Example sentences of "and [verb] [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seventh edition , in 1759 ‘ revised and altered according to the latest system of Botany ’ , included many new plants from overseas and , as Miller emphasised in the Preface , their descriptions had not been copied from books , but taken from nature : ‘ the far greater number are from growing plants which the author has under his care , and the others are from dried samples which are well preserved ; of which he has , perhaps , as large a collection as can be found in the possession of any private person . ’ |
| 2 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 3 | Substances may accumulate and disappear according to the functions which they serve and the stages in the plant 's life cycle . |
| 4 | Power could be obtained for operating these lifts by means of Oil Engines — which could be started and stopped according to the exigencies of the traffic — without loss or expense of continuous attention and waste of fuel . |
| 5 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 6 | Split rings enough to position along each vertical row of tape , and spaced according to the size of the finished pleat ( e.g. , every 20cm ( 8in ) for a 10cm ( 4in ) pleat ) . |
| 7 | We wake and sleep according to the sun 's cycle , and research is showing that celestial rhythms still control many other areas of our life . |
| 8 | Skinner ( 1948 ) states that " verbal behaviour is emitted behaviour which is reinforced by a listener and develops according to the same principles as other operant behaviour . |
| 9 | The social activities of the Councils were numerous and varied according to the locality . |
| 10 | The rise in anal pressure during the manoeuvre was much lower in spinal patients than in controls ( Fig 1 ) and varied according to the level of the spinal lesion . |
| 11 | Although it said that he would be ‘ interrogated and tried according to the country 's law ’ , to AI 's knowledge no formal charges have been brought against him in court . |
| 12 | Prior to naming the polymer , the CRU is oriented and named according to the established principles or organic nomenclature for naming bivalent and multivalent groups . |
| 13 | Vapours made the light from the bedside lamps unsteady and caused suffering to the roses in vases all around . |
| 14 | Although he never grew much above 5′5″ , Bremner was always in the thick of disputes and played according to the old motto , when the going gets tough , the tough get going . |
| 15 | These , while reflecting the findings of academic research , would use local resources to vivify and give meaning to the programmes which were developed . |
| 16 | These are designed and manufactured according to the requirements of a particular order . |
| 17 | A range of modellers should thus be made available and selected according to the needs of the specific problem being investigated . |
| 18 | Overshooting its intended target , the flare cartridge smashed into the bole of a tree on the far edge of the clearing , burst into blazing life and dropped sputtering to the ground , giving off clouds of acrid green smoke . |
| 19 | Old-time Nez Perce shirt of the 1840s , short in length and fashioned according to the shape of the animal skin . |
| 20 | You go through and stand listening to the rain and the wind , and — just audible — the noise of a man breathing slowly and rhythmically in the bed . |
| 21 | Examining the cultural foundations through which societies characterised themselves ( e.g. myths , rituals , games ) , anthropologists increasingly perceived that history is culturally ordered and produced according to the structures by which historical happenings are understood . |
| 22 | 6 Individual voters are rational and informed ; they have an appreciation of their own best interests ; and so they give the parties programatic support and vote according to the parties ' past or prospective action in office in the light of their own knowledge and interests . |
| 23 | Then an appendix , a disc list , gives every known issue and reissue according to the same numbering , a sensible practice . |
| 24 | Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia was diagnosed and graded according to the criteria of the World Health Organisation . |
| 25 | But , at the risk of falling into this trap and adding wanking to the list of topics to talk about when I do an interview , I have to say that if you do n't wank , if you do n't have any orgasms , then your life is n't worth living . |
| 26 | One recent study has also defined the types of hyperlipidaemia by ultracentrifugation and classified according to the Fredrickson types in a group of 86 Type 2 diabetics and a control group . |
| 27 | All endoscopic biopsy specimens and gastrectomy material were reviewed and classified according to the proposals of Isaacson et al . |
| 28 | Unless they become tribesmen when they acquire national membership they will lack those affiliations and loyalties below the level of nation which are identical in kind to national loyalty , and which sustain and give meaning to the existence of born Libyans : a system which derives nationhood from family and tribe does not easily accommodate immigrants . |
| 29 | ( Ullman 's work is thus closer to the spirit of Kant , and may be thought of as an attempt to articulate the intuitions and categories of space which structure and give meaning to the input stimulus . ) |
| 30 | It is as if labour is a thing which comes naturally on the market and then inevitably is bought and sold according to the laws of supply and demand . |