Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia . |
| 2 | He had already considered returning to London in the closing stages of the war , but had thought better of it . |
| 3 | Surely , as prime evidence of date and function the artefacts must be integrated into the excavation report itself and the artificial division into materials replaced by objects grouped according to function and deposit . |
| 4 | The brief comprised a list of about 80 species for each chart , grouped according to pollution tolerance . |
| 5 | Vehicles might be grouped according to colour , use , whether ‘ broken down ’ , number of wheels , etc . |
| 6 | Use wire plate hangers to hang a collection of plates on the walls , grouped according to colour , size or origin . |
| 7 | However , when the " high use " of temporary workers was examined , there were no significant differences between establishments grouped according to size . |
| 8 | The Southern Slavs argued for ‘ personal cultural autonomy ’ — that is , the inhabitants of the empire would be grouped according to culture ( regardless of where they lived ) , and their cultural-educational affairs directed by an elected national council . |
| 9 | ‘ When the firms were grouped according to similarity of objectives and techniques of production , and classified in order of the technical complexity of the production systems , each production system was found to be associated with a characteristic pattern of organisation . |
| 10 | They produce a leaflet called The Accommodation Barns Guide 1991 which contains useful information and lists of camping barns and bunkhouses grouped according to county . |
| 11 | These were grouped according to theme and accompanied by a variety of tasks . |
| 12 | It is anticipated that the relationships between parents and their young sons and daughters will be modified according to changes in the balance of household contributions as the children move towards adult responsibilities . |
| 13 | The transitions between word ending states and word beginning states are then modified according to word boundary phonological rules . |
| 14 | By 1971 , BNB was using a mixture of DC 15 , 16 and 17 grafted on to a DC 14 base and modified according to BNB 's own scheme . |
| 15 | The cap badge for all officers will be the coat of arms of the United States , embroidered in gold , modified according to pattern , and will be placed in front so that the top of the badge will be slightly below the top of the cap . ’ |
| 16 | Whatever the time dependences of the signals in a two-terminal nonlinear network , its terminal behaviour can be represented by Moreover , the relationship between sufficiently small signals and , denoted according to convention by lower-case letters i and v , is or where ( , ) is the bias operating point . |
| 17 | The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men , in the which the pure Word of God is preached , and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ 's ordinance … |
| 18 | In all the major states of Europe it was still made not even by the government as a whole but by a small group within it — the chief minister and foreign minister , supplemented according to circumstances and personalities by those for war , colonies or other concerned departments — with the support or at least the acquiescence of the monarch . |
| 19 | While , historically , archaeology departments have been organised according to material — pottery , bone and metals — the new laboratory is organised by processes . |
| 20 | Work on voting behaviour in Great Britain in the 1980s illustrates this , with the class divide much distorted according to power in the market place , which in turn has become increasingly spatially variable : Johnston and Pattie , 1988 , 1990 . ) |
| 21 | Soon he was absorbed in the workings of the pistol , which was designed according to principles that were new to him . |
| 22 | Test packages are designed according to job specifications . |
| 23 | Since materials are classified and grouped first by language , all literary forms such as poetry are scattered according to language . |
| 24 | Secondly , it remained uncertain whether continental western European corporate language policy varied according to country and company size or type . |
| 25 | Henceforward , population would be the determining factor ( although the number of voters in a constituency still varied according to population density , from 80,000 people per constituency in the larger towns to 25,000 in the extreme south ) . |
| 26 | Lengths varied according to source from 76 to 86cm ( 30 to 34in ) . |
| 27 | Their relative importance varied according to context . |
| 28 | The amount of toll-in-kind payable for the service of milling the grain varied according to region and period , but the average charge was one-sixteenth part of the grain by volume . |
| 29 | The baseline characteristics of the subjects varied according to severity of periodontal disease ( table I ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I had considered going to California over the winter but I realised it was n't necessary . |