Example sentences of "to [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents ' employment by the nuclear industry and exposure to ionising radiation at work . |
| 2 | Such an apparently paradoxical phenomenon is seen in cells acquiring resistance to alkylating agents by virtue of defective mismatch repair . |
| 3 | She has found doctors and consultants very receptive to using acupuncture during labour , but unfortunately , the therapy is not available on the National Health . |
| 4 | Shinghal and Toussaint ( 1979b ) used a combined bottom-up and top-down approach to using context in text recognition . |
| 5 | A different approach would be to introduce Caldwell recklessness into the non-fatal offences of causing injury , with a view to labelling cases of endangerment in the same way as ‘ traditional ’ crimes . |
| 6 | From replacing a lightbulb to repairing acres of roof , the work of the NMS Buildings Branch is vast and varied . |
| 7 | Now that Tandy Corp has abandoned its plan to spin off its manufacturing arm as a separate company , the company is looking for buyers for three other manufacturing businesses : Memtek makes tapes and other products for Tandy stores under the Memorex brand name , the second is Lika , making circuit boards , the third is O'Sullivan Industries , which makes flatpack furniture ; Tandy will now keep 13 manufacturing units and three product engineering groups — factories devoted exclusively to producing products for Radio Shack will be folded back into Tandy , the company declared . |
| 8 | Detailed investigations reveal these to be adults who attempt to shape , control and judge the behaviour and attitudes of their children according to unbending standards of conduct , usually absolute standards , often determined by theological considerations . |
| 9 | Thus , setting annual targets for M3 would lead directly to bringing inflation under control . |
| 10 | In practice , as the Party learned , so its patience diminished : it shifted to incorporating territories by force , while conceding the forms of federation and a measure of cultural autonomy ( those things formerly ruled out as institutionalizing division ) . |
| 11 | Consultant QAI is close to signing heads of agreement with Belgrade company Qualitas . |
| 12 | Drama lends itself to becoming part of topic work because : |
| 13 | In 1990 BCCI pleaded guilty to laundering charges in connection with $32,000,000 of drug money in Florida . |
| 14 | When large quantities of oil are released after the break-up of a tanker , for example , sea birds appear to be more visibly affected than the smooth-skinned dolphins , possibly because cetaceans can choose to swim away from oil slicks , and do not have to keep returning through slicks to nesting sites on shore . |
| 15 | Having fallen in love with the theatre in the Free German Youth , a left-wing group dedicated to rebuilding Germany for socialism , Ruth called Bloomsbury House to say ‘ she was very interested in dramatic work and hopes one day to take it up as a career ’ . |
| 16 | That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates . |
| 17 | The two-way division agreed at Aachen in March 842 is best seen as a way of putting pressure on Lothar , convincing him that this time he had no alternative to opening negotiations in earnest . |
| 18 | The implementation of liberty can stretch to keeping places of recreation closed on Sundays , upholding the rights of preachers to speak in public places even if it causes an affray , and opposing the development of catholic schools because their teachers do not communicate the Bible without priestly mediation . |
| 19 | Industrial Light & Magic , a subsidiary Lucas Digital Ltd , will use it as an alternative to transporting videotape from production facilities in Los Angeles to its post-production facility in San Rafael near San Francisco . |
| 20 | So although those carers in the action sample were grateful for the help they received from the Home Support Project ( and almost without exception carers throughout the action samples expressed the same sentiment ) , there is scant evidence that it contributed to allaying feelings of strain . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 22 | And the key therefore to writing scenes of action is to limit yourself as strictly as you can to describing happenings . |
| 23 | The useful , though subordinate , role which litigation might be expected to play in this mobilisation process extends to publicising areas of law such as tax diversion which stand in need of reform , and so helping to politicise the issues and raise the general level of political awareness on the part of peace protesters and the general public alike . |
| 24 | There is a danger , particularly in the final years of compulsory schooling , that little time is given to promoting reading for fun . |
| 25 | In addition to recommending limits of radiation doses the ICRP urges that all radiation exposures should be kept ‘ as low as reasonably achievable ’ ( ALARA ) , economic and social factors being taken into account ; and that no practice involving possible radiation release should be adopted unless its introduction produces a positive net benefit . |
| 26 | Art could not speak , he had become so used to meeting Daphne for lunch once a week , it was part of his life , he felt shocked , strange , bereft . |
| 27 | We are committed to replacing CFCs in refrigeration by the end of 1996 and , when Basildon opened in August , we were the first supermarket retailer in Europe to introduce an ozone benign refrigerant . |
| 28 | And so I decided to patronise the famous Café de la Paix ; but having little money and no head for alcohol , limited myself to ordering Perrier before lunch , and sat at a table on the pavement , watching the world go by . |
| 29 | Someone had earlier likened the whole sorting process to sifting sand for gold , so we hoped we had struck gold in the Afghan desert , but sadly , a scholar at the National Library eventually pronounced the signature to be that of another Churchill ! |
| 30 | Is it not now obvious that , because of his policies , the Prime Minister is reduced to imagining recovery at home while inventing recessions abroad ? |