Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel stands on the site of the home of General Hugh Mackay ( 1640–92 ) , who joined the English army in 1660 , serving in France and Holland , eventually returning to England with William of Orange , in the Revolution of 1688 . |
| 2 | Among the more conspicuous were Yolande Pompey , who challenged unsuccessfully for Archie Moore 's world light-heavyweight title in London in 1956 , and Hogan ‘ Kid ’ Bassey , a Nigerian who moved to Liverpool in 1952 , three years later won the Commonwealth featherweight title and , in 1957 , won the world featherweight title , before eventually returning to Nigeria as national boxing coach . |
| 3 | ‘ Subject as above , ’ — and subsection ( 1 ) deals with the fact that certain provisions extend to Northern Ireland — ‘ and to any provision expressly relating to companies incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain , nothing in this Act extends to Northern Ireland or applies to or in relation to companies registered or incorporated in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 5 | You remember those things : they littered the creeks and bywaters of harbours , slowly returning to nature , back to the trees and minerals that gave them life . |
| 6 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 7 | Instead of merely reacting to differences in the road surface , as a conventional suspension system does , it anticipates bumps and bends . |
| 8 | The commission criticized the Federal Aviation Authority ( FAA ) for only reacting to disasters and not doing enough to prevent them . |
| 9 | Trestles were being set up along both sides of the room , but only a few sombrely dressed ladies were seated , the rest of the company apparently preferring to mill about in the centre of the hall . |
| 10 | Did you say something about Mr Boulez perhaps returning to work at the opera ? |
| 11 | Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years . |
| 12 | Also on Dec. 20 the general view was expressed within the TNC that the scene was now set for the major effort necessary to secure a substantial result over the next 11 months , although both within the TNC and ( on Dec. 19-20 ) within the Group of Negotiations on Goods ( GNG ) various participants voiced concern at a lack of balance in the progress achieved in certain negotiating groups , at developments in the market access groups ( especially relating to tariff reductions ) and at the devotion of insufficient attention to development issues in many parts of the negotiations . |
| 13 | The race has to be held between noon and 1pm according to tradition , so weighing in takes place between 10.30am and 11.30am . |
| 14 | The Open Software Foundation , based in Cambridge , Massachusetts is apparently bowing to user pressure over its pricing for the Distributed Computing Environment , and will announce significant price reductions for one-time Distributed Computing licences , distribution rights and royalty fees at UniForum on March 17 . |
| 15 | The council , apparently bowing to opposition pressure at " round table " negotiations under way since January [ see p. 37193 ] , also proposed a legal ban on the existence of BCP and other political party cells in workplaces and colleges . |
| 16 | OSF is apparently bowing to DCE user pressure and will announce significant price reductions for one-time DCE licenses , distribution rights and royalty fees at Uniforum on March 17 . |
| 17 | The spark that arises between Vronsky and Anna proves not only damaging to Karenin ( Anna 's husband ) but also to the young Kitty Shcherbatsky , who seeing Vronsky as a possible suitor , was in love with him . |
| 18 | After that , he merely sat , smoking Woodbines and idly listening to Music While You Work on the radio . |
| 19 | The rise in wages was therefore not basically damaging to profitability . |
| 20 | The exchange rate policy was highly damaging to manufacturing . |
| 21 | Public opinion would demand that schoolchildren be moved to safe areas ; a serious raid on a school would be highly damaging to morale . |
| 22 | Today there are probably 12,000 healers in this country alone according to Denis Haviland , the director of the Confederation of Healing Organisations . |
| 23 | So according to Peter we 've no need to do a non-conformance for such as this . |
| 24 | Most important is support for IBM 3270 terminals , the first of the ‘ open ’ TP systems to do so according to NCR . |
| 25 | If you look at the incidence of mental confusion by status of the home for 1987 the estimate was that in the local authority homes , 24% were mentally confused , in the voluntary homes 19% were mentally confused and in the private homes 36% were mentally confused , so according to SWSG information , the percentage of people with mental confusion is highest in the private homes . |
| 26 | It was assumed by some that profitability entailed selling products to new customers , but this is not necessarily so according to Ken Wilkie , the newly appointed chief executive at IBM 's UK Havant plant . |
| 27 | The way he gained ‘ the word that sustains the weary ’ was not like a bolt from the blue , but through patiently listening to God morning by morning . |
| 28 | Frederick was leaning on his pitchfork , apparently listening to Mister Johnny who was waving his small hands and gabbling . |
| 29 | There are several dozen pairs of two-syllable words with identical spelling which differ from each other in stress placement , apparently according to word class ( noun , verb or adjective ) . |
| 30 | The ethnic and religious composition of the force varied greatly according to rank . |