Example sentences of "[v-ing] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say , there is no subterfuge implied in such an action , and I for one had no intention of overhearing to the extent I did that evening . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , Zuwaya were not immune , in their nostalgia for those not wholly imaginary days , from leaping to the assumption that , because there was no sovereign power , no person was subject to authority . |
| 3 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 4 | Catalysts convert carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide , which is less toxic , but equally polluting to the environment . |
| 5 | Charged with ‘ riotous and tumultuous assembling to the terror of His Majesty 's subjects ’ . |
| 6 | Their role is to give depth , colour and understanding to the issues at hand , and to provide a broad context ( or " environment " ) by which to guide the more specific calculation of quantitative forecasts described above . |
| 7 | Explanatory forecasting These techniques are used to assist , techniques augment and inform the quantitative forecasting process , giving depth , colour and understanding to the issues at hand . |
| 8 | If his explanations were wrong , it made no difference to his faith ; if they were right , they strengthened the community of believers against the attacks of critics , and added the pleasure of understanding to the duty of believing . |
| 9 | My parents are broadminded , liberal and understanding to the extent that I probably could never match . |
| 10 | The Thyssen Collection is opening to the public in Madrid this month . |
| 11 | The festival is opening to the public until the end of the week but if you are not an ale fan its probably best to give it a miss . |
| 12 | Like their close relatives , the early millipedes , the insects rely on tracheae , the system of tubes opening to the outside by a line of spiracles along the flank and running to every part of the body . |
| 13 | From is opening to the outbreak of the war the " Ring " staged every German Grand Prix . |
| 14 | Such a moral order was legitimate since it was consonant with the dictates of Providence or , in different intellectual terms , expressive of the natural order progressively opening to the minds of Enlightenment intellectuals through scientific investigation and freedom of thought . |
| 15 | Each of these is equipped with its own set of organs — on either side , leg-like projections sometimes equipped with bristles and another pair of feathery appendages through which oxygen is absorbed ; and within the body wall , a pair of tubes opening to the exterior from which waste is secreted . |
| 16 | She quickly learned to swim but because of her small size had some initial problems with buoyancy and kept bobbing to the surface like a cork ! |
| 17 | Christopherson , who , apart from his roles in the CNAA , also had a CVCP perspective , recalls that Crosland 's chief adviser at the DES , Toby Weaver , the Deputy Secretary , was , ‘ we thought , continually representing to the Minister a totally false impression of what the universities were like ’ . |
| 18 | Charles III 's reforms improved the quality of the imperial civil service while denying to the creoles a share in the system — perhaps because , as Floridablanca maintained , creoles were too enmeshed in local graft to be trusted . |
| 19 | Boss Man baiting Berzerker matador-style with a nappy , Berzerker charging into the ropes , ricocheting back onto Boss Man , Boss Man hurling to the floor , Berzerker chanting ‘ Huss ! |
| 20 | Mohammed Said was arrested by the army on July 7 while announcing to the press that in Madani 's absence he would be provisional leader of the FIS . |
| 21 | Should I refuse to do so , the soldiers themselves were to return after announcing to the Danakil that the authorities took no further responsibility for my safety . |
| 22 | The day after the elections , Enoch Powell , the Official Unionist MP for South Down , put the formal touch to the end of the coalition by announcing to the Speaker of the House of Commons that Dr Paisley would no longer be welcome in the office used by the Official Unionist members . |
| 23 | Once folks had printed a few pages of closely spaced text , the next logical step was to print lots of pages of giant words announcing to the world that Fred and Wilma had just got married , or that winkles were on special offer at only ten bob a pound . |
| 24 | She went to the block bravely , announcing to the world that she preferred to die the wife of Culpepper than Queen of England . |
| 25 | Any amount paid to the court under s.61 is to be paid out , or to be distributed , among such persons as the court may direct , being a person or persons appearing to the court to have entered into transactions with the miscreant . |
| 26 | We spent a lot of time in the National Gallery and at the Tate , and wrote some poems about the pictures there , including Verrocchio 's Tobias and the Angel , Piero di Cosima 's Mythological Subject and Titian 's Christ Appearing to the Magdalen — Noli me Tangere , whose theme had a special significance for me now : Dana was Christ , and I was the Magdalen . |
| 27 | As their name may suggest , the rules provide for what may happen in the event of a clearing member " appearing to the Clearing House to be unable , or to be likely to become unable , to meet his obligations in respect of one or more Contracts " . |
| 28 | It supports up to 15 drives per controller pair , thus appearing to the host computers as several very large SCSI-2 devices . |
| 29 | It is therefore possible that in some circumstances a stimulus at fixation serves as an anchor such that processing occurs first for material appearing to the right of fixation . |
| 30 | With Buttons and the Mice cheering Cinders with Rock Around the Clock , the Ugly Sisters appearing to the strains of Walk Like a Man , the Prince as a look-alike of pop star Prince , a decorated Reebok glass slipper and a Thunderbird 4 coach , the script-writing team Foxanpelico Ltd. , had a few novel ideas to entertain young and old . |