Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] to [det] [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 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thus , the incidence of particular variants differs according to these roles and functions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Products or services may then have to be positioned according to these perceptions . |
| 9 | It sounds good but in reality none of the video centres is operating according to these regulations . |
| 10 | Fourth , if , having acted according to these principles , he were subsequently challenged regarding the lawfulness of his conduct , the doctor would have the benefit of the defence of necessity if he had intervened , but if he had not intervened , he would not thereby be in breach of his duty to his patient . |
| 11 | When a figure is drawn according to these instructions it will , as a consequence , have various properties which a geometer might have predicted . |
| 12 | There exists according to these studies a ‘ metaphysical pathos of ‘ Godfatherism ’ ' ( Needleman and Needleman 1979 : 518 ) . |
| 13 | Sections from different regions of the airway of a mouse transfected with pREP8-CFTR were hybridized with human antisense CFTR probes corresponding to either exons 1–6 ( a-f , i , j ) or exon 13 ( g and h ) . |
| 14 | Words such as " both " , " pint " , and " steak " become unrecognisable if pronounced according to the GPC rules ( they would rhyme with " moth " , " mint " , and " meek " ) , and irregular words such as " bread " , " come " , and " wild " actually become different words when pronounced according to these rules ( i.e. , " breed " , " comb " , and " willed " ) . |
| 15 | Aircraft captains are legally entitled to deny boarding to any passengers presenting themselves at the aircraft who , cat the captain 's absolute discretion , are unacceptably under the influence of drink or drugs . |
| 16 | What has also survived , at least in part , is a landscape which has been moulded according to those beliefs . |
| 17 | To pay the bank daily to do things with it and then to start adding to those costs which a bank charges by using all these sophisticated methods when we can in fact do what most staff want , which is to give them cash in a little brown envelope on a Thursday . |
| 18 | His conclusion is that English , if constituted according to these principles , is the university study not only best suited to produce the truly democratic individual , but the discipline which is " destined in time to become the educational centre in English speaking democracies " . |
| 19 | She lay listening to these signs of a weather change and wondered whether Tristram had decided not to come after all . |
| 20 | Local authorities house people from the waiting-list on the basis of a points system , which varies between different local authorities , points being gained according to such criteria as length of time on the waiting-list , current housing situation , numbers of children , and so on . |
| 21 | My mother used to say , ‘ Do n't you go talking to any gippoes , niggers , tramps or jewboys , ’ She was Baptist , we were the little elite . |
| 22 | The meanings ‘ financial institution ’ and ‘ side of river ’ , on the other hand , do represent two distinct senses , so there are two lexical units bank corresponding to these senses . |
| 23 | All were within a 500-mile radius of Whaddon , and many misguided soccer fans preferred travelling to those grounds rather than succumb to the semi-pro subtleties on show at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 24 | Scanning would extend indexing to all terms included on card . |
| 25 | ‘ I have sometimes been astonished to hear the contemptuous manner in which Europeans in the Indies speak of [ Mughal architecture ] , ’ he writes , adding of the Delhi Jama Masjid : ‘ I grant that this building is not constructed according to those rules of architecture which we seem to think ought to be implicitly followed ; yet I can see no fault that offends taste . |
| 26 | Both these examples are unfair to Boo and show the willingness of man to manifest ideas into his mind about certain subjects and then to act according to these ideas , ie. the monster and scapegoat . |
| 27 | The Map Library 's purchasing policy has to keep a balance between the acquisition of early maps and atlases of Scottish interest and association , and the need to provide an up-to-date collection of maps , atlases and reference works relating to all aspects of cartography and all parts of the world . |
| 28 | The conferences were held actually , shall we say according to these guidelines that you have before you erm , and it was felt that the remit of these conferences has already and will in the future erm , increase democracy , accountability and the efficiency in decision making processes in our union . |