Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [det] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entitled The Special Edition , it restored around 17 minutes of original unscreened footage , filling in more background to Ripley 's material angst and showing exactly what happened to Newt 's parents and the other settlers on the Alien 's planet . |
| 2 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 3 | Following the success of ‘ The Broad Horizon ’ exhibition at Agnew 's in London last autumn , the Foundation for Art is looking forward this year to new ventures beyond the capital . |
| 4 | The Constitution , defining Romania as a " democratic and social state " and criticized by opposition parties as according too much power to the President , came into effect immediately . |
| 5 | The problem is how the professional bodies themselves can maintain ethical discipline over members , with regard to the prospect of shareholders seeking high profitability and paying rather less concern to the interests of the company 's clients . |
| 6 | The rival politicians know this , which is why they are paying so much attention to the news media . |
| 7 | The proprietor would choose a governor for the colony , paying perhaps more attention to making sure he was acceptable to the King than the chartered companies did . |
| 8 | Indeed , by this time he was so immersed in the project that , as his close companion of the time , Lady Sackville , pointed out , he was not paying nearly enough attention to either her , or his work on Britannic House for the Anglo Iranian Oil Co . |
| 9 | What , what , what he said no doubt P C was looking after his troops and he was n't paying as much attention to what I was doing as I was taking . |
| 10 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 11 | Blumler also suggested that parliamentary television was markedly bipartisan , paying relatively little attention to the Liberal Democrats and Members of other smaller parties , but analysis of the actuality contributions of various participants shows that they received more than their proportionate strength in the House ; Liberal Democrats were given 4.3% of total actuality contributions and took part on 7.8% of contribution occasions . |
| 12 | In contrast with earlier enquiries — especially Beckford — they were criticized for paying too little attention to parents and for having ‘ a strong focus on the needs of the child in isolation from the family ’ ( DOH , 1988 , para. 4. 57 ) . |
| 13 | Two of the displays also show the results of paying too little attention to human factors ! |
| 14 | But you can have a fascinating time in Baden without paying too much attention to the spa . |
| 15 | ‘ Flying planes can be dangerous ’ is the type-sentence of semantic ambiguity because it can yield both a passive and an active interpretation , and here a variation is used to demonstrate the danger of paying too much attention to public opinion . |
| 16 | Either way the notion is both ill-informed and ridiculous and it comes from paying too much attention to newspapers like the Guardian . |
| 17 | The Body Shop had brought a complaint against the Board , claiming that it was prejudging the Commission 's view , and that it was paying too much attention to industrial lobby groups and not enough to the concerns of consumers and environmental organisations . |
| 18 | With respect er I was n't paying too much attention to er to what was being said in as much as this possibly sounds negative but our concern is not for what people are shouting at us our concern is for whether we 've got a threat er in a particular area , in this case the bedroom , and whether we can try and sort that threat out before somebody is injured . |
| 19 | ‘ Sir Ralph once accused Bartholomew of paying too much attention to your mother , Sir Ralph 's wife . ’ |
| 20 | Firstly , due to the low usage figures found by the programme monitors in Phase 1 villages ( described in Chapter 5 ) , the Oral Replacement Workers had placed greater emphasis during Phase 2 on telling the village people about LGS at the expense of telling them about the dangers of adding too much salt to the solution . |
| 21 | The Oral Replacement Workers were told to place greater emphasis upon the dangers of adding too much salt to the solution . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the Oral Replacement Workers had been instructed to emphasise the dangers of adding too much salt to the solution , and warn the mothers that the lobon-gur solution would not reduce the output of stool from the sick child . |
| 23 | Moving back another step to a still wider canvas , the holiday as a whole should have an overall structure : preparations for the journey and the journey itself ; arrival at the holiday destination ; introductory shots of the immediate vicinity ; a day on the beach ; a visit to a place of interest ; night-life , and so on … |
| 24 | Thereby it remained , in Britain 's eyes though not in its own , a part of the Empire , which was beginning about that time to be called the Commonwealth , and its citizens remained British subjects . |
| 25 | The USA and the UK were , crucially , status quo powers , with interests firmly committed to allowing as little change to the new international order as possible . |
| 26 | If you do nothing about those feelings , the recipient will probably be totally unaware of them ; if you translate them into action , you may well be setting in motion a train of events which will cause harm and destruction , bringing as much grief to yourself as to the object of your ill-will . |
| 27 | That means a concerted attack on poverty and it means attaching far more importance to early crime prevention measures , such as the development of pre-school provision . |
| 28 | Until she met the Crowley family she was a lost , lonely and abused teenager who was doing so much damage to herself that social workers said she 'd never see her eighteenth birthday . |
| 29 | She said : ‘ I think it is terrible that puppies can be dumped and left to die when the RSPCA is giving so much help to people who can not afford the vet 's bill for sterilisation . |
| 30 | ‘ What sort of a day have you had ? ’ she asked him lightly , and spent the first course and half of the second in hearing how he did n't think he was giving so much concentration to his job as he should just lately . |