Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 2 | Although the question of autonomy was a complex and confusing one , Hornby contributed to the process of keeping seriously on the agenda that part of the CNAA 's role which involved delegating responsibility within the limits currently imposed on the CNAA , and expanding those limits as it became possible . |
| 3 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |
| 4 | I well remember , for example , friends numbered among Professor ( now Sir ) James Baddiley 's cohorts , all of them bent to the task of unscrambling the structures of different chunks of bacterial cell wall . |
| 5 | In Kong Cheuk Kwan v R , Lord Roskill referred to a risk of causing damage but on the facts that was a relevant risk because a collision between two hydrofoils did create such a risk . |
| 6 | In his maiden speech in parliament , Jones referred to the consequences of living in ‘ one of the poorest districts of East London , where the housing problem was of a very intense character ’ ( SE 15 March 19 ) . |
| 7 | In today 's introduction I referred to the importance of maintaining our metabolic rate . |
| 8 | Later in the same judgment , Scott LJ referred to the appropriateness of delaying arrest where ‘ there [ was ] no probability … of the suspected person running away ’ . |
| 9 | Probably he knew only that Jehana objected to the idea of marrying Artai , and had been told that her family wished to avoid giving offence by rejecting the suit , and so were willing to see her contracted without the preliminary of a courtship . |
| 10 | This added to the challenge of getting the literature ready on time |
| 11 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 12 | Peter was given the keys of the Kingdom when he came to the point of confessing Jesus as the ‘ Messiah , the Son of the living God ’ ( Matt. |
| 13 | I was n't completely heart-free during those years ; sometimes I allowed myself to be fooled that I loved someone , but when it came to the point of saying " yes " to anything final there was always the small honest inner voice which jeered " For life ? |
| 14 | Colonel David Stirling was so alarmed at what he believed was the dubious ability of the government to cope with a major strike affecting essential services that he turned to the possibility of forming a private force of military and other experts to assist the civil authorities . |
| 15 | In 1951 , the Employment Fellowship ( formerly the Winter Distress League ) turned to the problem of keeping elderly people employed for as long as possible ( Employment Fellowship 1958 ) . |
| 16 | Then , of course , she turned to the task of getting from Posi all available data about the planet Ardakke . |
| 17 | This suggests that many small farmers , unable to cultivate successfully , turned to the sale of renting of land . |
| 18 | In the end he capitulated to the extent of offering to hand over the sheets himself , but refused to say they were Zoe 's . |
| 19 | Then the eagerly awaited plum pudding arrived to the accompaniment of clapping and cheering , and a plume of blue smoke from the brandy flames was like the tail of Halley 's Comet . |
| 20 | A detective chief-inspector said that , when charged at Dungannon RUC station yesterday afternoon , Anderson replied to the charge of murdering Mr Davidson : ‘ I did not murder my father-in-law . |
| 21 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 22 | Kitchen tables resounded to the sound of chopping herbs and eschalots by Emily . |
| 23 | Her touch was so persuasive he almost succumbed to the idea of entering her again , taking her anonymity as carte blanche and indulging in the darkness every last desire he could dredge up . |
| 24 | However , the margarine adverts having got to me , and the latest atherosclerosis story beginning to look as though it might be true , I succumbed to the temptation of having my lipids ( blood fats , including cholesterol ) done . |
| 25 | Anna returned to the task of removing the last , fibrous , old leeks of winter which would make , oh groan , yet more soup . |
| 26 | The content of the poem ought to be taken with several pinches of salt , partly because it belonged to the genre of boasting poem known as the gap which was a standard form of troubadour verse , and partly because William liked to mock himself as well as others . |
| 27 | Excessive editing of videotape was not to be encouraged in 1961 and so Newman worked to the formula of having live action done in the electronic studio , and the Visual Effects , plus other control critical sequences , done on film — a small , but important development in British science fiction programme making . |
| 28 | This led to a discussion of timetabling and the constraints imposed by group sizes , and how these constraints might be eased . |
| 29 | This led to an invasion of courting couples in his doorway , looking at the wonderments of the bright peep , and the Trongate being described as ‘ among the best-lit streets in Europe ’ . |
| 30 | At Windscale in 1957 a sudden temperature rise and ignition of the uranium fuel cartridges within an air-cooled graphite moderated reactor ( a type designed solely for the production of military plutonium ) led to the release of ionizing radiation from the reactor stack . |