Example sentences of "[v-ing] an [noun sg] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the larger villages which could economically be connected already had electricity supplies on nationalisation , but rural pressure groups had been successful in gaining an opposition amendment to the 1947 Electricity Act safeguarding further development by enjoining the Boards to ‘ secure , so far as practicable , the development , extension to rural areas and cheapening of supplies of electricity ’ . |
| 2 | For , if he decides that the wooden hut is a building , he is in effect adding an interpretation clause to the statute which gives ‘ building ’ an extended application ; whereas if he decides that the hut is not a building , he adds a clause to the statute which gives it a narrower meaning . |
| 3 | The largest user uses at least one of its eight services daily ; this is the department providing an information service to the company at large . |
| 4 | ‘ I am transmitting an instruction subset to the computer on the communications satellite , ’ said the Thing . |
| 5 | A very small 45° bevel is ground on the top surface , giving an approach angle to the work of 90° ie , a scraping cut . |
| 6 | The point of our discussion of them so far is that the attempt to rebut scepticism by constructing an anti-realist alternative to the realism espoused by the sceptic is not going to be easy , even if it is possible . |
| 7 | The purchaser 's lawyers will usually proceed by gathering all information already given to the purchaser and then issuing an information questionnaire to the vendor similar to that set out in Appendix II . |
| 8 | The Government have given themselves a permanent contributions holiday by no longer making an Exchequer contribution to the national insurance fund . |
| 9 | John Kydd , a divisional organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union and a former shop stewards ' convener , is accused of blocking an entrance road to the Timex factory by refusing to move his car . |