Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SFO has earned its reputation for bringing cases to trial with glacial slowness . |
| 2 | But , as with any archaeological object , such interpretations can be made only when we have a secure idea of when and where a coin was made , and the methods of dating coins and attributing them to mints is therefore discussed first in Chapter 2 , where it will also be seen that the same techniques for dating and attributing coins can sometimes be turned round , using coins to date other objects or to identify places . |
| 3 | There are several distinguishable types of foraging behaviour and food preference , varying from tracking and pursuit of prey animals by running them down through stealth and pouncing methods to omnivory or insect eating . |
| 4 | It would be much easier to begin to resolve this argument if we knew more about how advertising works , and if we could be much more sophisticated than we are about how to relate target audiences and purchasing patterns to advertising . |
| 5 | John had considered fibreglassing the pond , but instead got in touch with local man Barry Haythorne , who travels the world applying linings to swimming pools . |
| 6 | Linda brings along her box of tricks to every session — it holds a tool for most jobs , from opening oysters to piping cream . |
| 7 | We see no scientific justification for the statement about the immunogenicity of gangliosides , nor do we find any direct evidence to support the contention that naturally occurring antibodies to monosialoganglioside are pathogenic . |
| 8 | Exactly the same issues arise in relation to the task of spelling non-words to dictation , and here again it appears that this not done solely by phoneme-grapheme rules , but that some role is played by units larger than the grapheme ( Campbell , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | Many of the items of management , quoted here from Landry already have a relevance to the management of that assurance ( Thompson and McHugh 1990:365 ) : There is a vital distinction to be made between " management " and those people who hold managerial positions , and " management " as an assortment of integrative functions which are necessary in any complex organization — planning , harmonising related processes , ensuring appropriate flows of information , matching resources to production needs , marketing , financial control and linking output to demand . |
| 10 | [ Op paras ] I enclose with this letter , the following : ( a ) a leaflet explaining the position regarding costs and the funding of your claim ; ( b ) a leaflet explaining your entitlement to Legal Aid ; ( c ) a leaflet explaining entitlements to welfare benefits ; ( d ) a brochure briefly explaining what happens next in Personal Injury cases ; ( e ) a short brochure explaining something about the Firm 's other services . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're doin' the type of violence we was n't even thinkin' of at that age , takin' guns to school and all that . |
| 12 | The expert may be appointed by a third party , such as a company secretary instructing auditors to value shares , which is what happened in Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 . |
| 13 | Relating theories to practice , the European and International Politics stream provides an advanced understanding of the politics and political institutions of the major European countries and of institutions such as those of the European Community . |
| 14 | With governments around the world privatising airlines and opening routes to competition , the industry 's old cartels are crumbling . |
| 15 | On this issue Owen and Roger have come into open conflict but , although the observation that Roger lacks commitment to the aim of returning pupils to school is a correct one , the implications drawn from it are not . |
| 16 | There was controversy in the second-century churches whether a Christian could be a magistrate or bear public authority , activities which might require apparently compromising with idolatry or condemning criminals to execution . |
| 17 | Catholic secondary schools in Scotland have been trialing approaches to school internal evaluation through the Catholic Education Commission project : ‘ The Nature of the Catholic School ’ . |
| 18 | In December 1990 , the Commission amended its Proposal for a Fifth Directive as part of a general policy of eliminating obstacles to takeover bids . |
| 19 | Barclay Plc uses a predetermined overhead rate in applying overheads to product costs on a direct labour cost basis for cost centre X and on a machine hour basis for cost centre Y. The following details the estimated forecasts for l9X1 : |
| 20 | In the past some local authorities used this opportunity to impose conditions binding contractors to council policies . |
| 21 | So far no action has been taken against travellers refusing requests to stub-out their cigarettes , and the campaign group is waiting to see what the next move will be . |
| 22 | Additionally the ADC-10 can perform many functions that are only currently available on expensive digital storage oscilloscope such as saving waveforms to disk , or sending them to a printer . |
| 23 | A combination of data visualisation tools and neural networks are currently used in military , insurance , and retailing sectors to mine information from data . |
| 24 | SUPERMARKET staff in Chelmsford were yesterday urging shoppers to back reform of the Sunday trading laws . |
| 25 | The problem of filling quotas to specification is probably the most severe disadvantage of a participant-observation study ; since the groups studied are self-recruited , the fieldworker by definition relinquishes control over choice of subject . |
| 26 | You know really screaming and getting raged really resentful and then , you know , back knows ultimately you 're wanting parents to side with us . |
| 27 | Stylish tips from us to you … from saving elephants to wrestling kids ! |
| 28 | The message queuing subsystem , /Q , allows Tuxedo to perform long running , time-delayed and event-driven transactions by writing messages to disk . |
| 29 | All capital and operating subsidies to steel producers would be banned ; limited public subsidies would be allowed for research and development , environmental improvements , closures and redundancies . |
| 30 | Because of strong demand , all companies are urging delegates to book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment . |