Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Member for Livingston can promise his hon. Friends nothing about money , he could not prevent that from happening if he returned to the old system . |
| 2 | The problem there I would suggest is the timescale between the things happening and it getting to the regulator and being digested . |
| 3 | I would suggest is the timescale between these things happening and it getting to the regulator and being digested . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew something was happening as I got to the hospital steps . |
| 5 | There would have been no reprieve had I deposited my CFI over the side and I suppose that could have happened , I was to learn many years later , however , most of the formation complained that I steered a very erratic course , and I thought it was the CFI touching the control column in his cockpit , and with his feet ( suggesting that I move to the right or the left ) . |
| 6 | Validation of the suffering individual , treating him or her with kindness , professional respect and dignity , being open and honest , separating the awareness of the disease from the understanding of the suffering human being , following the distorted reasoning and disturbed actions and accepting that they appeared to the sufferer to be most appropriate at the time they were committed . |
| 7 | Some of these should often be preserved ; use intelligent discretion , remembering that they belong to the client . |
| 8 | They suffered considerable prejudice and criticism , adding as they did to the already excessive pool of surplus urban labour , though in practice they concentrated in trades , such as tailoring , in which there was relatively little competition . |
| 9 | On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half . |
| 10 | Its colour was of brilliant red on the left hand side , but dispersing as it went to the right ending up a pale green colour . |
| 11 | But there was something dangerously lacking when it came to the matter of how they applied their logic to the solution of a particular problem . |
| 12 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 13 | My nerves were really jangling when we got to the 17th , the Road Hole . |
| 14 | The report rejects , however , the contention that economic growth in itself is unsustainable , insisting that it leads to the development of cleaner , more efficient technologies which cut pollution . |
| 15 | Jackson was still smarting when he returned to the station in the city centre . |
| 16 | They learned part of the answer as dusk was falling and they came to the tower and castleton of Heiton , beyond Kale Water . |
| 17 | Two of the Presidential guardsmen were giggling as they pointed to the name of the village that was his target . |
| 18 | The oval area from where Simon Cormack had been standing when he died to the point where he stopped rolling , at the heart of the larger circle , was treated with especial care . |
| 19 | Why should it not , if there are grounds for thinking that it matters to the fiction ? |
| 20 | ‘ Keep piping till we get to the digging site . ’ |
| 21 | He was thinking while he listened to the logical thought processes of Leon Gusev . |
| 22 | The European Court 's teleological approach can be seen once again in the passage cited from that judgment , referring as it does to the ‘ purpose ’ and the ‘ result pursued by ’ the directive . |
| 23 | She fell in with Nicole 's steps , watching as she gesticulated to the men , letting them know that they would n't be long . |
| 24 | No , not now , our schedules are perfect with that they 're planning cos I spoke to the other day |
| 25 | He was all muscle and sinew , with no spare flesh as far as she could tell , the aura of strength very marked even in repose as he lay relaxed , his hands clasped behind his head , his face shuttered and dreaming as he listened to the music . |