Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The two men struck a deal and subsequently Trevaskis took a 50 per cent partnership in a new company to import ‘ Laura Ashley ’ fabrics and make them up locally according to agreed patterns and styles . |
| 32 | Yet by 1920 she was already submitting to governmental pressures in her Moscow office . |
| 33 | Thus the question raised by the application is whether we should vary the appellant 's implied undertaking and free the documents for limited further disclosure having regard not only to the public interest underlying the implication of the undertaking in the first place , but also the public interest giving rise to the recognised immunity generally attaching to this class of documents . |
| 34 | 20.1 In the case of any dispute or difference arising between the parties hereto relating to this Agreement or any matter arising therefrom or incidental thereto the same may be submitted to the arbitration of a single arbitrator in accordance with the provisions of the United Kingdom Arbitration Act 1979 or any statutory modification thereof for the time being in force . |
| 35 | But the time and inspiration for such apparent frivolities were rapidly passing and he was soon explaining to Bonamy Dobrée that the Bolovian period had ended . |
| 36 | Next time , we 're going back with a record player and a Thin Lizzy record , we 're going to plug it in and when he asks what the hell we 're doing , we 'll say , ‘ Just listening to that Les Paul on the wall there ! ' ’ |
| 37 | It may take some time before matters settle down again and action proceeds quasi-automatically according to revised schemas . |
| 38 | Will he do everything to ensure that the recent announcement by the European Community , which reflects the attitude of the French and those who agree with them in respect of the general agreement on tariffs and trade proposals , will not be immensely damaging to British farming and world trade as a whole ? |
| 39 | In the UK , emissions of man-made hydrocarbons or VOCs ( volatile organic compounds ) increased 12 per cent in the ten years to 1985 , largely owing to increased road traffic . |
| 40 | The boy behind pulled Roy 's chair away leading to another hospital admission . |
| 41 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 42 | Indeed , those dermatologists who have undertaken clinics in general practitioners ' surgeries find that over 40% of the patients seen have to be followed up in a hospital clinic , thus leading to unnecessary duplication of notes and considerable wastage of consultant time and resources . |
| 43 | The growing demands and applications being made of plastics are filtering through to the additive market , requiring them to be constantly updated and made more efficient , and thus leading to higher prices , explained the report . |
| 44 | I think if you 're seen at all the wedding fairs no good just going to one wedding fair . |
| 45 | I 'm just going to next Friday . |
| 46 | With the unforeseen addition of partly suspended sentences when the Bill reached the Commons , the resulting measure became the Criminal Law Act 1977 , finally amounting to sixty-five sections and fourteen schedules . |
| 47 | As the metal-ligand bonding is likely to involve the very orbitals that are the lower levels in such transitions , the transition energies are greatly affected by the metal center , generally shifting to higher energy compared with those in the free ligand . |
| 48 | ‘ It has been an awful long time just getting to this stage , but it will be worth it if we can succeed . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ I notice now the accent is already switching to more mobility as they come to terms with the new laws , ’ he explained . |
| 50 | But now I 'm finally getting to that burner . ’ |
| 51 | Having resolved this dispute he became involved in long battles over his rights and tithes from the manors , for in 1256 , he is complaining that his rents and profits were so small , scarcely amounting to forty marks a year , being only enough to meet half his expenses . |
| 52 | IVF is already spreading to developing countries , and it is easy to imagine that other new methods will be introduced as well . |
| 53 | It is important to note that even though back variants of /a/ are strongly emblematic of vernacular speech , they are nevertheless spreading to higher-status groups in the wider community . |
| 54 | They would just stand there , motionless , their eyes fixed on the horizon , scarcely speaking to each other . |
| 55 | Solidarity ministers are already having to sweet-talk workers out of striking . |
| 56 | Under the terms of the Compromise , Member States were supposedly given the right to veto decisions affecting their vital national interests ; under the terms of this Maastricht Declaration they effectively renounce that right , thus giving to foreign policy at the outset the same status as that acquired by other areas of policy where the Compromise has gradually been eroded over many years . |
| 57 | Certainly , that was the case , when after missing a penalty against Brazil — thus failing to equal Bobby Charlton 's 49-goal record for England — he then received another blast from Taylor . |
| 58 | Rich and LuperFoy ( 1988 ) , observing that no individual theory of anaphor resolution is complete , present a blackboard-like architecture ( with a relatively simple control structure ) into which implementations of different partial theories , each normally corresponding to one knowledge source , can be plugged for the purposes of evaluation . |
| 59 | In an exchange of letters in January , tensions rose so high that the leaders of the two sides are no longer talking to each other . |
| 60 | The CML disputed that lenders had in recent years relied on the availability of cover under the Compensation and Indemnity Funds to relax their own business practices , and claimed that lenders were largely responding to public demands for more streamlined conveyancing procedures . |