Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 2 | The journals and correspondence of Verney Lovett Cameron , mostly relating to the unsuccessful attempt to relieve David Livingstone and the subsequent crossing of the African continent from east to west , were deposited by Major H. P. Lovett Cameron . |
| 3 | Besides contributing to a deeper comprehension of the function of to , this study has also led to a fuller understanding of the role of the category of person in the infinitive . |
| 4 | It remains constant up to a CO coverage of 0.05 monolayers before starting to fall , eventually returning to the clean surface value at a fractional coverage CO =0.35 . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 6 | Or maybe they were merely sticking to the original arrangements for the meal . |
| 7 | However , an Asian community worker in North London told me ‘ West Indian children are only reacting to the insufferable cultural superiority that Asians feel . |
| 8 | In the South-west , Exeter became a major centre of cloth exports from the 1490s , and by the early sixteenth century some of the smaller Devon towns were also active in the trade , this perhaps contributing to the later growth of West Country shipping activity . |
| 9 | So returning to the original question about the functional difference between a DOS command and a program file , the answer is that there 's no difference . |
| 10 | They contained articles by a variety of writers ( including politicians , and teachers ) each of whom had one common aim and purpose — to show that progressive methods in both primary and secondary schools were ‘ selling children short ’ and so contributing to the general permissiveness which ( they said ) was undermining the traditions of British society . |
| 11 | In a European multicentre study 40 patients with HBeAg positive chronic hepatitis B virus ( HBV ) infection were treated with 5 mega units of lymphoblastoid α-interferon daily according to the following regimen : a four week primer course , four weeks of rest and a second course lasting 16 to 30 weeks . |
| 12 | Lymphoblastoid α-IFN ( Wellferon , Wellcome , Beckenham , UK ) was given at a dose of 5 mega units daily according to the following regimen : a four week primer course , a four week rest period and a second interferon course lasting 16 weeks ; for five patients from Rotterdam the duration of the second course was prolonged up to 30 weeks . |
| 13 | This is not only damaging to the final exam marks of the Student ( since a Student who had managed 60% in the Final Examination could fail because their End of Module Tests reduce the mark ) , but foolish , since they can take as many retakes of the End of Module Tests as they wish in order to achieve a good pass-mark . |
| 14 | This was an entirely false statement , obviously damaging to a thriving professional musician . |
| 15 | Either way he or she returns to disturb the heterosexual norm , especially in its masculine form , and does so according to a psychic and/or social dynamic which is intrinsically perverse : deviance emerges from the terms of its exclusion , eventually undermining that of which it was initially an effect , and which depended upon its exclusion . |
| 16 | The idea was this : When the star becomes small , the matter particles get very near each other , and so according to the Pauli exclusion principle , they must have very different velocities . |
| 17 | Species that reduce CO 2 with H 2 do so according to the following equation : |
| 18 | Rousseau was keenly aware that majority decisions , or even unanimous ones , are not necessarily right — right , that is , not only according to the moral criteria of any particular individual but from the point of view of the good of the community itself . |
| 19 | The extent to which British administrators depended on them for information varied greatly according to the social composition of the district and the competence of the civil servant in charge . |
| 20 | Such groups may cohere together according to a wide variety of principles , e.g. by identification with a particular locality , a particular herd of livestock , a particular parcel of seed ( annually replaced ) , a particular lineage name transmitted from parent to child , and 50 on . |
| 21 | Total , or , elsewhere , global , history assumes a spatio-temporal continuity between all phenomena , and a certain homogeneity between them insofar as they all express the same form of historicity — Althusser 's essential section — whereas in general history the problem is precisely to determine the relation between different series : whereas a total history draws everything together according to a single principle , a general history analyses the space of dispersion and heterogeneous temporalities . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're only going to the old registry office , ’ she says . |
| 23 | The contest got under way — a series of knockout bouts inexorably leading to the final pair and , after seeing Richard — and Tom — win their opening bouts without much difficulty , she wandered away , suddenly keen to be on her own . |
| 24 | The European Community [ EC ] has embarked on a path inexorably leading to the eventual replacement of member countries ' currencies with a single European currency . |
| 25 | At the Yair ford , in mass , they turned to cross , the English guards there prudently withdrawing to a discreet distance , while trumpets sounded in all the enemy encampments . |
| 26 | ( This perhaps indicates that it was tactically inept in this case for the plaintiffs to seek to persuade the court that the whole package of information was confidential. ) 5 Whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired in the course of his career , but is merely selling to a third party information which he acquired in confidence in the course of his former employment Goulding J drew no such distinction . |
| 27 | Conservative CIDs , for example , have all sorts of tricks to frustrate an incoming radical chief superintendent , by which they can legally send clear-up rates into a tailspin — so leading to the rapid transfer of the reforming senior officer . |
| 28 | But there are ways of gradually increasing daily physical activity without necessarily turning to a specific form of sport . |
| 29 | The 1901 President of the National Free Church Council was only pointing to the obvious when he told his audience that there was throughout the country and Empire ‘ an irresistible movement towards co-operation , combination , collectivism , solidarity , centralisation … |
| 30 | He had come to the village at last light bearing a balaclava helmet , a webbing belt and trousers , and a mess tin all belonging to the Presidential Guard . |