Example sentences of "[v-ing] to the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It supports up to 15 drives per controller pair , thus appearing to the host computers as several very large SCSI-2 devices . |
| 2 | OCLC waives its charges for the use of most services , thus contributing to the teaching resources of participating schools . |
| 3 | The Government will amend the law relating to the employment rights of pregnant women to give effect to the EC Directive on Pregnant Workers . |
| 4 | Mail relating to the mail messages for the current user , the New figure shows the number of unread mail messages and the Old figure shows the number of mail messages which are still retained in LIFESPAN but which have already been printed or read by the user . |
| 5 | — relating to the mail messages for the current user , the New figure shows the number of unread mail messages and the Old figure shows the number of mail messages which are still retained in LIFESPAN but which have already been printed or read by the user , eg. 13 new messages and 1 old message . |
| 6 | The 1984/85 miners ' strike temporarily changed the whole energy demand picture with oil offtake for electricity generation returning to the peak levels of the early 1970s . |
| 7 | A MC clause obviously sustains collusion by creating an incentive for a buyer to report to a seller keeping to the agreement prices of a seller who may be cheating on the agreement , at the same time nullifying the effect of the latter . |
| 8 | Where secondhand goods were sold regularly under standard terms , the correct approach would be to include a provision equivalent to Precedent 4 in the set , either as an alternative to or instead of the standard clauses applying to the quality standards for new goods . |
| 9 | An alternative approach is to define words according to the sentence contexts in which they occur . |
| 10 | According to the singularity theorems of classical general relativity , there would still have been a big bang singularity . |
| 11 | According to the publicity men at Playtex she did it without the aid of pumping iron or silicone injections . |
| 12 | The net effect will vary according to the cost conditions within the particular industry under consideration , and within the real world we might expect considerable variation from one industry to another . |
| 13 | Under the terms of the Pretoria Minute , all political prisoners were to be released by April 30 but the deadline had passed with more than 1,000 people with claims to political prisoner status still in custody , according to the group Lawyers for Human Rights . |
| 14 | This later took the form of a public advertisement in which UUUC supporters were urged to distribute their first preferences evenly as between five candidates on a geographical basis according to the polling stations at which they voted . |
| 15 | Gray was already working on the second edition when he caught smallpox from his nephew , developed the confluent form of the disease , and died at 8 Wilton Street , Belgrave Square , London , 8 June 1871 , aged thirty-six according to the obituary notices of the Lancet and the Proceedings of the Royal Society , which raises the question of his date of birth , usually stated as 1827 . |
| 16 | The various decay products in the uranium chain are not present as they are not soluble in water , but they build up in a defined way , according to the decay rates of the individual isotopes in the chain . |
| 17 | According to the acquisition criteria on our database these could be of interest to you . |
| 18 | These contain a spinning mechanism that turns at a gentle 15 to 30 revolutions per minute — just enough to ensure convection and prevent cells from adhering to the glass walls of the bottle . |
| 19 | The UK car component industry has been undergoing severe contraction owing to the rationalisation strategies of UK assemblers and the increasing tendency for foreign-owned assemblers to supply the market through imports . |
| 20 | Group profits rose £3m to £51m before tax owing to the interest savings from the rights cash . |
| 21 | It has been called down south for duty owing to the weight restrictions on the Henley branch . |
| 22 | We 'll be going to the telephone lines in a moment or two to talk about these subjects , or anything else you wish to raise this Sunday morning . |
| 23 | The firm message from Whitehall last night was that Mrs Thatcher was not going to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Kuala Lumpur next week to propose a reduction in sanctions , although she would not agree to an increase in the measures already in place . |
| 24 | The lands and castles belonging to the Taillefer Counts of Angoulême and their vassals at Jarnac , Bouteville , Archiac , Barbezieux and Montignac , as well as Angoulême itself , lay across the roads which linked the centres of ducal power at Poitiers and Saintes with Bordeaux . |
| 25 | Tamil separatists belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) were said to be responsible for the massacre on Oct. 15 of more than 140 people , mostly Moslems , in pre-dawn raids on three villages in the northern district of Polunnaruwa . |
| 26 | In British woodlands , the tiny tree-creeper collects them , clinging to the tree trunks with its long slender toes and curved claws , propping itself up with its stiff tail pressed hard against the bark . |
| 27 | Tom , all alone in the icy fields , furrows of water , leaves of mist clinging to the metal branches of the rig , ice forming on the huge bolts and nails , on all the sharp edges open to the sky . |
| 28 | At one stage he was travelling to the TV studios in London by bus and sleeping overnight at a rail station . |
| 29 | Creole words can thus follow either of two routes into LE : ( 1 ) with their Creole pronunciation intact , as a badge of their ethnic origin and distinctness from Standard English words of the same form , or ( 2 ) in " anglicised " form , conforming to the pronunciation rules of LE . |
| 30 | The point here is that language equivalence problems emerge in a natural way , bringing to the surface characteristics of a particular language , not necessarily previously thought of . |