Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the long term , electronic scanning and linking to an image database could provide a secure back-up to the herbarium collection , a means of transmitting images to other institutions , and a method for collaborative working between institutions using real-time computer conferencing . |
| 2 | It 's well worth submitting entries to minor competitions as they often attract very few entrants giving high chances of success . |
| 3 | Investment trusts are in fact very active in the market for new issues of shares and in this respect are channelling funds to ultimate borrowers . |
| 4 | In so far as the exercise of judgement by officials when applying rules to particular cases can never be made entirely unnecessary by the articulation of rules to fit all instances , the values of individual officials will affect the outcome of executive action . |
| 5 | Initial training in applying labels to these stimuli did not influence test performance , and this prompted Robinson ( 1955 ) to suggest that pre-training might be ineffective when the test task is ‘ perceptual , rather than ‘ motor ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Until such times as they can do this , Her Majesty 's Government should get on with the task of governing Northern Ireland in a positive fashion , including the alternative means of returning powers to locally-elected representatives . ’ |
| 7 | we had er we had a candidate 's committee meeting last night , in which we were concerned that a number of the other constituencies throughout the northwest , who were not as far progressed as erm er as Greater Manchester West , and we took it upon ourselves to erm When appointing returning officers to those constituencies , to recommend to those returning officers that the people guiding Manchester Central , Merseyside East , Merseyside West , whoever they may be , contact John er for advice on how to how to run the er how to run the election . |
| 8 | The fact that Le Roy Ladurie takes this dual approach is , I think , unsurprising , and derives from the problem of relating structures to individual beliefs and actions . |
| 9 | [ This would have led to difficulties in checking citations to related papers in the present study ] . |
| 10 | Finn was carefully applying matches to various parts of the doll . |
| 11 | The structure chart is a series of boxes ( representing processes or modules ) and connecting lines ( representing links to subordinate processes ) which are arranges in a hierarchy . |
| 12 | Another attempt to save the inductivist programme involves giving up the idea of ascribing probabilities to scientific laws and theories . |
| 13 | The purchase of externally-sourced catalogue records ( e.g. from OCLC or VTLS ) would not be cost-effective , since so many of our records are unique , or shared only with other specialist botanical libraries not contributing records to these services — we would have to do it all again ourselves , and we lack the manpower resources to do this . |
| 14 | In 1979 Mrs. Nancy O'Donnell also retired , having been for 23 years an indispensable part of School life — catering for numbers large or small , brewing tea and coffee , selling biscuits outside Room 18 , applying plasters to wounded knees or offering sympathy to wounded spirits . |
| 15 | Chiefly they are responsible for hiring coaches to away matches and for getting occasional petitions signed . |
| 16 | They may after all have been passing secrets to Soviet agents . |
| 17 | The control regime was liberalized for computer , machine tool and telecommunications technology ( microcomputer exports having been permitted since August 1989 ) ; companies seeking exceptions to remaining restrictions would have to wait only eight weeks for permission , rather than 12 weeks as hitherto ; and countries such as Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , if they were prepared to introduce their own controls on use and re-export , might expect more favourable treatment . |
| 18 | This can be a considerable help in assigning bands to particular vibrations , especially where several bands are close together in frequency . |
| 19 | Why , for example , did Molla Iwad ( Molla Ivaz ) , who was eventually to rise to become Rumeli kazasker , stay on at the Sahn at one point in his career , twice refusing appointments to higher medreses ( those of Murad II in Bursa and of Bayezid II in Edirne ) before accepting an appointment to the Ayasofya medrese ? |
| 20 | The team as a whole was given the responsibility for the whole task and for assigning individuals to particular jobs . |
| 21 | He imagined the personal messages which appear in the back pages ( usually on cheaper paper , and often coloured a dull pale yellow or pink ) of such magazines , and he imagined writing replies to these messages , imagined exactly what he would say , even imagined meeting some of these men . |
| 22 | By contrast , those more oriented to hierarchy will handle organizational change ‘ by reallocating resources to new activities as opportunities arise ’ ( see also Kagono et al. , 1985 : 57–87 ) , thus contributing to differentiation and further specialization . |
| 23 | Saigon 's main boulevard , the Rue Catinat , linked the docks and the cathedral , symbols of the twin goals of commerce and religion which had led France to colonize the land , and in its fashionable sidewalk cafe 's they saw deferential Annamese waiters in black turbans and linen gowns darting among the marble-topped tables , serving aperitifs to languid groups of their European colonizers . |
| 24 | Banking — Deposits — Deposit taking business — Fund to compensate depositors in insolvent bank — Original depositors assigning sums to third parties after presentation of petition to wind up bank — Whether assignee of part of original deposit ‘ depositor ’ — Banking Act 1987 ( c. 22 ) , s. 58(1) — Banking Act 1987 ( Meaning of Deposit ) Order 1991 ( S.I . |
| 25 | The claimant employed a number of persons for the purpose of preparing and serving meals to other employees of its business . |
| 26 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 27 | Secondary aims included conforming to existing industry standards and defining interfaces to other languages . |
| 28 | Secondary aims included conforming to existing industry standards and defining interfaces to other languages . |
| 29 | At the same time as publishing guides to green products , Julia Hailes accepts money from those who make and sell them . |
| 30 | ‘ We as nurses have a role in alerting men to abnormal symptoms and giving them information about their health without being too intrusive . |