Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 2 | Parents may feel suspicious of these , or resentful , and will need help in using them to best advantage . |
| 3 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 4 | By adopting such beliefs and applying them to contemporary society both found sustenance in elitist moral and ethical beliefs which were far removed from contemporary reality . |
| 5 | Labour proposes to get rid of Trust status hospitals , returning them to local authority control and substituting for the internal market a series of performance agreements boosted by incentives . |
| 6 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 7 | He agreed to a televised debate , hosted by Dan Rather , with Cameron Nielson Sr. Farnham was still feisty on the show , but Cameron Nielson , looking younger now than his son , was as skilled as a great matador , and finally evened the score with his former tormentor , driving him to tearful contrition . |
| 8 | It is important to take a wider view of social policy development relating it to economic policy . |
| 9 | In 1968 , the Kittyhawk was purchased with the intention of returning it to flying condition . |
| 10 | Erm we feel rather badly about not returning it to this person who made it for us |
| 11 | But last night he had refused even to consider what she had told him , tossing it to one side as though it did n't matter . |
| 12 | The fact that the First Directive was formally concerned only with restrictions on foreign exchange transactions did not prevent the court , in Brugnoni v. Cassa di Risparmio di Genova e Imperia ( Case 157/85 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 2013 , 2030 , para. 22 , from applying it to any kind of obstacles constituting a ‘ hindrance ’ to the widest liberalisation of those capital movements which the First Directive sought to liberalise in full . |
| 13 | An' wait , ’ she muttered irritably , pushing me to one side . |
| 14 | Adds a new modification record to development modules , translating them to approved issue numbers |
| 15 | A United States State Department travel advisory warning to US citizens on April 21 , alerting them to alleged security risks in Kenya , drew an angry response from local media and from an official of the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) the following day . |
| 16 | It attempted to identify these needs , and addressed detailed recommendations for meeting them to central government , LEAs , examination boards , teachers , training institutions and funding bodies for research and curriculum development . |
| 17 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 18 | ‘ Get out of the way , ’ snapped Rohmer , pushing him to one side as he moved towards Pearce . |
| 19 | Judge Paul Clark read social inquiry reports on Marron , before sentencing him to 2 life jail terms . |
| 20 | He was transporting her to another world , and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon . |
| 21 | The next step , which only the most well-off men such as restaurant owners can afford , is keeping this wife in semi-purdah — in other words sentencing her to solitary confinement . |
| 22 | Voices continued for hours , snapping her to occasional attention . |
| 23 | He had stood quietly swaying himself on his heels , an almost derisive expression in the curl of his lips as he smoked a cigarette , his very silence provoking her to further abuse . |
| 24 | Are you rounding it to nearest pound ? |
| 25 | In the following example program segment , AND is used as a bitwise operator to remove the most significant bit of a byte read from a file before writing it to another file . |
| 26 | Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home . |
| 27 | They were all out in the courtyard , and the evening sun was slanting low golden shafts of colour from the west , catching the windows of the ancient palace and turning them to molten copper . |
| 28 | Francis insisted that taking Wednesday into Europe this season , after leading them to third place behind Leeds and Manchester United in April , was his career high point — despite scoring the winner in a European Cup final . |
| 29 | The doctor had opened the door suddenly , was walking in with two nurses , directing them to either side of the bed as the heart machine flashed and beeped alarmingly . |
| 30 | For several days , maybe up to a week before that , whatever I was doing it was leading him to that decision . |