Example sentences of "[vb -s] [v-ing] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves going to a site with no instrumentation of any sort , no dowsing rods , camera , Geiger counter or even pencil . |
| 2 | This is a great step forward as advertising should reduce the level of ignorance of the investing public that apparently exists according to a survey by the Stock Exchange and the Association of Investment Trust Companies . |
| 3 | ‘ She fancies going to a club . ’ |
| 4 | In 1978 Foucault suggested that post-war French philosophy divides according to a line ‘ which separates a philosophy of experience , meaning and the subject from a philosophy of savoir , rationality and the concept ’ : in other words , Sartre and Merleau-Ponty , against Cavaillès , Bachelard and Canguilhem , or the return-to-Hegel of Kojève in the thirties , versus the return-to-Rant initiated in the philosophy of the sciences by Léon Brunschvicg in the late nineteenth century . |
| 5 | It also advises talking to a number of franchisees in the proposed franchise . |
| 6 | ‘ Property therefore means belonging to a tribe , ’ [ p. 90 ] and even then it is not land which is property with pastoralists . |
| 7 | Short answer , I mean it 's the the it 's it repeats referring to a document which Gordon had produced , whi whi which has already been er amended , erm , which bit are you actually looking at ? |
| 8 | The problem confronting Bradley was that Los Angeles operates according to a structure of authority in which power is devolved between the mayor , the city council and tenured civil servants . |
| 9 | To realize this the corporatist state operates according to a number of principles of administration . |
| 10 | A TEI conformant document must be describable by means of a dtd built up from the TEI tagsets according to a set of rules documented within the Guidelines , defining how tagsets may be combined and modified . |
| 11 | The idea that conversation proceeds according to a principle , known and applied by all human beings , was first proposed in a limited form by the philosopher Paul Grice ( 1975 ) , who put forward what he described as the co-operative principle . |
| 12 | Relate real or imaginary events in a connected narrative which conveys meaning to a group of pupils , the teacher or another known adult . |