Example sentences of "[v-ing] to the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recognition that the members of organizations share group identities and have interests which may not coincide with others who are contributing to the same goals began with the Human Relations movement and its founder George Elton Mayo ( 1933 ) . |
| 2 | Secondly , the total amount of damages awarded are reduced by any amounts that the defendant is obliged to disgorge under a Commission disgorgement order relating to the same transaction(s) . |
| 3 | The requirement is equally complied with if he receives a document of title from his seller and then transfers to the innocent sub-purchaser a different document of title relating to the same goods , Mount v. Jay ( 1960 Q.B. ) . |
| 4 | There are files of correspondence , rentals and accounts relating to the several divisions of the estate ; approximately 500 maps ( many being older items previously overlooked ) ; boxes on a miscellany of topics from industry and agriculture to education and churches ; and much that is as yet totally unsorted . |
| 5 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 6 | It seemed louder , more raucous than usual , and she sighed at the prospect of another evening spent listening to the same arguments and bitter reproaches . |
| 7 | And there were shouts too for the resignation of manager Ray Hankin , who , according to the many rumours sweeping the ground before and during the match , is to be replaced by former Middlesbrough and Millwall boss Bruce Rioch . |
| 8 | According to the former directors , the company increased its network of offices but in 1991 it was hit by ‘ the ravages ’ of the recession . |
| 9 | Formerly the domicile of a wife was necessarily the same as that of her husband , but under the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 the wife 's dependent domicile was abolished : now her domicile is determined according to the same rules as for a single person . |
| 10 | To give you useful comparisons , every machine is tested according to the same criteria : |
| 11 | To give you useful comparisons , every machine is tested according to the same criteria : |
| 12 | Reappraisal of Planning Permission — all existing permissions should be reassessed according to the same criteria as above , and authorities would have the power to rescind or modify them . |
| 13 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 14 | He wanted his prose to be objective , scientific , devoid of personal presence , devoid of opinions ; so he decided that poetry ought to be written according to the same principles . |
| 15 | Skinner ( 1948 ) states that " verbal behaviour is emitted behaviour which is reinforced by a listener and develops according to the same principles as other operant behaviour . |
| 16 | On the other hand , it did not necessarily contradict the public service principles , especially as the new Act of Parliament obliged ITV to ‘ inform , educate and entertain' according to the same standards . |
| 17 | In 1958 , according to the same calculations , the Soviet Union influenced 31 per cent of the world 's population and 9 per cent of the world 's GNP ( excluding the USSR itself ) ; by 1979 the USSR influenced only 6 per cent of the world 's population and only 5 per cent of the world 's GNP , again excluding the USSR itself . |
| 18 | No underhand tactics as then , everything out in the open , everyone operating to the same rules . |
| 19 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
| 20 | Linking girls in with the characters of Lord of the Flies , I am sure that there would be many Ralphs , a Jack of a different nature but leading to the same results , and eventually one or two Rogers . |
| 21 | They smiled into each other 's faces , pointing to the same things at the same time , sharing . |
| 22 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 23 | How can we be sure that the topics were put to a number of people in the same way ; that is , were they all responding to the same stimuli ? |
| 24 | The need to build hypotheses into pattern-recognizing programs can best be illustrated by referring to the many programs that have been written to interpret line diagrams ( see Figure 12 ) . |
| 25 | Thus the expenditure needs are built up from a whole series of estimates , referring to the many components of Local Government expenditure . |
| 26 | That 's right , erm , I can save it with the row on the other files , but the total is now on row twenty six , but this is still referring to the same cells , C twenty five . |