Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central Asian merchants bringing raw materials to the carpet-making , silk , gold , silver-thread , and ribbon manufactories of Amritsar took to the train . |
| 2 | Generally , these cash buyers seemed to have made a fair assessment of their chances , in that they were unemployed or already had great difficulty matching small incomes to their outgoings . |
| 3 | Gumperz warns " whatever patterning there is in this type of code switching can not be explained by generalized rules relating conversational functions to instances of code use " ( 1982 : 83 ) . |
| 4 | The resignation also coincided with a controversial ruling by the Education Department prohibiting federal aid to colleges which offered scholarships designated solely for minority students . |
| 5 | We came across many cases of schools using minimal resourcing to maximum effect ; and of schools with a substantial PNP staff enhancement manifestly failing to take advantage of what that enhancement could offer . |
| 6 | The way it explodes from a standing start suggests that other manufacturers plying multi-valve routes to high specific outputs should at least take a look at this alternative means of forced induction . |
| 7 | It is clear that housing remains very much , as Berry ( 1974 ) described it , a political football' , with different political parties favouring varying policies to each tenure . |
| 8 | THERE IS quite a lot happening in the adoption scene at the moment , with the Adoption Law Review recommending certain changes to practice . |
| 9 | The glass before them became like a mirror for the briefest time but it was a distorting , ghost-train mirror , more shadow than substance-with his mind adding hallucinatory details to the little that he could see . |
| 10 | A VIDEO nasty , showing Falkland islanders clubbing beached whales to death will greet Paul McCartney fans tonight before his show at Earls Court Arena , London . |
| 11 | A VIDEO nasty , showing Falkland islanders clubbing beached whales to death will greet Paul McCartney fans tonight before his show at Earls Court Arena , London . |
| 12 | No single characterisation or particular formulation of the rule enjoining judicial obedience to statute can supply answers in advance … |
| 13 | Until a decade ago , there was little control on campsites and motels were constructed at the base of Ayres Rock giving free access to climbers and walkers . |
| 14 | We will find , for example , Marxists giving primary emphasis to class relations , their uneven development and the shifting alliances between classes in particular localities . |
| 15 | We make the transition from school to full-time employment that much smoother by offering a Current Account with a Cashline card giving easy access to your money . |
| 16 | On journeys , he would study both the red and the green Michelin guides , in search of gastronomy and culture , and sit in the back seat issuing careful instructions to the driver that ‘ in about a quarter of a mile you come to a place to turn right ’ . |
| 17 | Forty years on , Lepage plays a jilted lover making international calls to his New York partner from the same Parisian hotel room in which Greco and other existentialist stars practised anguish and amour . |
| 18 | The hotel has many planned activities to amuse its guests and also has a minibus making frequent trips to Funchal and back . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll sit in the corner in your club making barbed comments to all who come within your ken . ’ |
| 20 | The amendments that Mr Steel refers to specifically , relating to other districts , were all made as a direct consequence of those districts making formal representations to the consultation draft . |
| 21 | Thus we have a contribution depending on the total charge , and a second term bearing strong resemblance to our dipole formulae . |
| 22 | Finally , they provide databases offering online access to extensive files of bibliographical information ( up to a million records , in one case ) . |
| 23 | Calendars featuring fine art to contemporary art , wildlife , cute cats , floral , and photographic scenes ; postcard books ( r.r.p. £3.99 ) featuring artists such as Vernon Ward , James Noble , Hubert Squires , Ann Graham Johnstone , Gillian Roberts . |
| 24 | The Warsaw Province Prosecutor 's Office announced on Aug. 7 the arrest of five people — including senior officials at state banks — accused of illegal activities causing serious losses to the state treasury and of falsifying documents . |
| 25 | But the Martian Government has signed a contract guaranteeing weekly delivery to the Furus — the native tribes of Mars — in return for which the Furus work the red iron mines . |
| 26 | Moreover , the emergence of countries pursuing rival paths to socialism — the relatively decentralized economy of Yugoslavia , the peasant-based movement in China , and the variety of socialist experiments in many of the newly-independent countries of Africa and Asia from the late 1950s and early 60s — stirred new criticism of Moscow 's claim to be the infallible source of the socialist creed . |
| 27 | Communities may vary in all these respects urban areas producing different responses to rural areas . |
| 28 | There are too many loopholes allowing poached ivory to be " laundered " into the legal trade and thence onto the open market . |
| 29 | On the West German law prohibiting military sales to zones of conflict , he said : ‘ If such a law exists , it had no influence at all on our contractual relationship . |
| 30 | Of course , the various families of homoclinic orbits to the origin can not cross ( at any point in parameter space the two trajectories which tend in backward time to the origin are unique and can be part of at most one homoclinic orbit ) and the dotted lines representing homoclinic orbits to the points also can not cross ( for similar reasons ) . |