Example sentences of "[v-ing] to the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , insider sources suggest that Hazelwood is meeting with long-time friend Bob Dylan , to discuss the possibility of Dylan also contributing to the new Mary Chain LP . |
| 2 | Motion to take note of EC documents relating to the 1992 EC budget . |
| 3 | In other words , nothing relating to the second NTSB recommendation in the Windsor accident report had been done . |
| 4 | With the announcement that Michael Checkland is to step down early from his post as Director General of the BBC , it seems an appropriate time to compile a similar list of ‘ ins ’ and ‘ outs ’ relating to the new BBC regime which will come in under John Birt . |
| 5 | They also took private papers relating to the large South Ronaldsay family Mr and Mrs T had been trying to help , and a library book written by a social worker on sexual abuse . |
| 6 | It drifted close to one of the massive posts and he went to tie up , returning to the puzzled Meredith and looking down on her thoughtfully . |
| 7 | Eyeing his enormous frame with amused speculation , she suddenly grinned , not even aware that slowly , little by little , she was reverting to the old Hilary . |
| 8 | In other words , according to the neurophysiological CTP , sensation , perception , experience , consciousness , are intimately related to , or even boil down to , large numbers of trains or patterns of nerve impulses . |
| 9 | According to the quarterly Wall Street Journal Europe-Dataquest Europe Ltd report on the market , sales of personal computers rose 19.4% to 2.5m machines , just shy of the 20.8% rise in the fourth quarter of 1992 — but volume ai n't all , and the price war meant that total industry revenue slipped 3.3% to $5,100m . |
| 10 | Included within the ranks of those who ‘ gadded to sermons ’ and aspired to a higher spiritual plain were peers , gentlemen , clothworkers , cobblers , and humble villagers ; according to the Jesuit William Weston , Puritan meetings on the Isle of Ely were attended by ‘ men , women , girls , rustics , labourers , and idiots ’ . |
| 11 | According to the Serbian-based Tanjug agency and Serbian television reports , the contents of the municipal museum of Vukovar , and its branches , have been taken to Serbia . |
| 12 | According to the central SD digest , the speech dispelled the rumours about his health . |
| 13 | According to the 1989 Unicef report , |
| 14 | There 's one here about British Gas complaints about British Gas rose a hundred and thirty four percent last year according to the recent Offgas report . |
| 15 | Below him — to continue quoting the Proverbial Philosopher Martin Tupper , there flitted ‘ the good angel of the house , the mother , wife and mistress ’ whose work , according to the great Ruskin , was : |
| 16 | During those 23 years , what one might term our membership fees in Europe have shown net outflow of at least £15,036 million according to the 1991 HMSO Pink Book . |
| 17 | According to the London-based Africa Confidential newsletter of May 22 , the delay came at the insistence of the opposition , which , while claiming that the rainy season would create transport problems for delegates , was in fact concerned that comparatively few parties had as yet been granted legal status . |
| 18 | According to the London-based UN Information Centre news-letter of Jan. 17 , 1991 , member states of the UN owed over $402,000,000 in outstanding contributions , of which $300,000,000 was owed by the USA . |
| 19 | According to the official Tass news agency six servicemen , part of the contingent stationed in east Uzbekistan since the outbreak of violence between Uzbeks and Kirghiz in June [ see pp. 37540-41 ; 37618 ] , were returning from leave to rejoin their unit when the fight broke out on a bus . |
| 20 | There are now , according to the official Linotype list , some 120 bureaux dotted throughout the United Kingdom equipped with PostScript imagesetters . |
| 21 | Wang Youca , a student leader serving a four-year prison sentence , was released on parole for showing signs of repentance , according to the official Xinhua news agency . |
| 22 | According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary , to ‘ build ’ means to ‘ construct by putting parts or material together ’ , whilst ‘ environment ’ means ‘ surrounding objects , region or conditions ’ . |
| 23 | To rationalise , according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary , is to bring into conformity with reason , or in the economic sense , to eliminate cost in labour time and materials . |
| 24 | Endosonography findings were staged according to the new TNM classification by the International Union Against Cancer ( UICC ) 1987 ( Table I ) . |
| 25 | Well , according to the late Mrs Howard , we got this much from her at least , there is some doubt about the validity of his second marriage . |
| 26 | According to the late Dr. K. R. Gilbert of the Science Museum the slubbing Billy could be unique and he believed that there were only five other Jennys left , all in museums . |
| 27 | According to the 1939 Wisden the county were criticised for ‘ dull and uninteresting cricket ’ . |
| 28 | According to the influential El Pais newspaper , Real 's president Ramon Mendoza has rebuked Toshack on a number of counts and is already seeking a replacement for the Welshman hired only last summer on a £1 million contract . |
| 29 | ABOUT 400,000 people will lose their jobs over the next 15 months before the unemployment rate peaks , according to the National Westminster Bank yesterday . |
| 30 | The word ‘ jargon ’ , according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary , comes from an Old French root that has to do with the warbling of birds . |