Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Buid and Semai examples should also serve as a caution against theories about violence and aggression which treat them as typically involving a contest between two balanced opponents competing for access to a scarce resource . |
| 2 | Of course , in er mammals wha you could say what was happening in mammals is that males are competing for access to uteruses . |
| 3 | They 're competing for access to male pouches , what mammalian males are doing is competing for access to female uteruses because it 's only in a female uterus that an offspring can develop if you 're a mammal . |
| 4 | They 're competing for access to male pouches , what mammalian males are doing is competing for access to female uteruses because it 's only in a female uterus that an offspring can develop if you 're a mammal . |
| 5 | Then he and Yanek embraced one another , weeping for joy to be together again . |
| 6 | Such criteria have , therefore , to be general and highly flexible allowing for sensitivity to people 's aspirations . |
| 7 | typically of 10,000 population size with their standard provision of schools , open space and shops , and with roads deflecting through traffic to the edge of the residential area , also served to impart a new spatial order to the urban environment . |
| 8 | In Sewell 's time the course of instruction , lasting generally for two sessions of nine months each , was given in the cooler months of the year , the brief viva voce examinations qualifying for entry to the Royal College 's diploma examinations being held in the unsuitable surroundings of the Freemasons ' tavern . |
| 9 | Table 6.1 Probability of advantaged and disadvantaged school leavers qualifying for entry to Higher Education |
| 10 | The male is now primarily involved in breaking up quarrels between females and in repelling approaches by other males either bidding for access to the harem through the formation of a two-male team or , more dangerously , seeking a fight for total replacement . |
| 11 | In that case there could have been no just criticism of Lincoln 's Inn in the way it had adjudicated on the application of a student applying for admission to the Inn who had had serious criminal convictions between 1956 and 1974 . |
| 12 | For this reason , the Faculty advises all those interested in applying for admission to the M.Phil . |
| 13 | After around ten to fifteen years in practice , successful barristers can consider applying for promotion to Queen 's Counsel , known as ‘ silk ’ from the material of which the QC 's formal gown is made . |
| 14 | When applying for entry to a conversion course , past experience and qualifications will be taken into account , of course , but the demand for places on the 52-week courses is such that returning nurses are likely to be disadvantaged from those already practising . |
| 15 | ‘ I had just reached the age where such things were becoming of interest to me , and it was n't too long after the Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth when my sister and I had collected as many photos as we could lay our hands on . ’ |
| 16 | He was a shrewd man , not over-kind-hearted , but the misery of the famine brought people dying of hunger to his gates . |
| 17 | This explicit relating of theory to practice is a feature which is all too often missing in texts written about language teaching . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ Emily replied , walking with confidence to the entrance and knocking on the door . |
| 19 | This may succeed for a week or two but in the end is bound to be as banal as the preacher 's brain , returning with monotony to well worn paths and well worked passages . |
| 20 | They are sandwich-boards for Oedipal tendencies , eagerly disposing of the father — they reject authority , law , the land — and reverting with fervour to the embrace of the all-mothering sea . |
| 21 | It can be seen that a long list of students ( or any other units ) could be used for a random sample by this means simply by numbering from beginning to end , and this could be done with an automatic increasing numbering stamp . |
| 22 | A cat or monkey using its perceptual powers in leaping from wall to wall , or branch to branch , needs some representation of stability and support . |
| 23 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 24 | The tips of the fingers and toes are equipped with sucker-like discs that help them to cling on , and the long tail is used as a balance and brake when leaping from branch to branch . |
| 25 | Leaping from bed to be done learns nothing of any depth . ’ |
| 26 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 27 | As it was , he stood in front of Lucie 's chair leaping from foot to foot and gesticulating wildly . |
| 28 | If you want to see dazzling feats of mountaineering , with animals leaping from ledge to ledge across gaping chasms , then look to the chamois . |
| 29 | Having lived in Australia for some years and witnessed forest fires , leaping from tree to tree and running along the thin covering of bush and grass , I could enter imaginatively into the prophet 's experience . |
| 30 | She saw Ace , getting nearer , wide-eyed with concern , leaping from rock to rock . |