Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We began on a genuinely interdisciplinary basis with students taking , in effect , a series of one-term course units sometimes leading to joint honours but usually to a major-minor combination . |
| 2 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 3 | A further 40,000 boat people still waiting to be screened will almost certainly be ruled illegal as well . |
| 4 | I knew that we could get an immunity , normally by going to the doctor and having a vaccination or inoculation , but I never knew that right inside every one of us there was a built-in fire brigade , a whole troupe of Red Adair troubleshooters just waiting to be called upon to do their stuff . |
| 5 | Er I think also helps a lot in this process er and that 's that 's particularly er relevant of the audit practice almost starting to be reduced into the tax practice as well . |
| 6 | He had come to the village at last light bearing a balaclava helmet , a webbing belt and trousers , and a mess tin all belonging to the Presidential Guard . |
| 7 | Gallo also quoted some of the latest work of Daniel Zagury 's team which has discovered a pentapeptide motif in gp120 which is also present in CD4 and which interferes with antigen activation possibly leading to a state of cell anergy and immunodeficiency . |
| 8 | One way of summarizing the results of European economic progress before 1914 is to group nations roughly according to their increase in wealth . |
| 9 | Can my right hon. Friend arrange a debate on local government finance in London , so that we may discuss the growing evidence that Labour councils , far from struggling to provide services , can not even be bothered to collect millions of pounds of rates and of community charge still owing to them ? |
| 10 | With opinion polls still pointing to a hung Parliament , he appealed to the electorate to ‘ wake up ’ , before it was too late , to the dangers posed by Scottish devolution and other proposed constitutional changes , including proportional representation . |
| 11 | With recession dragging Germany down , and the hardware price wars increasingly spreading to software prospects for the rest of the year look rather less rosy . |
| 12 | DUTCH striker Marco van Basten may never fully recover from injury to play soccer again according to a doctor who operated on the star 's injured right ankle . |
| 13 | The Stock Exchange Quotation Department is organised into various listing groups alphabetically according to the name of the listed ( target ) company . |
| 14 | Of course , there 's always the chance that your friends might already be a bunch of werewolves , vampires , swamp monsters and slime creatures just pretending to be normal ? |
| 15 | The other point that raises from the agreement is that we have to agree , agree a purchasing plan with the Health Authority particularly relating to nursing home care , and that purchasing plan at the moment is still at the draft stages because as Mike referred to earlier , we have no information from the Department of Health on the percentage of the funding to be spent in the independent sector . |
| 16 | The results of these changes are a leakage of pepsinogen into the circulation leading to elevated plasma pepsinogen levels and the loss of plasma proteins into the gut lumen eventually leading to hypoalbuminaemia . |
| 17 | It is dark green in plumage on the back with slate colour almost approaching to black below . |
| 18 | The town 's appearance today is that of a compact , prosperous market centre still clinging to its medieval street plan and to memories of the Franciscan priory once known as the ‘ Lamp of Lothian ’ , a designation transferred in our own century to the church of St Mary . |
| 19 | We expect to recruit mainly from Germany , since there is widespread unemployment among trained language teachers there owing to the system of free admission to teacher training . |
| 20 | The contest got under way — a series of knockout bouts inexorably leading to the final pair and , after seeing Richard — and Tom — win their opening bouts without much difficulty , she wandered away , suddenly keen to be on her own . |