Example sentences of "[v-ing] to a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 2 | Ways of explaining to a child or showing things for a child , or showing a child how to do things . |
| 3 | If you do not understand what is happening to a patient or the rationale behind any action you are asked to take , be sure to find out . |
| 4 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 5 | The central vent is important , so make it neat by trimming to a circle and reinforce with stitching which will help the overall strength . |
| 6 | But perhaps more importantly the transvestite was contributing to a knowledge and a culture which undermined the discursive formations of authority itself , doing so through her perverse reinscription within those formations . |
| 7 | Problems with the hospital sector come most readily to the general public 's attention , contributing to a belief that the NHS is underfunded , and this has been exacerbated in parts of the South East by moves to distribute resources away from London and the South East ( based on the teaching hospitals ) in favour of the regions . |
| 8 | This art was continued by his son Thomas until 1826 , the scenes often relating to a description or incident in the book chosen for decoration . |
| 9 | The only type of legal research that most practising lawyers want to do is research into the law relating to a case that they have on hand . |
| 10 | Thus section 236(2) ( c ) refers to ‘ any person whom the court thinks capable of giving information concerning the promotion , formation , business , dealings , affairs or property of the company , ’ and by subsection ( 3 ) such a person may be ordered to produce ‘ any books , papers or other records in its possession or under his control relating to a company or the matters mentioned in paragraph ( c ) of the subsection . ’ |
| 11 | ( 1 ) If there is a residence order in force relating to a child and the " residential parent " agrees to the provision of accommodation , anyone else with parental responsibility is powerless to object and can not remove the child . |
| 12 | Hence , notwithstanding MAS 's involvement , you will be required , inter alia , to evaluate non-financial information relating to a target and quantify the benefits of synergy and cost savings resulting from an acquisition . |
| 13 | A similar item revealed less knowledge of terms relating to a circle than to a rectangle ( Table 4.12 ) . |
| 14 | If not , the suspect is to be let go , unless , once again , detention is ‘ necessary to secure or preserve evidence relating to an offence or to obtain such evidence by questioning ’ [ emphasis added ] . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that domestic rates were especially unfair to single people , and will he reassure the House that he , at least , has no intention of returning to a system that discriminated against many pensioners ? |
| 16 | He was returning to a world that had been kind to him , a past he could be sure of . |
| 17 | A third film , embellished with live dialogue , showed one couple making friends with another at a restaurant , returning to an apartment and there engaging in a quartet . |
| 18 | The art of vituperation comes naturally to Busi , and , although the picture of Northern Italian provincial life ( in the vicinity of Brescia ) which the author paints occupies only a small part of the novel , which takes his picaresque hero on to greater things in Milan , Paris and London , it is a memorable picture , and provides the necessary underpinning to a writing that spares no effort to make the reader understand the nature of the social and sexual domination . |
| 19 | Then , again , and in this they point ahead to the invention of collage , the letters and numerals stress the material existence of the painting in another way : by applying to a canvas or sheet of paper letters , other pieces of paper or fragments of glass and tin — elements generally considered to be foreign to the technique of painting or drawing — the artist makes the spectator conscious of the canvas , panel or paper as a material object capable of receiving and supporting other objects . |
| 20 | Add one phrase at a time : When listening to a text or story in the classroom , or to a public speech of some kind , you can mimic by " tracking " , which means that you mimic silently or under your breath a few syllables behind the speaker . |
| 21 | Ca n't remember where I was and I was I ear-holing really , I was listening to a conversation that this woman was having ca n't think where it was dad ! |
| 22 | If we are listening to a story and somebody says So I ate it we may well know the meaning of it from somewhere earlier in the story . |
| 23 | This need not detract from the magic of listening to a story or require any re-scheduling of the traditional story hour . |
| 24 | The only fascination is listening to a song that should have been at most ten seconds long and hearing some fool trying to get ten minutes out of it . |
| 25 | and he 's listening to a tape that his mum has sent him . |
| 26 | This is done by listening to a tape and writing on your application form a magic number . |
| 27 | But on the way she noticed a crowd listening to a preacher and she stopped for a while to join them . |
| 28 | Excuse me excuse me boys we have er we have a rare opportunity here to have er a bring the sales meeting to an end where we will resume in the sub-committee , the third party in the sales office users sub-committee |
| 29 | Top pay increased by an average of 17.8 per cent , according to a survey and league table published yesterday by Charterhouse , the merchant bank . |
| 30 | What saved the company — according to a story that Thomas Watson , Sr. , the company 's founder and long-term CEO , often told — was its exploitation of an unexpected success : the New York Public Library wanted to buy a machine . |