Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or young and trendy , favouring outlandish schemes for bringing religion up to date , inviting the congregation to shake hands with each other , and expecting them to sing newfangled and jolly hymns to the accompaniment of the local pop group . |
| 2 | In the absence of a ready-made framework in Scotland , the firm looked elsewhere to the English Law Society 's Continuing Professional Development scheme , launched last year and aimed at not only keeping solicitors up to date with the law but to develop management and other professional skills and to enhance career development . |
| 3 | Where Land 's theory differs from previous models of colour vision is that , instead of relating colour directly to wavelength , he argues that colour experience is related to the relative outputs of these three classes of receptor in different parts of the visual field . |
| 4 | Keeping information up to date was considered to be difficult due to the increasing number of information sources , and the fact that only certain sections of documents might be superseded by new information . |
| 5 | Responsibility for changing this and keeping information up to date can be delegated to a staff nurse or senior student . |
| 6 | But such work must be done , and field men put in several hours each week in their area offices , writing reports , keeping records up to date , drafting letters , answering the telephone and communicating with colleagues in the field and staff at headquarters . |
| 7 | There was further deformation of the Moine and Dalradian rocks on the north side of the Iapetus Suture causing metamorphism up to granulite grade and widespread granitic intrusion . |
| 8 | As they rode , Artemis pushing Buttons on to keep pace with the free-striding chestnut , her father never spoke . |
| 9 | In myths and dreams tears are seen as magical , turning into flowers , trees and jewels as they fall and bringing heroes back to life . |
| 10 | as if sensing she had finished , Lyddy came softly in and began to light lamps and draw the curtains , gently pulling Alexandra back to reality . |
| 11 | And that arrogant devil Christie Goldsborough who 'd caused the trouble , so far as Frizingley was concerned at any rate , by egging Ben on to cut the wages at Braithwaite 's mill . |
| 12 | Welsh Water is the only British water authority committed to ending the widespread practice of pumping sewage out to sea . |
| 13 | Churchill had been egging Auchinleck on to attack , and so relieve the pressure on the beleaguered island of Malta which was threatened with starvation unless convoys could get through . |
| 14 | Parents take comfort in the fact that even though their children are egging men on to beat the hell out of each other , it is all in the cause of good triumphing over evil . |
| 15 | I need , at the moment in terms of corrective action on quiffs , I am sending quiffs out to procedure owners , and I need to know whether suggestive procedure changes or not , and it 's better for me if it is out in that order then I can go through and mark the quiffs off as being erm the changes or not . |
| 16 | ( viii ) Pupils should begin to learn explicitly the different stages in the writing process , ie drafting ( getting ideas on to paper or computer screen , regardless of form , organisation or expression ) ; redrafting ( shaping and structuring the raw material — either on paper or screen — to take account of purpose , audience and form ) ; rereading and revising ( making alterations that will help the reader , eg getting rid of ambiguity , vagueness , incoherence , or irrelevance ) ; proof-reading ( checking for errors , eg omitted or repeated words , mistakes in spelling or punctuation ) . |
| 17 | There should have been major expenditure on affordable provision , this would be a major factor in getting people back to work . ’ |
| 18 | Still to come on Central News , getting mothers back to work |
| 19 | Hodgskin saw a shameless deception at the centre of Ricardian economics and British capitalism : both pretended that capital was productive and the essential spring to greater prosperity , but , Hodgskin argued , capitalists were always parasitic , holding wages close to subsistence levels and diverting the fruits of labour 's productivity to unproductive and anti-social consumption . |
| 20 | A year ago at Unix Expo time we said IBM Corp was interested in moving AIX on to PC platforms other than its own to dispel its proprietary air ( UX No 359 ) : true to the promise , Blue turned up at this year 's Expo with AIX PS/2 Version 1.3 supporting non-Micro Channel boxes and running on Dell Computer Corp , AST Research Inc and Compaq Computer Corp . |
| 21 | When sending employees abroad to work , employers must consider : the selection of employees for the job ; the importance of briefing them before going ; and the contents of the compensation and benefits package . |
| 22 | The independent sector has also contributed to developments in the area by setting up courses aimed at recruiting staff back to work . |
| 23 | Geodesic sculptures were dropping from the ceiling and exploding around me , and my giant perspex magnifying mirrors , like contorting windows on to hell , were melting down the walls . |
| 24 | It does not envy her husband taking clients out to lunch , |
| 25 | At the great Adam , Eve and Immaculate Conception church near the river , I stood with others in the marble hallway and listened to beautiful female solos soaring praises up to Heaven . |
| 26 | She was calm and sweet and later insisted on taking Phoebe out to dinner at some fancy little pseudo-Bohemian bistro . |
| 27 | I saw him taking Laura out to dinner yesterday evening . |
| 28 | Unless there is some way of converting ADP back to ATP , the cell would soon run out of energy . |
| 29 | That is why reporters at Westminster spend half their time drinking in the bars or taking politicians out to lunch and dinner . |
| 30 | Tchoungui and Fochivé had lost their previous posts following the abortive coup attempt of April 1984 , aimed at bringing Ahidjo back to power [ see pp. 33075-76 ] . |