Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Flames leaping to thirty feet in the air were reported just off the road at Wheatley causing a stretch of the road to be closed all day .
2 This belief in a woman 's heightened sexuality during her period may also have contributed to her being considered dangerous and hence polluting to all males .
3 One till three as well the Special Needs Support Group are meeting at Ilkeston Health Centre and they offer mutual support and understanding to those parents who have children with special needs .
4 Kaufmanniana hybrids Pointed buds opening to waterlily-shaped flowers .
5 A new industry minister , Victor Joy Wa , took a third tack , announcing to startled industrialists that he will do away with all privileges for all manufacturers save exporters , who can expect reimbursement of taxes that ‘ should not be exported ’ .
6 Sessions last 45 minutes , and four instructors cater for a maximum of 24 children in the following groups ; walking to two years , 2–3 years , 3–4 years , 4–5 years .
7 He preferred walking to other forms of locomotion , and De Quincey calculated that Wordsworth must have walked between 175,000 and 180,000 miles in his lifetime .
8 Continue exercise programme , increasing swimming to twenty lengths , walking to twenty minutes .
9 In setting up such a scheme great care needs to be taken in explaining to all participants the rationale behind the decision and the positive gains involved .
10 ‘ I 'm building my working life around my family , ’ I could imagine them explaining to puzzled spouses .
11 Employers and workers make mistakes in unscrambling what is happening to real wages , but it is essential that these mistakes be made in opposite directions .
12 We need to know what is happening to mental hospitals because they still contain most of the country 's long stay ( continuing care ) beds .
13 In other words , they take into account such information as what is happening to the money supply ( assuming that they believe , money supply growth to be a cause of inflation ) and what is happening to such factors as world oil prices , trade union militancy and the exchange rate ( depending on which of these are perceived as major determinants of inflation ) .
14 The aim is to present a brief overview of what is happening to historic pubs today , and to provide suggestions as to how this perceived threat to our old pubs can be effectively limited .
15 The latter might well have suffered from an increase in continentality of climate following regression , but it has not unreasonably been assumed by most palaeontologists that a planktonic group such as the globigerinid foraminifera should have been indifferent to what was happening to epicontinental seas .
16 Erm anonymous , my son joined the paras five years ago and he was bullied , and another anonymous person from Rugby , my two children were in the army and though they were n't bullied they did see horrific things happening to other lads .
17 But as we 're seeing it 's happening to all sorts of people .
18 Without a knowledge of what was happening to Germanic diphthongs and vowels in the Dark Ages , however , even a clever pupil at Oxford in those days would have done badly .
19 The UK Tax and Price Index was introduced in 1979 and aims to measure changes in real spending power which depend both on what is happening to retail prices and on what is happening to after-tax incomes .
20 Problem ( b ) has already been dealt with , but problem ( a ) reflects the difficulty of determining what is happening to relative prices when prices in general are rising .
21 Yet genes do not act in isolation , and very little is known about social and environmental factors contributing to many illnesses and disabilities , including those tagged ’ genetic ’ .
22 Of course much of the flow is contractual and employers and employees have had little choice about contributing to such schemes .
23 This will be followed up by the second phase of interviews and observation work to explore further some main ideas more closely important factors in women 's health decision-making , especially those contributing to low rates of utilisation of services such as screening .
24 Language units have also been developed as part of Higher National Certificates ( HNCs ) and Higher National Diplomas ( HNDs ) and these may be offered as free-standing courses as well as contributing to other courses such as business studies and hospitality management .
25 Research contributing to existing areas may be funded from a variety of sources and so we tend to avoid it .
26 At this stage , the sequence has developed towards what Simmel calls the relativistic world view , which he understands as contributing to certain attitudes to the world which comprehend processes rather than just entities ( 1978 : 101–8 ) .
27 I can find ways of contributing to peace-making organisations or activities .
28 This latter breakthrough brought together diabetologist and obstetrician to produce comprehensive care , with improved glycaemic control contributing to dramatic decreases in perinatal mortality and morbidity ( Karlsson & Kjellmer , 1972 ) .
29 In terms of short-term economic measures , the main thrust of government policy was to drain off from the economy excess money which was fuelling inflation , contributing to constant shortages and frustrating efforts at economic control .
30 He gets his satisfaction from contributing to high levels of profit , not from parading any status symbol the company cares to give him .
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