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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Pressure tracings were analysed manually according to accepted criteria and by a specific computer program . |
| 4 | The Gallery is also bending over backwards to boost attendance , and in doing so is rather alarmingly bowing to populist pressures . |
| 5 | Yes , you could have sex there , in the toilets , but only according to certain rules . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The second gate leads to a road , which you cross to another road opposite leading to Far Arnside Caravan Park . |
| 9 | I did not go to playschool or kindergarten so going to primary school was a big event in my life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I was only saying to young Joe earlier , we really should have two on . |
| 13 | The full implications of quantum mechanics , if discussed in classrooms , might be highly threatening to traditional methods of teaching physics . |
| 14 | Some of these changes are transient , perhaps corresponding to short-term processes , and some , especially in the actual number of synapses , seem more permanent . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yet by 1920 she was already submitting to governmental pressures in her Moscow office . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It may take some time before matters settle down again and action proceeds quasi-automatically according to revised schemas . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | IVF is already spreading to developing countries , and it is easy to imagine that other new methods will be introduced as well . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Solidarity ministers are already having to sweet-talk workers out of striking . |
| 30 | 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 . |