Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | White Face was presumably trusting to his second compartment , ‘ the part that never hatched ’ , to see him along his course . |
| 2 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 3 | A good working relationship also enhances an officer 's intelligence system , more effectively bringing to his attention knowledge of pollutions for which the discharger or his neighbours may be responsible . |
| 4 | An annual subscription of £21 to the funds of Bedford County Hospital was sanctioned , thereby bringing to an end the disagreement which had begun 10 years earlier . |
| 5 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 6 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
| 7 | Diplomatic relations between South Korea and the Soviet Union had been established in September 1990 , thereby bringing to an end a period of hostility dating from the Korean war . |
| 8 | The course covers areas which are not the province of any one Department and is taught by Staff from many different academic backgrounds , thereby bringing to it a range of experience . |
| 9 | In practice , as Rowe describes , it can be used with varying degrees of grammatical marking and would in fact be introduced to mentally-handicapped children in telegraphic form , slowly building to full English linguistic structure : e.g. ( 1 ) HALL , ( 2 ) GO HALL , ( 3 ) GO TO HALL , ( 4 ) GO TO THE HALL . |
| 10 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 11 | The journals and correspondence of Verney Lovett Cameron , mostly relating to the unsuccessful attempt to relieve David Livingstone and the subsequent crossing of the African continent from east to west , were deposited by Major H. P. Lovett Cameron . |
| 12 | The late R. K. Cope took 212 views of the Bishop 's Castle Railway , mostly relating to the demolition . |
| 13 | The second point I want to er make Mr Deputy Speaker wholly relating to this erm er clutch of er orders of which er eighteen plus the er the schedule which the minister did n't have time to go through in great detail , is the thrust of why I put the amendment down erm in fact that this order should not be er erm approved indeed until the citizens of Gibraltar have been and able to be represented in the European parliament . |
| 14 | The CVR , besides contributing to the fund of knowledge about the flight , has provided the investigators with an insight into the way the flight crew were thinking and interpreting the indications of the progress of the flight by means of the things they said to each other , and sometimes the things they did not say . |
| 15 | Besides contributing to a deeper comprehension of the function of to , this study has also led to a fuller understanding of the role of the category of person in the infinitive . |
| 16 | By dredging up gravel , therefore , river managers were actually de-stabilizing the river bed , thereby contributing to the erosion which they were supposedly trying to prevent . |
| 17 | Attending external events , and giving training , including giving speeches where required to do so , thereby contributing to public understanding of the judiciary . |
| 18 | The Commission wished us well in our venture of acting as custodians of material , documents , etc. relating to the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 19 | On arriving at York we walked the short distance to the N.R.M. and first of all paid a visit to the Reading Room to look through the Selwyn Higgins collection of notes , photos etc. relating to the BCR . |
| 20 | The hotel stands on the site of the home of General Hugh Mackay ( 1640–92 ) , who joined the English army in 1660 , serving in France and Holland , eventually returning to England with William of Orange , in the Revolution of 1688 . |
| 21 | Among the more conspicuous were Yolande Pompey , who challenged unsuccessfully for Archie Moore 's world light-heavyweight title in London in 1956 , and Hogan ‘ Kid ’ Bassey , a Nigerian who moved to Liverpool in 1952 , three years later won the Commonwealth featherweight title and , in 1957 , won the world featherweight title , before eventually returning to Nigeria as national boxing coach . |
| 22 | It remains constant up to a CO coverage of 0.05 monolayers before starting to fall , eventually returning to the clean surface value at a fractional coverage CO =0.35 . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 24 | ‘ Subject as above , ’ — and subsection ( 1 ) deals with the fact that certain provisions extend to Northern Ireland — ‘ and to any provision expressly relating to companies incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain , nothing in this Act extends to Northern Ireland or applies to or in relation to companies registered or incorporated in Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | Lawrence , who , besides representing to many of his admirers in political circles the very quintessence of those qualities on which the successful transformation of empire into Commonwealth would depend , was an imperial hero to the British public . |
| 26 | In response to the austerity measures introduced after the OPEC ban , including a three-day working week , they struck against the Conservative government of Edward Heath in 1975 , eventually contributing to its defeat . |
| 27 | With the lack of grazing pressure much of the scarp slope has developed scrub and is slowly reverting to woodland . |
| 28 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 29 | He lay prone on top of her for a few moments then he rolled to one side , panting loudly , his breath slowly returning to normal . |
| 30 | I felt my pulse slowly returning to normal . |