Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years . |
| 2 | " He also laid before the Meeting an account of the expenses he had incurred in travelling & c during the progress of the building , as also his charge of Commission , together amounting to £388 13 8d of which he had received on account £100 , Whereupon the Committee were pleased to order the balance to be paid him . " |
| 3 | He 's er a financial whiz kid now is n't he as well Adam Faith so talking to Dennis this afternoon on Afternoon Special . |
| 4 | I should apologize for canned soup , but I spent so long talking to Stanley this morning |
| 5 | Right turning to item eleven two Mid Sussex District Local County . |
| 6 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 7 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 8 | Beebob has been gradually coming to hand this season , and can strike winning form in the Guildhall Handicap Hurdle . |
| 9 | and she said er , and I said , I said Dave said you were a bloody fool to go up there , you let mother talk you into going , Terry had a job here , he , alright you had your house , you had your ups and downs , it was a bit small , you persevere with it , I said your kids are nearly going to school all of them , so I said , you do n't need a big house |
| 10 | ‘ You 're saying … you mean that you and I … we 're both flying to America this afternoon ? ’ |
| 11 | So we 've cleansed off the cleanser now going to tissue dry Now toner is in a spray bottle , so we 're going to gently use the spray over Molly 's face . |
| 12 | If the hon. Gentleman would listen rather than talk , he would learn that the price formula for gas has also been revised : where it was minus 2 on the controllable costs it is now going to minus 5 — another tough target . |
| 13 | The wind was now gusting to Force 11 and visibility still poor . |
| 14 | Well according to Cindy this morning , that 's where I got my information from , she said there were no production shortages . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the company is reportedly preparing to demo some previously unseen systems management functionality in NT this week at a conference in Boston including software distribution , performance monitoring and inventory control . |
| 16 | Now Bright wo n't go there according to Radio 5 . |
| 17 | Though turnover leapt from £122.2 million to £239.1 million , the UK market is still responding slowly to recovery , its profits almost halving to £4.1 million . |
| 18 | The level of foreign debt in the region , put by ECLAC at $416,000 million ( almost a 5 per cent reduction ) , continued to put a brake on economic recovery , with the net transfer of resources abroad amounting to $24,600 million ( over $200,000 million in the last eight years ) . |
| 19 | More than 13,000 new policies were completed in that period with new annual premium business increasing by 19 per cent to £7 million , and single premium business almost doubling to £57 million . |
| 20 | Solutions of 5ASA , N-acetyl-5ASA , and N-acetyl-4ASA were made by dissolving the drugs in 0.2 M NaOH , diluting 1 in 10 in L-15 , and then adjusting to pH 7.4 with 1 M HCl . |
| 21 | Then referring to Figure 3.9 we have where D is a constant . |
| 22 | But the longer-term variations can not be due directly to sunspots , The most recent peak in the number of sunspots , the period known as the solar maximum , was in 1979 — yet according to Livingston solar luminosity was at its lowest two years later , in 1981 . |
| 23 | What had this Richard Blake said , well , she got the impression that he was counting on coming to a series of Transatlantic insurance conferences in the spring , and he was either coming to Montreal first , or to New York , she could n't remember which order it was , search me , said Louise , she had n't thought it mattered all that much . |
| 24 | DIA is currently talking to firms such as Boulder , Colorado-based XVT Inc , whose interface-independent technology produce a range of different front-ends for applications , including Apple Mac , Windows and Motif . |