Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a pity that he attributes to Emrys Hughes remarks relating to these matters made by Sir Emrys Jones . |
| 2 | General manager David Melvin said : ‘ We provide catering to 350 outlets within the region , including schools , but we have to tender for that business . |
| 3 | In order to examine in more detail the interaction between socio-political context , economic problems and educational policies pursued by governments , the case-study countries are grouped according to key problems and the variety of ways in which governments have attempted to deal with them . |
| 4 | Directors will only act according to professional standards of behaviour and the range of decisions available to them will be indicated by their own expertise . |
| 5 | Recognizing that people do act according to established beliefs and pre-existing knowledge systems , he focuses upon distinguishing between the establishment of those beliefs ( which he calls ‘ ideologies ’ ) and action in accordance with those beliefs . |
| 6 | It follows that the methods by which gold was obtained differed according to social circumstances . |
| 7 | If not , as some changes will be made to its membership after the election , will he consider writing to all Members explaining how the system works — what the Public Accounts Commission , the Public Accounts Committee and the NAO do ? |
| 8 | It was for this reason that his master-class in Spanish history took the form of a film , Raza ; and for the same reason that the frequency of his appearances in the state-produced cinema newsreels , No-Do , varied according to external circumstances and internal convenience , increasing when things were going well , decreasing when they were not . |
| 9 | The selection of those who might have the right varied according to immediate tactics but , in general , Engels reserved his most withering scorn — and violent prejudice — for ‘ non-historical peoples ’ , |
| 10 | Herbert 's work involved travelling to various parts of Africa , Europe and the Middle East , and although theoretically based in Johannesburg , he told an interviewer that he had never spent more than six weeks continuously in his office there . |
| 11 | Though its original statute forbad lending to foreign-controlled firms , a 1986 policy statement softened this policy by implying inclusion of local firms with minority shares held by multinationals ( Brazilian Government , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 13 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 14 | Those who exercise power or authority over others typically claim legitimacy for doing so , ie that their position and actions are justified according to recognised principles . |
| 15 | Government agencies are created to perform according to different criteria from private business . |
| 16 | Since , however , cases concerning property which has devolved according to those provisions will for many years continue to come before the courts , they are summarized in a note at the end of the book . |
| 17 | It is now generally accepted that the universe evolves according to well-defined laws . |
| 18 | Thus , the incidence of particular variants differs according to these roles and functions . |
| 19 | Charles saw the wisdom of maintaining local traditions of justice in the varied regions of his great realm , and gave instructions that cases should be heard according to regional laws . |
| 20 | In May Aboriginal campaigners persuaded Edinburgh University , in Scotland , to return the remains of more than 300 Aborigines from its anthropological collection in order that they could be reburied according to Aboriginal traditions . |
| 21 | Although an increased susceptibility to hepatotoxicity may be contributory , the main reason for the continuing high mortality from paracetamol overdose is that many patients still present to medical care too late after ingestion for an antidote to be given according to standard guidelines . |
| 22 | On the contrary , the two young persons communicate in a jokily affectionate private language , often about people in a not undistinguished but certainly restricted circle of acquaintances and Shakespear connections , who lived according to social codes now utterly unremembered . |
| 23 | This foundation of commitment means a decision to behave according to certain standards of conduct towards another person . |
| 24 | Training materials were prepared from which boards were free to choose according to individual needs . |
| 25 | The question whether that is what the buyer bargained for has to be answered according to such tests as men in the market would apply , leaving more delicate questions of condition , or quality , to be determined under other clauses of the contract or sections of the Act . |
| 26 | In the full sense of the word , it is arguable that nobody was governed before the later nineteenth century ; it would certainly be foolish to maintain that either royal or princely government in the twelfth century operated according to fixed rules or without intermission or over all the inhabitants of a defined area . |
| 27 | They should also inform shoppers as to the product 's environmental friendliness from cradle to grave — evaluated according to standardized criteria . |
| 28 | Convention establishes certain procedures so that when clear rules are adopted according to these procedures , people can rely on state intervention in their behalf ; they can also rely on the state not to intervene at the behest of other citizens except as these rules stipulate and can plan and coordinate their affairs accordingly . |
| 29 | The discovery of a masonic mural in the George Hotel in March 1985 , right on the line of the geomantic figure , proves that the lodge was positioned according to ancient laws . |
| 30 | Products or services may then have to be positioned according to these perceptions . |