Example sentences of "and [v-ing] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Modifications to lifestyle , such as performing calisthenics and returning to normal frequency of sex , were also more likely to have occurred . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | An Indian lady from India sits in reception looking at an Indian film magazine and listening to Indian music . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The extent to which spadefoot tadpoles become cannibalistic varies between the different species and according to ecological circumstance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It runs Unix System V/88 4.0 , and according to Electronic News , has 121 components , down from 134 on the predecessor board . |
| 17 | In this instance we are again studying a very real struggle , with gangs looting , scavenging and turning to organised crime as a means of scraping together a living . |
| 18 | During its course , however , some 40,000 hectares of natural forest which had been damaged by logging were cleared for plantations , resulting in the loss of wildlife and biodiversity and leading to increased soil erosion . |
| 19 | Science education was envisaged , as David Layton tells us , by some early nineteenth century radicals like Richard Carlile as undermining dogma and leading to social emancipation . |
| 20 | teaching-machine-style programs with perhaps a certain degree of branching , and leading to interactive video ; |
| 21 | At the time this was the longest journey which could be made by tram in London and owing to rapid trolleybus conversions , the last occasion on which it was possible . |
| 22 | His last thought before closing his eyes and succumbing to overwhelming tiredness was , ‘ I hope Elizabeth 's got that stewpot on . ’ |
| 23 | The wholeness of the Christian life lies in surrendering , dying , and rising to new life in Jesus Christ . |
| 24 | Civilian activists are positioned around army barracks , tracking army units ' movements and reporting to special emergency headquarters . |
| 25 | Cases sometimes tread uneasily between being trying to be funny and pointing to serious danger . |
| 26 | In some ways Traces of the Figure redresses this balance and demonstrates the strength of the contribution of women like Chadwick , de Monchaux , Garrard , Galloway and Wilding to British sculpture of the late 20th century . |
| 27 | Nightlife is generally quiet in Scheffau , though as you 'd expect from such a friendly Tyrolean resort , fondues or barbecue parties and dancing to local music in the hotels and disco are all on offer . |
| 28 | Minneapolis-based thick film microelectronic device maker HEI Inc has teamed up with chipmaker VTC Inc to provide miniaturisation packaging for the disk drive market on undisclosed terms : the pact calls for VTC to supply unpackaged read-write preamplifiers to HEI for mounting and connecting to miniature flex assemblies designed to save space and improve disk drive performance . |
| 29 | The issue we will examine is why delinquency is so attractive to some and unappealing to other youth . |
| 30 | Opportunities for continuing education in adulthood are increasingly recognised as desirable , but when people are put in a position of having an obligation to learn with no prospect of ever quite passing the test and graduating to full citizenship , this may not be so desirable . |