Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past 18 years , the Agricultural Training Board has developed an extensive range of services and expertise relating to education and training in agriculture . |
| 2 | The body might consist of a chairman and some twenty members , academics and non-academics , with a significant weight attaching to industry and commerce . |
| 3 | If enough tokens occur , this type is the easiest one to deal with , and usually exhibits very sharp patterns of social divergence according to age and sex of speaker in studies such as ours . |
| 4 | As Perry and others have noted , relatively few resources are devoted to the first two aspects , the bulk going to response and restoration ( rebuilding ) . |
| 5 | A psychological term referring to appetite or physical behaviour , concepts which are not mentalistic ; a term used in Tolman 's purposive behaviourism or expectancy theory ( Rivers 1964 ) . |
| 6 | ’ British pop evolved from R&B dance culture , but while the working classes were coming home from the factory and putting on some Motown , the people who now run record companies were at university listening to Genesis or Peter Frampton or whatever — their only contact with pop culture was Gary Glitter or Sweet . |
| 7 | It is possible to make some observations of the law relating to obscenity and indecency which indicate that , while accepting that one ought to be guided by the rule of law in censorship matters , one would be better advised to come to decisions without reference to this or that piece of obscenity or indecency legislation . |
| 8 | The Law Society today joined the Law Commission in calling for changes to the law relating to decision-making and mentally incapacitated adults . |
| 9 | In 1987 the Department of the Environment set up a national review of homelessness to look at the implementation of the law relating to homelessness and to consider whether it needed changing . |
| 10 | The law relating to marriage and sexual harrassment for example says you retain the sex you were born |
| 11 | Prior to the passage of the Theft Act 1968 , which made radical changes in and greatly simplified the law relating to theft and some other offences , it was necessary to prove that the property alleged to have been stolen was taken ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ ( Larceny Act 1916 , section 1(1) ) . |
| 12 | These were ( i ) the abolition of the draconian National Security Law relating to sedition and espionage ; ( ii ) admission of a North Korean " consolation " delegation to visit three South Korean dissidents imprisoned under the National Security Law for having made unauthorized visits to the North ; and ( iii ) the authorization of South Korean dissidents to attend a pro-unification rally due to be held in Panmunjom on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of Korean liberation from Japanese colonial rule . |
| 13 | The result of this is that the law relating to fraud and commercial affairs in general is strictly limited in its scope . |
| 14 | An inquiry was held into the working of the 1969 Act and a White Paper , entitled simply Young Offenders ( Cmnd 8045 ) , was published in 1980 with proposals for ‘ strengthening the law relating to juvenile and young offenders in England and Wales ’ . |
| 15 | This damages the liver leading to sclerosis and scarring . |
| 16 | In particular distinctions were drawn between errors of law going to jurisdiction and errors of law within jurisdiction and between errors of law on the face of the record and other errors on law which in neither case went to jurisdiction . |
| 17 | They feature the noise of a boy choking to death and a mother breaking down on hearing her child is dead . |
| 18 | Professor Elton believes that they are part of the revolution in government carried through by Thomas Cromwell , that they produced an entirely new kind of Council — a formal governing board instead of an informal inner ring — and that they achieved a clear demarcation of function between administrative and judicial business , with the Privy Council attending to administration and the Star Chamber in effect the same people afforced by two judges — carrying out conciliar jurisdiction . |
| 19 | As well as the existence of ideological cleavages between unions on political and religious grounds , together with differences of function — as organisations for representation and bargaining , or as a vehicle for mobilising the power resources of the working class unions also differ as between countries on a structural basis relating to industry or occupational boundaries . |
| 20 | A caution should given : ‘ There is a fascination about curve fitting to growth and population data which can all too easily become an addiction ’ ( Williams , 1975 ) . |
| 21 | The report also offers details of staff turnover , distribution according to grade and gender at 1 April 1992 , training , development , and equal opportunities policies . |
| 22 | And once you have grasped the concept , just vary the fruit and the wine according to taste and season — cherries and strawberries in a Romanian Tamaiosa , rhubarb in Muscatel di Valencia , blood oranges in orange juice and Cointreau . |
| 23 | Jeffrey Dunn has joined Kubota Pacific Computer Inc as vice president , marketing reporting to chairman and chief executive officer , Ben Wegbreit . |
| 24 | Only gradually were these treacherous areas brought into profitable use from peat digging to farming or , especially in our own time , for afforestation . |
| 25 | I 've got one in Battle on Tudor Battle , all about the dissolution of Battle Abbey and erm what happened to the town afterwards ; one on Elizabethan Rye , which is erm was notable because it was the largest place in Sussex at the time , a very important port , a lot of trade for London went through Rye , and there 's a lot of stuff relating to piracy and erm warfare . |
| 26 | I 've got one in Battle on Tudor Battle , all about the dissolution of Battle Abbey and erm what happened to the town afterwards , one on Elizabethan Rye , which is erm was notable because it was the largest place in Sussex at the time , very important port , lot of trade for London went to Rye , and there 's a lot of stuff relating to piracy and erm warfare . |
| 27 | Estates data includes maps and documentation relating to maintenance and minor works . |
| 28 | One way of approaching the problem of consent through law reform is to change the rules of evidence relating to corroboration and sexual history . |
| 29 | The line of trees suddenly ended where the ground fell away and , beneath us , was a large lake , the water turning to ice and , in the middle , a mist-shrouded island . |
| 30 | Transport virtually nil for Africans , we have to spend two or three hours a day going to work and the same coming back tired , exhausted and risking their lives with . |