Example sentences of "[v-ing] to the [noun sg] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offences relating to the operation of aircraft , ships , and railways have not been prominent in the practice of English criminal law . |
| 2 | We have discussed one example relating to the sex of people . |
| 3 | In the documents relating to the purchase of works from the Hermitage , discussed between Colnaghi and Knoedler , no French rococo painting was singled out , only one Italian eighteenth-century painting was mentioned , and no seventeenth-century Italian or French pictures were discussed . |
| 4 | Bokassa was deposed by former President Dacko in 1979 , the country reverting to the status of republic . |
| 5 | I lie in my sleeping bag , listening to the shuffling of reindeer hooves , and thinking this over . |
| 6 | Success will be measured according to the increase in sales of British meat throughout the Booker butchery outlets and results will be published in 1992 . |
| 7 | Below are the world 's major languages ranked according to the number of people who have each as their first language — their mother tongue . |
| 8 | you do n't er insure a building according to its size now but according to the number of people who use it . |
| 9 | So it 's according to the number of people that use it , go to mass , how much you pay |
| 10 | The block of flats was a new one and had not been fully occupied at the beginning of the war owing to the absence of people from London . |
| 11 | This blurring of disciplinary frontiers is further encouraged when those few social anthropologists who can count , or have convenient access to mathematical aids , follow sociologists in succumbing to the lure of statistics and the computer . |
| 12 | However , there is a serious difficulty about adding to the number of MPs linked to the government . |
| 13 | It is one thing to say that decisions made by magistrates and judges contribute directly to the crisis by adding to the number of people held in prison at any one time . |
| 14 | Media Training leading to the development of media talent in the advertising industry remains a high priority for Express in 1992 . |
| 15 | A £200 reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of salmon or sea trout poachers on the River Annan in Dumfriesshire . |
| 16 | South Londoner Thomas , 27 , was gunned down on his doorstep just days after the FBI were given information leading to the recovery of £290m worth of bond certificates , snatched from a messenger in the City . |
| 17 | Franco Boretti , a proud pet-owner from Sicily , was taken to court and given two fines amounting to the equivalent of 67p each after his dog had been found guilty of committing ‘ an obscene act in a public place ’ . |
| 18 | After an electrical apprenticeship with the Coal Board he pursued a business career , eventually rising to the position of Sales Director with the American watch company Timex . |
| 19 | The men stared silently at each other , then one plucked up courage and said , ‘ There 's something not quite right down there , ’ pointing to the line of fish vans . |
| 20 | The recent budget agreement means that in the current fiscal year , as America moves into recession , this discretionary component of fiscal policy is tightening to the tune of 1% of GNP , almost enough to cancel out easing in the automatic component . |
| 21 | The Chancellor had the Prime Minister 's support , according to government sources , in intervening to the tune of $2bn to $3bn to shore up the pound after pressure intensified following the news two weeks ago of a £2bn current account deficit in August — the third worst on record . |
| 22 | He is not impressed by the idea of suggestion as the basis of crowd behaviour , for no explanation is given by simply referring to the suggestibility of people as the reason for crowds being influenced by leaders . |
| 23 | In his pre-conference interview this weekend the Labour leader demonstrated a restrained confidence and authority which is new and , if it can be maintained in the heat of battle , likely to prove appealing to the sort of people whose votes he must win . |
| 24 | And in the most final sense of all , to be arrested while fighting opposing supporters may be felt as a way of conveying to the management by means of some psychic process the nature of the ‘ really genuine supporter ’ , and the character of his identification . |