Example sentences of "[v-ing] to other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He preferred walking to other forms of locomotion , and De Quincey calculated that Wordsworth must have walked between 175,000 and 180,000 miles in his lifetime . |
| 2 | And did did you see th w was it widespread , did you see it happening to other people ? |
| 3 | Erm anonymous , my son joined the paras five years ago and he was bullied , and another anonymous person from Rugby , my two children were in the army and though they were n't bullied they did see horrific things happening to other lads . |
| 4 | Language units have also been developed as part of Higher National Certificates ( HNCs ) and Higher National Diplomas ( HNDs ) and these may be offered as free-standing courses as well as contributing to other courses such as business studies and hospitality management . |
| 5 | Sales vouchers relating to other credit card companies such as American Express , Diners Club International , Carte Blanche , etc. are dealt with in a different manner . |
| 6 | A further directive , agreed on Dec. 22 , abolished all the remaining national rules which currently barred EC life insurance companies from offering policies to citizens of other member states ( for changes relating to other insurance areas see p. 36494 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ ( a ) the purpose or principal purpose of the secondary action was directly to prevent or disrupt the supply during the dispute of goods or services between an employer who is a party to the dispute and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action relates ; and ( b ) the secondary action ( together with any corresponding action relating to other contracts of employment with the same employer ) was likely to achieve that purpose . ’ |
| 8 | The symbolism of the sea has often been used by writers and speakers , but a similar ploy can be used relating to other professions , hobbies and subjects ranging from football to plane travel with original effect . |
| 9 | Indeed , one must infer that the policy was deliberately not expressed in the legislation because it appeared in express terms in other legislation relating to other transactions . |
| 10 | The second element consists of certain ways of relating to other people . |
| 11 | Language is first learned as a means of relating to other people where those others provide social and psychological supports which enable the child to be an effective communicator . |
| 12 | Is the Minister confident that when information is no longer relevant , because somebody has been convicted of the offence , the information relating to other people is removed as soon as possible ? |
| 13 | Therefore , counter-indemnities relating to death or personal injury suffered by the indemnifier were void under s 2(1) , without the need to consider s 4 , and all counter-indemnities relating to other loss or damage suffered directly by the indemnifier were subject to the reasonableness test under s 2(2) , and/or s 4 if the indemnifier was a consumer . |
| 14 | The following are chargeable events : ( i ) the removal or a variation of a restriction to which the shares are subject ; ( ii ) the creation or variation of a right relating to the shares ; ( iii ) the imposition of a restriction on other shares in Newco or the variation of a restriction to which such other shares are subject ; or ( iv ) the removal or a variation of a right relating to other shares in Newco . |
| 15 | This would prevent the police from taking other non-relevant files relating to other clients , which has been known to happen . |
| 16 | The amendments that Mr Steel refers to specifically , relating to other districts , were all made as a direct consequence of those districts making formal representations to the consultation draft . |
| 17 | This decision — to take up the shares after the issue deadline had passed — became the key point the jury was asked to pass judgment on when charges relating to other aspects of the affair were dropped from the case by the judge in his summing up . |
| 18 | The role of left handedness in this connection has not often been investigated although in more recent studies , relating to other aspects of verbal function , the question of handedness has been raised . |
| 19 | The most likely cause of any errors at this stage are due to an incorrectly specified package name or DC , or because the DCs relating to other modules are not in the correct ( AGREED ) state . |
| 20 | Particularly in hospital , communicating is the only means patients have of acquiring information about their illness , telling staff of problems , keeping in contact with relatives and relating to other patients . |
| 21 | Is not the root cause of your difficulties about the complaint that has been raised , Mr. Speaker , Scotland 's gross over-representation in this House on matters relating to other parts of the United Kingdom ? |
| 22 | Its running expenses are provided by Marburg University , and Volkswagen and IBM are paying handsomely for its computerisation and networking to other institutions . |
| 23 | If police were treated as ordinary public service employees they could demand the right to strike and come under all the other Health and Safety regulations applying to other jobs . |
| 24 | To a decreasing extent , the same principle can be seen as applying to other blood relations . |
| 25 | Consider , for instance , the song of the male cricket : do the males learn the song by listening to other males ? |
| 26 | ENOCH POWELL : I do enjoy listening to other people talk . |
| 27 | tend to change their minds after listening to other people 's points of view |
| 28 | My father taught me that there is only one thing more boring in life than listening to other people 's dreams and that is listening to stories about their operations ; and I only tell mine now because those I had during the early 1980s are as good an example as any of how modern medicine has helped to prolong life ; without them it is unlikely that I would be sitting here writing this . |
| 29 | It is useful for those of us who worry that hearing other opinions and listening to other people may weaken our case , or make it difficult for us to concentrate on our own determined agenda . |
| 30 | She enjoyed cooking , and sewing , and listening to other people 's adventures . |