Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to make a decision relating to West Yorkshire police authority 's application for a £3.6 million grant from the urban crime fund . |
| 2 | It was really er , it was really a penance going to church . |
| 3 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 4 | It has now been dismantled and removed into storage in a building belonging to Committee member Ron Davies , until such time as the work of restoration can proceed . |
| 5 | The wreckage landed in a field belonging to farmer Bruce Arkell . |
| 6 | The wreckage landed in a field belonging to farmer Bruce Arkell . |
| 7 | For example , Monday clinics are prone to develop a backlog owing to bank holidays and statutory holidays . |
| 8 | The Colonel was not normally one whose nerve or self-confidence could be shaken by a comrade 's torment — he had seen too much and , besides , a soldier in the field made his own luck — but sitting now in the darkness , hardly aware of the familiar sounds of a barracks coming to life , the hollow ring of that dead voice seemed to re-echo in his ears . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , out of 76 district planning authorities responding to the survey mentioned earlier , 30 of them granted planning permission for potential odour emitting uses subject to a condition relating to odour emission , being of the opinion that the imposition of conditions , including those relating to odour emission , were relevant to securing reasonable and proper planning objectives which complemented rather than conflicted with the responsibilities of the Director of Environmental Health in his dealing with public health matters under the public health legislation . |
| 10 | Very little benefit is gained by imposing a condition relating to odour emission if it can not be enforced , and for that reason conditions which refer to the responsibilities of a third party , such as : ‘ all odours must be abated to the satisfaction of the Environmental Health Department ’ , should be avoided . |
| 11 | He paused , too , when he saw her there , a flame flickering to life in the backs of his eyes . |
| 12 | When she learned there was a lady coming to lunch she had laid an extremely pretty table , with Hungarian embroidered table linen , the best glasses and a delicate posy of snowdrops and violets . |
| 13 | ‘ When I wrote it , ’ he remembers , staring at the floor like a child admitting to shoplifting , ‘ I was in the middle of a really , really serious obsession that got completely out of hand . |
| 14 | They feature the noise of a boy choking to death and a mother breaking down on hearing her child is dead . |
| 15 | When , in consequence , such background is presented by writers like ourselves , rather than by the official shepherd , it can often produce a reaction amounting to trauma , or a personal crisis of faith . |
| 16 | Figure 4.1 shows only a difference according to sex of speaker , but as this is quite consistent between generations , it has another quality : it is also a stable variable . |
| 17 | With a vigour amounting to tactlessness they put dissension and argument into film debate , too long overshadowed by blind acceptance of yesteryear 's taste . |
| 18 | The resulting film , The Quatermass Xperiment ( 1955 ) , tells of a spaceship returning to earth with only one being on board — a monster gestating inside the skin of a crew member . |
| 19 | Parts I-IV consist of double-choral pieces for eight , but sometimes twelve , voices ; with Part V he began a systematization according to category , with motet-settings of Festlieder , and went on to produce three volumes — 746 pieces to 458 different texts — of straightforward four-part settings for congregational use plus a few organ ‘ variations ’ in VII ; in IX he again set the hymns of I-IV but for two or three voices and even contemplated doing them yet again ‘ motet-wise in the style of Lassus ’ , ‘ madrigal-wise in the style of Marenzio ’ , and per choros in the style of Victoria . |
| 20 | Transport virtually nil for Africans , we have to spend two or three hours a day going to work and the same coming back tired , exhausted and risking their lives with . |
| 21 | ‘ But I 've never known a crew planning to mutiny that did not show some sign of it before , ’ said the captain . |
| 22 | As in the case of housing , local councils find it more difficult to operate a service according to need rather than demand . |
| 23 | Held , ( 1 ) that the order for disclosure was not an order made in a proprietary claim so as to defeat the defendants ' claim to privilege against self-incrimination , nor was it a claim relating to infringement of rights pertaining to commercial information within section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( post , pp. 351A–B , 352A , 355B , B–C , 360A , G–H , 361D–F ) . |
| 24 | If this is not the case then the purchaser may face arguments from the vendor by way of defence relating to completely different matters ( eg a bad debt provision is in fact excessive as a defence to a claim relating to non-payment of PAYE ) and detailed accounts may need to be drawn up every time there is a breach of warranty ( ie in order to see if there is some surplus which compensates ) . |
| 25 | Once the cells leave this position they cease to be stem cells and are committed to a pathway leading to maturation and death . |
| 26 | His strenuous efforts to drum up any kind of interest in this product , already nicknamed the Foldie , has increasingly resembled a man trying to hammer-throw in a wardrobe . |
| 27 | He stated that , ‘ it was not well for a Government succeeding to power to reverse without very good reasons the decisions of their predecessors , especially with respect to matters of art and the construction of public buildings ’ . |
| 28 | PARTY Politics , the biggest horse in the race , could well emulate Red Rum and win the Martell Grand National two years in a row according to trainer Nick Gasele . |
| 29 | Although lack of randomisation may introduce bias , a bias relating to cancer is unlikely to have influenced either referral of patients to our clinic or choice of treatment within the clinic . |
| 30 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ said Henry , a thought beginning to burgeon in his mind . |