Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bring up all your little highlight tones , etc. at the post flash stage using times up to max.flash . |
| 2 | Bring up all your little highlight tones , etc. at the post flash stage using times up to max.flash . |
| 3 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's no need to look so worried , ’ he observed softly , yanking Isabel back to the present . |
| 5 | I think they may be rethinking that , and maybe bringing proposals back to you , but that 's the crunch . |
| 6 | Bringing data on to one or more common sets of areas allows much fuller use of the information . |
| 7 | Or young and trendy , favouring outlandish schemes for bringing religion up to date , inviting the congregation to shake hands with each other , and expecting them to sing newfangled and jolly hymns to the accompaniment of the local pop group . |
| 8 | As Ilse happily slipped out of her thin white overall , Ingrid noticed the audience tossing money on to a plate which was being passed around . |
| 9 | In the absence of a ready-made framework in Scotland , the firm looked elsewhere to the English Law Society 's Continuing Professional Development scheme , launched last year and aimed at not only keeping solicitors up to date with the law but to develop management and other professional skills and to enhance career development . |
| 10 | The most important factor in keeping arrears down to the lowest possible level was exercising proper care in granting mortgage loans , checking the applicant 's income , his previous borrowing record , verifying that the property was relevant to the borrower 's needs and his ability to maintain it in good order . |
| 11 | This can be achieved by making contributions in the year of change and in the following two years , in the latter case by relating premiums back to the year of change . |
| 12 | Places are not restricted to locals ; students who are willing to undertake a journey many still be successful in gaining entry on to this stimulating and imaginative course . |
| 13 | Samuel Bamford remembered winding cotton on to bobbins for his weaver uncle as " work of cramping , confining and boring nature " . |
| 14 | Rosemary Duncan-Smith had made her views plain when driving Meg back to Norwich station after her interview . |
| 15 | The indications between the centre-line and full scale deflection are marked by the inner circle and 4 dots , each representing 2° up to the full scale deflection of 10° each side of the centreline . |
| 16 | We forgot the size of the 8 per cent swing required to give Labour an overall majority ; that the Tories had held their private leadership election 18 months before ; that recessions steel hearts rather than change them , driving people back to the devil they know , to secure their own base-line rather than pushing them towards adventurous alternatives . |
| 17 | The Pontins League includes the reserve teams of most of the North 's top clubs , with Everton gaining promotion back to the first division last season after being relegated 12 months previously . |
| 18 | Keeping information up to date was considered to be difficult due to the increasing number of information sources , and the fact that only certain sections of documents might be superseded by new information . |
| 19 | Responsibility for changing this and keeping information up to date can be delegated to a staff nurse or senior student . |
| 20 | But such work must be done , and field men put in several hours each week in their area offices , writing reports , keeping records up to date , drafting letters , answering the telephone and communicating with colleagues in the field and staff at headquarters . |
| 21 | Delaney turned the already hosing gun on to the nearest . |
| 22 | Using a single prong transfer tool , lift the two long strands of weaving yarn on to the selected needles . |
| 23 | This was done by costing programmes up to five years ahead . |
| 24 | Such people are infectious however , and if they are involved in food preparation and are careless about washing their hands , they may be the modern equivalent of ‘ Typhoid Mary ’ , passing Giardia on to others . |
| 25 | Several downlights angled close to a wall of paintings ( say 60 cm [ 2 ft ] out from the wall and 60 cm [ 2–3 ft ] apart ) will give a dramatic effect by splashing light on to various surfaces with contrasting shadows in between . |
| 26 | In Namibia U N soldiers , including British troops , are escorting fighters back to their bases in Angola . |
| 27 | First , there may be a case for shifting the evidential burden of establishing consent on to the shoulders of the defence in certain cases , such as where there is evidence of injury inflicted by the defendant , where weapons are used or where sexual intercourse takes place in the context of the commission of another grave offence . |
| 28 | Attempting unsuccessfully to repeat his 1987 tactics , Ershad had declared a state of emergency on Nov. 27 , 1990 , ordering troops on to the streets of the capital , Dhaka , to restore order [ see p. 37856 ] . |
| 29 | There was further deformation of the Moine and Dalradian rocks on the north side of the Iapetus Suture causing metamorphism up to granulite grade and widespread granitic intrusion . |
| 30 | Another rider fell in front of him , spilling coolant on to the track and , for once , luck deserted him . |