Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attending external events , and giving training , including giving speeches where required to do so , thereby contributing to public understanding of the judiciary . |
| 2 | I have worked around the world without so reacting to these factors . |
| 3 | Rural-urban migrants were able to take advantage of the former , often sending financial assistance back to their relatives in the countryside and so contributing to increased income levels there . |
| 4 | Not all the effects of the privity doctrine are necessarily damaging to third party purchasers or creditors . |
| 5 | Pressure tracings were analysed manually according to accepted criteria and by a specific computer program . |
| 6 | The Gallery is also bending over backwards to boost attendance , and in doing so is rather alarmingly bowing to populist pressures . |
| 7 | Yes , you could have sex there , in the toilets , but only according to certain rules . |
| 8 | But it may not be enough according to some industry commentators . |
| 9 | A more elaborate ritual at Burghead in Morayshire , the Burning of the Clavie , a barrel construction put together according to strict rules , is held on January 11 , New Year 's Eve in the pre-1752 calendar . |
| 10 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 11 | The second gate leads to a road , which you cross to another road opposite leading to Far Arnside Caravan Park . |
| 12 | I did not go to playschool or kindergarten so going to primary school was a big event in my life . |
| 13 | I 've got ta , I think people are so un-organised with Christmas , you 've got to be organised , you 've got to say like , you know , I 'm only going to those shops , you know , if like like now , say so we went in Boots |
| 14 | While everyone puzzles over how these animals first arrived on the Isle of Man , stories of tailless cats being found in such faraway places as Russia , Malaysia , and China all leading to new theories , nobody seems to have considered that the tailless gene might first have occurred on the Isle of Man itself . |
| 15 | It was apparently reassuring to this woman to have her aggression recognized so straightforwardly , because the couple was then able to have intercourse . |
| 16 | In my own particular section of the clothing and textiles the union fought long and hard to gain the same rights and conditions for temporary workers , and so leading to permanent employment in most cases . |
| 17 | It 's going to remain dry but dull the temperature only rising to seven Celsius forty five Fahrenheit so it will feel chilly in the easterly breeze . |
| 18 | Much of the daylight hours should remain dry but dull the temperature only rising to seven Celsius , forty five Fahrenheit which will feel chilly in the easterly breeze . |
| 19 | Someone had put on a record , slow , lazy music , and the couples on the floor were n't really dancing , merely clinging to each other like limpets , nuzzling each other 's necks . |
| 20 | This so-called new standard machine found itself overtaken by new technology and failed to attract hoped-for export orders , only running to fifty examples . |
| 21 | I was only saying to young Joe earlier , we really should have two on . |
| 22 | I watched Eric fall slowly asleep , his head gently tipping to one side , eyes closing . |
| 23 | The full implications of quantum mechanics , if discussed in classrooms , might be highly threatening to traditional methods of teaching physics . |
| 24 | Some of these changes are transient , perhaps corresponding to short-term processes , and some , especially in the actual number of synapses , seem more permanent . |
| 25 | The second observation is that learning is a " total " event in that is involves the entire person. , The third and most characteristic observation is that a person is constantly responding to innumerable influences , a few of which are conscious and rational , but most of which are either non-conscious or non-rational , or both . |
| 26 | By invention I mean behaviour , values , beliefs , and so on , that come at out through ‘ internal ’ processes of thinking and working out rather than through imitating or mechanically responding to external stimuli . |
| 27 | The B version of the play is much less accommodating to this perspective . |
| 28 | The omission is significant : the danger is perceived as entirely pertaining to religious believers , and illustrates very well the hold which a secular view has on him and on the educational world in Britain and in the United States . |
| 29 | For immunosuppression we used a Pittsburgh type regimen with intravenous FK506 ( 5 mg/day intravenously over 24 h with epoprostenol at 8 ng/kg/min ) , azathioprine ( 5 mg daily ) , and prednisolone 200 mg daily reducing to 40 mg per day . |
| 30 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |