Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coldness , blueness , or numbness of the injury , or the part beyond the injury , suggesting damage to the blood or nervous supply of that area . |
| 2 | Adding some hormone rooting powder to the wound can help the plant establish new roots . |
| 3 | It may be , however , that the dictum is an overstatement of the true position and that the agency principle does not require that the act of one partner be that of all for all purposes , but merely deems that to be the case for the limited purpose of attaching liability to the firm for the acts and omissions of one of its members . |
| 4 | The central difficulty is that of attributing responsibility to the ‘ centre ’ in such a ‘ devolved ’ organisation as the typical trade union , bearing in mind the likelihood that ‘ unofficial action ’ will be taken at individual plant level without prior consultation with the union 's central organs . |
| 5 | The conference centre is receiving its finishing touches and will be bringing income to the college in 1991 , and the adjoining area has been planted and landscaped with the help of the Superintendent of the Botanic Garden . |
| 6 | And workmen were out repairing damage to the illuminations , due for switch-on at the end of the week . |
| 7 | Though the onus of proving entitlement to the benefit claimed is normally on the claimant , in a number of cases the burden of proof is placed on the adjudication officer to satisfy the tribunal on the balance of probabilities of particular facts . |
| 8 | He flailed for balance , snatched at the closest tablecloth and dragged a cascade of smashing china and chinking silver to the floor as he fell . |
| 9 | There has always been the equivalent of the Novices group , for example , allowing entrance to the soccer microculture for any boy willing to learn the rules of being a fan . |
| 10 | In July 1990 , the House of Lords held that a byelaw prohibiting entry to the Greenham Common military bars was invalid because it infringed rights of common . |
| 11 | A hollow hooray for Hollywood Joan McAlpine detects a cynical streak among the film-makers who make fortunes from bringing violence to the screen |
| 12 | Furthermore , MailSort , the Post Office 's new bulk mailing rebate scheme which will come into full use in the Summer of '89 , is bringing computerisation to the direct marketing industry because it just is n't practical to sort mail by hand into thousands of individual postcodes . |
| 13 | Their policies culminated in attempts to turn the young towns into vast cooperative centres , by bringing industry to the settlements . |
| 14 | Matthew 's theory drew upon a long tradition of applying evolutionism to the problems of biogeography begun by the first Darwinians . |
| 15 | Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets . |
| 16 | It is that legal fiction which the health authority relies upon in denying liability to the plaintiff . |
| 17 | This was perhaps successful in moderating opposition to the new industrial social order . |
| 18 | The country 's High Court has told the government to justify denying aid to the deportees . |
| 19 | Two were also Products of what one might call the orifice revolution , i.e. gaining entry to the inside of the body other than by cutting into it from the outside . |
| 20 | Rogers ' experience of American family life in the early part of the century was of a cohesive group exerting a powerful religious influence over its members ( with a taboo on dancing , playing cards , drinking , smoking , etc. ) , as well as expecting commitment to family demands ( coming straight home from school ) and fulfilment of family expectations ( gaining entry to the University of Wisconsin ) . |
| 21 | The doctor was no more successful in gaining entry to the room , and he told Mrs Putt that the fall had most probably affected her son 's mind . |
| 22 | ‘ The last man I sent to Winchester has had more success in gaining entrance to the castle than the others , ’ explained fitzCount . |
| 23 | Gaining entrance to the large building had , also , taken a considerable amount of time and effort . |
| 24 | Line clips and foam rubber stuffed into the butt ring are , respectively , a means of applying tension to the line and sustaining it . |
| 25 | Conversely , the major benefits of privatization are likely to stem not from literally returning ownership to the private sector , but rather from associated measures which make it clear to managers that they are expected to compete effectively and efficiently . |
| 26 | ( The proportion of those with a formal education ascribing influence to the government was lower than that in the United States and in Britain , albeit still a majority among the university-educated ) . |
| 27 | RETURNING WORK TO THE STUDENTS |
| 28 | The overall regression equation , calibrated by ordinary least squares , relating population to the carrier variables is Table 5.3 gives further details . |
| 29 | By denying approval to the package , LIFESPAN will return all Design Changes back to the Active state and allow the package manager to update the modules again and then resubmit the package for approval . |
| 30 | By denying approval to the package , LIFESPAN will return all Design Changes ( DCs ) on the package back to the Active state and allow the package manager to update the modules again and then resubmit the package for approval . |