Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when the means of production are communally owned will classes disappear , thereby bringing an end to the exploitation and oppression of some by others . |
| 2 | The opportunities for successfully re-using a structure to which it is necessary to make major modifications in order to suit it to its new task are small , even with ironwork of exceptionally good quality . |
| 3 | Let's hope the opposition are n't quite as bright as you seem to be , ’ he said , his words and the warmth of his smile suddenly bringing a flush to her cheeks . |
| 4 | Father Moore is only a brief visitor ; he has called in crisply to pay his respects , exchange a few words of banter with Patsy ( also a brother-in-law of somebody ) , and to inform Siobhan that next year he will be personally heading a pilgrimage to Knock so as to ward off any unfortunate flukes of the road . |
| 5 | I would suggest that the government would be a lot , lot better adding a ticket to amounts of money , which said ‘ You either spend this money on implementing the Food Safety Act , or you do n't get it . ’ |
| 6 | THE young man filmed in the early hours of yesterday delightedly taking a pick-axe to the top of the Berlin Wall was a potent symbol of the destruction of 28 years of affront to freedom and of the potential dismantling of the system presided over until only a few weeks ago by its architect , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 7 | Other issues to be examined will be those involved in randomly selecting a person to be interviewed within a household and problems arising in mixed surveys where non telephone owners are interviewed face-to-face . |
| 8 | I looked to see if he was trying to be unpleasant but he was obviously making an effort to be polite . |
| 9 | BRIAN CLOUGH , the Nottingham Forest manager , is this morning pictured in several English-based newspapers apparently delivering a V-sign to the club 's supporters at the City Ground . |
| 10 | Typically overheating by 1°C increases energy consumption by 7 per cent , and so heating a building to 22°C rather than the statutory maximum of 19°C increases the amount of energy used by over 20 per cent . |
| 11 | PowerGen was created out of the remaining 30 per cent of the power plant , thereby forming a competitor to the dominant supplier . |
| 12 | Against Darwin 's five years in Beagle , Wallace had spent four years exploring the Amazon basin , followed by eight years , largely alone , travelling throughout the Indonesian islands expressly seeking a solution to the evolutionary divergence of species . |
| 13 | A number of trees could be linked together , each tree representing ( e.g. ) a morphological class such as prefixes , stems and so on , thus allowing a word to be decomposed into morphological units . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ The message is that the UK government could n't care less , they are just applying a Band-Aid to a mortal wound . ’ |
| 15 | It was thought that the position of these encourages motorists to cut the corner when coming over the bridge thus causing a hazard to vehicles and pedestrians coming the other way . |
| 16 | This allowed immediate access to the data base so that reports could be produced rapidly and questions could be answered quickly , thus providing a stimulus to further analysis . |
| 17 | The company is thus providing a service to others who wish to purchase these structures . |
| 18 | Joanna Baker , the Festival 's director of marketing and public affairs , spoke to a number of design houses before finally giving a brief to the Edinburgh firm of McIlroy Coates . |
| 19 | As it was only eleven thirty in the morning there were quite a few people who thought that it would be fun to go out and play in the floods and others who were just lending a hand to those in difficulty . |
| 20 | From watching Isobel and her husband he had discovered that there was much more to sex than just taking a girl to bed or being uneasily married to a frigid , grasping woman . |
| 21 | When Wendy 's father died of lung cancer , he asked Rhoda to move in and presently got it together to marry her , thus putting a stop to Wendy 's sudden plan to abandon Dev and move back in with Ken . |
| 22 | The profit-sharing scheme is coming on line in June and we are already planning a follow-up to our successful Islamic Quiz Evening on March 12th . |
| 23 | Here the new road over to Glen Garry , continuing the A.87 classification , turns to the right , the signpost still urging a visit to Fort William . |
| 24 | Why would anyone keep such a letter unless they were still considering a response to it ? |
| 25 | Confidence will play a vital role in most projects undertaken with training courses possibly providing an aid to both production and marketing techniques . |
| 26 | After years of hardly giving a thought to their pension , panic suddenly sets in as they consider the prospect of no longer drawing a regular salary . |
| 27 | Gina stared back at him stonily , her mouth still retaining a testimony to that fact . |
| 28 | Always having a calculator to hand ( is n't that what you bought a computer for ? ) and an instantly accessible notepad are probably the two essential elements . |
| 29 | The album has its moments , and some people — forever willing a return to greatness from Dylan — will no doubt say it 's a masterwork . |
| 30 | Where a company is registered in Scotland a summons may be served on it by leaving it at , or by sending it by post to , its principal place of business in England or Wales addressed to the manager or head officer and by further posting a copy to the registered office ( s 725(2) and ( 3 ) Companies Act 1985 ) . |