Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lots of people will consider returning to work if they think they have good quality childcare . ’ |
| 2 | Surely , as prime evidence of date and function the artefacts must be integrated into the excavation report itself and the artificial division into materials replaced by objects grouped according to function and deposit . |
| 3 | These were grouped according to theme and accompanied by a variety of tasks . |
| 4 | Secondly , it remained uncertain whether continental western European corporate language policy varied according to country and company size or type . |
| 5 | The amount of toll-in-kind payable for the service of milling the grain varied according to region and period , but the average charge was one-sixteenth part of the grain by volume . |
| 6 | I you mentioned going to college or or rather not going to college . |
| 7 | I finally stopped going to school when Charlie did , and Eva arranged for me to go to a college where I could finish my A levels . |
| 8 | I stopped going to school when I was thirteen getting on fourteen , and it was then that I started getting into trouble , running away from home and thieving . |
| 9 | Unfortunately you now appear to be experiencing a rather peculiar phase in which nothing seems to go according to plan and all you can do is bide your time and wait for others to come to their senses . |
| 10 | Allegiances are formed according to colour and group censorship demands conformity as ritualized insults fly : |
| 11 | A prior , and misleading , assumption that the levels of direct taxation in Britain were very high has been eroded as levels of direct taxation have progressively been reduced in the 1980s , whilst the rates of indirect taxation — which are paid on goods and services and are therefore not levied according to income but according to expenditure — have increased . |
| 12 | Although quite different in appearance , Playplax offers the same diversity of experience — creative construction involving a sense of balance and pattern or symmetry together with the opportunity to sort according to colour and shape . |
| 13 | The data discussed here were selected according to wind-direction and particle-concentration criteria that have been shown previously to define ‘ baseline ’ periods of very clean oceanic air . |
| 14 | The farmers ' lack of legal action against the company was based on an uncertainty about what their legal rights were , particularly in regard to mineral rights , lack of financial resources to risk going to law and no reliable information on the worth of the minerals . |
| 15 | — which vary according to topic or context ; |
| 16 | Prices vary according to volume and length — expect to pay between £100 to £475 , maximum |
| 17 | Fertility rates vary according to area or country of birth of the mother . |
| 18 | Products and yields vary according to fashion and demand ; whaling , sealing , fur trading and mineral ore exploitation have declined in recent years , but commercial fishing and fossil fuel exploitation are well established and likely to continue . |
| 19 | Placement costs vary according to need but are likely to involve token payment for an extra helper within the playgroups and may include transport cost and playgroup fees . |
| 20 | The stations on the Trans-Siberian were classified according to size and amenity into five categories . |
| 21 | It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year . |
| 22 | Unlike their dad , the children enjoy going to bed and getting up late . |
| 23 | We do not like what was done to us and we shall keep coming to conference until we win . |
| 24 | This varies according to land-use and from region to region depending on soil nutrient status , and is linked to the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients between the atmosphere , soil and biomass . |
| 25 | Since it is accepted that the consensus varies according to time and place , it is not clear how one distinguishes between a legitimate consensus and a deviant subculture . |
| 26 | The section on the chemistry of gasication is not so definitive partly because the temperature gradient , which varies according to fuel and gasifier design , affects both the position of chemical equilibria and the relative rates of different reactions within the gasifier but also because few experimental results are available for interpretation . |
| 27 | Each unit is ranked according to profitability and profit growth , which helps spur competition between IDG managers and — with any luck — encourages them to learn from each other . |
| 28 | The Commissioners had a discretion as to the levying of the money , but the court struck their decision down : the discretion was to be exercised according to reason and law and it was unreasonable for R to bear the whole burden . |
| 29 | She says : ‘ When I was 29 I remember going to bed and thinking I hope I do n't wake up 30 , which is dreadful . |
| 30 | Right this minute now cos it 's quarter to nine already , we need to be getting going to school considering we were n't going five minutes ago and now we are ! |