Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our chapter on literature and appendix 6 we describe ways of bringing literature to life for pupils of all abilities . |
| 2 | A FOOT of snow fell in the Scottish Highlands yesterday , bringing chaos to road , rail and air services . |
| 3 | They are needed to help along important steps in the body 's metabolism , influencing growth , producing energy , controlling hormones , helping resistance to infection , and maintaining the health of all the tissues in the body . |
| 4 | The SFO has earned its reputation for bringing cases to trial with glacial slowness . |
| 5 | It goes every day and I can assure you that your cousin who is helping Germany to victory with her work will receive them very quickly . ’ |
| 6 | But , as with any archaeological object , such interpretations can be made only when we have a secure idea of when and where a coin was made , and the methods of dating coins and attributing them to mints is therefore discussed first in Chapter 2 , where it will also be seen that the same techniques for dating and attributing coins can sometimes be turned round , using coins to date other objects or to identify places . |
| 7 | There are several distinguishable types of foraging behaviour and food preference , varying from tracking and pursuit of prey animals by running them down through stealth and pouncing methods to omnivory or insect eating . |
| 8 | In soliciting response to analysis and subsequent proposals produced out of higher level partnerships , it would be asking for local ideas to be contributed to the whole . |
| 9 | It would be much easier to begin to resolve this argument if we knew more about how advertising works , and if we could be much more sophisticated than we are about how to relate target audiences and purchasing patterns to advertising . |
| 10 | John had considered fibreglassing the pond , but instead got in touch with local man Barry Haythorne , who travels the world applying linings to swimming pools . |
| 11 | Pioneers who are applying TQM to hotel and catering operations seem universally delighted with results , both in staff motivation and in customer satisfaction . |
| 12 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 13 | Key Points : Pull the board close to you by using the back foot ; maintain an upright rig ; kick hard with the front foot ; lean forwards applying weight to mast foot . |
| 14 | Linda brings along her box of tricks to every session — it holds a tool for most jobs , from opening oysters to piping cream . |
| 15 | Wind south-east becoming south-west to west moderate . |
| 16 | We see no scientific justification for the statement about the immunogenicity of gangliosides , nor do we find any direct evidence to support the contention that naturally occurring antibodies to monosialoganglioside are pathogenic . |
| 17 | Applying cove to wall/ceiling angle |
| 18 | Thus to consider a professional-client relationship when relating professionalism to teaching is made even more difficult since it is impossible to view this relationship in personal terms . |
| 19 | Karen George of Blackwells said : ‘ There were one or two hotline inconsistencies , sometimes four day delivery , sometimes five ; but there were no major problems with supply , and we benefited from keeping Pole to Pole in stock . ’ |
| 20 | Exactly the same issues arise in relation to the task of spelling non-words to dictation , and here again it appears that this not done solely by phoneme-grapheme rules , but that some role is played by units larger than the grapheme ( Campbell , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | Many of the items of management , quoted here from Landry already have a relevance to the management of that assurance ( Thompson and McHugh 1990:365 ) : There is a vital distinction to be made between " management " and those people who hold managerial positions , and " management " as an assortment of integrative functions which are necessary in any complex organization — planning , harmonising related processes , ensuring appropriate flows of information , matching resources to production needs , marketing , financial control and linking output to demand . |
| 22 | ‘ We know what 's happening day to day , ’ explains Liz . |
| 23 | The difficulty of applying life-style to marketing decisions is best illustrated by the " Yuppy " . |
| 24 | Maybe Mr and Mrs Lewis at 119 Cedar Avenue were not in their usual positions , snoring back to back in the bed they bought twenty years ago . |
| 25 | [ Op paras ] I enclose with this letter , the following : ( a ) a leaflet explaining the position regarding costs and the funding of your claim ; ( b ) a leaflet explaining your entitlement to Legal Aid ; ( c ) a leaflet explaining entitlements to welfare benefits ; ( d ) a brochure briefly explaining what happens next in Personal Injury cases ; ( e ) a short brochure explaining something about the Firm 's other services . |
| 26 | They praised publishers for the work they were doing in making the national curriculum manageable , for example by relating content to attainment targets . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're doin' the type of violence we was n't even thinkin' of at that age , takin' guns to school and all that . |
| 28 | Sister Mary Leahy , who organised the prayer week at Seacroft , explained the purpose of these personal interviews ; ‘ Prayer is a relationship with God , so as a prayer guide , I would want to help people to recognise God in their lives — relating person to person — speaking to God and listening to him — coming to God just as they are and not as they think they ought to be . ’ |
| 29 | The expert may be appointed by a third party , such as a company secretary instructing auditors to value shares , which is what happened in Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 . |
| 30 | By relating belief to duty in this fashion , Gandhi is able to claim that he would have no compunction under Swarāj , self-governing India , in recommending those who had no objection to talking up arms , to fight for their country . |