Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 2 | The late R. K. Cope took 212 views of the Bishop 's Castle Railway , mostly relating to the demolition . |
| 3 | The CVR , besides contributing to the fund of knowledge about the flight , has provided the investigators with an insight into the way the flight crew were thinking and interpreting the indications of the progress of the flight by means of the things they said to each other , and sometimes the things they did not say . |
| 4 | By dredging up gravel , therefore , river managers were actually de-stabilizing the river bed , thereby contributing to the erosion which they were supposedly trying to prevent . |
| 5 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 6 | Erm , the agency has considered a paper on this as is referred to in the final paragraph , what it 's basically suggesting to the Department of the Environment and the Home Office is , is that a formula is based upon the supply factors er , such as the , the number of fire stations and standard crew levels etcetera . |
| 7 | This was perhaps the most directly inflationary aspect of Pitt 's financial management , and the bridging of the gap between income and expenditure was not helped by his stubbornly sticking to the idea of the Sinking Fund . |
| 8 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 9 | It can get busy at weekends — especially Sundays , with walkers , cyclists and horse-riders and the occasional car or four-wheel drive all contributing to the wear and tear of the track . |
| 10 | Others have set up one-year and two-year training courses in church planting , encouraging those being trained to pay for the privilege and so contributing to the financing of church planting , as well as providing workers in training . |
| 11 | The Bradford City supporters are constantly writing to the rag complaining of too much coverage for Leeds ( It really does piss them off ) . |
| 12 | She sat impatiently listening to the teacher 's drivel about the fault in the program he was about to network . |
| 13 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 14 | Two of them are ‘ common ’ sails , in which slats could be adjusted manually according to the speed and direction of the wind . |
| 15 | ‘ So according to the Milettis , what have we got ? ’ |
| 16 | Although their long galleries and multitude of rooms provided a greater degree of privacy for the gentry families , the homes were still very much public places , the more so according to the rank of the owner . |
| 17 | So according to the letter someone called The Guv'nor did it himself . ’ |
| 18 | It was all according to the plan . |
| 19 | Not to pay at maturity , would be to say the least , extremely damaging to the bank 's credit rating and would completely destroy confidence in it . |
| 20 | This is the stage to take decisive action , because by ignoring this threat gesture , you are merely acquiescing to the dog s challenge , and adopting a subordinate position . |
| 21 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 22 | It was appreciated at an early stage that the efficacy of collocational information could vary greatly according to the domain from which it was taken . |
| 23 | ‘ A judicial view of modern legislation ’ is a title ingeniously contrived to embrace little or much according to the predilection of the speaker and the patience of his audience . |
| 24 | Cut the salmon into thinnish steaks , arrange them in one layer in a well-buttered baking dish , sprinkle them with salt and seasonings , add about I oz. of fresh butter , cut in pieces , for every pound of salmon , cover the dish with buttered paper and a lid , and put to cook in the centre of a moderately heated oven , gas no. 3 , 330 F. In 45 to 50 minutes — a little more or less according to the thickness of the steaks — the salmon will be cooked . |
| 25 | The remainder , together with the open arable field , he divided into small squarish fields of eight to twelve acres each ( sometimes more or less according to the convenience of the farmers ) and parcelled out as farms among his tenants . |
| 26 | The colour may be varied perhaps according to the type of tools put out with it ; ‘ natural ’ for pastry cutters and patty tins , for instance . |
| 27 | And it works well , the fine cracks in its surface merely adding to the character of the bass . |
| 28 | As Bloch has commented , ‘ To us accustomed to live with our eyes constantly turning to the clock , how remote from our civilization seems this society in which a court of law could not ascertain the time of day without discussion and inquiry ! ’ |
| 29 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |
| 30 | What 's worse is that the commentators are constantly fawning to the scum , the game against us at the pigstye being the prime example , going on the BBC coverage Leeds did n't appear to touch the ball let alone get it out of their own half . |