Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [noun] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in the second case the defendant company in the national litigation had transferred its cargo loading and unloading business to another company , but the plaintiff employees refused to transfer to the new employers and were dismissed by the transferor . |
| 2 | November had been a damp and drizzly month , bringing shorter days and causing aggravation to those people who found it increasingly difficult to travel in the blackout . |
| 3 | The review focusses on management structures , budgets and monitoring their use , securing value for money , and directing money to those hospitals which treat most patients . |
| 4 | It 's a strangely riveting spectacle , but just in case your eyes get poked out in the moshpit , they 've got a quite daring array of slightly goth-laced nagging pop tunes , pinned by means of twiddly guitar hooks and belting choruses to that corner of your brain which is exclusively reserved for tunes to whistle in the supermarket queue . |
| 5 | Historically , the Christian churches had exceptionally close links with education : indeed in the early nineteenth century almost all the impetus for setting up schools and teacher-training establishments and extending schooling to all children came from the churches . |
| 6 | In return it tries to ensure that the quality of life at each of the four campuses offers a rewarding , pleasurable and fulfilling experience to each member of the student community . |
| 7 | ‘ new Invention of Raiseing of Water and occasioning Motion to all sorts of Mill Work by the Impellent Force of Fire , which will be of great Use and Advantage for Drayning Mines , Serveing Towns with water , and for the working of all Sorts of Mills where they have not the benefit of Water nor Constant Windes ’ . |