Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have more chance of improving that than knocking 10 years off Gregory or adding speed to Fox . |
| 2 | This is in addition to the normal purposes of cuts , such as keeping up the pace of the story , or giving emphasis to actions or reactions . |
| 3 | Total disablement from engaging in or giving attention to profession or occupation as specified on the policy schedule . |
| 4 | If the Policyholder has a valid claim under item 5 — Total Disablement from engaging in or giving attention to profession or occupation — any medical expenses necessarily incurred in connection with the disablement are covered up to 15% of the total amount of the weekly benefit paid during the period of a claim e.g. if a total of $1,000 in weekly benefit had been paid , medical expenses up to $150 would be covered . |
| 5 | Also useful is regular exercise , taking adequate daily calcium and not smoking or drinking alcohol to excess . |
| 6 | The character of the whole place is best assessed by walking down from the castle rather than climbing east to west . |
| 7 | One man I met on holiday even suggested that sending aid to Africa was ‘ compounding the problem ’ because it allowed so many potential breeders to survive . |
| 8 | One man I met on holiday in Greece even suggested that sending aid to Africa was ‘ compounding the problem ’ because it allowed so many potential breeders to survive . |
| 9 | Mr for the defendant effectively accepts that , but says that having regard to Mr er undoubted success in regard to provision of one to one assistance in relation to other children , some of whom are less disabled than Paul , that I should try and look to local authority will provide thirty hours assistance or thereabouts after say eighteen months and that therefore in this regard the defendant should pay for only one and a half years of er enabler 's time . |
| 10 | Apart from the fact that Havana 's support for these adventures added up to little more than ‘ a limited amount of old weapons ’ in the chaotic early months of revolutionary power ( Bourne : 1987 , p. 188 ) , ‘ it must … be recognised that giving aid to revolutionaries seeking to overthrow dictatorships is a long-standing tradition for Latin America 's democratic Left . |
| 11 | His acrid and accusing farewell to London was Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ( 1920 ) . |
| 12 | The report noted that the industrialized countries could improve the lot of 1,100 million people living on an average per capita income equivalent to less than US$370 a year by increasing and targeting aid to countries committed to reducing poverty . |
| 13 | The candidate will spend most the campaign making speeches throughout the constituency , not infrequently at thinly attended meetings , and canvassing door to door where possible . |
| 14 | While Syria made the appropriate public disclaimers , insisting it was serious about eradicating drugs and denying sanctuary to terrorists headquartered in the Bekaa Valley , Washington could take no independent action without risking the charge of meddling in Syria 's internal affairs and thereby still further inflaming Arab sensitivities throughout the Middle East . |
| 15 | They were all there on the last day , even down to the original.horse-drawn trams , rattling or gliding past in stately line-astern , a fleet from decades gone , past the Central Hotel and the ‘ Mal ’ , up Hope Street , and bidding farewell to Argyle Street under the gateway of the Hielan' Man 's Umbrella . |
| 16 | Information has been collected on households ' patterns of donating money and volunteering time to charities , individuals ' motives for giving , their attitudes to charities , and their knowledge of and views of covenanting and bequeathing money to charities . |
| 17 | From the Stac Polly car park , the road continues eastwards through scenes of mountain grandeur , skirting the lower slopes of Cul Beag and reaching the main road , now the A.835 , coming from Kylesku or Lairg and heading south to Ullapool , with retrospective views of Stac Polly until declining into Strath Kanaird and arriving on the coast at Ardmair Bay . |
| 18 | have gained some illustrative experience of observing lessons taught , and of preparing and presenting material to classes |
| 19 | On his showing at the Brooklands circuit with a prewar 4½-litre Opel and by persistent importuning , he was accepted , in 1921 , as a team driver by Louis Hervé Coatalen [ q.v. ] , designer and racing manager to Sunbeam ( soon to be the Anglo-French concern , Sunbeam–Talbot–Darracq ) , the only English competitor in international events . |
| 20 | There was an awareness among people outside schools that schools could choose between a range of approaches to the curriculum ( Lawton 1986 ) and there was an expectation that the chosen curriculum in , for instance , each primary school was one which would create the basis of a rational , moral and enquiring attitude to learning and to future experience . |
| 21 | To illustrate the point , and to suggest some possible choices , I shall pack a fictional bag for three very different trips that I have taken recently — a six-week winter trip to Nepal , including a trek to Everest Base Camp , a week 's backpacking in North Wales and a camping and birdwatching trip to New England during the Fall . |
| 22 | Volunteers who give their labour free provide an important part of work done by Citizens Advice Bureaux , law centres , marriage guidance , youth work and teaching English to foreigners . |
| 23 | Westminster must become more effective in protecting citizens and holding government to account . |
| 24 | But there is only one variable , with these properties in row 1 , so and removing edge to breaks the path from to . |
| 25 | The town has also ar institution called the Spittel , built from an endowment of 1225 which laid an obligation upon the Teutonic Order to maintain a hospice for tending the poor and providing hospitality to pilgrims . |
| 26 | Key objectives include preserving forest biodiversity and providing benefit to forest peoples . |
| 27 | The head must also make available for inspection at the school information on syllabuses , schemes of work and school hours as well as details of the arrangements for dealing with complaints and providing access to pupils ' records and documents , such as any HMI Report on the school . |
| 28 | The very intensity of their land-hunger , however , forced up the cost of both renting and buying land to levels which were quite unrelated to the land 's yield . |
| 29 | On the one hand there is severe mental illness in mothers , possibly psychotic and requiring admission to specialist units . |
| 30 | Most of the value in video work remained in the area of classroom organization and the teacher gaining control over the class and facilitating day to day survival . |