Example sentences of "[verb] to the [noun sg] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unemployment of the mid-1880s contributed to the difficulty of sustaining the policy — workhouses were not large enough to hold all of the unemployed in the hardest hit district and out-door relief had to be given by many Guardians , though normally only in return for a daily ‘ test ’ such as stone-breaking in the workhouse yard — the task most favoured by Guardians for the male unemployed . |
| 2 | Although the question of autonomy was a complex and confusing one , Hornby contributed to the process of keeping seriously on the agenda that part of the CNAA 's role which involved delegating responsibility within the limits currently imposed on the CNAA , and expanding those limits as it became possible . |
| 3 | As we are committed to the idea of providing general managers with a progression of learning opportunities , we have designed our programmes to match these needs . |
| 4 | Mr Hugh Smith is committed to the principle of allowing users of the stock market more participation in the provision of services . |
| 5 | But she doubted whether it would work as well once the system , dominated by West Germany , was diluted by other countries less committed to the policy of bearing down on prices . |
| 6 | But she doubted whether it would work as well once the system , dominated by West Germany , was diluted by other countries less committed to the policy of bearing down on prices . |
| 7 | For this reason I am deeply committed to the cause of raising our profile , and you will all be aware of the initiatives that are under way to promote us in a wider role . |
| 8 | In grateful respect to those who peacefully helped freedom prevail and who have unswervingly adhered to the task of establishing German unity and are achieving it , |
| 9 | But the greater birthweight variability within monozygous twins merely adds to the difficulty of distinguishing between the effects of genes and early environment , and is a further reason for distrusting estimates of heritability derived from twin studies . |
| 10 | This adds to the importance of investing in the development of managers of the right calibre . |
| 11 | Reserve police in this part of Belfast correctly point out that uncertainty over their contract is only one form of insecurity , and simply adds to the pressure of working in West Belfast ( FN 9/10/87 , p. 25 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | government was , however , ‘ attracted to the principle of using the skills of advice agencies , especially to deal with those areas of work in which their special experience is likely to be greater than that of many solicitors in private practice . |
| 14 | Many young people are now attracted to the idea of producing a large part of their own food . |
| 15 | Scientists examining alternative approaches are attracted to the idea of using molecules that are chemicals designed to assemble themselves into a film . |
| 16 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 17 | At the lower levels of the movement , however , many were becoming attracted to the prospect of ending the feuds of recent years . |
| 18 | Adjusting to the disjointed ordering of time is like trying to adjust to the idea of massing all one 's sleeping hours into the first couple of weeks of the month to have the remaining two weeks wide awake . |
| 19 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |
| 20 | Four hundred artists represented in the museum 's collection have responded to the idea of producing a greetings image on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper . |
| 21 | Some individual unions have gone much further , notably the Steelworkers , who have responded to the collapse of steelmaking in Canada by recruiting in high-technology industries and the service sector , including fast-food chains . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , as late as the 1740s , the British government was still contributing to the cost of housing the now permanent Russian representatives in London at a rate proportional to their diplomatic rank — £200 a year for ministers-resident , £400 for envoys or ambassadors . |
| 23 | He emphasized that respectable ratepayers would object to contributing to the cost of giving artificial security to their neighbours ' looseness of life . |
| 24 | However , for one section of youth , the lower-working-class ‘ roughs ’ , living on housing estates and high-rise flats , for whom the prospect of unemployment was added to the possibility of boring , unskilled work , ‘ only the football ground remained — stark , dirty , exposed to the elements — as a traditional gathering place for working-class lads ’ ( Wagg , 1984:206–7 ) . |
| 25 | The ability of the LTTE to find volunteers for suicide missions added to the problem of protecting prominent political figures . |
| 26 | Added to the difficulty of implementing blanket controls are the following factors : few ports of entry have any animal holding facilities , making it impossible for animals to be kept back ; customs staff often do not have the necessary background to identify an endangered animal ; and containers can be difficult to examine and endangered species can be smuggled in with other animals . |
| 27 | The recruitment of women therefore added to the degree of unsettling change experienced by the TDC system . |
| 28 | The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered . |
| 29 | The argument has been made that proportionality underlies decisions as diverse as those relating to the legitimacy of planning conditions or local transport policy , disciplinary actions or sex discrimination . |
| 30 | If a right to conscientious tax diversion can be established in this way , then , if it is to mean anything at all , it must be proof against standard utilitarian objections , for example , those relating to the cost of administering such a scheme . |