Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Businessmen are banding together to bring to book those who illegally dump wagon loads of waste , and the Merseyside Development Corporation have backed the initiative with the introduction of video cameras to monitor the twilight activity . |
| 2 | ‘ When we stopped at traffic lights , Warren took hold of my hand and said that he was becoming more attached to me and asked me if I would like to go out for dinner the next day . ’ |
| 3 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
| 4 | Challenging also refers to the need that sometimes arises to confront the counsellees with alternative understandings of the problems they face . |
| 5 | On 18 September ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen ’ was formally christened in the same newspaper , the name soon becoming exclusively attached to the tones of William Joyce . |
| 6 | Thirdly , Franco and advisers such as his brother-in-law , Ramón Serrano Suñer , looking ahead to a post-war Spain and impressed by Italian and German precedents , were becoming increasingly attracted to the idea of a single-party and perhaps even totalitarian state . |
| 7 | Mr Goodstadt says : ‘ Until recently , further opportunities for planting were becoming increasingly restricted to the residue of highly sensitive uplands , where contentious applications conflicted with the interests of wildlife , landscape and water resources . ’ |
| 8 | Largely as a result of Wedd 's enthusiasm , I found myself becoming irresistibly attracted to the Scots pine — the solitary tree as well as the clump — not just as a potential ley mark point , but as something in its own right , I was not alone : legend seems to confirm the special nature of the pine . |
| 9 | WORKMEN have put off demolishing a warehouse at Eastwood , Notts , until 40 swifts nesting there migrate to Africa . |
| 10 | There was another problem : he was becoming quite attached to me , in the way that children-especially the privileged children of the East do become attached to their servants . |
| 11 | Robbie was becoming almost accustomed to sleepless nights since she 'd met Fen Marshall . |
| 12 | Becoming emotionally attached to the ICU environment |
| 13 | And even in France , businesses , especially large ones , are becoming too demanding to be run by people without firsthand experience and a proven success record . |
| 14 | They immediately decided to hand the child back until the matter was resolved to prevent their other two daughters becoming too attached to the new baby . |
| 15 | The arguments we are using above apply to amorphous unoriented polymers . ) |
| 16 | They were speaking a foreign language , or so it sounded to him — quite different from the priest 's — and many were groaning pitifully , or struggling painfully to get to their feet . |
| 17 | The odds ratio shows that this was the case even after taking into account the fact that those living alone tended to be more disabled than elderly married couples , and therefore in greater need of such help . |
| 18 | Yesterday , however , his deadly spell was merely a generous layer of icing on the cake with Leicestershire looking already doomed to failure at 86 for five . |
| 19 | Pausing thus seems to be an integral part of spontaneous speech . |
| 20 | As he continues with the prayer that those who receive the sacrament may " be fulfilled with all hevenly benediction and grace through Jesus Christ " , so Rolle in The Form of Living now turns to a description of the interior awareness of this fulfilment . |
| 21 | Everything said at this foolish board meeting unwittingly points to Scott 's consummate grasp of the essentials of television . |
| 22 | There are species living today related to this fossil species . |
| 23 | How do you fell as a person that in here do you feel any diff , as a person sort of living here compared to with erm with your prev |
| 24 | One person living there has to be a Sally Ann person of some sort , but otherwise it 's just everyone with their own room but sharing kitchen and bathroom . |
| 25 | For the purposes of consolidation , the accounts of foreign subsidiaries operating abroad have to be translated into terms of the domestic currency of the holding company . |
| 26 | The evening had been so tremulous , the physical attraction so compelling yet forced to be ignored and hidden . |
| 27 | That is one point of view ; another is that these future Nobel laureates may in fact earn their prizes by bringing more supercomputing to science , and thus moving more of science into cyberspace . |
| 28 | The path going right leads to River Cove — worth a detour as seals can often be seen here . |
| 29 | It has been suggested that the Soviet political process produces tendencies for problems to be faced too late and for decision-makers then to push too fast and too far paying little heed to the impact of their decisions in other realms . |
| 30 | The facts — that Chrissie has been caught taking food home , the higher than average food costs , etc. — show that things have n't been going entirely according to plan , but what are the causes ? |