Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] to [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course much of the flow is contractual and employers and employees have had little choice about contributing to such schemes . |
| 2 | after listening to these tapes back . |
| 3 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 4 | ‘ Often you will find players being sent off after retaliating to such fouls . |
| 5 | They must disown the action through writing to all members who could be affected . |
| 6 | First impressions , and they are formed within a few seconds of listening to these headphones , are of an unveiled immediacy , very extended high-frequency response and seamless midrange . |
| 7 | What is mandatory is nothing more or less than what Parliament requires as a precondition of according to such instruments the force of law . |
| 8 | ‘ Buckley fire station has a proud record of getting to all fires . |
| 9 | He persuaded the dealers at the time a fiercely independent group of businessmen who did n't like the idea of belonging to any organisations that they needed to be heard by the government , museums , and collectors . |
| 10 | The cumulative effect , however , of attending to such questions consistently over a period of time is considerable and , as teachers agree , eventually time-saving . |
| 11 | His deficit arises in a subsequent stage of attending to these figures , at which he neglects the left of figures wherever they appear , and thus can not judge explicitly whether they are symmetrical about the vertical . |
| 12 | I have as a matter of course made a point of attending to those particulars which hereto for have been overlooked not only by collecting the birds in their various changes of plumage but by preserving all the principal forms for dissection as well as preparing skeletons of the same … |
| 13 | We might still have laboured under these difficulties if our author , who has added a considerable stock of reading to many years experience , had not entered upon the task . |
| 14 | She says , ‘ Only after a woman takes in her stride her mother 's failures of understanding , empathy and availability , instead of responding to these shortcomings with childish indignation , is she ready to become her adult friend … |
| 15 | One can cause concern or consternation ( by one 's reckless behaviour ) , but it is inconceivable to apply the concept of making to these notions . |
| 16 | The FMLN also accused the government of ( i ) obstructing the process of transferring to former guerrillas the land abandoned by its former owners ; and ( ii ) failing to issue a decree conferring legal status on the FMLN as a political party [ see below ] . |
| 17 | Mr Kinnock also took the unusual step of appealing to all electors , whatever their political persuasion , to turn out and vote . |
| 18 | He also took the unusual step of appealing to all electors whatever their political persuasion to turn out and vote , a move that reflected unease among the party leadership that , with the polls showing a narrow Labour lead , its supporters might take victory for granted . |
| 19 | It may be expected that the practice of referring to these reports will extend itself in the future , because they often supply the best commentary upon the wording of an Act . |
| 20 | In both cases the analogy between presentation of speech and presentation of object texts is enforced by the convention of referring to those texts metonymically by the name of their authors . |
| 21 | In summary , the use of physical contact in the Victoria Centre , the organization of the daily cycle of activities , the regulation of the pupil 's unit career and the attribution of meaning to these events demonstrate continuities which are also evident in the educational philosophy which Owen articulates . |
| 22 | The Revenue has already introduced new target turnaround times for replying to all letters — the aim is now to reply to all letters sent to tax and collection offices within 28 days . |
| 23 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 24 | In competition with other small businesses , the archetypal ‘ little man ’ had clawed his way to success through clinging to such beliefs . |
| 25 | Goods sold as ‘ animal food ’ are of merchantable quality if suitable for feeding to most kinds of cattle and poultry . |
| 26 | So it is thanks to you for coming to these events and thanks to all who contributed to the organisation for between you all it was a most successful day . |
| 27 | If the latter , is it the case that we are acquainted with the concepts of trumping and revoking through attending to these feelings , and have somehow managed to devise a game with activities which are as perfect an expression of them as , say , Pablo Picasso 's 1937 painting of a Weeping Woman is an expression of grief ? |
| 28 | This protein binds very poorly to the canonical octamer sequence but binds with high affinity to the TAATGARAT motif and degenerate octamer-TAATGA motifs and also induces DNA bending upon binding to these motifs . |
| 29 | In setting up such a scheme great care needs to be taken in explaining to all participants the rationale behind the decision and the positive gains involved . |
| 30 | Before returning to these implicatures in the next section , let us first illustrate the other major kind of implicatures that Grice had in mind . |