Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present research involves making extensive video recordings in the homes of eight carefully selected families and submitting them to various forms of analysis . |
| 2 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 3 | One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers . |
| 4 | Most often , they were souls of jilted girls who visited their erstwhile lovers while they slept , stimulating them to nocturnal emissions and general restlessness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The emphasis within this degree is on acquiring analytic techniques , and applying them to real-world problems . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The idea , of course is not to elucidate dependent conditionals by relating them to causal statements and the like , but to do just the opposite . |
| 9 | Considering each of the quadrants in turn and relating them to various types of work , we arrive at the following conclusions . |
| 10 | Even here , however , the separate heading is worth preserving , since modern style-studies can and do content themselves with the mere description of distinctive linguistic patterns , abstaining not only from relating them to external factors such as authors or literary movements , but also from attributing to them any specific literary function . |
| 11 | They were , generally speaking , well informed about international politics and had a sceptical attitude to news ; they discussed their government 's internal policies and decrees , in particular relating them to different conceptions of government , freedom and justice : their talk of socialism , democracy , dictatorship was by no means purely theoretical . |
| 12 | The appraisal of staff in the context of development and motivation is concerned with managing individual perceptions and relating them to organisational needs . |
| 13 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is important to take a wider view of social policy development relating it to economic policy . |
| 16 | Since the conventions offer an imperfect guide to the subject at hand , it is necessary to look at some of the other types of sources which are generally recognised as being useful in establishing what the law is , and in relating it to specific situations and technical developments . |
| 17 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 18 | Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages . |
| 19 | In 1968 , the Kittyhawk was purchased with the intention of returning it to flying condition . |
| 20 | One relatively straightforward approach to this task consists in trying to refine the theory through use — to discover , by applying it to specific problems , whether it can be consistently employed and what explanations it can yield . |
| 21 | The judiciary has the function of interpreting the law and applying it to specific cases . |
| 22 | This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country . |
| 23 | Data General Corp is moving into document imaging and forms management in an effort to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 24 | Data General Corp is going into document imaging/forms management to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 25 | How many have taken the edge off the phrase at the grass roots by applying it to inappropriate circumstances ? |
| 26 | There were no difficulties in construing the section although difficulties in applying it to particular cases may arise ( p202 ) . |
| 27 | For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed . |
| 28 | Adds a new modification record to development modules , translating them to approved issue numbers |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |