Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say , there is no subterfuge implied in such an action , and I for one had no intention of overhearing to the extent I did that evening . |
| 2 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , Zuwaya were not immune , in their nostalgia for those not wholly imaginary days , from leaping to the assumption that , because there was no sovereign power , no person was subject to authority . |
| 4 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 5 | It is hard to escape the implication that a major source of this taboo is the sense that the priest kneeling down and washing women 's ‘ naked ’ feet would be somehow both sexual and polluting to the sacred . |
| 6 | Catalysts convert carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide , which is less toxic , but equally polluting to the environment . |
| 7 | Charged with ‘ riotous and tumultuous assembling to the terror of His Majesty 's subjects ’ . |
| 8 | Pearson hoped that the sense of authenticity in his films would ‘ carry feeling and understanding to an audience , ’ but it was odd to imagine he could achieve genuine popularity by avoiding suspense and dramatic conflict . |
| 9 | My parents are broadminded , liberal and understanding to the extent that I probably could never match . |
| 10 | If his explanations were wrong , it made no difference to his faith ; if they were right , they strengthened the community of believers against the attacks of critics , and added the pleasure of understanding to the duty of believing . |
| 11 | Their role is to give depth , colour and understanding to the issues at hand , and to provide a broad context ( or " environment " ) by which to guide the more specific calculation of quantitative forecasts described above . |
| 12 | Explanatory forecasting These techniques are used to assist , techniques augment and inform the quantitative forecasting process , giving depth , colour and understanding to the issues at hand . |
| 13 | General von Schweinitz , the Prussian military plenipotentiary in St Petersburg , seems to have played in 1866 a crucial role in explaining and justifying to an at first hostile Alexander II Bismarck 's policy in Germany . |
| 14 | Such a moral order was legitimate since it was consonant with the dictates of Providence or , in different intellectual terms , expressive of the natural order progressively opening to the minds of Enlightenment intellectuals through scientific investigation and freedom of thought . |
| 15 | The Thyssen Collection is opening to the public in Madrid this month . |
| 16 | Each of these is equipped with its own set of organs — on either side , leg-like projections sometimes equipped with bristles and another pair of feathery appendages through which oxygen is absorbed ; and within the body wall , a pair of tubes opening to the exterior from which waste is secreted . |
| 17 | Like their close relatives , the early millipedes , the insects rely on tracheae , the system of tubes opening to the outside by a line of spiracles along the flank and running to every part of the body . |
| 18 | From is opening to the outbreak of the war the " Ring " staged every German Grand Prix . |
| 19 | The communiqué outlined five principles for drawing up and implementing the five- and 10-year plans : ( i ) " firmly follow the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics " ; ( ii ) " firmly push forward reform and opening to the outside world " ; ( iii ) " firmly implement the principle of developing the national economy in a sustained , stable and co-ordinated manner " ; ( iv ) " firmly follow the principle of self-reliance , hard struggle and building up the country through thrift and diligence " ; and ( v ) " firmly implement the principle of promoting both material civilization and socialist culture and ethics " . |
| 20 | The festival is opening to the public until the end of the week but if you are not an ale fan its probably best to give it a miss . |
| 21 | Things which had bewildered him were clear as crystal , problems which had daunted and defied him gave like locks opening to the right key . |
| 22 | She quickly learned to swim but because of her small size had some initial problems with buoyancy and kept bobbing to the surface like a cork ! |
| 23 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 24 | Christopherson , who , apart from his roles in the CNAA , also had a CVCP perspective , recalls that Crosland 's chief adviser at the DES , Toby Weaver , the Deputy Secretary , was , ‘ we thought , continually representing to the Minister a totally false impression of what the universities were like ’ . |
| 25 | There was no point sitting here yapping to a bunch of fucking prejudiced right-wing bastards . |
| 26 | I like this very much as an easy summer skirt — three pieces knitted right across your machine , hooked back on to fewer stitches for a small yoke to avoid bulk at the waist — equally becoming to the very slender or larger lady . |
| 27 | Charles III 's reforms improved the quality of the imperial civil service while denying to the creoles a share in the system — perhaps because , as Floridablanca maintained , creoles were too enmeshed in local graft to be trusted . |
| 28 | Liberal Democrats believe that expanding and utilising to the full scientific and technological talents offers the only chance of improving our performance and reversing the long tale of our relative economic decline . |
| 29 | Boss Man baiting Berzerker matador-style with a nappy , Berzerker charging into the ropes , ricocheting back onto Boss Man , Boss Man hurling to the floor , Berzerker chanting ‘ Huss ! |
| 30 | He went on to make 142 , his highest Test score , before perishing to a cheeky reverse sweep against the persistent Patel |