Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attending external events , and giving training , including giving speeches where required to do so , thereby contributing to public understanding of the judiciary . |
| 2 | Rural-urban migrants were able to take advantage of the former , often sending financial assistance back to their relatives in the countryside and so contributing to increased income levels there . |
| 3 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 4 | I did not go to playschool or kindergarten so going to primary school was a big event in my life . |
| 5 | In my own particular section of the clothing and textiles the union fought long and hard to gain the same rights and conditions for temporary workers , and so leading to permanent employment in most cases . |
| 6 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 7 | Langbaurgh Constituency Labour Party is calling on Labour councils to unite against moves towards super regional police forces and any suggestion of handing over policing to private security firms . |
| 8 | But the time and inspiration for such apparent frivolities were rapidly passing and he was soon explaining to Bonamy Dobrée that the Bolovian period had ended . |
| 9 | In a deliberate attempt to embarrass Tories and High Anglicans , he cited Charles II 's Declaration of April 1681 , which had condemned the then Whig-dominated House of Commons for arresting people for matters not relating to Parliamentary privilege , whilst in defence of the right of petitioning he cited the case of the seven bishops of 1688 . |
| 10 | THE SHOW is over according to British Coal . |
| 11 | THE SHOW is over according to British Coal . |
| 12 | Will he do everything to ensure that the recent announcement by the European Community , which reflects the attitude of the French and those who agree with them in respect of the general agreement on tariffs and trade proposals , will not be immensely damaging to British farming and world trade as a whole ? |
| 13 | Mm , ah yes , you ca n't , any domestic policy has international ramifications , if it affects er , resource allocation and , and demand and agricultural protectionism , like any protectionism will , will er , will reallocate resources , not according to comparative advantage , but according to some erm , some priority , we want to support our agriculture , therefore we 'll erm , give agricultural producers a lot of money . |
| 14 | In the UK , emissions of man-made hydrocarbons or VOCs ( volatile organic compounds ) increased 12 per cent in the ten years to 1985 , largely owing to increased road traffic . |
| 15 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 16 | But these are the sorts of things and I 'm not going to great detail because the training course does that , these are the things that they will blow you out on . |
| 17 | We no we 're not going to soft play today . |
| 18 | Indeed , those dermatologists who have undertaken clinics in general practitioners ' surgeries find that over 40% of the patients seen have to be followed up in a hospital clinic , thus leading to unnecessary duplication of notes and considerable wastage of consultant time and resources . |
| 19 | While not objecting to centralized planning , proletarian dictatorship or the primacy of the Bolshevik Party , Trotsky strongly opposed the supplanting of the political by the bureaucratic-administrative , a process in which functionaries seek to solve all problems by purely administrative means ( Krygier 1978 ) . |
| 20 | Her adherence to some of the beliefs has been inspired by and is to that extent under some pressure not amounting to undue pressure from her mother . |
| 21 | Equally , if we see that the electricity industry is not performing to maximum efficiency and should be doing better — there is general agreement on that — surely we have an obligation to do something about it . |
| 22 | Under the terms of the Compromise , Member States were supposedly given the right to veto decisions affecting their vital national interests ; under the terms of this Maastricht Declaration they effectively renounce that right , thus giving to foreign policy at the outset the same status as that acquired by other areas of policy where the Compromise has gradually been eroded over many years . |
| 23 | As was pointed out earlier , hearing users of BSL are not progressing to full competence in the language and are very likely to use English syntax for sign-based messages . |
| 24 | Severe chronic constipatiown was defined as constipation without bowel obstruction , lasting for more than 18 months , not responding to high fibre diets , with less than two bowel movements per week and without an alternating bowel habit ( diarrhoea and constipation ) . |
| 25 | Despite falling values , farms are not selling because those involved , including agents , are not adjusting to economic reality , according to Mr Stern . |
| 26 | Obviously he was not referring to obstetrical anaesthesia , in which controversy thrives . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , by ‘ obey ’ Paul is not referring to servile obedience to an authoritarian master , but an injunction to workers to carry out the job an employer has for them to accomplish . |
| 28 | ‘ Not working to full potential ’ is a legend many of us feel is engraved on our hearts . |
| 29 | If you are already working to maximum efficiency , then great ! |
| 30 | Companies faced with massive investment in new pollution control equipment , if a plant is to be located in a new location , may well find it cheaper and simpler to expand pollution at existing facilities , thereby adding to industrial inertia ( Elsom , 1983 ) . |