Example sentences of "in [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 2 | Even though most of these reforms benefited from widespread political and public support , de Gaulle had played a critical role in bringing them to fruition . |
| 3 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 4 | Judge Owen stayed the proceedings last November , ruling the trial should not go ahead because delays in bringing it to court amounted to an abuse of the court process . |
| 5 | A few reporters , shunning the handout , gave an impression that the American press was opposed to the war , and indeed played a large part in bringing it to an end , an impression that journalists have since been content to foster . |
| 6 | It is very profitable to the place , as also in the number of shipping employed in bringing it to London ’ . |
| 7 | He had had his rest , his metabolism responded well to an occasional crisis , he had long known there was one looming here , and he may have sensed that there were advantages , both public and private , in bringing it to a head before the end of his premiership . |
| 8 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 9 | And God 's word is used in bringing us to new birth , in bringing us , er to faith in Jesus Christ . |
| 10 | It seems more likely that Taylor was correct in attributing it to Sheldon 's poor opinion of his judgement . |
| 11 | Parents may feel suspicious of these , or resentful , and will need help in using them to best advantage . |
| 12 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 13 | It 's very , very hard in encouraging them to … |
| 14 | In allowing yourself to be led now by the same illogical but kind motive , you are not being as silly as you think . |
| 15 | My brother and I shared a room for a while but we soon had a partition put in allowing us to each have our separate rooms . |
| 16 | The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena , where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other 's throats ; Virgin 's tribulations showed the difficulties in allowing it to be governed by free market principles . |
| 17 | And it 's the same idea in Confirmation that the gifts which you are given are not given just for yourself , they 're given to be used , and there 's no point in keeping them to yourself , you know . |
| 18 | In large part it was neighbourliness that distinguished the behaviour of working from lower middle class women , although Lady Bell observed that even prior to World War I working class women in Middlesbrough saw virtue in keeping themselves to themselves . |
| 19 | Because social changes which can be fitted into comparatively lengthy processes are yoked together with some structures in a single category , much of the history of conjonctures consists in relating one to another . |
| 20 | Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages . |
| 21 | Since the conventions offer an imperfect guide to the subject at hand , it is necessary to look at some of the other types of sources which are generally recognised as being useful in establishing what the law is , and in relating it to specific situations and technical developments . |
| 22 | As a youth , he was never an avid record collector and he had no real interest in applying himself to mastering an instrument . |
| 23 | It is a bit like trying to paint a picture with no picture frame at all in mind — endless possibilities mean confusion and distraction and difficulty in applying oneself to anything . |
| 24 | The current British test meets all those requirements , but if clarification is needed , then the following is an attempt to interpret the test in the light of practical experience in applying it to films and video recordings . |
| 25 | There were no difficulties in construing the section although difficulties in applying it to particular cases may arise ( p202 ) . |
| 26 | There was certainly no implication in classical criminology , as there was to be in positivist , that we can ignore the content and operation of legal rules in addressing ourselves to the question of the causes and treatment of crime . |
| 27 | In addressing ourselves to this process , we are not speculating . |
| 28 | In addressing itself to such possibilities , however , A Bend in the River , for all its air of simplicity , is never simple . |
| 29 | They can get so much more out of it if you encourage them to approach it in the way a real production would be approached — as an exercise in communicating something to a specific audience . |
| 30 | We do n't know if Fred Day 's claim is true ; we do know that he 's not alone in believing it to be . |