Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
| 2 | We have facts about a charitable trust using ACE schemes to actually do my members ' jobs , do my members ' jobs in the home help service , do my members ' jobs in the social services — driving people about when they are not insured ; they do n't have PSV and as far as they 're concerned , ‘ so what ? ’ |
| 3 | Inevitably the League began to acquire the characteristics of a political party rejecting the " self-denying ordinance " which prevented the Fabians from submitting political resolutions to the Party . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman would be well advised to pay some regard to the settlement of next year 's budget , and to set arguments for including specific references to social cohesion in the Maastricht treaty in the context of the bargaining that that budget will involve . |
| 5 | Window boxes , tubs and hanging baskets come to life in summer , bringing rich colour to buildings and gardens throughout the country . |
| 6 | If , as in English equity , the beneficiary can be said to have equitable ownership , there is reason in allowing that ownership to be asserted over objects which replace the original trust property in the hands of the trustee . |
| 7 | In Japan superiors are expected to make their subordinates accept the practice of groupism so that trust is constituted which transcends particularlisms , binding each person to the universal love of the enterprise . |
| 8 | It turns out that it is possible to reproduce exactly the results of non-relativistic quantum mechanics by attributing definite properties to individual systems . |
| 9 | Cycling is the ideal form of ‘ green tourism ’ , since it brings people into the countryside to enjoy it ( thus also bringing economic benefits to rural communities ) . |
| 10 | The supplementary budget provided for DM6,800 million in increased expenditure bringing total expenditure to DM306,900 million . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Clarify Inc , San Jose , California , pocketed $5.4m in its second round of financing , bringing total investment to date to $8.9m , considerably more than other like-minded start-ups like ProActive Software Inc , Scopus Technology Inc , Aurum Software Inc , Quintus and Lysis Inc , Atlanta , Georgia , have to play with . |
| 12 | Procase recently closed $3.8m round of financing from current investors bringing total investment to over $20m . |
| 13 | Depending on which fuel system is fitted there are either two wing tanks with a total capacity of 60 imperial gallons or two mains with two auxiliaries in the outer wing , bringing total fuel to 90 gallons . |
| 14 | It was also announced that Sudan and Zaïre had joined the PTA , bringing total membership to 18 . |
| 15 | Among the ministers ' first acts on the opening day of the conference was the admission to the CSCE ( announced and welcomed by Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin ) of the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , bringing total membership to 38 . |
| 16 | The meeting approved the admission to full membership of Brunei , Myanma , the Philippines and the Republic of Uzbekistan , thereby bringing total membership to 108 . |
| 17 | The Republic of Azerbaijan joined the World Health Organization ( WHO ) on Oct. 2 , bringing total membership to 182 [ for last accessions see p. 39123 ] . |
| 18 | He then began preaching Wycliffite views to enthusiastic congregations in and near the town . |
| 19 | By so phrasing each paragraph and bringing each incident to a proper conclusion , Nijinska gives both dancers and audience time to consider what has been done and what is yet to happen . |
| 20 | Microsoft Corp is developing tools to enable C and C++ developers building Windows-based applications to also target the Apple Macintosh , allowing a common base of source code between the two systems . |
| 21 | John Pearson , who appears at the Wine Garden , Alton , on Tuesday , of of the 1960s decade of British blues musicians , acknowledged to be coming of age in the 1990s — their mature talents now best equipped for the task of bringing that conviction to their music that only age and experience can provide . |
| 22 | Communities may vary in all these respects urban areas producing different responses to rural areas . |
| 23 | An example of this activity producing direct benefits to musicians is the case of commercial ( ILR ) radio stations . |
| 24 | We will guard vigorously against the danger of allowing immature minds to ‘ express ’ themselves or to be ‘ imaginative ’ , ‘ playful ’ , ‘ prophetic ’ or ‘ satirical ’ . |
| 25 | Under the various agreements , Ilo would be developed jointly as a free zone with full industrial and commercial facilities , with Peru allowing free access to Bolivian goods along a route leading to Ilo from the Bolivian border town of Desaguadero . |
| 26 | He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be ‘ swallowed up by the vortex of gentility ’ , failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers : he wanted such branches closed . |
| 27 | Here there is a good case for devoting social funds to retraining programmes and the development of new enterprises ( public sector or cooperative ) on a scale properly commensurate with the problem , rather than trying to ‘ force feed ’ the industry with investment funds . |
| 28 | By allowing unmediated access to a character 's mind the narrator constructs a close bond between reader and character based upon shared information and perspective , while at other times witholding the reader from that mind so that narrator and reader stand together in a position of judgemental distance . |
| 29 | The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) . |
| 30 | It does this by attaching high rewards to those positions . |