Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [v-ing] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Announcing a 13% rise in net profit yesterday , Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd chief executive Michael Gale said that Cable & Wireless Plc had no plans to cuts its 58.5% stake in the company further , and is committed to staying after the territory returns to China in 1997 . |
| 2 | I think that there a we are strongly committed to thinking that the cameras are a very important trial . |
| 3 | I am committed to ensuring that the few incompetent and dishonest members of our profession are rooted out . |
| 4 | ES is committed to ensuring that the risks of assaults are minimised through training , understanding our clients , safe office layouts and procedures for dealing with threatened or actual assaults . |
| 5 | Against the background of the general discussion in the first part of this chapter , the remainder of this section highlights some types of patients ' problems related to communicating and the relevant nursing activities . |
| 6 | Proper attention should be given to ensuring that the conditions for the interview are as relaxed as possible . |
| 7 | Consideration should be given to ensuring that the staff assigned to the engagement are not involved in other work carried out in relation to either the purchaser or the target . |
| 8 | The Tribunal is thus limited to determining whether a warrant to intercept has been properly issued under the Act , that is to say , that there are adequate grounds for the issuing of a warrant and that the statutory procedures have been complied with . |
| 9 | ‘ When those concerned turn their attention to this problem , they may find they have to make a distinction between litigation in which there is a direct public interest in the result and that in which the public interest is limited to ensuring that an adequate system of justice is available . |
| 10 | In other words , it was not a straightforward rule which a national court , or even the European Court , could apply directly , but essentially a question of policy for the Council , the role of the Court being limited to checking whether the Council had overstepped the limits of its discretion . |
| 11 | The scope of our work for the purpose of this report was limited to confirming that the directors are entitled to deliver abbreviated accounts and that the abbreviated accounts have been properly prepared from the full financial statements . |
| 12 | Personal transport had since the dawn of time been limited to footslogging or a horse not too exhausted by its labour in the fields . |
| 13 | If there is little unfettered deconstructive activity operating within Renaissance studies currently , it is largely because the questions critics wish to ask of texts are premised on ideas opposed to accepting that a text can not speak about anything but itself . |
| 14 | File management systems can and should be directed to ensuring that no work is done that will not be paid for by the Legal Aid Board . |
| 15 | Ireland stressed that the Act of 1988 was directed to ensuring that the economic benefits of the quotas allocated to the United Kingdom accrued to British fishing communities . |
| 16 | ( Has he , too , noted in the informal engagement announcement photographs the New York Times has recently taken to running that the couples more often look like siblings than prospective husbands and wives ? |
| 17 | Soon the marching changed to slithering as the patrol hit a scree that propelled them forward as if they were on ball-bearings and they came tumbling headlong to the bottom . |