Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also a useful way of transmitting skills to other mental health professionals . |
| 2 | In the long term , electronic scanning and linking to an image database could provide a secure back-up to the herbarium collection , a means of transmitting images to other institutions , and a method for collaborative working between institutions using real-time computer conferencing . |
| 3 | Ken Bradshaw and I were singing songs to one another like a pair of humpback whales . |
| 4 | As is customary , they were paid a fee which committed them to producing pictures to that value for the Imperial War Museum . |
| 5 | As is customary , they were paid a fee which committed them to producing pictures to that value for the Imperial War Museum . |
| 6 | I will concentrate on the problem of anaphor resolution , showing how preferential phenomena complicate the task of co-ordinating the activities of various resolution subprocesses , and suggesting solutions to four specific co-ordination problems . |
| 7 | It 's well worth submitting entries to minor competitions as they often attract very few entrants giving high chances of success . |
| 8 | A national investment bank deploying a major part of personal savings would have to find means of channelling funds to private industry , and develop control measures to ensure that the funds are used productively . |
| 9 | Investment trusts are in fact very active in the market for new issues of shares and in this respect are channelling funds to ultimate borrowers . |
| 10 | Sun Microsystems Inc , Gartner believes , has an entrenched position , focused on providing ‘ invented here ’ enabling technologies to independent software vendors , rather than on providing comprehensive ESP products to end users . |
| 11 | He published 171 titles in all , writing or compiling ten of them and contributing introductions to ten more . |
| 12 | In so far as the exercise of judgement by officials when applying rules to particular cases can never be made entirely unnecessary by the articulation of rules to fit all instances , the values of individual officials will affect the outcome of executive action . |
| 13 | Initial training in applying labels to these stimuli did not influence test performance , and this prompted Robinson ( 1955 ) to suggest that pre-training might be ineffective when the test task is ‘ perceptual , rather than ‘ motor ’ . |
| 14 | This is particularly important in relation to the GCSE examinations which require syllabuses to have a cross-curricular perspective , relating subjects to other subject areas and also to take into consideration the social , economic , environmental and other implications . |
| 15 | HOLY JOY , VIC GODARD and JACOB 'S MOUSE are among the bands contributing tracks to forthcoming Rough Trade Singles Club mail order releases . |
| 16 | ‘ Until such times as they can do this , Her Majesty 's Government should get on with the task of governing Northern Ireland in a positive fashion , including the alternative means of returning powers to locally-elected representatives . ’ |
| 17 | Even after leaving behind this ‘ animism ’ , it is still by their relative resistance or permeability to insight through simulation that in relating things to each other we relate them also to ourselves as inanimate , vegetable , animal , human . |
| 18 | It has waived the rules that used to bar nuclear-powered ships from using the Suez Canal , and seems to have given landing rights to American military transport aircraft . |
| 19 | Written by Richards while he was working in Cairo shortly after the Second World War , these sentences form one of the most delightful , and distinctive , opening passages to any book published this century . |
| 20 | we had er we had a candidate 's committee meeting last night , in which we were concerned that a number of the other constituencies throughout the northwest , who were not as far progressed as erm er as Greater Manchester West , and we took it upon ourselves to erm When appointing returning officers to those constituencies , to recommend to those returning officers that the people guiding Manchester Central , Merseyside East , Merseyside West , whoever they may be , contact John er for advice on how to how to run the er how to run the election . |
| 21 | The fact that Le Roy Ladurie takes this dual approach is , I think , unsurprising , and derives from the problem of relating structures to individual beliefs and actions . |
| 22 | Young , hopelessly inexperienced , they roam the world like itinerant brushsellers , peddling loans to Third World countries and living like kings . |
| 23 | We must take account of the various ways in which the word " style " has been used in the past : but we should be wary of becoming slaves to verbal definition . |
| 24 | [ This would have led to difficulties in checking citations to related papers in the present study ] . |
| 25 | Finn was carefully applying matches to various parts of the doll . |
| 26 | ’ . It is assumed that pain and suffering are forces driving men to true religion . |
| 27 | This agreement offered management some discretion in relating wages to individual ability but it aimed to guarantee labour a basic income that would rise with age and family subsistence needs . |
| 28 | The structure chart is a series of boxes ( representing processes or modules ) and connecting lines ( representing links to subordinate processes ) which are arranges in a hierarchy . |
| 29 | Another attempt to save the inductivist programme involves giving up the idea of ascribing probabilities to scientific laws and theories . |
| 30 | The purchase of externally-sourced catalogue records ( e.g. from OCLC or VTLS ) would not be cost-effective , since so many of our records are unique , or shared only with other specialist botanical libraries not contributing records to these services — we would have to do it all again ourselves , and we lack the manpower resources to do this . |