Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him . |
| 2 | What is happening to all the waste ? |
| 3 | When buying by mail order , keep a copy of the details relating to both the company you are buying from and the item . |
| 4 | When buying by mail order , keep a copy of the details relating to both the company you are buying from and the item . |
| 5 | This is due to factors relating to both the design of the dictionary from which the definitions are taken , and the purpose of the text being recognised . |
| 6 | When we worry too much about the way we are playing it inhibits us from listening to all the elements of the music . |
| 7 | As always , try to get this recording , start listening to all the elements , and check out the way the notes feel . |
| 8 | I remember listening to all the music that was around at that time and understanding it with a naivety which I wish I still had sometimes , putting a band together when I was nine or ten and playing the talent show at grade school , writing songs and still having the godawful things around the house . |
| 9 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 10 | And you will do so by listening to all the other officers who will give evidence in the case . |
| 11 | That occurred although Lord Morison , the Court of Session judge who issued the new decree , made it absolutely clear after listening to all the evidence , that he did not consider any of the allegations made by Mr Vafa 's former wife , or her father , to have been well founded or substantiated . |
| 12 | Can you imagine listening to all the tapes ? |
| 13 | This has been greatly increasing in popularity in recent years and , according to all the forecasts , looks set to become even more widespread . |
| 14 | According to all the archival evidence available until very recently , there had apparently been no answer to 5 Corps ' almost desperate insistence on 23 May that the hand-over of the Cossacks could not be achieved without use of force . |
| 15 | ‘ According to all the books , a secret agent 's life 's meant to be glamorous . |
| 16 | The youth component of that crime is much more substantial than it was , according to all the figures . |
| 17 | Not according to all the people who phoned in afterwards . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , my dear friar , according to all the evidence we have , Sir Ralph went to bed , and locked the door behind him , keeping the key with him . |
| 19 | According to this the picture must have been painted about 1588 , with which the style and the age of the sitter agree . |
| 20 | According to this the current demands for traffic calming alone in the council could have could amount to between five and ten million pounds . |
| 21 | revolution has already happened , I mean according to this the , the landlord 's political power 's been smashed |
| 22 | Léonie had her first period on the day that Madeleine finished replying to all the letters of condolence sent to Louis . |
| 23 | It may well be worth trying to gum up the joint with a mastic sealant or self-adhesive bitumastic flashing rather than going to all the trouble of dismantling the system : use the sealant on the joints even if you do dismantle and reassemble them . |
| 24 | He had n't invited her to sit down , she thought resentfully , but she was going to all the same . |
| 25 | If the Chinese think it is worth going to all the trouble and expense of shipping this equipment 12,000 miles around the world , how is it that British industry can not make it pay ? ’ |
| 26 | Adding to these the 431 children sponsored by Inter-Aid in the months before Kristallnacht , the 700 or so who came to Britain under the auspices of Youth Allyah , the 100 orthodox children rescued by Rabbi Schonfeld and the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations , and the Polish and Czech refugees saved by Nicholas Winton and his friends , brings the total to well over 10,000 . |
| 27 | Adding to these the few cordless tools I already possess , and one or two tools ‘ hot off the manufacturing press ’ I shall endeavour to introduce the technology and give a broad appraisal of the tools . |
| 28 | She got out of bed too early , so the story goes , because there was so much washing piling up belonging to all the family , as well as me . |
| 29 | On the other hand , Article 10 of the 1977 Soviet constitution stated : ‘ The foundation of the economic system of the USSR is socialist ownership of the means of the production in the form of state property ( belonging to all the people ) and collective farm and cooperative property . ’ |
| 30 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |