Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An annual subscription of £21 to the funds of Bedford County Hospital was sanctioned , thereby bringing to an end the disagreement which had begun 10 years earlier . |
| 2 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 3 | Diplomatic relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union had been established in September 1990 , thereby bringing to an end a period of hostility dating from the Korean war . |
| 4 | she was only pointing to an overflow culvert . |
| 5 | Also big trousers with big tops — it was all coming to an end , but it was still OK to wear them . |
| 6 | But what their 1–1 draw at Olympia Leisure Centre yesterday did signify was that the champions reign throughout that period is finally drawing to an end . |
| 7 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 8 | It is coming to an end in May , it is not coming to an end in practice . |
| 9 | Give me patience , give me a little more patience , Alida thought , for it is soon coming to an end . |
| 10 | That magnificent engineering achievement the Humber Bridge is further opening up the area , improving communications and eventually leading to an East Coast motorway , linking up with newly completed roads on the north bank . |
| 11 | So why not celebrate the fact that it 's rapidly coming to an end and invest in a poignant musical reminder of 1992 … ? |
| 12 | This is a typical example of Coleridge 's influence , which extended to many other writers of the age ; but in the case of Wordsworth the period of any real exchange of ideas was rapidly coming to an end . |
| 13 | If we look also at the review sections , we see that already in the 1920s McKerrow takes the view that a " great period of discovery is rapidly coming to an end : " an age of English scholarship is passing , if not already passed " . |
| 14 | Irrespective of the decisions of the World Bank classifiers , however , it is an undeniable fact that in the 1990s most hitherto self-proclaimed socialist or communist countries are rapidly coming to an understanding with transnational capitalism , and that the scope and volume of the transnational practices of such states with the states and institutions of the capitalist system have increased dramatically in the last decade . |
| 15 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
| 16 | She kept her eye on things generally , such as : tactfully suggesting to an under-housemaid ( caught out bypassing Lizzie 's careful instructions ) that pos were meant to be scrubbed till their inner china gleamed , as well as being emptied every morning . |
| 17 | ‘ The reports we received on him were excellent and his contract was also coming to an end . |
| 18 | This is now leading to an increase in the availability of public sector land for development by the private sector , which is complemented by policies providing financial incentives such as Derelict Land Grant and the Urban Development Grant . |
| 19 | The new Sankey Growarm helps raise the root temperature , inevitably leading to an increase in the temperature around the plant . |
| 20 | The promotion is now coming to an end , but to qualify you just needed to produce till receipts for any eight loaves of Hovis 800g . |
| 21 | The scale and extent of segmentation ‘ over there ’ is fast developing to an extent whereby the behaviour of each individual potential borrower is driving the system . |
| 22 | Cash limits have had some ‘ success ’ , even leading to an undershooting of the limits , as financial managers treat the new system with excessive caution and spend well below their targets . |
| 23 | That his time with us is fast coming to an end . |
| 24 | The period of this activity was relatively short , virtually coming to an end c .1760 , but during it he produced a significant body of work both in his own region of Warwickshire and Oxfordshire and further afield as well . |
| 25 | ( According to the so-called " linking rule " , a spell of employment lasting less than this time is considered an interruption to a single spell of unemployment , whilst a spell of employment lasting longer than this but then coming to an end opens up a new spell of unemployment . ) |
| 26 | In both living and in dramatic playing a participant is continually accommodating to an image of himself as an object in order to communicate with others . |