Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attending external events , and giving training , including giving speeches where required to do so , thereby contributing to public understanding of the judiciary . |
| 2 | Rural-urban migrants were able to take advantage of the former , often sending financial assistance back to their relatives in the countryside and so contributing to increased income levels there . |
| 3 | Not all the effects of the privity doctrine are necessarily damaging to third party purchasers or creditors . |
| 4 | But it may not be enough according to some industry commentators . |
| 5 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 6 | I did not go to playschool or kindergarten so going to primary school was a big event in my life . |
| 7 | It was apparently reassuring to this woman to have her aggression recognized so straightforwardly , because the couple was then able to have intercourse . |
| 8 | In my own particular section of the clothing and textiles the union fought long and hard to gain the same rights and conditions for temporary workers , and so leading to permanent employment in most cases . |
| 9 | Someone had put on a record , slow , lazy music , and the couples on the floor were n't really dancing , merely clinging to each other like limpets , nuzzling each other 's necks . |
| 10 | I watched Eric fall slowly asleep , his head gently tipping to one side , eyes closing . |
| 11 | The B version of the play is much less accommodating to this perspective . |
| 12 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 13 | Thus the question raised by the application is whether we should vary the appellant 's implied undertaking and free the documents for limited further disclosure having regard not only to the public interest underlying the implication of the undertaking in the first place , but also the public interest giving rise to the recognised immunity generally attaching to this class of documents . |
| 14 | 20.1 In the case of any dispute or difference arising between the parties hereto relating to this Agreement or any matter arising therefrom or incidental thereto the same may be submitted to the arbitration of a single arbitrator in accordance with the provisions of the United Kingdom Arbitration Act 1979 or any statutory modification thereof for the time being in force . |
| 15 | But the time and inspiration for such apparent frivolities were rapidly passing and he was soon explaining to Bonamy Dobrée that the Bolovian period had ended . |
| 16 | Will he do everything to ensure that the recent announcement by the European Community , which reflects the attitude of the French and those who agree with them in respect of the general agreement on tariffs and trade proposals , will not be immensely damaging to British farming and world trade as a whole ? |
| 17 | In the UK , emissions of man-made hydrocarbons or VOCs ( volatile organic compounds ) increased 12 per cent in the ten years to 1985 , largely owing to increased road traffic . |
| 18 | The boy behind pulled Roy 's chair away leading to another hospital admission . |
| 19 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 20 | Indeed , those dermatologists who have undertaken clinics in general practitioners ' surgeries find that over 40% of the patients seen have to be followed up in a hospital clinic , thus leading to unnecessary duplication of notes and considerable wastage of consultant time and resources . |
| 21 | I think if you 're seen at all the wedding fairs no good just going to one wedding fair . |
| 22 | As the metal-ligand bonding is likely to involve the very orbitals that are the lower levels in such transitions , the transition energies are greatly affected by the metal center , generally shifting to higher energy compared with those in the free ligand . |
| 23 | ‘ It has been an awful long time just getting to this stage , but it will be worth it if we can succeed . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I notice now the accent is already switching to more mobility as they come to terms with the new laws , ’ he explained . |
| 25 | But now I 'm finally getting to that burner . ’ |
| 26 | They would just stand there , motionless , their eyes fixed on the horizon , scarcely speaking to each other . |
| 27 | Under the terms of the Compromise , Member States were supposedly given the right to veto decisions affecting their vital national interests ; under the terms of this Maastricht Declaration they effectively renounce that right , thus giving to foreign policy at the outset the same status as that acquired by other areas of policy where the Compromise has gradually been eroded over many years . |
| 28 | Rich and LuperFoy ( 1988 ) , observing that no individual theory of anaphor resolution is complete , present a blackboard-like architecture ( with a relatively simple control structure ) into which implementations of different partial theories , each normally corresponding to one knowledge source , can be plugged for the purposes of evaluation . |
| 29 | In an exchange of letters in January , tensions rose so high that the leaders of the two sides are no longer talking to each other . |
| 30 | We give value to a relationship through selflessly ministering to each other 's needs , and we reduce the cost by blending tastes and interests . |