Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sahlins then paralleled the British understanding of the same events , again constructed out of their cultural categories reacting to the perceived contexts . |
| 2 | Its content changes according to time and place . |
| 3 | And so were all those so-called friends of hers who seemed to spend their entire lives going to parties . |
| 4 | The glockenspiel on Mrs Glen 's desk gets knocked over , its tuned bars clattering to the ground like heavy-metal confetti . |
| 5 | It assured him of his right to be here and he picked it up and put it in his jacket pocket before walking through into the hall with its white doors leading to the reception rooms . |
| 6 | Relieved , they backed away , their horrified eyes falling to where the amputated fingers wriggled over the floor . |
| 7 | In all but the largest projects , the functions are performed by having most of the staff members located in their functional departments reporting to their functional managers . |
| 8 | Intricate though it is , the organism is the unit , with all its many parts contributing to the whole . |
| 9 | Having thereafter retained a portion of their hard-currency profits according to prescribed norms , enterprises would be required to sell 90 per cent of what remained to a new Union and Republican Foreign Currency Fund , and the other 10 per cent to republican funds . |
| 10 | The individual polja can be over 65 km ( 40 miles ) long , but are seldom more than a few kilometres across , their long axes conforming to the north-west to south-east direction of the Dinaric trend lines . |
| 11 | Kent had strength in depth , scoring 9–0 whitewashes against Dorset and Hants. , Isle of Wight , with a 6–3 win against Herts , the latter being a tight encounter with two of their winning rubbers going to three sets . |
| 12 | Receivership is anathema to corporate financiers , who hate to see their fat fees going to those who just pick over the bones . |
| 13 | Or are their blunt heads dipping to the bottom and sucking food from the sand or gravel ? |
| 14 | The interviewer is concerned not with taking over and controlling the clients ' lives , but with helping them handle problems in order that they may fashion their own lives according to their own values . |
| 15 | Their tales of legendary warriors and kings , Roland , Guillaume d'Orange , Arthur and Charlemagne , of their great conquests and their deeds of arms and chivalry , were meant to stir the hearts of all who listened and move them to live their own lives according to the pattern set by the heroes of the past . |
| 16 | In Rome itself the cardinals administered their own churches according to their orders of bishop , priest or deacon and they acted also within the pope 's household as officers such as chancellor and chamberlain . |
| 17 | Usually ministers are formally answerable to Parliament only for discharging their own responsibilities relating to sponsored bodies ( such as in terms of broad policy and general oversight ) , while responsibility for efficiency and day-to-day matters normally rests with the organizations ' own management . |
| 18 | This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism . |
| 19 | Parents need to be more involved in medical history-taking and information about their own illnesses leading to their children 's admission to care might provide valuable material for improved policy and practice . |
| 20 | Virginia had crept up to her several times trying to be friendly , but each time the house repelled her advances , do n't you dare to come near me with those nasty creepy little fingers she smiled , preventing the new young tendrils finding a hold on her walls . |
| 21 | Local authorities have for many years enjoyed a power to purchase land compulsorily in order to carry out their statutory functions relating to highways or general development . |
| 22 | Each Compact will develop its own goals according to its particular environment and the needs of its participants . |
| 23 | Where employers have not yet applied SSAP 24 to post-retirement benefits other than pensions , the abstract prescribes disclosures to be included in their financial statements relating to accounting periods ending on or after 23 December 1992 , where the cost of meeting such benefits is expected to be material . |
| 24 | Magyars , Roumanians , Serbs , Bulgars , Arnauts ( Albanians ) , Greeks and Turks will then finally be in a position to settle their own mutual disputes without the intervention of foreign powers , to settle among themselves the bounds of their individual national territories , to manage their internal affairs according to their own judgement . |
| 25 | Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s . |
| 26 | For example , the Oxford Book of Death will give you short texts relating to death , and selections from longer texts you might want to read all the way through if you are interested in the topic . |
| 27 | He has modified his inherent reflexes according to the type of stimuli he gets . |
| 28 | The count suddenly stiffened , his midnight-black eyes narrowing to glittering points of light , and Maggie knew the game was up . |
| 29 | With the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the Society of Dilettanti , the Caryatids ( a group of supporters of the museum 's classical collection ) and others , the museum has now purchased the Townley archive , a remarkable collection of 5,500 documents which fall into three categories : the personal papers of Townley and his immediate heirs relating to the collection ; descriptions of the collection by one ‘ Baron d'Hancarville ’ , a colourful character whose career included imprisonment for debt and banishment for pornography ; and the letters to Townley from his contemporaries . |
| 30 | ‘ Come with me , ’ he ordered softly , his amused eyes narrowing to that unnerving lidded appraisal which turned her stomach upside-down . |