Example sentences of "to [v-ing] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 2 | One important aspect of attributing differences to biology as opposed to attributing them to culture is that the second type of explanation leaves room for views to change , while the former appears to rule this out . |
| 3 | The DOE continues to support a study of the migration of the natural decay-series radionuclides of uranium and thorium in a variety of sedimentary settings in Cornwall and Scotland in order to test our ideas and modelling capabilities with a view to applying them to the geological disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 4 | It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum . |
| 5 | ‘ They acted out the robbery in full so that when it came to describing it to everyone , to police , and to insurance investigators , they would be able to describe it in perfect detail . ’ |
| 6 | What was hiding a bit of evidence compared to clubbing somebody to death with a black cab ? |
| 7 | Many people have taken to abbreviating it to ‘ Compco ’ . |
| 8 | commitment to sending them to college , so we lose one day a week for a start . |
| 9 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 10 | It was the nearest he had ever got to saying something to his son-in-law that was neither untrue nor offensive . |
| 11 | Unless there had been a general exodus of small proprietors , a good deal of land had been acquired by outsiders , possibly with a view to letting it to graziers . |
| 12 | The good thing about having the machines on the vehicle are that we can give him that electric shock as opposed to taking him to the hospital to have that electric shock . |
| 13 | You see if the girls were sent to taking them to other work . |
| 14 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 15 | To counter both the unfavourable home environment , and the difficulty poorer parents have in equalling the sharp elbows of the middle classes , who are well accustomed to taking themselves to the front of the queue , the school starting age for nursery education should be reduced to three . |
| 16 | ‘ Revenge ’ is well on the way to taking us to that point where we want to be , ’ explained the one-time axe-wielding , fire-breathing bassman . |
| 17 | Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust in 1930 to which all the family pictures were transferred with a view to donating them to the nation . |
| 18 | ‘ I look forward to putting it to the test . ’ |
| 19 | He finds a great method of growing your plants on prior to introducing them to your tank . |
| 20 | with a view to introducing it to all contracted providers in nineteen ninety-four , ninety-five . |
| 21 | The State Department 's reply [ KP 125 ] was : " The Department assumes that the 28,000 Cossacks in question are Soviet Nationals and , if so , no objection is seen to delivering them to the Russian forces in accordance with the terms of the Yalta agreement . |
| 22 | Sunderland 's housing committee is to be asked to take over the property with a view to renting it to a would-be tenant who could buy it outright in future under the right-to-buy scheme . |
| 23 | It only remains for me to say how much I look forward to welcoming you to the Craigendarroch Country Estate . |
| 24 | We greatly look forward to welcoming you to the Craigendarroch Country Estate . |
| 25 | Geoff and Marion look forward to welcoming you to Diana House . |
| 26 | We look forward to seeing you all at our wedding , and later to welcoming you to dinner in our new home . |
| 27 | I look forward to welcoming you to Wales ( hopefully ) at the next Wildlife Link / Forestry Commission liaison meeting on the 29th and 30th of October . |
| 28 | Well Bobby we look forward to welcoming you to Oxford erm not only next week for the press launch but for the actual day in April . |
| 29 | He devoted much effort over many years to restoring him to his rightful place in the chemical hierarchy . |
| 30 | TRYING TO TRACE the following aircraft in any condition with a view to restoring them to a minimum of static condition : . |