Example sentences of "and [v-ing] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Robert Deane he founded and supported a Sunday school in the parish of Holy Cross , which offered religious instruction and taught reading and singing to poor children , and much of his time was devoted to this cause . |
| 2 | They have been able to get away with it , because it is difficult to reproach the Germans for pursuing an excessively sound monetary policy and sticking to low inflation . |
| 3 | I believe Boycott has not been asked because his approach to coaching Test players conflicts with the contract with sponsors Whittingdale , who insist on paid coaches wearing sponsored equipment and sticking to rigid schedules . |
| 4 | De Morgen 's correspondent interpreted Vercruysse 's decision as ‘ a reaction against Hoet 's preparations for Documenta , which Vercruysse has labelled showy and pandering to public taste ’ . |
| 5 | Particularly in hospital , communicating is the only means patients have of acquiring information about their illness , telling staff of problems , keeping in contact with relatives and relating to other patients . |
| 6 | There is very little direct evidence about the family life of the 1910 sample itself , but at this point it may be permissible to draw on another source , very close in time , and relating to working-class families in the town centre . |
| 7 | If respectability was undermined after the Second World War by married women refusing dependence and returning to waged work while also having children , it is being undermined again by the new wave of dole-queue mothers who find a measure of independence in motherhood . |
| 8 | A joint communiqué released on Feb. 7 by Pizarro and government peace negotiator Rafael Pardo Ruedas had announced that a pact would be signed on Feb. 14 conferring a general amnesty on the guerrillas in return for the M-19 relinquishing their arms and returning to civilian life . |
| 9 | Modifications to lifestyle , such as performing calisthenics and returning to normal frequency of sex , were also more likely to have occurred . |
| 10 | Its running expenses are provided by Marburg University , and Volkswagen and IBM are paying handsomely for its computerisation and networking to other institutions . |
| 11 | First because it er offers the Government quite a good reason for dropping the bill altogether , er a er and bowing to parliamentary opinion in doing so that 's not a shameful thing to do , er if it had been able to do that on the other hand it would have the benefit of in=incorporating in its own proposals a measure of continuity and experience which are no there already . |
| 12 | Opposing proposals to import a further 5 million tonnes of coal , he presented evidence that this was both unnecessary given the trends of productivity and costs within British Coal , and damaging to long-term energy policy since it would lead to pit closures and the sterilization of up to 150 million tonnes of coal reserves . |
| 13 | I urge the Secretary of State to say why , when business person after business person tells him , ’ Of course , we must have a single European currency , ’ he continues to insist on the opt-out that is so unrealistic and damaging to British industry ? |
| 14 | Also join us on the Saturday evening for the simple , yet deeply satisfying activity of telling and listening to good stories . |
| 15 | It is useful for those of us who worry that hearing other opinions and listening to other people may weaken our case , or make it difficult for us to concentrate on our own determined agenda . |
| 16 | She enjoyed cooking , and sewing , and listening to other people 's adventures . |
| 17 | An Indian lady from India sits in reception looking at an Indian film magazine and listening to Indian music . |
| 18 | The very freedom which marks the period of childhood gives unrivalled opportunity for picking up all sorts of information about the environment ; the child is not handicapped by attending school and listening to formal instruction which is for the most part unrelated to his interests and needs . |
| 19 | The next days were filled with meeting her new relatives , feasting , and listening to interminable songs praising her beauty . |
| 20 | The attitudinal use of intonation is something that is best acquired through talking with and listening to English speakers , and this course aims simply to train learners to be more aware of and sensitive to the way English speakers use intonation . |
| 21 | There are at least as many home records as synonyms in all circumstances ( Table 6.5 shows that , even with 100 per cent packing and randomizing to individual record positions , 50 per cent of records are home records ; with a two-pass load 63 per cent are home records ) . |
| 22 | Approximately 600 policemen , mostly Tamils , were apparently abducted and according to unconfirmed reports over 100 of them were massacred in Amparai district on June 12 . |
| 23 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 24 | Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity . |
| 25 | And according to managing director Rodney Potts , this was achieved despite heavy investment in overseas expansion and in developing a new Posix-compliant product , Open Accounting , which was launched last year . |
| 26 | The extent to which spadefoot tadpoles become cannibalistic varies between the different species and according to ecological circumstance . |
| 27 | The computer system at the Budapest Stock Exchange has now been up and running for about two weeks , and according to chief system analyst Andrei Bagi , there has been only one minor teething problem . |
| 28 | Polycrystalline silicone cells , which are 12 per cent efficient , are also used in solar panels for other applications , as are amorphous silicone and hydrogen and according to American manufacture Solarex , has a potential of 100 times the absorption of other crystalline types . |
| 29 | It was marked on a map dated 1648 and according to local reports was a working mill until 1900 . |
| 30 | The Financial Times reports that , by 1985 , one in three of those in employment were in this category ( Financial Times , 27 February 1987 ) and according to national estimates published by the Department of Employment early in 1987 , the number of flexible workers rose by 16 per cent between 1981 and 1985 , while those in permanent , full-time employment fell by 6 per cent . |