Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Surely , as prime evidence of date and function the artefacts must be integrated into the excavation report itself and the artificial division into materials replaced by objects grouped according to function and deposit .
2 They produce a leaflet called The Accommodation Barns Guide 1991 which contains useful information and lists of camping barns and bunkhouses grouped according to county .
3 The baseline characteristics of the subjects varied according to severity of periodontal disease ( table I ) .
4 And even the most hardened cynic must agree that lying down with your eyes closed listening to music is a lot more appealing than grunting and straining over a set of weights in your local sports centre .
5 Products and yields vary according to fashion and demand ; whaling , sealing , fur trading and mineral ore exploitation have declined in recent years , but commercial fishing and fossil fuel exploitation are well established and likely to continue .
6 No one who reads the speech of the President of the Union at the inaugural meeting of the mission , before Temple opened his mouth , can suppose that that President needed converting to Christianity .
7 Introducing Wired , his biography of John Belushi , Bob Woodward recalls how the rigours of research involved going to bed early so as to rise at 4am to visit one of the comedian 's favourite watering holes .
8 This Paufer preferred drinking to eating , and spent his slim budget proportionately .
9 When considering the on-cost on stocks the builder must take into account the employment costs of storekeepers , stock lost owing to obsolescence and deterioration , insurance , interest on capital invested , and overhead costs associated with administration and floor space .
10 India has a quasi-federal set-up , with a central government and a number of states organized according to language .
11 Although quite different in appearance , Playplax offers the same diversity of experience — creative construction involving a sense of balance and pattern or symmetry together with the opportunity to sort according to colour and shape .
12 — word senses vary according to subject area or domain ;
13 Composition of the communities varies according to soil , aspect in relation to sun , drainage , length of snow-cover and other variables .
14 Parent began talking to parent .
15 Occasionally actual textile survives adhering to metal .
16 When patient 301 was diagnosed as being affected by FAP , her specialist offered screening to family members identified as being at high risk .
17 From the outset , no individual or couple will lose more than £3 a week from the changeover so long as their local council spends according to government assumptions .
18 The hatched areas represent returning to theatre , the white areas represent blood transfusion of greater than two units and a hatched area represent patients developing postoperative sepsis .
19 Third seeds are Western Samoa , whose preparations for Murrayfield include a special training camp in Auckland , and if the draw goes according to plan Scotland will face fourth-seeded Fiji in the semis .
20 Their relative importance varied according to context .
21 The data in Table 14 , which classify percentages of pregnancies that ended in still births by length of preceding pregnancy interval pooled according to country of study , seem to confirm the validity of the Hungarian findings for developing countries .
22 Placement costs vary according to need but are likely to involve token payment for an extra helper within the playgroups and may include transport cost and playgroup fees .
23 Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 .
24 A feature of the Blackpool season for many years was the Daily Mirror Week in Blackpool , when a specially decorated tramcar operated for a week on the Promenade , with all the fares collected going to charity .
25 Topics covered over the 2½ days include adjusting to retirement , health considerations , leisure activities and new opportunities for the future .
26 In our first example where the magnetic field varies according to eqn ( 4.87 ) the flux cut by the front part of the moving loop in a time dt is
27 THE popular Merseyside Police annual horse show is being staged next weekend with money raised going to charity .
28 Plumages change according to season .
29 The farmers ' lack of legal action against the company was based on an uncertainty about what their legal rights were , particularly in regard to mineral rights , lack of financial resources to risk going to law and no reliable information on the worth of the minerals .
30 The amount of toll-in-kind payable for the service of milling the grain varied according to region and period , but the average charge was one-sixteenth part of the grain by volume .
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