Example sentences of "to [v-ing] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , there is certainly a resistance to change and to new ideas ; academics appear quite happy to continue teaching the same old syllabuses as if there had been no ‘ explosion ’ ( Dr P 's word ) in English studies ; at the same time , there is no resistance to allowing other people within the same department to teach quite different things to students , and to do quite different types of research . |
| 2 | She was not yet used to seeing black-skinned people . |
| 3 | The unit is nicknamed ‘ Charlie 's Angels ’ and , ironically , the men are not averse to drawing sexual graffiti on the office door . |
| 4 | Frequent feeding is the key to producing good offspring , assuming they inherit the potential from their parents . |
| 5 | The new careers service will not be restricted to helping young people — there will also be scope to assist unemployed adults , people faced with redundancy or those seeking a career change . |
| 6 | What this means , and what schools would look like if they were truly dedicated to helping young people become good learners , is explored in Chapter 9 . |
| 7 | SELLAFIELD has given a major cash boost to a unique local scheme geared to helping young people in the area . |
| 8 | A champion of public footpaths , he devoted much of his life to helping young people to begin walking . |
| 9 | But perhaps more thought could be given to assisting such people to buy homes of their own . |
| 10 | A newer approach to gaining primary data , especially about consumer motives and attitudes , is called motivational research . |
| 11 | I was truthfully able to award eighteen points out of twenty for the spring onion soup , nineteen for the marinated chicken , nineteen for the mango mousse and the coconut pudding , and a full twenty for the fish curry ( Goans ca n't abide a meal without fish ; and expatriates have been driven to sprinkling dried fish on baked beans ) . |
| 12 | Although they were not aware of similar case reports , four cases of acute respiratory obstruction due to swallowing live fish have been reported , all from India . |
| 13 | Working outside gets him acclimatized to meeting other people before being released . |
| 14 | We can give some way to describing these people , this is how adapters are generally seen . |
| 15 | Decision made in relation to directing subordinate staff . |
| 16 | The argument is difficult to uphold in some respects since Furth 's argument seems to be that deprivation of experience is at fault , but he does not provide any suggestions for an approach to maximising deaf people 's performance . |
| 17 | I leave with him the thought , especially as Labour is apparently committed to adding another £9 a week to national insurance contributions for 3 million or more people , that if such a policy had been pursued , contributions for an employee on average earnings and his employer would now be about £9 a week more than they are . |
| 18 | Chairman and managing director of John Wood Group PLC Ian Wood agreed with Mr Steadman : ‘ I am glad I did not have the difficult task of judging the competition and can only say that I look forward to adding another series of works to our existing collection at John Wood House . ’ |
| 19 | The feathery and delicate fronds of the ferns make them among the most beautiful of the foliage plants , and they attract a fanatical group of devotees dedicated to growing exotic species in inhospitable cities . |
| 20 | The Big Picture is a group of artists committed to providing creative people with a forum for exploration and expressions of their ideas . |
| 21 | In December it put another million into the Univel Inc joint venture with Novell Inc , where it has a 45% ownership interest , and committed itself to providing another $4m to fund on-going operations . |
| 22 | Evans has drawn attention to the danger of discrimination by specialty in a cost-obsessed climate , so that ‘ a geriatrician may face the nightmare that the specialty dedicated to providing old people with the best of hospital care will become an impediment to their obtaining it ’ , even though an investment in optimum treatment often yields rich dividends through the avoidance of expensive long-term dependency . |
| 23 | His work with the youthful Chamber Orchestra of Europe confirms both a commitment to training and to performing new works . |
| 24 | In particular , he found that many researchers admitted to giving cited works positive and negative credit simultaneously in the same reference , a finding which supports the contention advanced by MacRoberts & MacRoberts ( 1984 ) that authors dissemble to diffuse the impact of negative references . |
| 25 | The table also indicates the increasing importance of the large areas of open water created by gravel extraction and for reservoirs to wintering surface-feeding species . |
| 26 | Once again , this approach to involving disabled people in the arts is flawed primarily because disabled people have not been consulted about what is wanted . |
| 27 | It focuses on corporate approaches to managing such staff , e.g. recruitment , selection , appraisal , development , motivation , salary structures , discipline , dismissal and on the characteristics of unions which are recruiting managers , on the extent that managerial unionists experience conflicts of interests between their employer and the union , on the extent to which they tend to be ‘ moderate ’ or ‘ militant ’ and on how managers ' unions relate to other unions . |
| 28 | Education law is open to multiple interpretations which translate to lack of consistency in approaches to educating deaf people . |
| 29 | It would not , incidentally , have occurred to Kemp that a consequence of such last-minute re-arrangements was that several members of the group took the opportunity this afforded to perform a strange assortment of extra-mural activities — from viewing steam locomotives to tracing lost offspring . |
| 30 | Though conservation of our most endangered species of butterflies ( such as large blue , heath fritillary and swallowtail ) is largely in the hands of experts , keen amateurs can still make a valuable contribution to conserving commoner species . |