Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In some of these , initial confrontation is now leading to constructive dialogue with local authority officials . |
| 32 | Opposition is now beginning to proposed gold mining in Co . |
| 33 | His bluntness , often amounting to personal abuse , has won Australia 's treasurer ( finance minister ) few friends . |
| 34 | secondly , it gives individual journalists due warning that they should plan any prospective coverage to coincide with the artist 's activities , simultaneously responding to public interest and amplifying it further . |
| 35 | The bureaucracy is the means by which inequalities are enforced without too often resorting to physical coercion . |
| 36 | It is one in which young people often start life in improved or ‘ gentrified ’ housing in inner urban areas , thence progressing to large family homes in the outer suburbs and later retiring to a house purpose-made for well-off home owners . |
| 37 | When sexual response in older people is reduced it has more to do with social factors such as the absence of a partner ; health problems , particularly relating to cardiovascular disease , diabetes , multiple sclerosis and prostrate troubles ; drug side-effects ( many drugs prescribed to older people can have adverse effects on sexual functioning ) ; and the intolerance of social attitudes towards sexual activity in older people , which consider sex to be the province of younger people and that older people make rather ridiculous lovers . |
| 38 | Hearing British voices talking about anything from politics to music , even listening to old comedy shows , felt like the first step home . |
| 39 | There must be a limit beyond which expenditure on the social and public services is detrimental to economic growth ; there is , however , a corresponding point below which social service expenditure is equally damaging to economic development . |
| 40 | Drug abuse is spreading alarmingly fast according to recent government figures . |
| 41 | Africa 's disenchantment with the two Washington institutions is fast turning to outright hostility . |
| 42 | Companies are increasingly turning to environmental auditing to help them fulfil their responsibilities . |
| 43 | To overcome such effects brews are increasingly turning to preprepared hop extracts of one form or another . |
| 44 | He has command , but he is closed to everything which is not exclusively pertaining to military order . |
| 45 | Exhibition hall reopens in a city very slowly warming to contemporary art |
| 46 | And abruptly reverting to painful gravity : ‘ Was the boy already dead ? ’ |
| 47 | The editorial , ‘ The principles of restructuring : the revolutionary nature of thinking and acting ’ , 'insisted that there was ‘ no alternative to perestroika ’ and that even its postponement would be gravely damaging to Soviet society and to socialism internationally . |
| 48 | Bearing in mind the reference by Shelley J.A. , in Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , 180 , to the concept of counsel for the Crown as ‘ minister of justice whose prime concern is its fair and impartial administration , ’ their Lordships , while not feeling bound to accept in relation to Jamaica the comprehensive principles , almost amounting to criminal discovery , which the defendant has attempted to rely on , recognise that the ‘ Purvis–Barrett ’ principles do not cover every situation in which fairness may demand that the prosecution make available material to the defence . |
| 49 | From Shrewsbury School Hillary in 1937 went up to Trinity College , Oxford , starting to read philosophy , politics , and economics and then moving to modern history . |
| 50 | Fully conforming to British safety and design standards , its features include a low-battery signal , to tell you when the battery needs replacing ( which should only be once a year ) , and it comes complete with a five-year warranty and full instructions on use . |
| 51 | Information on the credit terms and methods of payment currently applying to particular business sectors in the foreign market . |
| 52 | Design engineers are therefore turning to computational science . |
| 53 | A decade ago the Journal of Urology carried an article which included the observation that , ‘ Prolonged intercourse , particularly with the female subject in the superior position , and inadvertent flexion of the erect penis are well-described cases of penile trauma commonly leading to corporeal rupture . ’ |
| 54 | The spring water temperatures remain low and fairly constant throughout the year , seldom falling to freezing point in winter or rising above 8–11° in summer . |
| 55 | Their violently anticlerical tone , occasionally stooping to scurrilous abuse , provoked sharp replies from churchmen , some of whom themselves descended to the level of personal insults , mostly on the score of Cocks 's diminutive size and renowned eccentricity . |
| 56 | PARSYTEC APPLIES PARALLEL PROCESSING TO OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION |