Example sentences of "[verb] in [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This awareness of need is the first level of understanding in coming to faith , and if there is any deficiency at this fundamental level , doubt will strike later on . |
| 2 | In this it resembled the British constitution itself , which , as apo-logists delight in explaining to foreigners , is nowhere embodied in a single document having the force of law . |
| 3 | After the meeting was over and the main demonstration had dispersed , some civil rights supporters succeeded in infiltrating to Market Square by a roundabout route . |
| 4 | He had , however , succeeded in demonstrating to President Ratu Penaia Ganilau that he had the support of the majority of the FPP leadership behind him . |
| 5 | The hesitation which the average individual has in going to Court and giving evidence should not be under-estimated and if there is , therefore , an inclination to avoid that the Tender provides the agent with a basis for persuading the client to accept . |
| 6 | Gradually , competition between the entrepreneurs as buyers , and again as sellers , will succeed in communicating to market participants a correct estimate of the other market participants ' eagerness to buy and to sell . |
| 7 | Representations requesting her release [ and that of her husband while he was alive ] were made in writing to President Banda by successive Law Society Presidents , and in person by the Delegation of UK lawyers which visited Malawi and obtained permission to visit the Chirwas in prison in September last year . |
| 8 | The aim of this research is to examine the strategies which prisoners and their families adopt in coming to terms with custody and its various social consequences . |
| 9 | The highest level of information used in processing to date has been some form of lexical look-up . |
| 10 | Scrambling along the ground at 4 metres per second , a quail functions at a miserable 7 per cent fuel efficiency , Heglund found , while a man running at that speed achieves a 73 per cent ratio of fuel used in running to energy generated from food and oxygen . |
| 11 | This was in recognition both of the 40th anniversary of his debut with the company and of the strenuous part he has played in bringing to fruition this ambitious project . |
| 12 | When viruses succeed in binding to cell membrane receptors they still have to enter the cell and break up into separated proteins and genetic material before they can replicate . |
| 13 | Even if parents succeed in coming to terms with letting their children go , their best efforts are likely to be undermined by the ‘ dirty washing ’ gambit , or proprietorial claims to ‘ my room ’ which the child will not relinquish . |
| 14 | Now they were all busily employed in setting to rights the big front saloon — a difficult task , for all its furniture was large and heavy and the carpets had not seen even a brush for years and years . |
| 15 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 16 | Were they morally justified in lying to Mrs Keech and her followers and maintaining this lie for several months on end ? |
| 17 | Some teachers told the evaluators that they did not feel justified in talking to pupils about the girls and science problem , and gave the impression that they felt to do so would be tantamount to propaganda . |
| 18 | I believe in going to bed when you are really tired , not when you think you should . |
| 19 | The main problem the cloner will have in getting to volume production is Sun 's current monopoly of Viking CPU and memory component supplies . |
| 20 | The problems which are likely to be encountered in attempting to mesh such divergent data are both technical and philosophical . |
| 21 | It entailed enormous amounts of time spent in communicating to people , sharing ideas and views , articulating goals , encouraging , and hearing out . |
| 22 | Apply in writing to Buckingham Palace , SW1 inclosing SAE and a recent photograph . ’ |
| 23 | On Nov. 27 a warning had been issued to the government by France , the United Kingdom and the USA , to hand over two men suspected of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , in December 1988 , and to co-operate in bringing to trial suspects in the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 [ see p. 39215 ] . |
| 24 | say to th this chap you know but we just happened to mention in passing to Jeanette and she really jumped and said oh Pat did n't smoke a lot . |
| 25 | Since there was no question of us being able to invest in a cargo ourselves , let alone afford to charter the empty vessel , our only solution lay in returning to Makassar and attempting to persuade our Chinese friends to raise the merchandise themselves and to send us along as its stewards and guardians . |
| 26 | This was concluded by a specific description of the problems involved in selling to Japan . |
| 27 | He 's best friends with Eddie Murphy , and co-starts in Murphy 's Harlem Nights , just as he did in Coming to America . |
| 28 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 29 | That amount of daily fresh air and exercise does wonders for health and fitness , so the time taken in travelling to work is actually being put to good use . |
| 30 | Clark revealed that there has been only one official bid for Keane since the end of the season — a £3.5 million verbal offer from Rovers which Blackburn 's chairman Robert Corr subsequently confirmed in writing to Forest chairman Fred Reacher . |