Example sentences of "[noun] and [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This point is of course another criticism of the individualist philosophies of utilitarians and of economists who saw early man as a kind of Robinson Crusoe trying to interact with nature in isolation and according to ideas and institutions which he had created on the spot . |
| 2 | In a tribal village , in Africa say , a boy is born to a particular woman who , obeying the customs of her people , proceeds to rear him either under conditions of high sociability or relative isolation and according to a particular regime of toilet training and weaning . |
| 3 | These are customary ways of thinking and acting to which each individual member of society feels compelled to conform . |
| 4 | He sacrificed , he sacrificed the quick movement , the rapid changes of circumstance which a certain kind of reader demands , in order to match his description of thinking and feeling to the actual pace at which these things are experienced in real life . |
| 5 | ‘ It ca n't be much fun living next door to Dersingham and having to be grateful to him for having given you a living . |
| 6 | Although it took her months to get over Cerdan 's death , Edith Piaf 's desire for other men finally conquered her grief and according to her sister , Momone , ‘ she went wild , she ate her heart out , she was jealous and possessive … she howled and she locked guys up ’ . |
| 7 | She reflected on the reasons why people in modern society have difficulty in expressing and ritualizing grief and responding to loss and bereavement experienced by others . |
| 8 | Its running expenses are provided by Marburg University , and Volkswagen and IBM are paying handsomely for its computerisation and networking to other institutions . |
| 9 | Had Buksh taken the appropriate action on each occasion — a yellow card and pointing to the spot respectively — we might have been spared the subsequent skirmishing : |
| 10 | He is observing the electron being deflected by the magnetic field in the Stern -Gerlach experiment and listening to the Geiger counters to see whether it is the one at A or the one at B which clicks . |
| 11 | In the course of receiving treatment for a heart condition , Hinrich Medau became deeply interested in the work of Dr Ludwig Schmitt , who believed that a healthy state is more likely to be maintained where there is lively blood circulation and breathing to full capacity . |
| 12 | We gave chase using extra boost and climbing to height of 16000 . |
| 13 | Parents use a variety of techniques , from reasoning and explaining to threatening and slapping , when a child is having a tantrum , all of which have little or no effect . |
| 14 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 15 | When asked to explain this the boy remarked ‘ my father called me an ear'ole [ a ‘ crawler ’ or conformist ] once , in the second year , for playing football and coming to school ’ . |
| 16 | Committees are places where you can see people snoozing , picking their noses and pretending to be interested in subjects which are of no interest to them . |
| 17 | The exciting outfit were constantly recording John Peel sessions and playing to ecstatic audiences , which often included Gedge . |
| 18 | For a moment , it appeared that his intransigence might pay off : many of his opponents in the MRP and Socialist Party were on the verge of losing their nerve and submitting to his ultimatum . |
| 19 | International Relations theorists too tend to treat states which seem not to be power-maximizers either as unimportant or as maximizing power in their own eyes and according to their own ideas . |
| 20 | He 's about six foot two , short black hair , moustache , blue eyes and according to his record card he 's twenty seven and his name is John Banks and he lives at 36 Church Hill Road , Upper Tracey , and we think he 's been shot , I 'll be right over , stay where you are . |
| 21 | His last thought before closing his eyes and succumbing to overwhelming tiredness was , ‘ I hope Elizabeth 's got that stewpot on . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And you 're wrong , ’ he says , getting out of his seat and going to the corner of the room . |
| 23 | ‘ Sorry , ’ Andy muttered , not sounding sorry at all , getting unsteadily out of his seat and going to where the bits of glass lay broken on the carpet . |
| 24 | His grants were cancelled by the new regime and he pursued his career elsewhere , settling initially in Bruges and returning to Portugal in 1487 . |
| 25 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
| 26 | Hung Feng-Chan quieted the horse , patting its neck and whispering to it , then brought it across to where Li Yuan was standing . |
| 27 | When one considers the advantages of permanent pasture , and compares relative costs of improving old swards and reseeding to leys , it will be seen that the apparent increase in productivity of leys may be largely offset by these other factors . |
| 28 | A double extrapolation is then carried out , as shown in figure 9.9 , by joining all points of equal concentration and extrapolating to zero angle , and then all points measured at equal angles and extrapolating these to zero concentration . |
| 29 | Nightlife is generally quiet in Scheffau , though as you 'd expect from such a friendly Tyrolean resort , fondues or barbecue parties and dancing to local music in the hotels and disco are all on offer . |
| 30 | Sections 1–7 of the Insolvency Act 1986 relate to a procedure whereby a company which is nearly or actually insolvent may resolve its financial difficulties to the satisfaction of its creditors without incurring the expense and adhering to the formalities otherwise involved under the Act . |