Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malaysia leave the field after narrowly losing to an accomplished Tunisian seven ( 14–10 ) in the semi-finals after losing their pool match 22–0 to the same side . |
| 2 | And Gower is bitterly disappointed not to have made the tour squad after virtually apologising to the Indian Cricket Board for alleging their bowlers scuffed the ball in the final Test at the Oval two summers ago . |
| 3 | The Communist parties inevitably lost credibility as a result of staunchly adhering to the Comintern line throughout the series of volte-face involved in the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 and the subsequent German invasion of Soviet Russia in June 1941 . |
| 4 | So instead of automatically going to the timber yard and buying new timber , how about looking around at potential sources of second-hand timber and giving the poor old environment a helping hand ? |
| 5 | Instead of now referring to the child as something for us to share , Sarah started saying it was hers . |
| 6 | Such actions may be indicative of a climate of fear , or of caution , or of simply teaching to the test . |
| 7 | It resulted in the erm extra requirement for security which does happen to which Mr has referred and I I think it 's it 's very very important to realise that if that three party cooperation can be achieved as it should be , bearing in mind what Simon says that we are going to have to do this , with horrendous problems in the youth and community project in the future and we would be failing completely in our duty , not just to the people of Highfields , but to the people of this whole county if we simply allowed politics , as has been done in the past , to lead to entrenched positions and the idea of simply saying to the director , we are in a mess therefore will you please deal with it all is I think wildly irresponsible and I 'm very very surprised indeed that erm that point should be put . |
| 8 | Even if changes in South Africa bring the war to an end in the near future , the costs of simply returning to the situation before the war are enormous , both in terms of the capital cost of replacing destroyed and damaged schools , and the running costs of the system . |
| 9 | Unfortunately I 'm going to be busy for most of today lecturing to a group of Japanese businessmen , so I 'll have to leave you in the hands of my assistant . |
| 10 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 11 | But I think all the silliness is all part of actually adjusting to the condom , and something to do with the embarrassment that because they do n't know enough about it they , they do n't want to be er , seen to be silly |
| 12 | Some modern projectors have an inbuilt device for quickly switching to a new bulb . |
| 13 | The police say the the Baroness was dealt with properly according to the law . |
| 14 | The ESO has the advantage of offering greater scope for really getting to the root of truancy problems by keeping the education welfare service in close contact with the families with which it has been working . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 16 | By contrast , when Paul envisages a relationship of conciliation in marriage , a working together for common goals , the practical out-working involves both partners in constantly adjusting to the needs of the other . |
| 17 | The choice of this unyielding , deeply religious man for this particular post was a sharp reminder that , when it came to how Spaniards viewed their own country and the outside world , and to how outsiders would see Spain , their opinions would still be shaped from above according to the scale of values which had informed the Franco regime from the start . |
| 18 | Leaving the ever-increasing fitness demands on players aside , the chief weakness of the Sicily schedule was that it mixed a pool-based round-robin format , which creates a precise and fair hierarchy , with a league system , which reshuffles the pack and can end up rewarding skilful planning rather than success on the field , before finally moving to a knock-out format . |
| 19 | Bush had blocked or vetoed two bills before finally agreeing to a compromise formula which had extended benefits for 13 or 20 weeks beyond the standard 26 weeks of benefits provided under state unemployment programmes [ see pp. 38428 ; 38521 ; 38568 ] . |
| 20 | ‘ Thank you , I enjoyed being a part of that , ’ she said gravely , as the procession wended its way off around the village before finally returning to the church . |
| 21 | He referred to Taiwan and China as ‘ two countries ’ , before quickly reverting to the politically correct phrase ‘ both sides of the Taiwan Strait ’ . |
| 22 | The whole peasant outlook precluded them from meekly submitting to the dictates of the market . |
| 23 | Fenella told me , breathily and all excited , that they were going to operate and we 'd all have to leave , but it was all right really because Salome 's mum ( who was ever so nice ) had turned up having been called by Frank and was in there talking to the surgeons . |
| 24 | Every day , we make countless decisions — decisions based upon either clinging to the past or reaching for the future . |
| 25 | Note Clock Tower and track to right leading to the Cricket Green , just beyond the block of shops . |
| 26 | Thus , a quantum theory of gravity is essential if we are to describe the early universe and then give some explanation for the initial conditions beyond merely appealing to the anthropic principle . |
| 27 | The first three kinds of honorific were clearly distinguished by Comrie ( 1976b ) , who pointed out that traditional descriptions have often confused ( i ) and ( ii ) : the distinction is that in ( i ) respect can only be conveyed by referring to the " target " of the respect , whereas in ( ii ) it can be conveyed without necessarily referring to the target . |
| 28 | But there are ways of gradually increasing daily physical activity without necessarily turning to a specific form of sport . |
| 29 | The ‘ social optimality ’ approach can be refined to deal with the problem without necessarily resorting to the conclusion that ‘ self-interest ’ on the part of politicians and bureaucrats is proven . |
| 30 | Erm first of all if I may just er point out that the example I put with my paper that I have submitted today , and I thank you for the er indulgence in allowing me to produce it so late , was simply that there was one particular appeal of decision where an inspector remarked particularly on the lack of a local or a development plan policy relating to generally relating to the countryside . |