Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's up to you whether you think you 're using sharp powers of interpretation or acting according to paranoia . |
| 2 | A second issue is whether motivational style is consistent across contexts , in this instance pupils ' performance in Maths and English , or varies according to context . |
| 3 | The company confirmed last week that it was providing 10 nurses and two doctors at the Wolds and that the staffing arrangements could be increased or reduced according to demand . |
| 4 | Throughout the main growing season vegetables , fruit and flowers are gathered or cut according to need , often before they are fully ripe . |
| 5 | The fire was warm as I sat down to contemplate whether to stay overnight with my relatives just outside Fort William , or start walking to Achnacarry some ten miles or so away . |
| 6 | Then there is his account of the Concerto , no less idiosyncratic , and alive with those seemingly improvisatory gestures that enchant or infuriate according to taste . |
| 7 | In the evenings and at weekends she visited her friends , or walked through the fields with Diana , or sat talking to Matthew . |
| 8 | Numbers increased slightly in March ( to around 14,500 ) , but Kleiner was concerned that job shortages had caused up to 1,000,000 Soviet Jews to cancel or postpone emigrating to Israel . |
| 9 | These proportions are not , in fact , significantly different , statistically speaking , from the proportions based on the same series and calculated according to methods 2 and 3 above , which each give estimates of 53 per cent left hemisphere speech among left handers . |
| 10 | Most of the vital questions as to how these skills are acquired , how they are to be selected and adjusted according to context , how easily or not different kinds of school environment can accommodate them and so on , are begged . |
| 11 | There we found Capt. Warr and party , all very tired and fatigued owing to lack of food and water for four days . |
| 12 | By 1971 , BNB was using a mixture of DC 15 , 16 and 17 grafted on to a DC 14 base and modified according to BNB 's own scheme . |
| 13 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 14 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 15 | But , you see at February we 're then into review er cro er reviewing the PDP 's for some reason or another , I 've written down here and profiling reporting to parents . |
| 16 | The church is built of white Pentelic marble and is decorated by sculptured slabs and panels mainly of decorated marble taken from other buildings , thus illustrating a mixture of Greek classical and early Byzantine work from egg and dart carving to signs of the zodiac and dragons ( 211 and 213 ) . |
| 17 | The presence of reflux oesophagitis was confirmed by fibre endoscopy and classified according to Savary and Miller — namely , grade I ( isolated erosions ) , grade II ( linear confluent erosions ) , and grade III ( circumferential erosions ) . |
| 18 | He turned away from her impatiently , and began talking to Nicole , both of them gesticulating , their voices overlapping in their haste to finish what they were saying . |
| 19 | Some would say her hair is her finest feature , though Robyn herself secretly hankers after something more muted and malleable , hair that could be groomed and styled according to mood — drawn back in a severe bun like Simone de Beauvoir 's , or allowed to fall to the shoulders in a Pre-Raphaelite cloud . |
| 20 | The core vocabulary is usually derived by taking a frequency distribution of a domain corpus , comparing this with a frequency distribution from a general corpus , and sorting according to distinctiveness . |
| 21 | It not only considers the general financial profile , but also indicates different emphases in cost control and pricing according to stages in the life-cycle . |
| 22 | The books had also been classified and marked according to readability bands from 1–5 to help pupils to choose their books themselves . |
| 23 | For example , subjects are often required to decide whether two stimuli are the same or different and then to respond on one key for " same " matches and on a second key for " different " matches ; or else to respond to instances of one kind of match and withhold responding to instances of the other kind ( a go/no.go discrimination ) . |
| 24 | He grew up in New York listening to disco — McFadden And Whitehead , Evelyn Champagne King — then moved to the wealthy suburb of Belleville , 40 minutes out of Detroit , where he teamed up with May and Atkins and started listening to Kraftwerk . |
| 25 | She repotted every plant in the house and started listening to opera . |
| 26 | ‘ I met the lads and started talking to Ferg . |
| 27 | Some thirteen investigators from seven institutions have been brought together to examine various dimensions of the data set ; some of the areas to be covered will be public sector/ private sector relationships , manual skill differentials , sex differentials , white-collar pay movements , the dispersion of pay , pay in relation to hours worked , shift work and incentive pay , the role of national collective agreements , and pay according to region , age and size of plant . |
| 28 | Employment for life and pay according to age should produce an earnings curve that rises steadily from recruitment to retirement . |
| 29 | we 're going to keep the action at full throttle and go powerboating to Fairford in Gloucestershire … for the biggest watersport weekend of the year |
| 30 | Then he changed , as if what had happened between us till then was a joke , a charade , that had been rehearsed and gone according to plan , but could now be ended . |