Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] 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 | We follow Booth ( 1984a ) in allowing for individuals to be differentiated by their degree of commitment to the union movement , and we also follow Naylor ( 1989 , 1990 ) and Naylor and Cripps ( 1989 ) in allowing for individual 's utility gain from following the social custom to be moderated according to their degree of commitment to the union movement . |
| 8 | For example , theory shows that financing a service by an annually-negotiated budget will result in a higher level of provision of the service than would be socially optimal , and higher than would be provided by financing through charges to the user . |
| 9 | When large quantities of oil are released after the break-up of a tanker , for example , sea birds appear to be more visibly affected than the smooth-skinned dolphins , possibly because cetaceans can choose to swim away from oil slicks , and do not have to keep returning through slicks to nesting sites on shore . |
| 10 | And I suppose , thought Fenella , with a sidelong glance at her companion , that I shall have to find a suitable way , an acceptable way , of explaining about Nuadu to Caspar . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After a wait of about two hours we joined the long crocodile winding through corridors to the ballroom , with anxious ushers ensuring that we were all in the right order of presentation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Table 6.1 Probability of advantaged and disadvantaged school leavers qualifying for entry to Higher Education |
| 15 | Eight hundred oarsmen and women will be rowing through Herefordshire to Wales in the River Wye Raft Race . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is pressing for companies to be required by law to disclose details of trade effluents . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For this reason , the Faculty advises all those interested in applying for admission to the M.Phil . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | He was a shrewd man , not over-kind-hearted , but the misery of the famine brought people dying of hunger to his gates . |
| 24 | This explicit relating of theory to practice is a feature which is all too often missing in texts written about language teaching . |
| 25 | ‘ No , ’ Emily replied , walking with confidence to the entrance and knocking on the door . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Returning via Paris to New York , Pérez de Cuéllar reported to the UN Security Council on Jan. 14 the lack of success in his discussions with Saddam Hussein . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She insisted on driving with Murphy to Bodmin to meet her parents . |
| 30 | 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 . |