Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 2 | Ribbing in the stitches on either side of the cable draws the work in more than allowing it to ladder down , which makes working a sample piece very important . |
| 3 | Enhancements to Gemstone include improved cache functions , which enable temporary objects to be held in memory rather than writing them to disk ; disk clustering , and reduced object identification size . |
| 4 | Two and a half years ago the Home Office introduced the Caution scheme , encouraging police to use their discretion to give some young offenders a warning , rather than sending them to court . |
| 5 | That the girls might be unaware of the camera rather than seducing it to death . |
| 6 | In those days , if you were ill in England , the doctor visited you , rather than expecting you to stagger to the surgery . |
| 7 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |
| 8 | He gave a little start as if recalling himself to reality and said : |
| 9 | A few months after my return Goreng found a use for the less obviously subtle or versatile of his captives , which while turning them to material advantage also catered for a certain desired degree of planned redundancy . |
| 10 | Jurors in the case of Dalton Prejean were unaware of his long-term mental problems when sentencing him to death . |
| 11 | And does the board add value by enhancing the wisdom of management as well as holding it to account ? |