Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 2 | Conclusions arrived at from the interim report following Semester 1 interviews pointed to an apparent need ( indeed , a desire ) on the part of students for them to be told of the Enterprise Content in each module in advance and for a level of understanding about transferable skills to be attained by students upon their arrival at Napier . |
| 3 | The judge 's ruling comes at a time when many legal experts are pressing for young children to be allowed to give evidence in court . |
| 4 | The first category covers a businessman disposing of commercial goods to a private person . |
| 5 | Enriched hop powder pellets are also possible by sieving the powder at — 35°C to remove coarser non a acid material and by blending with liquid extracts to further enhance the a acid content . |
| 6 | The surrounding volcanic cones are gently sloping with few gullies to the south , but increasingly steep and heavily gullied towards the north . |
| 7 | One job , to paint an ambassador 's wife in Paris , ended in a shouting match after she had altered the canvas overnight , painting in crude alterations to the eyes and mouth . |
| 8 | The research and teaching interests of the Department of English Literature and its Postgraduate School are varied and challenging from Medieval Studies to Postmodernism and from traditional literary scholarship to contemporary literary theory , and were marked in 1992 by the award of the highest possible ranking in the national research selectivity exercise . |
| 9 | At this stage , the sequence has developed towards what Simmel calls the relativistic world view , which he understands as contributing to certain attitudes to the world which comprehend processes rather than just entities ( 1978 : 101–8 ) . |
| 10 | There is otherwise a possibility of transferring feelings relating to personal circumstances to those of clients or consumers or residents , and their families . |
| 11 | Sadly there is little documentary evidence relating to early introductions to Britain , although it is claimed that the Romans brought the walnut and sweet chestnut while remains or myrtle , bay and rosemary have been found on the sites of Roman villas , suggesting that these Mediterranean shrubs were cultivated in their gardens . |
| 12 | It will generally be appropriate for representations relating to significant items to be obtained in writing , in the form of a board memorandum adopted by the directors of the company . |
| 13 | I paddle quickly , aware too that the Ocean 's cold has gnawed its way uncomfortably through the thin GRP of the kayak and into my poorly protected flesh Tony waits for me , to point out a small brown luck that is lurking among some rocks to our right . |
| 14 | The use of naturally occurring sugars in milk , honey and fruit resulted in cavities occurring at different positions to those in modern teeth ( Moore and Corbett 1971 ) . |
| 15 | BRITAIN 'S oil ‘ minnows ’ , many of them companies whose shares are trading at big discounts to their asset values , are hoping to grow by acquisition before they are swallowed by much bigger predators , writes George Duthie . |
| 16 | Section 10 establishes the Register of Land Charges consisting of five classes to which has been added a sixth , Class F. They are described below and apart from the bankruptcy entries , relate to unregistered land . |
| 17 | With the Royal Suite commanding 3400 guilders ( £1260 ) a night and rack rates across the other 79 rooms ranging between 700 guilders to 925 guilders ( £260-£342 ) , such optimism is vital . |
| 18 | To prevent this there must exist rules capable of serving as effective guides to action . |
| 19 | The nineteenth century saw the transference of social prestige from a minority of lawyers acting as civil servants to a large number of lawyers acting as politicians . |
| 20 | My experiences suggest that an increasing number of doctors are becoming involved in the promotion of dubious treatments , either by acting as medical advisers to companies or through their association with clinics providing unorthodox treatments . |
| 21 | Every musical instrument is faithfully reproduced , given a good recording , with individual timbres standing out clearly and the various bowing , chuffing and striking sounds acting as further clues to identity . |
| 22 | Male callers however are far more likely to be looking for easy solutions to a debt problem , usually a further loan or re-mortgage which in the long term will often make the problem worse . |
| 23 | We are looking for individual responses to problem-solving and personality development . |
| 24 | When the authentic medical researchers started to get involved , they were looking for dietary answers to serious illnesses prevalent in Western societies but extremely rare in many less sophisticated communities in the developing world . |
| 25 | The problems arise , he says , when neglect and deprivation of children leads to violent behaviour , or when values are imposed in an authoritarian way , as can be convenient for governments looking for quick answers to youth disaffection . |
| 26 | consequently , chemists and production engineers working in the manufacturing engineering industry , looking for quick solutions to immediate problems such as corrosion protection of engineering parts , will not find a list of suitable chemicals and products in this book . |
| 27 | Organizations , faced with the turbulent and competitive environments and technological developments of the 1990s , are increasingly looking for structural solutions to their problems . |
| 28 | But the big ITV stations are lobbying for all restrictions to be lifted , which would pave the way for a Great North TV spanning the country . |
| 29 | At the same time , the teleological elements in Marx 's thought have been given up ; there is no single line of development passing through necessary stages to the attainment of socialism . |
| 30 | Instead , they have on the one hand embarked upon the biggest programme of prison building this century , whilst on the other searching for alternative punishments to prison . |