Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unisys has set in place its Colleagues developers programme , offering development and porting support to independent software vendors , plans to begin software distribution via compact disks during the second quarter , and will introduce network licensing software from Gradient Technologies Inc . |
| 2 | They are immigrants who travel across the world breaking down the moral order , bringing chaos to organized society . |
| 3 | She would have to eat a bucket of chicken vindaloo to get the stuff down her and , although there had been publicly expressed doubts about the kitchens of the ‘ Tandoori ’ , Wimbledon , they had n't , as far as Henry knew , got around to using bleach to liven up their menu . |
| 4 | They ranged from tuck stitch and Fair Isle on the single bed through plain stocking stitch , three colours in a row jacquard and Fair Isle using chenille to soft felted wool . |
| 5 | The second group has shorter seed longevity and rarer seeding , germination in the open in some or in the shade in others , trees living for 100–300 years and producing light to dark woods of medium weight . |
| 6 | Denying entitlement to whole groups of the population has been the third aim , and this has been particularly noticeable in the case of young claimants . |
| 7 | A disputes panel of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ruled in May that the USA had broken GATT rules on government procurement by purchasing a US-made sonar mapping system without opening bidding to overseas tenders ; the US Congress had imposed a " buy American " requirement on the purchase , the administration maintaining that the GATT code did not apply to service contracts . |
| 8 | In various articles of the forties Eliot refined his material , whether in relating poetry to religious ritual in ‘ The Social Function of Poetry ’ or returning to Primitive Culture and John Layard 's studies ‘ in the ‘ stone age ’ New Hebrides ' in ‘ Cultural Forces in the Human Order ’ which reworks many of the points in the earlier ‘ Notes ’ series . |
| 9 | So far , the Western countries have shown far greater enthusiasm for applying law to international terrorism than for enforcement of the ( IVth ) Geneva Convention . |
| 10 | It was not , therefore , surprising to find Mr Clarke somewhat exposed when facing some pressing questions on BBC Scotland about Labour 's plans for returning water to public hands at some point in the future . |
| 11 | As a concise and precise international language like that longed for by the natural philosophers of the seventeenth century , where symbols would stand for things and not words , engineering drawing was valuable in opening machinery to scientific study . |
| 12 | The initial change in Singer from shuddering zombie to desperate fighter for life is only the first of several metamorphoses — all caught with bravura vividness in Antony Sher 's phenomenally versatile performance . |
| 13 | Both natural language indexing , and , to a lesser extent , free language indexing are used extensively in producing both printed indexes and in gaining access to computerized databases and data banks . |
| 14 | THE idea of a computer whizz-kid gaining access to classified data by accidentally brushing against the right button is the stuff of fantasy , according to a security consultant at the National Computing Centre in Manchester . |
| 15 | By comparison the CMHTs were a readily identifiable and costed group of specialist development staff covering all aspects of the developmental process ; they had to rely on gaining access to other organizations ' resources ; and they intentionally eschewed traditional residential care — especially private residential care . |
| 16 | Other motives include diversification , gaining access to new markets and increasing market share , reaping economies of scale and other synergistic gains , and sheer empire-building . |
| 17 | Gaining access to new ideas or creating challenging alternatives when passivity predominates among the disabled community can be hard work . |
| 18 | Female chimpanzees do not often hunt , but they nevertheless play an important role in hunting , and they usually end up gaining access to significant portions of meat . |
| 19 | However , in our many interviews with teachers and heads in individual schools , this generalized view was sometimes fleshed out by reference to specific instances and frustrations , of which the most common were the following : the difficulty of obtaining vital information ; the persistent unavailability of individuals who possessed such information ; the lack of departmental awareness about who was responsible for what ; the classic ‘ doctor 's receptionist ’ tendency among clerical staff to prevent heads from gaining access to advisory staff and other officers ; the Byzantine complexity of the departmental arrangements at Merrion House ; the lack of reciprocity in information flow : schools felt that Merrion House tended to bombard them with directives and requests , many of them urgent , yet was unwilling to reciprocate by supplying the schools with what they , often equally urgently , required ; and the failure of Merrion House officers and staff to answer letters . |
| 20 | The survey , Equal Voice , carried out by Portsmouth University 's social services research and information unit , showed how black communities still had difficulty gaining access to social services and how their needs went unmet . |
| 21 | ‘ Black users who have difficulty gaining access to statutory services go to the groups they know ’ , says Barry Mussenden of the Black Community care Alliance , a forum for voluntary sector providers . |
| 22 | The companies thus provided ‘ the requisite amount of public law for local government , trade organization , control of the customs and foreign policy ’ , as well as serving national commercial interests by gaining access to natural resources and expanding overseas trade . |
| 23 | Indeed , working directly with consultants proves invaluable in gaining access to high-quality morbidity data . |
| 24 | Taken to its logical conclusion this might encourage software developers to adopt a " clean-room " approach , denying access to existing software by the programmers and analysts in an effort to try to prevent accusations of copying . |
| 25 | Ackerman also found that in integrated firms there was a great deal of divisional-HQ interaction over significant investments , often extending over several years , and that this was a powerful device for gaining commitment to major projects , although the impetus any project gained was also a function of fairly subjective , often political factors . |
| 26 | It is particularly in this age group that coeliac disease may easily be overlooked , for anaemia may be dismissed as occurring secondary to dietary insufficiency without further investigation . |
| 27 | Now police have apologised for the mistake and promised to review their procedure for returning property to bereaved relatives . |
| 28 | Yet as we shall see in chapters 4 and 5 , there has been considerable theoretical work ( e. g. by Finsinger and Vogelsang , 1981 ) on socially efficient bonus structures , relating pay to social surplus created . |
| 29 | There was also the sensitive question of returning land to ethnic Germans and Hungarians , whose land had been expropriated immediately after the Second World War as punishment for their alleged collaboration with the Nazi occupiers . |
| 30 | It could certainly have the advantage of returning land to agricultural use without the huge delays normally associated with conventional quarrying . |