Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] to [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assigning responses to one of these categories was sometimes difficult . |
| 2 | If so then on the assumption , surely acceptable to Nozick as to most people , that the prospect of a profit is a valid reason for most commercial activities it follows that selling arms to one of the combatants for profit does not jeopardize one 's neutrality . |
| 3 | If this sergeant relates the action of cleaning boots to any of the felicity conditions for orders , if he bellows ( or even gently whispers ) any of the following : |
| 4 | As a result , an informal bulletin , containing answers to many of the questions raised , was sent to piloting centres in October . |
| 5 | Narrow alleys streak out from a market square , gay with canopy stripes , bookshops , boutiques , steamy little tea-shops , hat-shops , shoe-shops , curio- and card-shops , all pressed together , closing ranks to thousands of cyclists . |
| 6 | Having been responsible for recruiting patients to one of the landmark studies in this field , which Alberto Maran and colleagues reference , I can testify to what can happen in the heat of combat . |
| 7 | A white middle-class man gave a lecture to American High School students about how to avoid rape , giving demonstrations to some of the young women of how to avoid him raping them . |
| 8 | He began handing cards to some of the people who had let him take their picture . |
| 9 | It requires a readjustment before the " normal " daytime mode of thinking changes to that of drowsiness , and is finally displaced by the onset of sleep . |
| 10 | The English Tourist Board 's holding its own investigation into why an organisation charged with the apparently simple task of luring tourists to one of the most attractive parts of the country , came so unstuck . |
| 11 | Furthermore , as a long established holiday specialist CIT is introducing a brand new programme — Lansdowne Cities offering holidays to 16 of the world 's most famous cities including Paris , New York and Amsterdam . |