Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 2 | The government of the majority Russian- and Ukrainian-populated " Soviet Socialist Dnestr Republic " was unhappy at what it saw as the Moldovan government 's policy of drawing closer to Romania and imposing Romanian culture and language on the whole republic . |
| 3 | Is it the moment of swallowing , the oscillation between danger and salvation , when we imagine ourselves miraculously rescued from the peril of drowning only to be cast into the peril of being eaten alive ? |
| 4 | Kadish has managed five-electron reductions of C60 ( although theory suggests that this molecule should be capable of accepting up to six electrons into its lowest unoccupied molecular orbital ) . |
| 5 | The question now is not whether the other countries of Europe can absorb Germany ; it is about the costs and the benefits of latching on to her . |
| 6 | This is not a matter of sticking doggedly to a particular diet , but also of looking at your eating habits . |
| 7 | People typically watched a bit of many things instead of sticking rigidly to films or sport or news . |
| 8 | Most of the big names since then — including Clint Black , Alan Jackson , Trisha Yearwood , Reba McEntire and , especially , Garth Brooks — have made a virtue of sticking close to country 's roots . |
| 9 | It is wise to plan for this and to keep in mind the possibility of building up to having video installed in a percentage of the classrooms . |
| 10 | Looking further into the future the railway still cherishes the hope of building back to a British Railway connection at Ruabon on the Chester-Shrewsbury line . |
| 11 | The Government imposed a ceiling of 1.5 per cent in the public sector is showing little sign of filtering through to private companies , said the report . |
| 12 | It is an entirely ‘ hands off ’ method of filtration capable of filtering up to six fryers without moving from fryer to fryer . |
| 13 | Although this use of the survey seemed to offer to social scientists a more scientific way of approximating closely to a natural scientific model of research , incorporating measurement and quantification , hypothesis-testing , generalisability and theory relevance , it has not been without its problems and controversies . |
| 14 | Conspiracy was an old common law offence , frequently charged and much in need of bringing up to date . |
| 15 | God has a way on retreats such as this of bringing home to us the challenge of a first-order question : ‘ Do you love me in the way Mary loved me and allowed herself to be used for my mission ? ’ |
| 16 | The amount of material that came to hand , and the urgency of bringing home to the public what was happening , even if possible stopping what was happening , suggested the form of this book . |
| 17 | To include any such anticipatory provision has the merit of bringing home to the individual partners the importance of viewing their involvement in the firm as a long term commitment , which may serve to reduce , if not to eliminate , the pain felt if and when a cash call has to be made . |
| 18 | The male can maintain a fairly equable distribution of grooming up to a harem size of five females . |
| 19 | In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions . |
| 20 | A multi-tribal alliance of their own is their only chance of hanging on to power when white rule ends at last . |
| 21 | He looked across the table at Meryl , who was giving a good impression of hanging on to every word Lee said . |
| 22 | Even the Five Nations Championship might appear a little limp after the events of the autumn , so what chance has club rugby of hanging on to any of the converts in the meantime ? |
| 23 | All of these felt able to argue that the Serbs had already achieved most of their war aims , and now had a good chance of hanging on to them . |
| 24 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 25 | Pippin , our four-year-old daughter , and Paul , two-and-a-half , were becoming a little cranky and tired of hanging on to the cockpit coamings . |
| 26 | He had visions of booking in to the same hotel several weeks running and a knowing clerk saying , ‘ Ah , I see sir has a new Mrs Smith this weekend … ’ as his latest girl flashed her ring on the desk . |
| 27 | The three of them are spending Christmas with us , which will be lovely , but no doubt a bit fraught , as one highly active child will be joined by one ditto kitten , who thinks nothing of leaping on to your lap at mealtimes , digging her claws into your legs for support . |
| 28 | He knew from past experience that she was capable of leaping over to the terrace . |
| 29 | This was not so much a service as a lot of clowning about to biblical themes . |
| 30 | Instead of returning directly to the river , she made a complete tour of the upper storey of the house . |