Example sentences of "to [v-ing] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at this point , when I was twelve years old , that I took to reading junk books the way some people take to eating junk food . |
| 2 | Then , when I started to get into it I felt kind of holy , y'know , ‘ I 'm eating this good food ’ , but behind that was the desire continually to revert to eating junk food ( and I do ) because I am emotionally dependent on it . |
| 3 | used to eating ice cream in-hand , out of doors ; |
| 4 | ‘ Very well , ’ said the Commandant , ‘ I am afraid all the food is gone and we are now reduced to eating camel dung . ’ |
| 5 | For example , the idea of functional dispersal among a group of villages has been adopted in the structure plans for North Yorkshire , Gloucestershire and Cumbria , and a more flexible approach to allowing housing development outside key settlements has also been adopted by many counties ( Derounian 1980 ; J. M. Shaw 1982 ) . |
| 6 | Some cells respond to transforming growth factor ( TGF ) - β by expressing a much smaller RYR3 ( ref. 34 ) . |
| 7 | Following US Federal Communications Commission approval for the San Diego company 's new dual standard digital and analogue cellular phone , analysts are betting that Qualcomm Inc 's Code Division Multiple Access standard will win the battle with Time Division Multiple Access , Reuter reports from New York , despite the fact that the latter , which provides less capacity , is being used by McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and Southwestern Bell Corp ; Bell Atlantic Corp , Pacific Telesis Group Inc and US West Inc have all committed to using building Code Division Multiple Access networks ; the European Groupe Speciale Mobile system uses a version of Time Division Multiple Access that is incompatible with the American one . |
| 8 | I believe Warwick changed over to using steel truss rods about eight or nine months ago but I would urge owners to have their basses checked as soon as possible , and would appreciate some kind of response from Warwick as to the precise situation . |
| 9 | Everything depends on how the country adapts itself to using information technology . |
| 10 | It is the biggest single concept , many others being devoted to using methane gas at waste product dumps . |
| 11 | It 's been a very big step to use pressure flow studies at all , and now that we 're used to using pressure flow studies , we 're going to have to go back to the drawing board and perhaps learn to use a different kind of technology that 's ambulatory , that allows us |
| 12 | There have been two major approaches to characterising acid-base transport systems . |
| 13 | [ After a 1985 survey of corporate intelligence-gathering activity in 25 Fortune-500 companies ] All the companies surveyed have an individual , a group within a department , or a full department devoted to gathering competitor intelligence … . |
| 14 | A PARAMILITARY group dedicated to exterminating cocaine king Pablo Escobar has set fire to his expensive collection of limousines and motorcycles , apparently to avenge terrorist attacks against civilians , police said yesterday . |
| 15 | In an interesting study of recent US college writing handbooks ( which are especially good indicators of changing standards since they are revised extremely frequently ) Sharon Zuber demonstrates that the authors of these influential texts have moved from noting feminist objections to generic he , to suggesting nonsexist language as an option writers might consider , to recommending it — or at least some forms of it — as a norm . |
| 16 | The budget would still be a tight one , but it would be geared to maintaining business investment as we approach the post-1992 European single market , and limiting the effects of the recession on business . |
| 17 | Frances Jones , in her valuable text entitled Defusing censorship : the librarian ‘ s guide to handling censorship conflict indicates more fully the procedures that may be used in dealing with censorship in libraries , particularly in respect of planning and policy statements . |
| 18 | The Daughters of Oshun ( meaning Goddess of creativity and love ) was formed by Tselane Tambo and are a group of young Black women committed to producing quality theatre . |
| 19 | In addition to producing antimony sulphide concentrate , gold and silver are produced as by-products . |
| 20 | Hard conditions were not necessarily a bar to enjoying hostel life as Martha Levy discovered : |
| 21 | They may , however , also be used to generate solutions of Ernst 's equation that can be considered as possible to colliding plane wave solutions . |
| 22 | Since they involve the same Ernst equation , it is clear that all the solution generating techniques that have been developed for stationary axisymmetric space-times in recent years can also be applied to colliding plane wave situations . |
| 23 | I am not sure how accurately that can be measured , but it represents a substantial cost to the NHS , which the hon. Member for Eccles compared , in my view rightly , with the large sums of money that the European Community still commits to subsidising tobacco production , against which we have argued vehemently in Brussels . |
| 24 | Two others were near the Crown Inn on Buxton Road in Great Moor : one , behind the Inn , was found to be too near to Stepping Hill Hospital , and the other , opposite the Inn and between Buxton Road and Dialstone Lane , was not quite large enough . |
| 25 | In other areas , the role of MRI is not yet fully established but it certainly seems to have several advantages with regard to imaging bone marrow malignancy , staging pelvic cancers , and in head and neck tumours . |
| 26 | After carefully exploring a variety of different theoretical approaches to explaining government growth , the study looked at seven different policy areas — public assistance , elementary and secondary education , higher education , environment , unemployment , libraries and fire protection — and examined who or what was important in the process of governmental growth . |
| 27 | As a reaction against anthropomorphic interpretations , there grew up a movement devoted to explaining animal behaviour in mechanistic terms , a movement which was later extended to human behaviour . |
| 28 | But while Mansell was taking a step closer to becoming world champion in San Marino , an Oxford speedway rider was mounting his own bid to become British champion . |
| 29 | The youthful Rundell appears to have shown his aptitude for business so rapidly that within three or four years Pickett , admittedly increasingly preoccupied by aldermanic affairs on his way to becoming lord mayor in 1789 , made him a partner . |
| 30 | Haq , a professor of economics at a Canadian university prior to becoming Finance Minister in August 1988 [ see pp. 36558-59 ] , was widely blamed for Bangladesh 's growing budget deficit , a trend which had strained the country 's relationship with Western financial institutions . |