Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From my audience ( a solid queue of cars waiting bumper to bumper at a side road ) there came a sort of gasp or groan . |
| 2 | The reserves remaining net to LASMO have been presented on two bases , on the relevant working interest and also on a net entitlement basis which takes into account projections of government share of production calculated in accordance with certain price and expenditure assumptions . |
| 3 | Countries paying money to users of contraception : BANGLADESH , EGYPT , INDIA , INDONESIA , MALAYSIA , MAURITIUS , NEPAL , SOUTH KOREA , SRI LANKA , THAILAND , TUNISIA , VIETNAM |
| 4 | Sorry , I think it 's worth noting some of the circumstances giving rise to Mrs Brown er committing the offences which bring her before the court today . |
| 5 | The promoters are also marketing imaginative packages which sometimes include books of vouchers giving entrance to places of historical or geographical interest , discounted theatre tickets , unlimited travel on the bus or underground , tee shirts and other promotional give-aways as well as hotel accommodation and meals . |
| 6 | Mr de Klerk 's main criterion , as far as one can tell , in deciding who is released first is to attempt to minimise the chances of mass political gatherings giving way to violence and , the great nightmare , loss of government control . |
| 7 | Their spring offensive in Negros Occidental province — " Operation Thunderbolt " — cleared the NPA from an area which they had long regarded as their own , but with heavy civilian casualties giving rise to criticism of their action from the Catholic Church and human rights groups . |
| 8 | Politics and showbusiness have collided head on during the election campaign with one of the country 's leading Conservatives coming face to face with himself … or at least his Spitting Image . |
| 9 | The government will also meet half the costs of British companies offering training to executives from overseas . |
| 10 | After many years dispensing tea to supporters , Colin took up football with the club this season and , to boost his confidence , I appointed him skipper . |
| 11 | The study collects detailed morbidity information only about illnesses requiring referral to hospital . |
| 12 | Derek Reeves , a retired British Rail employee , spent 18 days travelling north to south across China by train . |
| 13 | In addition to the structure I have also provisionally examined the numbers of staff likely to be needed for Council Tax purposes having regard to experiences of Poll Tax over recent years . |
| 14 | When a group of anti-embargo Americans organised a flotilla of 13 boats carrying aid to church organisations in Cuba from the Florida Keys on April 24th , right-wing groups were convinced that the stuff would end up in the hands of Mr Castro and the armed forces . |
| 15 | Could a private citizen obtain a court order to prevent post office workers boycotting mail to South Africa ? |
| 16 | The species and ailments have varied from dogs needing surgery to iguanas feeling under the weather . |
| 17 | Dispel notions of lethargic ponies plodding nose to tail , only speeding up on the way back to the stables : trail riding can be both challenging and exciting . |
| 18 | Rather than bringing about increased skills portability , YTS has proved instrumental in bringing about a sharpening of labour market segmentation , as the conditions surrounding entry to jobs at all levels has become more formalized and rigidified . |
| 19 | The age regulations governing access to training are becoming more flexible , on paper if not always in practice , and there is increasing emphasis on ‘ access ’ courses of various kinds for adults . |
| 20 | Faults trending north-west to west-north-west with brecciated , altered and partly mineralised zones displace the mapped stratigraphical boundaries . |
| 21 | Its no worse than industrialists giving money to Maggie in return for peerages . |
| 22 | Thus it is often argued that statutes punishing cruelty to animals can only be explained in that way . |
| 23 | IBM and Object Design plan to develop a series of products linking ObjectStore to IBM 's range of databases . |
| 24 | IBM and ODI plan to develop a series of products linking ObjectStore to IBM 's range of databases . |
| 25 | Highway — Heavy vehicles , use by — Disturbance to residents — Heavy goods vehicles on roads giving access to port — Movements of vehicles causing serious disturbance to residents — Whether movement of vehicles creating public nuisance |
| 26 | The process is in general ( but not in detail ) analogous to the Brownian motion of molecules giving rise to fluid viscosity . |
| 27 | Long tongues of land reaching out to mills have already been mentioned , as have projections giving access to upland pasture or a pool , but other extensions may sometimes show the former existence of a settlement . |
| 28 | FLASHPOINT THE famous day Spurs hard man Dave Mackay got to grips with Leeds legend Billy Bremner at White Hart Lane — two Scottish firebrands coming face to face in the heat of battle |
| 29 | The most common kinds of situations giving rise to interaction amongst Network members are summarised below , together with a checklist which sets out the obligations of the initiating member and the participating member in each set of circumstances . |
| 30 | Moore 's way of putting it might be defended on the basis of a realist view of universals for which individual horses are horses because they participate in a universal object horse , and do so in virtue of the fact that they have parts participating in universal objects which are parts of the universal object horse and related to each other in ways which participate in the universal relations linking part to whole in the universal object . |