Example sentences of "[v-ing] an [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Americans landed on the moon in 1969 ; five years later an agency of the British Government is launching an expedition to some metaphorical sun . |
| 2 | The latter is designed to encourage the horse to avoid hitting fences by applying an irritant to its legs . |
| 3 | Sampaio , the PS secretary-general since 1989 , had presented the PS under his leadership as representing an alternative to the centre-right policies of the PSD in spite of the easy cohabitation of President Mário Soares , a former PS leader , with the PSD government . |
| 4 | In 1966 Vietnam was becoming an irritant to the Labour government , but not a major one . |
| 5 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |
| 6 | Because he was so old and feeble , Baxter 's imprisonment attracted a great deal of sympathy from many people , and was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 7 | He was becoming an embarrassment to the Government . |
| 8 | At the time there were widespread rumours of an Establishment plot and stories circulated that the trial had been stopped because the protracted Guinness saga was becoming an embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 9 | The censure motion accused Pascal-Trouillot of financial incompetence , corruption , nepotism and failure to combat the country 's chronic lawlessness , and of becoming an obstacle to the electoral process . |
| 10 | An episode is the smallest complete unit of teaching in a lesson — the teacher 's revising of the previous lesson 's work , or explaining an argument to the class , or coaching an individual child on a problem he is working on ( the SCAN paper gives a fuller discussion ) . |
| 11 | Often , the risk of sharing is far greater than keeping an idea to oneself . |
| 12 | 10 years ago , announcing an allegiance to Leeds United was regarded as an admission to being demented , a psychopath , or both . |
| 13 | McLeish , who had a built-in prejudice , well supported by experience , against statements incorporating an appeal to belief , noted dourly that he might at some later stage need to get closer to Yeo Davis 's accounts . |
| 14 | A VETERAN campaigner for an accident unit at Halton Hospital , Runcorn , is challenging an MP to a public debate on the hospital 's future . |
| 15 | I think this book is worth having for a professional needing some facts in a hurry and for a student wanting an introduction to intersection control . |
| 16 | We would take some convincing that it can be right to depart from it by punishing more harshly than an offender ‘ deserves ’ on a standard tariff , for example by sentencing an offender to an exceptionally long custodial sentence for purposes of reform or incapacitation . |
| 17 | That is the inevitable result of the doctrine which can only afford protection of the defendant at the risk or price of causing an injustice to the plaintiff . |
| 18 | The central idea of kin selection is that a gene A , causing an animal to be more likely to perform an act X , may increase in frequency in a population even if act X reduces the individual fitness ( expected number of offspring ) of the animal itself , provided that the act increases the fitness of animals related to the actor . |
| 19 | To discover whether you are affiliated to a bona fide school write , enclosing an s.a.e. to : The Martial Arts Commission Broadway House 15 — 16 Deptford Broadway London SE8 4PE . |
| 20 | However we do have some helpful free fact sheets — on a range of subjects from headdresses to shoes , fabrics to flowers , music to make-up and if we have one that is relevant we will send it to you if you write enclosing an sae to ; Wedding and Home , Maxwell Consumer Magazines , Greater London House , Hampstead road , London NW1 7QQ |
| 21 | Born Yevonde Cumbers in Streatham Common , London , in 1893 , she had a fairly conventional start to her career , serving an apprenticeship to the society photographer Lallie Charles , but by the early Twenties had build up a substantial portrait practice of her own and was attracting much attention as an eloquent advocate of the cause of women 's photography . |
| 22 | The senator had a son and daughter of his own and , though he had never talked specifically of their problems , I sensed that in my life he was seeking an answer to his own family 's complexities . |
| 23 | In seeking an answer to this question one can not but be influenced by a thought expressed by Lamont J. , speaking for the majority of the Supreme Court of Canada in Montreal Tramways v. Leveille where , for the first time , it was accepted in a superior court that an infant plaintiff should be able after birth to recover damages for pre-natal injuries . |
| 24 | The Dutchman is seeking an extension to his contract , which expires next summer , of three years and £7 million . |
| 25 | The exiled spiritual and political leader of Tibet was awarded the prize for his advocacy of non-violence in seeking an end to Chinese rule . |
| 26 | Also , when you are addressing an envelope to a man alone , would you use Mr or Esq ? |
| 27 | Eventually , Wellington undertook the task of forming an administration to this end . |
| 28 | The House of Lords broke the deadlock by ordering an inquiry to be conducted by the court into the value of the reversions : it did not order the lessors to appoint a valuer . |
| 29 | However , within 24 hours Congress approved and Bush signed legislation ordering an end to the strike , with the result that most railworkers were back at work on the morning of April 18 . |
| 30 | For example , in assigning an index to a word like ’ making ’ or ’ baking ’ , it may be possible to work backwards to arrive at the root ( ’ make ’ or ’ bake ’ ) by removing the ’ ing ’ ending and adding the letter ’ e ’ . |