Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting approved the admission to full membership of Brunei , Myanma , the Philippines and the Republic of Uzbekistan , thereby bringing total membership to 108 . |
| 2 | Modern configurational analysis ( see , for example , Hopfinger ( 1972 ) ) may afford methods of rigorously relating molecular energetics to mechanical properties — but for any except the simplest molecules the size of the computer required at present precludes the use of this method . |
| 3 | One obvious reason for the persistence of pronounced regional anomalies on this scale is the fact that the guidance contained in the 1976 Act still affords massive scope for the exercise of discretion by magistrates , thereby enabling different policies to be pursued in individual court areas . |
| 4 | Teams would be free to form liaisons with each other depending on the state of the game , so bringing new skills to the game such as negotiation and selling techniques . |
| 5 | Mal worked in Boots ; friends she 'd entertained at home suggested she 'd do better dispensing authentic grub to a wider circle . |
| 6 | Try replacing the existing radiator with a larger one ( double panel rather than single or one of large area ) and perhaps adding double glazing to the windows . |
| 7 | It 's to help keep a better check on spending after complaints that some credit card outlets take too long getting signed slips to card issuers . |
| 8 | And is that the only thing which would influence you to call off this strike , which is obviously doing great harm to the company and the country ? ’ the interviewer asked . |
| 9 | He declared that the sane and sound advocacy of social democracy by the SDP would outlast all the various actionist ‘ will o ’ the wisps ' which , while apparently indicating easy roads to the promised land of social and economic emancipation , finally led to anarchical swamps and morasses ( SE 6 August 21 . ) . |
| 10 | Shore significantly developed a style of playing by which the trumpet escaped from the restrictions of a purely military style and took its place in England as an orchestral instrument , so giving valuable stimulus to Henry Purcell [ q.v. ] and making it possible for English trumpeters to meet the requirements of the music of G. F. Handel [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | While on a 10-day visit to seven countries in Eastern and Western Europe on Jan. 8-18 , 1990 , Kaifu announced an aid package worth $1,950 million for Poland and Hungary , in so doing committing Japan to granting almost as much aid to Poland and Hungary as Europe 's biggest aid donor , West Germany . |
| 12 | Those that lived on relatively well watered islands where there was ground vegetation to be cropped , had a gently curving front edge to their shells just above the neck . |
| 13 | In some cases these will have only a pro forma existence , with decision-making power lying higher up in the group and the organisational structure perhaps bearing little correspondence to the legal one . |
| 14 | The story may be embroidered but Ince Castle , for many years the home of the Killigrew family , stood ( until a disastrous fire in 1988 ) isolated on its peninsular , its oblong castellated building with its four identical towers , one on each corner , perhaps bearing silent witness to a story that is stranger than fiction . |
| 15 | All round the feeling has been that by developing political representation , cooperation has increased its hold on the general public and is daily attracting new adherents to its principles . |
| 16 | SPEAKING after a visit to the headquarters of the Cleveland Ambulance Service , Paul Raynor , Conservative candidate for Middlesbrough , said the government 's NHS reforms were already bringing tremendous benefits to the people of Cleveland . |
| 17 | By having Alexander lessons an individual would be able to learn how to sit , stand or pick objects up so that they do not put so much strain on the back muscles , thus bringing instant relief to their back . |
| 18 | Under this , prohibition replaces the Competition Act 1980 provisions on anti-competitive practices , but the provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1973 remain in force , thus allowing tacit collusion to be dealt with by the MMC . |
| 19 | This charting of the circulating relations between aesthetic and other forms of production works best in those historical periods , such as the Renaissance , where there was no modern concept of Literature , thus allowing literary texts to be mapped against the political and other discourses of which they formed a part . |
| 20 | In 1981 , sterling declined by approximately 11% over a period of nine months , thus enabling inflationary pressure to be effectively contained by releasing it slowly . |
| 21 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
| 22 | Just writing general letters to town councils . |
| 23 | The court found the idea of Mr Warner unconsciously communicating coded messages to Samuel 's fellow criminals quite ridiculous . |
| 24 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary on taking action against death riders — I agree with those who have already said that that is a much better way to describe these offenders who are not joyriders — and others who think that it is good fun to take somebody 's car and drive it dangerously , thereby damaging property and sometimes killing people , thus causing appalling misery to those whose lives may be wrecked in the process . |
| 25 | Accordingly it is no longer adding premium prices to the VAX Line — in the UK for instance , system prices for the VAX 4000 Model 500 have been reduced by between 14% and 21% across the range , with an unlimited open VMS user licence falling in price from £29,000 to £7000 — a 76% reduction . |
| 26 | But Faraday 's puritanism , and his skills acquired in his father 's smithy and his own bookbinding apprenticeship , were not typical ; and entrepreneurs like Frederick Accum were already selling ready-made apparatus to those who preferred to buy it . |
| 27 | We already have the first stage of economic and monetary union — the exchange rate mechanism — and it is already doing great damage to Britain . |
| 28 | Inside , the long nave is vaulted in sexpartite fashion in the typically French vaulting manner , comprising one nave bay to two aisle bays , retaining the square compartment and with an intermediate transverse rib introduced to the springing from the aisle vaulting shaft , thus giving extra support to the vault . |
| 29 | Your co–operation would also be appreciated in encouraging parents and local industrialists to take the opportunity of visiting WISE VI , thus giving positive support to the next generation of technologists . |
| 30 | In 1555 and 1556 continual heavy rain ruined the harvests and brought famine , thus weakening human resistance to the epidemics which struck in 1557–59 . |