Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] to [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 36 , or relating to protection of the environment or the working environment ’ shall notify such provisions to the Commission , and the Commission may confirm them after having verified that they are not a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade between Member States . |
| 2 | Gradually he pieced together the story , visiting or writing to members of the family in several continents to confirm details . |
| 3 | The field-worker was able to spend as much time in the field as the principal investigator thought necessary , and no restrictions were placed on her going out on patrol , travelling in vehicles , or going to incidents of routine police duty . |
| 4 | However , by simply being Mr Decent , ie by not declaring a desire to eliminate his opponents , or referring to expressions of social concern as ‘ drooling and drivelling ’ and people who care as ‘ moaning minnies ’ , John Major had put down a slender but steady plank for enough people to cross from a public culture of concern and responsibility to a private preference for Conservative government . |
| 5 | Erm , I er have never known such a question asked in this council chamber where referring to members of parliament er in in er and that is why I did n't feel it necessary |
| 6 | A particularly specialised area is that relating to infringement of third party intellectual property rights , and this is discussed in detail in the next section . |
| 7 | Chimbote was a dreadful place , litter everywhere and smelling to hell of oil . |
| 8 | We gave chase using extra boost and climbing to height of 16000 . |
| 9 | The two presenters run through the sequence of events and camera angles , practising a few boisterous ' announcements and listening to snatches of some of the show 's records . |
| 10 | The move followed the court martial and sentencing to death of 10 soldiers , allegedly involved in a series of murders and robberies in Kinshasa . |
| 11 | Danish Christianity went back only to his grandfather Harald Bluetooth , and according to Adam of Bremen Christians were for a time persecuted by Swegen Forkbeard . |
| 12 | For example , incomers are differentiated by age , by sex , according to occupational prestige ( pilots stand above engineers and air-traffic controllers ) , and according to place of residence ( estate dwellers are supposed to stand apart as more distant from those who live interspersed with Shetlanders ) . |
| 13 | If owing to pressure of other work in the office the ideal team is not available , senior management will need to pay greater attention to the job since either the line of delegation will be sparse at the top end , or well qualified and experienced surveyors will be forced to do mundane duties which could both lower morale and prove financially inefficient . |
| 14 | When attempting to establish a long ley , the greatest care should therefore be taken to limit grazing and treading to times of good weather and soil conditions . |
| 15 | Luney crossed the garden to the hut where she slept , nodding and gesturing to inhabitants of her air-drawn world , which was no longer a ball . |
| 16 | Did it accord with legitimate expectations of fair and reasonable persons or was it a high-handed exercise of power of a kind more to be expected of an authoritarian government than one guided by and subscribing to principles of limited government ? |
| 17 | Scaevola replies that , unless the testator is shown to have had other intentions , liability for maintenance is regarded as attaching to acquisition of the sum of money . |
| 18 | The musical composition is lost ; and this is a great loss , for according to William of Malmesbury , Osbern was the best musician of his day . |
| 19 | The town is also particularly proud of its gala which takes place , fittingly on July 4th , when according to Chamber of Trade secretary Mrs Barbara Barlow ‘ all the charities take a stall ’ and there will be street entertainers on the precinct . |
| 20 | It was clear beyond doubt that the jury were not treating the guilty plea as merely making the background accurate : but , on the contrary , after the judge 's direction in reply to their question , must have treated it as going to proof of the guilt of the appellant . |
| 21 | It is suggested that merely shaking one 's fist at another should not be treated as amounting to threats of violence . |
| 22 | I mean I found it almost as ridiculous as trying to sort of say , well half of my clerical staff are fairly incompetent so I think we should have a sort of incompetency rating for each of |