Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) . |
| 2 | SCOTVEC gratefully acknowledges the help of all those involved in bringing this process to fruition . |
| 3 | Pledging that opposition to tolls , plus efforts to increase the numbers of rail passengers in a bid to reduce vehicle traffic , would continue , Mr MacDougall also stressed the need for wide consultation . |
| 4 | It was one of the great post-war institutions whose central purpose was political — to put an end to the frightful nationalistic quarrels which had for decades , indeed centuries , seen the people of Europe tearing each other to pieces and spreading havoc far and wide . |
| 5 | Justifying this self-neglect to Theo in 1880 , he also commended it as ‘ a good way to assure the solitude necessary for concentrating on whatever study preoccupies one . ’ |
| 6 | Moreover , by relating this information to data on spreading rates , the directions of relative plate motions derived from the analysis of earthquakes , and palaeomagnetic evidence of continental palaeolatitudes , it has been possible to establish the direction and speed of present-day plate motions and what is probably a fairly accurate history of movements over the past 200 Ma or so ( Fig. 2.16 ) . |
| 7 | If you are planning to move house , please could you let us know by simply completing and returning this form to WWF . |
| 8 | The trial of a man accused of stabbing another man to death in the doorway of his home has been put back until later in the week . |
| 9 | This trade may be driving some species to extinction . |
| 10 | If we make the ( unrealistic ) assumption that , in driving some variables to integer values , the other variable values do not change much , we can estimate the optimal objective function value of the integer down-problem created by branching on at node k to be where z k is the optimal objective function value of LPk . |
| 11 | Applying this principle to insider dealing , it could be argued that a company has the right to bring an action against an insider for any profit made by reason of the fact that he has ( i ) abused his fiduciary position by using unpublished price sensitive information which he acquired by virtue of his position as an insider ; or ( ii ) misappropriated corporate property ( it is essential under this head that unpublished price sensitive information be seen as property ; whether it is , is not entirely clear ) . |
| 12 | But that the the leader of the house effectively made a statement in Prime Minister 's questions on the same issue , misleading the house into believing that the government were actually applying this money to patient care rather than to meeting their own political incompetence . |
| 13 | There is an inevitable tension in applying this maxim to schools — the notion of collegiality based on a community of professionals may inhibit the scope for individual leadership . |
| 14 | However , a number of problems confront investigators applying this technique to studies of alcoholic liver disease . |
| 15 | The justification for applying this Figure to Mercury with roughly the same time scales will be made in Chapter 8 . |
| 16 | Increase the number of chartered Building Companies and continue to promote the benefits of employing such companies to clients of the industry.PS/C |
| 17 | I suggest those interested in the proposed network for TQM might find it beneficial to contact the QAG , because a considerable amount of knowledge and experience in applying such principles to laboratory work is available to this group . |
| 18 | Public awareness of the value of applying these techniques to archaeology has increased in consequence . |
| 19 | Relating these principles to Figures 11.1 and 11.2 , it will be seen that they comprise , despite the problems already encountered in describing them on an ad hoc basis , only a small number of variants . |
| 20 | Novato , California-based WordStar International Inc is plunging into the Macintosh word processing market by acquiring all rights to WriteNow from T/Maker Co in return for undisclosed cash and royalties ; development of the $250 WriteNow will stay at T/Maker in Mountain View , California under WordStar . |
| 21 | Mr Connolly said he had written to Mr Clarke saying he very much hoped Labour 's commitment to the retention of water services under local government control extended to returning those services to councils ‘ in the unhappy event of any form of privatisation or transfer to some hybrid organisation ’ . |
| 22 | By contrast , the rational expectations hypothesis , when applied to the theory of inflation , appeared to indicate that money would be neutral in the short run also , thereby denying any role to policy activism . |
| 23 | When yu loving each other to death |
| 24 | I think we should all start sentencing each other to death . |
| 25 | The aim is to invite the Holy Spirit to reveal what is causing this block to growth and to invite him to heal and restore to wholeness the person in question . |
| 26 | No such assurance was received , but the German troops advanced very rapidly , cawing some concern to Russia , so Stalin decided that he would prefer the German troops to stop halfway across Poland and he sent his — troops into that poor country from the east . |
| 27 | And the Magistrate , watching like a stoat , could see by the alarm on their faces that they were assigning this treatment to Dr McNab for no other reason than that he had happened to mention it . |
| 28 | The promise of the field-marshal 's baton in every private 's knapsack was never intended as a programme for promoting all soldiers to field-marshals . |
| 29 | Sartre founds communist action precisely by refusing any productivity to history and by making history , insofar as it is intelligible , the immediate result of our volitions . |
| 30 | It reminded her of why she had started refusing most invitations to date a long time ago . |