Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up at HM Systems Plc in North London , they innocently ran a letter through the thing , and once they had stopped chortling , they rang us to advise that people should stick to calling the new chip the 80586 in any correspondence they give to their secretary unless they 're confident that , in the words of Larry Hart , she 's a broad with a broad , broad mind . |
| 2 | Where the demised property is part only of a building the right should extend to entering the demised property for the purpose of repairing other parts of the building not included in the demise . |
| 3 | You may contribute to running the Home by attending its residents ' committee meetings . |
| 4 | In short , while accepting that no conclusive view on the effects of the separation of ownership and control is possible , it is important to enquire what contribution the law and structural reform might make to closing the disciplinary gap . |
| 5 | Behind him , Pipkin shivered in the damp and he turned and nuzzled him ; much as the general , with nothing left to do , might fall to considering the welfare of his servant , simply because the servant happened to be there . |
| 6 | But it is extremely difficult to predict the developments in market demands and production techniques which will occur in the next 25 years and which might contribute to determining the size of each of these industries . |
| 7 | But market research , opinion polls and academic ‘ advisors ’ confirmed politicians in their belief that it might contribute to swaying the decision of the 3–4 per cent of ‘ floating ’ electors ; these votes could decide the election . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll revert to discussing the Post-Impressionists , shall we ? |
| 9 | For most people she says , this is the closest they 'll come to seeing the treasures of their own home town . |
| 10 | For most people she says , this is the closest they 'll come to seeing the treasures of their own home town . |
| 11 | Others may resort to laybacking the slightly rightward-leaning crack . |
| 12 | But any suggestion that it could lead to leaving the NHS , whose headquarters move to Leeds next year , gets short shrift . |
| 13 | How close she 'd come to betraying the warm brilliance of the meanings ! |
| 14 | The SOC Deputy Foreign Minister Sok An said that the US move would contribute to preventing the return to power of the Khmers Rouges and would raise living standards . |
| 15 | For this reason , government-provided services which reduced such high rates would contribute to raising the national wealth . |
| 16 | Afterwards she would be full of remorse and would return to playing the clean-living model student . |
| 17 | I am told that the same considerations of constituency difficulty , demography and geography would apply to rearranging the constituencies within Scotland . |
| 18 | Such is the shame at being found out , that no one would admit to owning the orange stick . |
| 19 | ‘ No-one would admit to possessing the drugs , which because of the small quantity were clearly for personal use only . ’ |
| 20 | Not to be aware of the differences of demand and not to pay heed to them would amount to disregarding the purposes and moral cost of adapting to change . |
| 21 | Every employer should have a written but flexible plan which sets out business goals and targets , considers how employees will contribute to achieving the plan and specifies how development needs in particular will be assessed and met . |
| 22 | ‘ The research … will contribute to overcoming the effects of sweet potato weevil which has become an insurmountable problem to control with conventional approaches , ’ says the company . |
| 23 | All the proceeds will go to rebuilding the former GW locomotive . |
| 24 | But , um , the money will go to redeeming the body , you know . ’ |
| 25 | Others , like Jon Swain and photographers Tim Page and Don McCullin , will admit to finding the war with its helicopters and guns exciting to the point of compulsion . |
| 26 | Most lenders ' discounts are for a limited period only , after which you will revert to paying the standard rate — this table provides a guide to lenders ' competitiveness , which should be taken into account when making your mortgage choice . |
| 27 | In some roofing systems , it is envisaged that the investigation will extend to examining the condition of individual layers within the roof . |
| 28 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 29 | Publishers will be wise to emphasise the contribution that good levels of book provision can make to limiting the need for special help for school children at a later stage . |
| 30 | It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades . |