Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very essence of his buildings is expressed through intimately relating ornament to structure so , together , they create astonishing , tautly dynamic , glittering volumes and spaces for people . |
| 2 | We see no scientific justification for the statement about the immunogenicity of gangliosides , nor do we find any direct evidence to support the contention that naturally occurring antibodies to monosialoganglioside are pathogenic . |
| 3 | What I am trying to say is that merely paying attention to sex difference — affirming that women exist and are different from men — is not in and of itself a feminist gesture . |
| 4 | The progressive realisation of the single market was already bringing benefits to industry and commerce in the EC , and industrial leaders began to share the conviction of the Commission and the Parliament that , without eventual EMU , the full benefits of the single market could not be garnered . |
| 5 | THOSE keen environmentalists , Richard Branson and Sir James Goldsmith , are no longer seeing eye to eye . |
| 6 | I 'm just having regard to criterion four of policy H two . |
| 7 | There 's a couple of boats , but they ai n't moving — they 're just rocking side to side . |
| 8 | Below , in the mathematician 's trench , they were already fighting hand to hand . |
| 9 | 'Mill Reserves made it a weekend of double celebration for Shottermill Football Club by clinching runners-up spot , thus ensuring promotion to division two . |
| 10 | SUPERMARKET staff in Chelmsford were yesterday urging shoppers to back reform of the Sunday trading laws . |
| 11 | He freely admits to being a sucker for the equipment and gadgetry of the hobby , and specialises in quickly testing items to destruction — sometimes even deliberately . |
| 12 | So it 's usually made by stoichiometrically adding water to ethylene over an acid catalyst . |
| 13 | The British Library is now gradually coming face to face also with another side of the electronic revolution : the question of how to acquire , preserve and make available unpublished research materials which happen to have been produced in electronic form . |
| 14 | Luke broke off without completing the shocked question , the appalled look in his eyes gradually giving way to contrition as he stared at her . |
| 15 | But the fact is that Lazar Berman 's Liszt Transcendental Studies , one of the great piano recordings ( EMI , 2/76 ) still awaiting transfer to CD , together with the rarity of his appearances outside Russia in the 1960s and early 1970s , made the label almost unavoidable . |
| 16 | It shows a more mundane but still corrupting insensitivity to liberty , a failure to grasp its force and place in modern democratic ideals … . |
| 17 | The Queen has accepted a Sun newspaper apology over the premature publication of her Christmas broadcast.The paper is also giving £200,000 to charity . |
| 18 | No erm one or other of them is probably taking Neil to karate I think Friday night 's karate |
| 19 | American banks will need years to recover from the now souring loans to property developers and leveraged buy-outs that followed their third-world lending . |
| 20 | Similarly , the Department of Social Work 's guidelines for employees in handling violence and aggressive behaviour by clients or members of the public will be revised periodically having regard to service development and other relevant sources of information . |
| 21 | Elections are not just about electing representatives to Parliament . |
| 22 | ‘ The composition of the team , strengths and weaknesses of its members , and styles of leadership are all considered with the aim of moving from purely controlling activity to coaching and leading . ’ |
| 23 | Furthermore , extensive spreads of such seas can as effectively isolate pieces of emergent continent as spreading ocean floor , thereby creating barriers to migration of terrestrial organisms , and should also promote equability of the continental climate . |
| 24 | In the case of Ernest Saunders , then executive chairman of Guinness and chief defendant in both Guinness I and Guinness II , there were 42 charges in all stretching from dishonestly procuring documents to theft and false accounting . |
| 25 | Key Points : Pull the board close to you by using the back foot ; maintain an upright rig ; kick hard with the front foot ; lean forwards applying weight to mast foot . |
| 26 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 27 | Firstly , merit pay ; if it is the case that money is not the most important motivator then linking pay to performance , as with merit pay , is not likely to improve performance . |
| 28 | Thus , firms can reward their staff by setting up bonus schemes related to the firm 's profits or otherwise relating pay to performance ; and ( 2 ) just as the partners will wish to impose restraint covenants upon themselves ( see Chapter 8 ) to prevent an outgoing partner damaging the continuing practice by setting up in competition thereto , so in the case of salaried partners , assistant solicitors and other key members of staff their terms of employment should include similar restrictionssimilar , but not necessarily identical . |
| 29 | The quinolones rapidly block bacterial DNA replication and transcription by inhibiting DNA gyrase , ultimately giving rise to cell lysis . |
| 30 | On the hearing of the appeal the court ordered that there be no identification of W. , any institution or establishment where she was residing or being educated and any natural person having or prospectively having day to day care of her or of any material calculated to lead to her identification . |