Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence .
2 Two of them are ‘ common ’ sails , in which slats could be adjusted manually according to the speed and direction of the wind .
3 The colour may be varied perhaps according to the type of tools put out with it ; ‘ natural ’ for pastry cutters and patty tins , for instance .
4 The lighter the line the less stiff it is , and the more supple the line the more the bait will behave naturally according to the nuances of the current .
5 Serious cinema 's attempts to portray sexual passion have generally succeeded best according to the extent they have ignored this temptation : think of Brando , obese , with straggling grey hair and face plastered with pan-stick , howling obscenities as he floors Maria Schneider ; or Dennis Hopper , jumping on Isabella Rossellini like a mad dog with velvet , scissors , and mask .
6 In this one episode we find interconnections with race , class , colonialism , and ( cultural ) imperialism , and in ironic , domestic , tragically intricate ways : witness Gide finally capitulating to the class , racial , and cultural prejudices of his own culture , as voiced through his mother , who in turn speaks through her servant .
7 The trouble is that there are just not enough places available at the moment , and in recent years local authorities have been unable to provide more owing to the shortage of funds and the cash limits imposed on local authority expenditure by central government .
8 Furthermore , in many more isolated and smaller settlements a wife may be unable to work regularly owing to a lack of jobs or transport ; therefore the total mortgage that a would-be home buyer can obtain will be based on a multiple of the husband 's income alone .
9 So just wait to see just going to the committee .
10 Although the classification notation will subsequently incorporate the notation of the second facet , the document will be placed physically according to the first facet ; that is , this document will either be placed with other documents on mathematics or with other documents on primary schools .
11 [ 6,7 ] They naturally concentrate on older children who begin to use words but who need translators and guides so that their words and behaviour are understood by adults and so that the actions of well-intentioned doctors and nurses can be made less threatening to the child .
12 If he played strictly according to the rules , the king had to combine some of the qualities of general , prize fighter , judge and monk .
13 The list will be presented differently according to the type of start point chosen , as follows :
14 The list will be presented differently according to the type of start point chosen , as follows :
15 The mucosa was examined and lesions scored macroscopically according to the presence of petechiae or necrotic mucosa ( Table II ) .
16 With sherds of pottery , groups will be made initially according to the colour of the pottery and any other indicators such as the way the surface of the pottery is finished , any distinctive inclusions in the clay such as quartz , and so on .
17 TRGs is a concept , first identified by Gambling ( 1987 ) in which patients are classified more according to the treatment they receive than according to their clinical classification .
18 Individual colleges and institutes vary both according to the proportion of advanced work which they provide and also the types of courses which they offer , depending partly on the nature of the institutions which went to make them up and partly on the way in which they have developed in the past few years .
19 Although covered the radial shields are conspicuous , bar shaped nearly extending to the middle of the disk .
20 On one sunny afternoon , when running and feeding a platen-machine ( by hand ) and sweating profusely owing to the heat , the rattle of the front-door bell told me to attend the counter .
21 Among those who had received medical advice , knowledge of postcoital contraceptive methods differed significantly according to the source of that advice ( table ) .
22 Charges vary considerably according to the type of plan you select and the number of different investments you hold within it .
23 Such strategies therefore vary considerably according to the economic conditions under which family members operate .
24 ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start — perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was because the heat was so intense . ’
25 ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start , perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was the heat . ’
26 Module images are produced in pages as in a computer listing , but are ordered and displayed differently according to the media type chosen , and the settings in the configuration file , as described later .
27 ‘ I remember also going to the Bank of England vaults to see whole rooms piled to the ceilings with gold bars . ’
28 You know that if the score 's above the mean do n't worry , I 've got an overhead for this , that 's if the score 's above the mean then i you know relatively speaking to the mean it 's high right ?
29 Oxyhaemoglobin was prepared from bovine haemoglobin ( 75% methaemoglobin , Sigma Chemicals Ltd ) and its purity was assessed spectrophotometrically according to the method described by Martin et al .
30 If they come up with a question maybe just find out what 's being it erm not just reaction to a particular behaviour , but asking them how the feeling , you know maybe pointing to the bit in their body that 's actually feeling butterflies or whatever and trying to help them to express the fears and , more importantly , to make them concrete in terms of play , drawing , or acting it out .
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