Example sentences of "to [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The level of rent to qualify for full Housing Benefit subsidy will be determined according to locally operating market forces . |
| 2 | However , as most of you are only used to leisurely paddling for an hour or two in low drag vessels , please consider your decision carefully ; rafting is physically and mentally demanding and pushes mind and body to the limit . |
| 3 | Left to right Pushing through the bracken at nant yr Annell ; the briefing before the cyclists set off ; outstripping Shanks 's pony |
| 4 | Note Clock Tower and track to right leading to the Cricket Green , just beyond the block of shops . |
| 5 | For most of the former , republicanism involved a commitment to fundamentally reforming Spanish society ; for many of the latter , little more than a conviction that a republic , if politically moderate , might prove a sounder guarantor of conservative interests than a discredited monarchy susceptible to outright revolution . |
| 6 | Nicholas 's nephew Thomas Collett , a barrister , and his wife came to Little Gidding in 1628 but after two years found that they had no vocation for its kind of life and returned to London . |
| 7 | Their size varied considerably , from behemoths like Brontosaurus to little scuttling beasts about the size of a hen . |
| 8 | The staff in the main were machine operators , whose jobs ranged from cutting out the designs from the cloth to skilfully stitching the garments together . |
| 9 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 10 | At least I had the money , painfully scraped together with a view to eventually taking a PGCE-TEFL course to upgrade my qualifications and enable me to escape from Clive 's power . |
| 11 | Adult training centres are operated by local authorities and supposedly provide a place of further training for mentally handicapped people with a view to eventually placing them in employment . |
| 12 | Tensions over the degree of British commitment to eventually joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) during the Madrid summit in June contributed to Sir Geoffrey Howe 's removal from the Foreign Office in July . |
| 13 | Tensions over the degree of British commitment to eventually joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) during the Madrid summit in June contributed to Sir Geoffrey Howe 's removal from the Foreign Office in July . |
| 14 | Sealink Stena Line looks forward to successfully serving the Northern Ireland travel , freight and tourism markets for many more years . |
| 15 | It would be possible , at this point , to smugly say that that 's all there is to successfully implementing an electronic publishing system . |
| 16 | It is not legitimate to extend the use of such terminology prospectively , to naturally occurring behaviour where there is no possibility of testing the contingent relations through experimental investigation . |
| 17 | However , there remains considerable controversy concerning how far changes in language behaviour resulting from these procedures are similar to naturally occurring changes observed in normally developing children ( Harris 1984a ; Rees 1978 ) . |
| 18 | But the brawl continued continued for several hours , because the police , who had only limited manpower , confined their role to merely stopping the trouble from spreading to other areas . |
| 19 | Marion 's urgent hand on his arm cooled Lachlan from explosive down to merely seething . |
| 20 | I kept the boost up as long as I could ; then , when I felt it start to go , relaxed , and went back to merely running fast for a while . |
| 21 | If you really know what you 're doing on each and every single note in your lead then you 're controlling your solo , as opposed to merely playing a bunch of licks and exercises while trying to land on a cool note here and there . |
| 22 | This does not mean that women are reduced to merely playing a passive role in their initiation , a point made by Rosenbaum ( 1981 ) in her study of female addicts in the USA . |
| 23 | Does the objective pinpoint an end result , as opposed to merely describing an activity ? |
| 24 | Yet when we truly ‘ make love ’ — as opposed to merely having sex — our souls , our spiritual essences merge . |
| 25 | However , by the time of interview , another 13 per cent had made the transition to daily injecting . |
| 26 | Do you feel that that would have solved the situation on Piper Alpha altogether or how far would it have gone to perhaps lessening the the blow of the the occasion ? |
| 27 | review of the service should be undertaken immediately , with a view to perhaps reducing the number of bases |
| 28 | Cos it 's sad in my opinion that going back to where we were several months ago because we set out out to attracting higher quality people paying them more money and we 've come back again to basically seeing the people who we saw in the first instance |
| 29 | Erm but it comes down to basically believing in well |
| 30 | Almost the opposite to of er what I 'm looking at er coming from er being employed by larger companies to basically working for myself . |