Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapter 6 formalises a decision-making model in which a household may take up a number of different income opportunities according to its capability and the ‘ entry costs ’ of such opportunities . |
| 2 | The front doors were some eight feet above the court surface so each pair of dwellings had a flight of steep brick steps leading to them . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , dry rot had ravaged much of the atrium and the vaulted entrance hall leading to it , and substantial areas of timber and plaster had to be torn out and replaced . |
| 4 | The First Aid bloke coming to his rescue almost did the same , but was intact enough to lead the dazed lad down the players ' tunnel . |
| 5 | Occasionally there are videos by Various , but they invariably feature crap bands miming to their songs . |
| 6 | Occasionally there are videos by Various , but they invariably feature crap bands miming to their songs . |
| 7 | Topics and events are selected as headline news according to their newsworthiness . |
| 8 | Her mind in turmoil , her thoughts entirely on escape , she hardly drew breath until she reached the sanctuary of the tall displays in the bedding and linen department on the ground floor and saw the safety of the store 's side door beckoning to her . |
| 9 | The SPF system refers only to protection from UVB rays , but this year a star rating system has been introduced which also categorizes sun products according to their UVA protection . |
| 10 | Again , if she could trade in a small part of the total value of the child benefit accruing to her , she would have a sizeable sum to present as a down-payment on a house . |
| 11 | You must organize your storage around the work areas according to what |
| 12 | The workers operate in pairs , following a car from station to station and carrying out the entire work assignment belonging to their team . |
| 13 | They contained transmit and receipt logs indicating to whom messages and documents were sent and indicating date and time . |
| 14 | The " right-to-buy " legislation which has increased home ownership has , at the same time , reduced the ability of housing departments to rehouse people according to their need . |
| 15 | Shortly afterwards , on July 31 , the central bank introduced a two-tier dinar/US dollar exchange rate according to which ( i ) the government would continue to provide dollars at an existing fixed rate for a specified list of imports ; and ( ii ) a separate free market exchange rate would prevail for commercial banks meeting their legitimate foreign currency needs . |
| 16 | John Keats , 1795–1821 , described Autumn as the ‘ Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ’ and observed that ‘ her rich attire falls rustling to her knees ’ . |
| 17 | Knee ligament injury according to my evening paper . |
| 18 | The good news is that you can take steps to prevent heart attacks happening to you and your family . |
| 19 | Once Newco commences paying dividends , these should be funded by payments of dividends from Target outside the group income election , so that Target must account for ACT , but Newco will receive franked investment income , the tax credit attaching to which can be used to frank its own ACT liability when it pays dividends to its shareholders . |
| 20 | Michels continues to have Jim Wilt , vice president , business development reporting to him . |
| 21 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 22 | Every time Grace rose on the swell , she was aware of the anchor chain tightening to its limit . |
| 23 | You can do things for yourself in the way of diet , exercise , good lifestyle , not smoking and so on but , a lot of women will need hormone replacement therapy just to replace the hormones that dear old mother nature stop supplying to us at the menopause . |
| 24 | He had visited shanty settlements known as fa las owing to their resemblance , at a distance , to honeycombs . |
| 25 | ( FCA ) of having been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 6.03 in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1989 and 12 March 1991 sent business letters relating to its investment business without bearing the legend ‘ Authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to carry on investment business ’ contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.02 and in that the firm at Shipley between 9 September 1988 and 1 October 1989 entered or required its Principal to enter into an association or arrangement with a person which might result in the defendant being constrained or induced to refer or introduce a client to a person who was not an independent intermediary with a view to that person giving investment advice contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.03 and in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1986 and 31 October 1989 failed before recommending or effecting for a client a transaction in units in an authorised unit trust or a recognised collective investment scheme , to take reasonable steps to establish that other more advantageous or suitable policies or units were not available contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.11 and in that the firm at Shipley between 1 November 1989 and 16 October 1991 having given advice to a client which was such that when acted upon it resulted in commission being received by the defendant , failed to notify the said client in writing of the amount and terms of such commission as soon as that information was available , contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.32 was reprimanded , fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 26 | In Lakatos 's view , a relativist position according to which there is no standard higher than that of the relevant community leaves us with no way of criticizing that standard . |
| 27 | They are the principle of equal liberty , assuring everyone equal measure of an enumerated list of basic liberties ( freedom of expression , religion , etc. ) and the difference principle according to which everyone should enjoy equal allocation of the other primary goods ( i.e. those desirable whatever one 's conception of the good may be , e.g. wealth , income , opportunities , status ) except in so far as deviation from strict equality would improve the prospects of the worst-off group in society . |
| 28 | Adapt the chilli content according to your palate : the preceding recipe should not be too fiery , but add more chillies if you feel brave . |
| 29 | On the one side was the pain and a great big black hole into which he wanted to sink — it was so restful down there — and on the other there were the surgeon , the nurses and his wife Marlene talking to him constantly , trying to get him to react , to fight back . |
| 30 | He bequeathes a number of books : a ‘ little booke of praiers ’ and service books belonging to his chapel , ‘ my saulter clasped with silver ’ , and ‘ my grete booke called saint Grall ’ ( British Library Royal MS 14 . |