Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But it is not adequate for many of the tasks of the modern capitalist state which has to intervene increasingly according to a ‘ substantive ’ rather than ‘ formal ’ rationality ( Therborn 1978 : 54 , 89 ) based on highly specialized forms of expertise ( e.g. Dunleavy 1982 : 196–205 ) — for example , in production itself . |
| 3 | Walking through the lobby of Hotel Vancouver one day I happened to see Shelly talking to a smart looking young lady and when I joined them he introduced his assistant , Hellen Semmens . |
| 4 | Such groups may cohere together according to a wide variety of principles , e.g. by identification with a particular locality , a particular herd of livestock , a particular parcel of seed ( annually replaced ) , a particular lineage name transmitted from parent to child , and 50 on . |
| 5 | Words can be split either according to a set of pre-defined rules or from a table of correct hyphenations but in both cases ensure that English English is being used rather than American . |
| 6 | There was no point sitting here yapping to a bunch of fucking prejudiced right-wing bastards . |
| 7 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |
| 8 | Again , this should reduce direct copying to a minimum . |
| 9 | Either way he or she returns to disturb the heterosexual norm , especially in its masculine form , and does so according to a psychic and/or social dynamic which is intrinsically perverse : deviance emerges from the terms of its exclusion , eventually undermining that of which it was initially an effect , and which depended upon its exclusion . |
| 10 | If you want to take home brewing to a more advanced stage , which entails mashing and boiling with malt and hops rather than extracts , you should buy ‘ The Big Book of Brewing ’ by Dave Line or ‘ Brewing Better Beers ’ by Ken Shales . |
| 11 | Programme as to how the vendors intend to move forward linking to a definitive offer . |
| 12 | During the afternoon , while he sat idly chatting to a few men in the masons ' lean-to , James Menzies arrived , his brown horse soaked black . |
| 13 | The severity of oesophagitis was graded endoscopically according to a recently proposed modification of the original Savary and Miller classification . |