Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least 300 people living on storeys closer to the ground were hurt in the nine-floor blocks , which contained 480 flats . |
| 2 | According to statistics soon to be published by the UN , the average number of children per mother in Bangladesh has fallen from 6.7 in 1975 to 4.7 now , and that of Kenya from 8.1 to 6.3 . |
| 3 | Operating at temperatures close to absolute zero ( -273C ) , super-magnets deliver the most powerful fields available and consume practically no electricity while operating in their superconducting ( ie , loss-free ) state . |
| 4 | Never mind , I 'm going into Cheltenham tomorrow to the library . |
| 5 | Spathiphyllum wallisii , the peace lily , is a most elegant houseplant , with glossy green lance-shaped leaves and fragrant arum lily-like flowers of the purest white , turning to cream then to the palest green with age . |
| 6 | Oh yeah that 's the main area really is is erm recruiting for apprentices mainly to the young people . |
| 7 | They normally feature a convector heat exchanger rather than relying on heat simply to be radiated from glowing ceramic coals/logs . |
| 8 | Future satellites will also follow up discoveries from balloon flights : radiation from the centre of our Galaxy and active galaxies and quasars , probably originating in gas close to their central massive black holes . |
| 9 | The extra-oral treatment requires processing at temperatures closer to the glass transition temperature where segmental mobility allows additional polymerisation . |