Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun sg] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Given the most rapid detection possible , the most effective means of transmitting the call to the fire services and their most prompt attendance , it is reasonable to suppose that in the absence of an effective automatic fire extinguishing system or even the benefit of a conventional one , that the fire will have reached a well advanced stage on their arrival .
2 And returned to charting the journey to the Fire Court .
3 Dampen the edge of the buckram and bring the turning allowance of pelmet fabric over , and press with an iron to bond together , snipping the allowance to the reinforcement stitching on inward corners , and around all other curves to allow the fabric to spread .
4 In 1948 , he was appointed to the St Mungo ( Notman ) chair of pathology in the University of Glasgow and consultant pathologist to Glasgow Royal Infirmary , where he spent six happy and productive years — at a critical time for the NHS — before accepting the invitation to the chair of pathology in Edinburgh .
5 Now , by typing LSTRAIN ( or LST , whichever is selected as USERACCESSLOGICAL ) USERTL will be run , attaching the user to the LSTRAIN process .
6 The means of attaching the mast to the mast track .
7 But the bit fastening the waistband to the skirt is huge great stitches and very coarse thread , which is actually a bit of a shame .
8 As the specified user , Update Baseline then modifies each package by creating a DC , updating it with default values , submitting the DC for assessment , activating the DC on the package , updating the package contents ( equivalent of LIFESPAN option 1.3.4 — Edit Package Contents ) , submitting the package to the Approver for approval , and finally , as the specified Approver , preparing the package for approval and granting approval to the package .
9 Ramsay 's organizing the trip to the lighthouse at last and Lily 's trying to paint , and he comes up demanding sympathy .
10 This tension is resolved by coming back from the brink of the recognition of the politics of divide and rule in society in general and instead binding the issue to the micro-politics of individualised self-interest .
11 Buthelezi accused the ANC of bringing the country to the brink of civil war and of aiming to wreck the negotiation process , setting the stage for an attempt to seize power .
12 Pitt 's great parliamentary opponent , Charles James Fox and his supporters roundly condemned his profligacy in loans to foreign powers , an obvious but overestimated cause of gold drain , and accused him of bringing the country to the point of bankruptcy .
13 St Tuttston Bastian of Tankerville was the foundation stud dog of the Tankerville Kennels and was probably responsible for bringing the breed to the notice of the general public .
14 By far the greatest effort in public library user education is in library promotion or , more specifically , bringing the non-user to the library .
15 Bringing the church to the people . ’
16 A diving ship will have no difficulty at all in bringing the fuselage to the surface .
17 Already , he has had some effect in cooling cultural animosities , in ‘ bringing the ghetto to the suburb and the suburb to the ghetto ’ .
18 find their healing rather than bringing the remedy to the person , and we may again find healing in the landscape by tending and restoring old clumps .
19 It is not a question of whether it is better or worse to remain a virgin or a bachelor , he wrote , but rather of bringing the terror to the surface .
20 The demand need not be personally served on the debtor , but the creditor is under an obligation to do all that is reasonable for the purpose of bringing the demand to the debtor 's attention and , if practicable in the particular circumstances , to cause personal service of the demand to be effected .
21 Ukraine 's 1992 budget [ see above ] reserved 7,216,800,000 roubles for financing the return to the Crimea of exiled ethnic groups ( Armenians , Germans , Greeks , Bulgarians , and , mainly , Tatars ) to Crimea .
22 Attributing the fall to the breakup of the Soviet Union , the report revealed that the dissolving Soviet Union had accounted for only US$3,930 million worth of arms exports in 1991 .
23 To my mind such a variation on a year by year basis by reference to an extraneous factor would be a most anomalous result , and would involve great difficulties in quantifying the cost to the employer in each case .
24 ‘ There were some tracks quartering the ground to the south , ’ Tagan said , rubbing his hands .
25 From first seeing the prisoner to the moment of death could take as little as 8 seconds and was instantaneous .
26 From first seeing the prisoner to the moment of death could take as little as 8 seconds and was instantaneous .
27 ( c ) the offeror receives a binding commitment from the merchant bank to pay cash to accepting shareholders who elect to receive it in return for the offeror procuring the allotment to the merchant bank ( or , as directed , sub-underwriters ) of the consideration shares ( by means of the nominations received from accepting shareholders ) .
28 I used soft leather for hinges , gluing the leather to the flapper valve and nailing the top of the leather to the box and partition .
29 But for Thun keep forward at Schangnau , dipping down to cross the Emme and tackling the ascent to the Schallenberg Pass ( 1,167m , 3,828ft ) .
30 Headquarters staff are dependent upon the energy and diligence of their field officers in controlling and preventing pollution , in supplying adequate data and reports , and in representing the agency to the public .
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