Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Subject as above , ’ — and subsection ( 1 ) deals with the fact that certain provisions extend to Northern Ireland — ‘ and to any provision expressly relating to companies incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain , nothing in this Act extends to Northern Ireland or applies to or in relation to companies registered or incorporated in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | He 's er a financial whiz kid now is n't he as well Adam Faith so talking to Dennis this afternoon on Afternoon Special . |
| 3 | Wounded during the robbery , Roth ( Mr Orange ) actually spends most of the movie slowly bleeding to death , while Harvey Keitel ( the sentimental old-time thief Mr White ) , Steve Buscemi ( the motormouth obsessive Mr Pink ) and Michael Madsen ( the quietly psychopathic Mr Blonde ) bicker and brawl about who sold them out . |
| 4 | With legs slowly turning to jelly , I skied down hard , icy snow , followed by spring snow , then slush . |
| 5 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 6 | Continue along the coast soon keeping to left of lighthouse buildings at St Abb 's Head ; briefly join lighthouse road , but it is best almost immediately to divert off it to rejoin cliff-top for sea views . |
| 7 | Of the other dimensions , purity , in Bentham 's special sense , means the chance of a pleasure not leading to pains , or a pain not leading to pleasures , while the fecundity is the extent to which a pleasure breeds or leads to other pleasures or a pain to other pains . |
| 8 | For the thousands of fans still listening to Stones records today , it 's enough to know Brian Jones ' music . |
| 9 | Could there really be a building site in the middle of this swamp rapidly reverting to nature after a brief and unsuccessful flirtation with civilization , Zen wondered ? |
| 10 | Univel Inc has outgrown the offices it was leasing from its parent Novell and has moved to new premises in the neighbourhood also belonging to Novell . |
| 11 | The Three Valleys are bound to be in there too , with Charlotte 's vote probably going to Meribel because it 's in the central valley of the three and not what is invariably described as a concrete jungle ; Val d'Isere because the skiing is just so brill and Tignes is , well , a concrete jungle really . |
| 12 | So while the expectation of altruism mathematically relating to kin relatedness is almost inevitably doomed to be disproved in human societies , there is now considerable evidence that sociobiology identifies some broad relationships and tendencies which are incontrovertible . |
| 13 | I 'm not saying that it is necessarily trivialising to talk to interviewees about their clothes , it 's just that you do n't find the male presenters on Rock Steady talking to Phil Collins about his suits ! |
| 14 | ONE OF two sprawling films ( Heimat being the other ) that marked Germany finally coming to terms with the war , relatively free of guilt . |
| 15 | Did you say something about Mr Boulez perhaps returning to work at the opera ? |
| 16 | Here we might note that they are also not in Edinburgh : we know this for B because B claims to have to go to Edinburgh , and go here means movement away from the place of the speaker at the time of speaking ; we know it for A also , because if A is in Edinburgh , then B's having to go to Edinburgh can hardly be an excuse for B not going to A today . |
| 17 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 18 | For they were melting as she stood there , and she seemed to be liquid inside too , her limbs strangely turning to water . |
| 19 | Inhabits , lower levels than Ptarmigan , tundra , arctic prairies with birch and willow scrub , and heather moors and bogs ; in winter sometimes descending to farmland . |
| 20 | Official sources were yesterday unable to explain why the restrictions had been brought in , including whether they had been designed to reduce the risk of leaks to loyalists of the type recently coming to light . |
| 21 | Inevitably then a society must have some way of distributing these rewards differentially according to positions . |
| 22 | Social workers and the courts are facing a problem which has defeated the best efforts of families and professionals ; whatever the wording , few courts will be willing to gamble on children whom they refuse to commit to security not returning to prostitution , burning down a house , or injuring themselves . |
| 23 | Surgical treatment of severe chronic constipation not responding to medication had an inconsistent and unsatisfactory outcome , resulting sometimes in intractable diarrhoea requiring a definitive terminal ileostomy or in persistence of abdominal pain , bloating , and discomfort . |
| 24 | In the corridor outside the classroom just listening to readers ? |
| 25 | Bit of writing , bit of tennis , bit of reading ( to kill time ) , few beers in the evening before going to bed thinking what a waste my life is . |
| 26 | Birds are somewhat stupid creatures and have a hard enough job even coming to terms with the ordinary , let alone the extraordinary . |
| 27 | The last step but one creaked protestingly and she grimaced apprehensively , her body almost turning to stone as she waited for Dane to suddenly appear and demand to know what she was doing . |
| 28 | He spent his first summer from Cambridge in leisurely visits to his family , staying first with his brother Edward in Salisbury then travelling to Ottery for one of the few lengthy returns he had made since childhood . |
| 29 | More than 13,000 new policies were completed in that period with new annual premium business increasing by 19 per cent to £7 million , and single premium business almost doubling to £57 million . |
| 30 | Two days of haggling on the price followed , with the seller reluctantly dropping to £3500 . |