Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also evidence that Drew had visited several other tobacconists , purchasing pipes to send to friends . |
| 2 | The decision rests on a balance between helping individuals to come to terms with what has happened in their lives at difficult times , risking the possibility of taking them back through stressful and disturbing memories , and leaving the past alone , risking the possibility that counsellees will never come to terms with what is disturbing them . |
| 3 | Sometimes they succeed in pressuring others to come to heel . |
| 4 | It is possible to search through many relations , indeed the whole database , and the RANGE command can be used to restrict such access by only allowing users to refer to relations defined in a RANGE statement . |
| 5 | Helping children to adapt to school life by adopting a sensitive admissions policy . |
| 6 | That was until the day of his funeral , when his fancy woman , Alice Mulcahy , through gin-inspired sorrow , told her that they had been making plans to go to America . |
| 7 | She was also , it appeared , Harriet 's executor in the matter of her will and was making arrangements to come to Bamford immediately . |
| 8 | As well as allowing students to progress to employment or to higher education , general SVQs will be clearly linked to SVQs in particular occupational areas . |
| 9 | But the essay is usually a closed form , not allowing students to admit to uncertainty in their thinking , not allowing them to explore their ideas in imaginative and open-ended ways . |
| 10 | The largest scale intervention was the VISTA programme , which consisted of women scientists and technologists visiting schools to talk to children about an aspect of their jobs already being covered in the school science syllabus . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , in the severe winter of 1739 all the European specimens perished , but in 1760 Miller managed to obtain fresh seed for raising plants to pass to Holland . |
| 12 | OEMs will have to pay USL $60,000 to get the source code in-house and another $25,000 in sublicensing fees to ship to customers over and above paying OSF $150,000 for a DCE license . |