Example sentences of "to [v-ing] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be that thoughts are turning to knitting now the Autumn season is upon us ? |
| 2 | The Church has not always recognised their rights to spiritual growth nor the contribution that they can make to building up the body of Christ . |
| 3 | In addition to criminalizing both the practice and receipt of abortions , the law also made the provision of information concerning abortion a crime punishable by up to one year 's imprisonment . |
| 4 | Then , when we went back to rotating mentally the computer simulation of the room and attempting to ‘ see ’ possible lines of sight , I had a further shock . |
| 5 | It should be evident to arty thinking individual that the problems facing our Planet at this point in time are the results of a commitment to a science and a philosophy based on erroneous assumptions about the true nature of reality , and that these assumptions are the products of a mentality conditioned to seeing only the separation , the apara , between all things , rather than the unity . |
| 6 | Similarly some DCSLs had lost contact with the school 's senior management team once funding was complete , reverting again to seeing only the teacher-librarian . |
| 7 | Southsea was the main attraction but Latimer Road contributed to drawing away the London skaters . |
| 8 | She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ . |
| 9 | The new designation will enable the Fisheries Service to overrule opposition to drawing down the reservoirs that is expected from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bonneville Power Administration , who control both the dams and the electricity they produce . |
| 10 | The university appointed a new appeal committee with a view to speeding up the hearing . |
| 11 | Most of his energies were directed to bringing about the union of the Scottish and English parliaments and he died in 1707 on the eve of his aim being realised . |
| 12 | They never faced the situation realistically ; inflation got out of hand and contributed even more than the military inertia to bringing about the Nationalist downfall . |
| 13 | Indeed grazing rights could be an issue in themselves , and disputes over these probably made a major contribution to bringing about the Norfolk rebellion of 1549 ( 73 , pp.71 , 142–3 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ This government 's policies are not conducive to bringing about the end of the recession , ’ he said bluntly . |
| 15 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 16 | By Oct. 14 he had resigned himself to submitting merely the question of proxy voting by husbands to the seven-member Constitutional Council set up in 1989 . |
| 17 | You 're also prone to dredging up the wounding words and cutting critiques others have directed at you recently . |
| 18 | It is an attitude which may go part of the way to explaining why the House of Commons Environment Committee was ‘ appalled ’ by the standard of evidence offered by the car manufacturing companies at its hearings on air pollution . |
| 19 | Those who sell dogs in the first place have a great deal to answer for when it comes to explaining why the human-dog relationship is so often a disastrous mismatch . |
| 20 | This goes some way to explaining why the complicated campaigns within Toulouse in the second half of the century were largely fought out under the banners of the Angevin , Aragonese , and French kings ; and why the revolts of Henry II 's sons had widespread ramifications . |
| 21 | The concentration of women in industries and occupations where seasonal , temporary and casual rather than fixed contract working prevails also goes much of the way to explaining why the majority of female temporary workers are also part-timers . |
| 22 | These , taken together with inferences drawn from what the rebels did , go some way to explaining why the revolt took place . |
| 23 | However , in what the Guardian of July 9 called " a scintillating display of his personality and skill at manipulation " , Gorbachev castigated and cajoled the congress into reversing this decision ; on this and several subsequent occasions it was proved that the combative talk by the majority conservatives was strikingly at odds with their docility when it came to challenging outright the will of the party leader . |
| 24 | On the other , he could have devoted his energies to shoring up the regime 's prestige , authority and ability to maintain order . |
| 25 | A stupid game dedicated to shoring up the notion that they did not want to play together . |
| 26 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 27 | Bishop Brewer has assured the local Anglican communities of our prayers and support during these difficult times and reaffirms our commitment to continuing dialogue with the Church of England and to tackling together the serious obstacles to full communion between us . |
| 28 | It was a turning point for the business and set Thomas Cook on the road to opening up the world to men and women who had not dreamed of travelling before . |
| 29 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 30 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |