Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] to a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after speaking to a group of her most trusted advisers , she turned her anger into action . |
| 2 | Lord Merriman , after referring to a number of authorities said [ 1959 ] 1 W.L.R. 587 , 606–607 : |
| 3 | After referring to a number of authorities , none of which , as he said , were ‘ quite on the point , ’ although the Canadian decision of Malette v. Shulman ( 1990 ) 67 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 321 ; [ 1991 ] 2 Med . |
| 4 | After referring to a section of the relevant Customs Act which was said to give an importer an opportunity to obtain his goods without making an irrevocable payment of the duty claimed O'Connor J. continued , at p. 277 : |
| 5 | More importantly , this collection is about aspiring to a perfection of form , the inherent rush that comes from the simple juxtaposition of notes . |
| 6 | It is well known that the pressure inside a star resists the gravitational collapse , and yet it now looks as if pressure can , by virtue of contributing to a component of the stress-energy tensor , hasten gravitational collapse . |
| 7 | The judges dismissed suggestions that government scientists had deliberately withheld evidence , suggesting that there had been " material irregularity " which fell short of contributing to a miscarriage of justice . |
| 8 | The uplift of a sedimentary pile undergoing maturation is likely to have the effect of leading to a cessation of hydrocarbon generation . |
| 9 | But imagine the delights of selling to a group of people who need serious equipment . |
| 10 | For all the bunting in the streets there was no sense of a marking of historical achievement , of adding to a sense of continuity . |
| 11 | The possibility of moving to a state of mature interdependence between workers and management is thus diminished . |
| 12 | Refining , especially among those writers who stress the uniqueness of Japanese collectivism , is part of the democratic process of responding to a consensus of opinion . |
| 13 | The period continued in the 1950s with the operation of the planning system proving capable of responding to a range of local situations , before , in the 1960s , it had to cope with the pressures of a housing boom , commercial redevelopment , a feared city thrombosis through increase in traffic circulation , and renewed problems from regional disparities . |
| 14 | Instead of responding to a pair of words , readers were asked to look for specific relationships between a single word and a sentence . |
| 15 | There will still be reasons , adduced below , for objecting to an account of predicate qualifiers as based on either clauses or abstract clauses , but on the general suggestion that an abstract clause , of this or that design , might be a useful grammatical device , we may point out that , as we remarked in Section 3.7 , a claim that some structure is a reduced form of a clause is not explanatory ; and it does not become more explanatory if the appeal is to a hypothetical or abstract clause . |
| 16 | ‘ And then there 's George Harrison on ‘ All Things Must Pass ’ , and The Stones ; I was a massive Stones fan , and like a lot of white middle-class American kids , it was The Stones that led me back into listening to a lot of early blues . |
| 17 | There are a very few reservations such as assenting to an alteration of the succession to the throne . |
| 18 | On the question of the dinner circuit , in addition to the point mentioned above , I was very fortunate in that my firm at the time gave me financial support for travelling to a number of dinners . |
| 19 | The mere fact that the idea of by-passing Parliament has been floated is an indication that the Government , in spite of putting on a brave face , is worried about losing to a combination of Opposition MPs and Tory Euro-rebels . |
| 20 | Comes from listening to a lot of Country and Western music . ’ |
| 21 | A complaint must be made in writing to a councillor of the authority concerned for forwarding to the commissioner , although the commissioner may consider a complaint direct if he is satisfied that a councillor has been requested to pass it on , and has failed to do so . |
| 22 | A Somali taxi-driver denounces those in his country who still think they can make a radical revolution , before turning to a discussion of the narcotic , khat , legally available in Britain but banned for some time in the US . |
| 23 | Most of the experiments on this topic have , however , been conducted with human subjects and I shall begin by reviewing this work before turning to an analysis of the relatively few further studies that have used animal subject to pursue the phenomenon revealed by Lawrence . |
| 24 | These issues will be considered first before turning to an analysis of the remainder of the clauses in Precedents 1 and 2 . |
| 25 | Let us consider in a little more detail some of the main features of British elections ( in other words , election of the House of Commons ) before proceeding to a consideration of the current controversy surrounding the electoral system . |
| 26 | Before proceeding to a discussion of the motivations that lie behind the growth of the field in recent years , it would be as well to clarify the role that pragmatics might be seen to play within linguistic theory as a whole . |
| 27 | Before proceeding to an assessment of Nizan 's psychological development between 1935 and 1939 , it is consequently appropriate and instructive initially to trace out the underlying structure of this communist political ethic . |
| 28 | Before proceeding to an analysis of the inadequacies of instrumentalist legal theory it is important to clarify the point that statements about law , whether in instrumental , therapeutic or welfare terms , are based on beliefs about law . |
| 29 | Mick Quinn does n't have to say too much in his own defence apart from pointing to an average of 20 goals a season for 13 years , and 13 in 10 starts since August . |
| 30 | Your personal experience of relationships and interaction with others can be enhanced and built upon in a constructive way , thus helping to inspire both personal confidence and a learning environment where you will not be inhibited from admitting to a lack of knowledge or understanding . |