Example sentences of "to [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They provide welfare support ranging from hospital visits to helping with the completion of applications for financial assistance for a variety of needs , such as rent , gas , electricity , telephone arrears , purchase of essential household equipment , clothing and travel costs to visit sick relatives . |
| 32 | The United States was , at last , firmly committed to helping in the maintenance of the stability of the Middle East , though British commitments to the Arab sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf and the Aden Protectorates were undiminished . |
| 33 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 34 | The revolutionary intelligentsia , Plekhanov urged , must abandon its romantic and terrorist traditions , adopt the scientific perspective of Marxism , and devote itself to assisting in the development of a powerful revolutionary organization of the proletariat . |
| 35 | The application of such information to assisting in the recognition of text forms the basis of this thesis . |
| 36 | You will appreciate that it may be subject to redrafting in the light of experience . |
| 37 | After an eight hour [ night ] patrol , it was only to be expected that the policeman would prefer resting to hanging around the courts waiting to bring petty offenders to book . |
| 38 | ‘ I 'm sorry , C.W. , I 'm just not used to confiding in the people around here . |
| 39 | Consideration to be given to incorporating in the playing conditions fielding circles , team identification and white balls . |
| 40 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 41 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 42 | Mr Hogan has n't been used to driving in the city traffic of recent years , and I had planned to go to Dublin to collect the samples of material . |
| 43 | It is possible that risky situations may lead to enhanced memory for information centrally important to driving in the situation but show impairments in memory for information peripheral to the driving task . |
| 44 | We just were n't used to driving in the country then , it seemed like a long way from |
| 45 | But in a sense , they will stand a better chance of staying open and being appreciated and supported by the public , if in fact they 're going to devote a modicum of their time to explaining to the popular , population as a whole , what they 're doing , why it 's important and why they should carry on doing it . |
| 46 | The research should contribute to understanding about the relative roles played by material circumstances and political mobilisation in the shaping of attitudes to welfare . |
| 47 | She was accustomed to the barriers to understanding between the sexes , but it never ceased to annoy her : it was one of the reasons she had had to expel her mother 's lover . |
| 48 | This in general would seem to involve two elements : a process of communication , discussion , and exchange of information with the aim of reaching an agreement ; and , where there are gains to reneging on the agreement given that the others comply , some kind of mechanism for punishing such violations and so enforcing the agreement . |
| 49 | For example , if technology is such that production is subject to a fixed maximum rate of capacity output , and for each firm its output under the collusive agreement is just about at capacity , then there would be virtually no short-run gain to reneging on the agreement . |
| 50 | The difficulties can not plausibly be attributed to the compilers , who would hardly have confined themselves almost exclusively to interfering with the text of Scaevola . |
| 51 | So the notion that venture capitalists are prone to interfering in the businesses in which they invest is not , strictly speaking , a valid one , or if so not a criticism about which MBO managers would fret too much . |
| 52 | But , because an album released in CD-I format is n't likely to set the charts alight right now , a standard CD version of the album will also be made available — when Rundgren eventually gets to signing on the dotted , that is . |
| 53 | Schibsbye ( 1965 : 24 ) suggests on the other hand that " the infinitive with and without to corresponds in the main to the two sides of the infinitive , the nominal and the verbal " : the infinitive with to is found in positions similar to those in which one finds substantives , adjectives and adverbs , while the infinitive without to " is generally closely connected with an auxiliary verb , and forms a single unit with it as regards stress and intonation " . |
| 54 | Here they are half-way to becoming like the tiny windows of farms in Cumberland where fierce winds blow . |
| 55 | Your puppy must be used to walking on the lead before you start any proper heel work training . |
| 56 | In the outdoor environment , the dog will be used to walking on the leash with you . |
| 57 | You may have only intended to have a small black coffee but given all the antecedent events ( that is , the things we have described leading up to walking into the café ) , the probability is high that you will break the diet . |
| 58 | He 's working himself up to walking into the Admiralty and telling them he 's getting messages in his head from Russian submarines . |
| 59 | That means that in addition to walking up the hill with my hands in my pockets , sometimes I scramble up rocks using my hands . |
| 60 | Because cars take up room , they have the overall effect of spreading people out and making them more insular — driving to a distant supermarket in your car is a different experience to walking to the local shops , where you may meet other members of the community on the way . |