Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was transferred from Mostar Belgrade , dumped in a childrens ' home separated from her family for four months , then shelled while escaping to safety in Croatia . |
| 2 | She was transferred from Mostar Belgrade , dumped in a childrens ' home separated from her family for four months , then shelled while escaping to safety in Croatia . |
| 3 | Her title , Opening-up , can be seen as referring to teachers becoming more responsive and accessible to their pupils ( but also hence more personally vulnerable ) . |
| 4 | It means that Jesus is seen as belonging to God in a special way . |
| 5 | Hatha Yoga is seen as leading to Raja Yoga and there are other forms of Yoga which are rungs on the Yoga ladder leading to union with ‘ God ’ . |
| 6 | Each is associated with a particular social mode : these are ‘ folk ’ society ( a rather unspecified repository for all pre-bourgeois forms ) ; bourgeois society ; and ( potentially ) socialist society ( for the potential of the electronic media is seen as coming to fruition only in an egalitarian and classless setting ) . |
| 7 | At times it seemed that price increases would be favoured as a means of raising self-financing and reducing pressure on the capital market ; at others that rises would be deprecated as contributing to inflation . |
| 8 | After the Battle of Culloden , James Drummond , heir to the Duke of Perth , was believed to have drowned while escaping to France . |
| 9 | There is dicta in Vestey v IRC [ 1980 ] STC 6 at 20(g) which indicate that with regard to s739 , the assets should be transferred abroad , but the dicta are not clear and there is probably nothing to prevent the legislation being simply interpreted as applying to transfers from one overseas country to another . |
| 10 | We believe strongly , however , that the term prevention should not be used when referring to abortion . |
| 11 | Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland . |
| 12 | Non-standard entry is defined as referring to students not holding the minimum entry qualifications for admission to a first degree or DipHE course set out in Regulation 8.13 of CNAA 's Principles and Regulations ( 1979 ) or equivalent qualifications . |
| 13 | Clauses providing that goods sold " with all faults " will generally be construed as referring to defects which make the goods unmerchantable , or unfit for purpose , but will not cover a case where the goods do not comply with the contract description ( Shepherd v Kain ( 1821 ) 5 B & A 240 ) . |
| 14 | A firearm found near the body was identified as belonging to Ouko , who had last been seen alive on the night of Feb. 12 . |
| 15 | These are composite statements , each taking into account the four factors identified as relating to difficulty . |
| 16 | Particular care must also be taken when descending to Lion Bridge just outside Alnwick and on the steep hills beyond it . |
| 17 | On the road I had taken when coming to Dalkania there were several long stiff climbs up treeless hills , and when I mentioned the discomforts of this road to the villagers they had suggested that I should go back via Haira Khan . |
| 18 | An important conclusion that can be drawn from the fiscal records is that the immediate effect of the Black Death in 1348–49 was slight in destroying communities , because most of the villages which eventually disappeared are still recorded as contributing to subsidies levied in the fifteenth century . |
| 19 | Of diagnoses made after 28 weeks , only one was recorded as leading to termination . |
| 20 | One British Tank Brigade commander commented : ‘ Many times it was impossible to hear or be heard when speaking to Corps Headquarters at a distance of five or six miles . ’ |
| 21 | Scaevola replies that , unless the testator is shown to have had other intentions , liability for maintenance is regarded as attaching to acquisition of the sum of money . |
| 22 | It is suggested that merely shaking one 's fist at another should not be treated as amounting to threats of violence . |
| 23 | Confusingly , the interest rate quoted when referring to SCP is the effective yield and not the straight discount percentage , which makes the calculations less straightforward . |
| 24 | International forces landed in Beirut as the PLO started to leave and it was revealed that Prince Andrew , hailed as going to Cambridge University , had obtained one C and two Ds in his A-level results . |