreeing to enquiry . |
| 33 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 34 | Chimbote was a dreadful place , litter everywhere and smelling to hell of oil . |
| 35 | A stepping-stone for many people is through the arts seen not just as providing means of expression but also as giving meaning and helping to structure experience . |
| 36 | Starting on dry land , there are 12 hard tennis courts , floodlit at night , two open-air squash courts and a daily programme of games and activities ranging from aerobics and trampolining to volleyball , basketball and table tennis . |
| 37 | Deletion clones in the mouse homolog T160 ( 22 ) and in rat HMG1 ( 35 ) have delineated the HMG-box region alone to be sufficient for interaction and binding to DNA . |
| 38 | RG and RGGF sequences have been found in several proteins related with nucleolar localization and binding to RNA ( 4 , 5 ) . |
| 39 | It is the contention of the polytraumatic theory that exactly the same thing occurred when the next fundamental change in subsistence-pattern occurred , namely that from hunting and gathering to agriculture . |
| 40 | There is a wide range of sexually aggressive actions from men to women which form a continuum from sex murders through rape and sexual assault to sexual harassment and flashing to wolf whistling . |
| 41 | Some of the conference 's decisions , he said , were " provoking a political crisis " and contributing to violence in the country . |
| 42 | How far can it be right for the judiciary , whom no one has elected , to assume the mantle of the legislature by inventing and applying to legislation , under the guise of construction , concepts of public policy which Parliament itself has deliberately refrained from expressing ? |
| 43 | Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other . |
| 44 | The purpose of the ‘ new ’ probation-order team would be to monitor standard operating procedures , research programme strategies , communications networks , command structures , and any other structural factors which might be linked to the corporation 's previous misbehaviour and then make recommendations which the company could not refuse to implement without the risk of revoking the probation licence and returning to court for resentencing . |
| 45 | Consider a salesman who has to visit each of n towns once , starting from and returning to town l . |
| 46 | What I need is a New Testament Christianity that speaks to the modern man that I am now ; a faith , in short , that is real and challenging to modernity . |
| 47 | Their design will allow Unisys to swap most components , such as chips , multiprocessing , memory , video controllers , disk and networking to leverage price , performance and reliability . |
| 48 | We gave chase using extra boost and climbing to height of 16000 . |
| 49 | Bodie flung himself to the window-sill , leaning hard up against the plate glass and searching to right and left of the playground . |
| 50 | But the notion that it is one of the rights of man to spend a fortnight , or a month , at Margate , or on the riviera , or in Santander , or Florida ; and that it is wrong and immoral and damaging to health to prevent it — this is modern . |
| 51 | We spend years at home , living , eating , decorating , cleaning up , drinking , watching TV and listening to music . |
| 52 | Among his interests he lists reading and listening to music . |
| 53 | A typical day for Elizabeth and Helen includes the usual range of personal and domestic tasks involved in looking after themselves and their flat with support , together with popular leisure activities such as watching television and listening to music . |
| 54 | The Editor found it pleasing to think of office workers relaxing in the saloon 's comfortable armchairs and listening to music for a while instead of the click of typewriters . |
| 55 | Right : Once a chaotic artists ' studio , this upstairs room is now used for making jewellery , reading and listening to music |
| 56 | She enjoys reading and listening to music . |
| 57 | I 'd rather be sitting in there and listening to music . |
| 58 | He is married with three children and likes woodworking and listening to organ music . |
| 59 | Though the majority of youth continued outwardly to behave in a conformist manner , the growth in numerous big cities of deliberately non-conformist and sometimes actively oppositionist youth groups delighting in physical as well as verbal attacks on Hitler Youth brigades , wearing ‘ western ’ clothes , aping English mannerisms , and listening to jazz , showed that Nazism was losing ground among what had been its strongest area of support . |
| 60 | He lay awake for a long time looking for possible connections between the incidents and listening to Rain breathing . |