Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 2 | English is finished as a common language , but that 's only according to a Frenchman . |
| 3 | American troops were deployed more or less according to a plan , Operation 90–1002 , developed in the early-1980s to contain a southward thrust by the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | In Section 12.7 there is a discussion of a number of factors which favour the use of short maturity contracts ( dividend risk , interest rate risk and mispricing risk ) for hedging , so leading to a rise in volume as delivery approaches . |
| 5 | A reduction of ozone would also cause more ultraviolet and visible radiation to reach the ground , so leading to a warming of the lower atmosphere and the earth 's surface . |
| 6 | But the beauty and the loving care with which many a smaller city had been built and adorned in the early days of the Greek cities is a vital element in the history of the Greek city , obscurely pointing to a time , not of peace — for in Greece the lion never lay down with the lamb , and neighbouring cities constantly fought each other — but of more equal prosperity . |
| 7 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 8 | He began to remark to others that he could not make the necessary synthesis , perhaps referring to a marriage of his romantic inclinations with the aim , inculcated in him by Colquhoun and MacBryde , to make it ‘ tight ’ , to achieve the kind of fully integrated compositional resolution often associated with classical art . |
| 9 | He threw out a hand , clutching at empty air , then fell backwards , tumbling head over heels down the steps , finally crashing to a stop at the bottom , where he lay in a spreading pool of blood . |
| 10 | This will not affect anyone who was already contributing to a pension plan prior to July 1988 unless , that is , they actually wish to change . |
| 11 | It would be real boring just listening to a load of rubbish would n't it ? |
| 12 | It is already leading to a resumption or the land improvement work carried out by the crofters in the sixties , with the help of the College of Agriculture and the Crofters Commission , working closely together . |
| 13 | Second , as the stores fill up , their buffering capacity will be reduced , thus leading to a pacemaker elevation of cytosolic calcium ( Fig. 4 b ) , which often appears at a specific initiation site where it provides the trigger to detonate the process of CICR ( Fig. 4 , step c ) . |
| 14 | There is a sign that big businesses on either large scale or multiple units are moving into this market , thus leading to a need for even closer monitoring in view of the vulnerability of many residents . |
| 15 | It 's much easier just belonging to a club and not having |
| 16 | The limousine was finally slowing to a halt and they scrambled for their shoes . |
| 17 | Leaving the ever-increasing fitness demands on players aside , the chief weakness of the Sicily schedule was that it mixed a pool-based round-robin format , which creates a precise and fair hierarchy , with a league system , which reshuffles the pack and can end up rewarding skilful planning rather than success on the field , before finally moving to a knock-out format . |
| 18 | With it , the company hopes to woo the developers that are currently looking at Unix , while at the same time keeping its existing MVS base happy since it enables the mainframe to run both MVS and Posix-compliant applications , and IBM already talking to a range of un-named Unix application developers about adapting their products . |
| 19 | This is a shame , for although he 's admittedly playing to a club audience , you do n't have to suppress the songs to maintain the groove — and the doctor has proved with ‘ Killer ’ and tonight 's storming version of ‘ Flashback Jack ’ , that he has some potent stimulants in his black bag . |
| 20 | This is a shame , for although he 's admittedly playing to a club audience , you do n't have to suppress the songs to maintain the groove — and the doctor has proved with ‘ Killer ’ and tonight 's storming version of ‘ Flashback Jack ’ , that he has some potent stimulants in his black bag . |
| 21 | Bush had blocked or vetoed two bills before finally agreeing to a compromise formula which had extended benefits for 13 or 20 weeks beyond the standard 26 weeks of benefits provided under state unemployment programmes [ see pp. 38428 ; 38521 ; 38568 ] . |
| 22 | The formation of properly constituted county clubs , eventually leading to a county championship structure , has led Dr Midwinter to place these developments firmly in the context of the social changes then taking place . |
| 23 | UNIVERSITY students are still sticking to a boozing , sexy lifestyle despite the recession . |
| 24 | Frenchman Roger Yves Bost , a member of the French World Gold Medal winning team in 1990 , scorched round in a time more fitting to a speed class . |
| 25 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 26 | It 's like going to a firework factory and sparking up a cigarette you just would n't do it would you ? |
| 27 | Gallo also quoted some of the latest work of Daniel Zagury 's team which has discovered a pentapeptide motif in gp120 which is also present in CD4 and which interferes with antigen activation possibly leading to a state of cell anergy and immunodeficiency . |
| 28 | appraisal of circumstances possibly leading to a mitigation of sentence made by the Recorder , principal residing judge at the old Sessions House ( now the Central Criminal Court ) after the Lord Chief Justice . |
| 29 | She told the Opposition 's Lord Carter that farmers often worked in isolation and were traditionally independent , ‘ possibly leading to a reluctance to seek help at time of depression . |
| 30 | In most parts of the world the standard duration of therapy is considered to be 12–16 weeks , usually leading to a response rate of 30–40% , . |