Example sentences of "[vb base] [v-ing] to " in BNC.

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1 They advocate returning to the rates .
2 In the early years of the BAA 's existence a satisfactory clerical records service relating to employees was maintained and operated manually .
3 General manager David Melvin said : ‘ We provide catering to 350 outlets within the region , including schools , but we have to tender for that business .
4 They can last for anything between a weekend and three weeks and they involve journeying to a place ( sometimes a large house has been rented for the time ; sometimes a college ) where you will eat , talk , be taught , sleep , live writing in a totally concentrated way for the length of the course .
5 Pheromone binding to two rodent urinary proteins revealed by X-ray crystallography
6 Just keep social engagements that involve eating to a minimum .
7 Consciousness and matter interact according to this principle .
8 We could use this procedure say according to the guidelines , then it becomes mandatory .
9 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 .
10 It is for this reason we currently have the ludicrous situation of two record fish lists , one run by the National Anglers Council , which is a record of fish that were claimed in accordance with a set of inflexible rules , and one that is run by the National Association of Specialist Anglers , whose record fish appear according to individual merit , this merit being judged by highly experienced specialist anglers who know a ‘ con ’ when they see one and who would reject a claim if there were any doubt as to its truth .
11 Hence race according to the test , is an ambiguous lexical form , and 12 and 13 manifest different senses .
12 In Scotland , however , where the same property ( or any part of the same property ) is subject to two floating charges they rank according to the time of registration unless the instruments creating the charges otherwise provide .
13 Most non-Americans do not realise how large the Civil War looms in the American consciousness , and until recently ( before Carter and Reagan ) in the South ‘ federal government was regarded essentially as a northern out fit attempting to foist liberal urban values on the stately old agrarian Confederacy ’ .
14 ‘ We propose continuing to completion on the basis that all material disclosure of relevant facts and circumstances has been made … and there is no foreseeable risk of subsequent invalidation of the European Commission 's approval of state aid as being incompatible with Treaty requirements . ’
15 Forget talking to your plants … if you want them to look their best try a bit of good old fashioned pampering .
16 To appreciate how an s-plane diagram can reveal the Fourier spectrum of a signal , first consider for simplicity the Laplace transform corresponding to an exponentially decaying signal .
17 We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals .
18 In Saussure 's theory we identify and attach meaning to an individual word in a sequence by placing it mentally against the background of other words , not present in the sequence , which are both similar and different to it .
19 ‘ You made the condition that we dance according to the music , ’ he reminded her .
20 In general , if cells of vertebrate embryos are moved from one part to another of the early embryo they develop according to their new location and not from where they are taken .
21 Whereas early on cells develop according to their position in the embryo , with time their fate becomes fixed .
22 Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar .
23 LEFT Our ideas of the appearance of our prehistoric ancestors change according to current social attitudes .
24 Plumages change according to season .
25 Darwin 's theory of evolution incorporates the principle of natural selection , which suggests that animals change according to their surroundings , developing adaptations — over several generations — which enhance their ability to survive in particular habitats .
26 Half awake , I lay listening to the silence .
27 That 's what , I mean according to Tracey on
28 revolution has already happened , I mean according to this the , the landlord 's political power 's been smashed
29 However , Sartre was no more prepared than Merleau-ponty to return to what he characterized as Marxist organicism , in which the laws of history unfold according to their own autonomous momentum .
30 Not least during their horizontally laid-back , JJ Cale-esque blues bliss outs do they sound like Spiritualized , only you 'll stay awake and may even feel like shaking your fringe/rump/boots ( delete according to drugs taken ) .
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