Example sentences of "to a [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this study the subjects simply watched the slides while their heart rate was recorded and they listened to a sentence describing the event in each slide ( e.g. ‘ Father was able to find the broken connection ’ versus ‘ Father was able to restore the severed limbs ’ ) . |
| 2 | Just imagine him saying that to a reporter trying to dig up more dirt … trying to stir it up a bit . |
| 3 | They made respectful way for him as he led me through the village to a longhouse standing apart from the others . |
| 4 | But this time there 'd been an unfortunate accident — the worker had been distracted and had applied the blow torch to a pipe opening just as the varnish was starting to flow . |
| 5 | It was like listening to a voice whispering across time , an eerie sensation that became a frisson when I read : Time was , Time is , and Time shall be , but here the Adept stands outside of time within the penetralium of mystery . |
| 6 | In a case where an employer referred to a secretary using racist language , this was not a ‘ detriment ’ for this purpose . |
| 7 | Norman Tebbit had , it was said , returned to a board meeting in the City . |
| 8 | Ditto the job lot of Edwardiana on the walls , the only genuine article a letter from Betjeman to a friend burbling characteristically about high Anglican synods and club bores . |
| 9 | Four other cases , brought on Sept. 10 and 12 , involved the improper grant of a contract to oversee a power scheme , the export of Pakistani cotton at below market rates , the sale of property in Islamabad worth £150,000,000 for a mere £500,000 to a foreign company managed by associates of her husband , Asif Ali Zardari , and the improper granting of permits to a close relation and to a friend enabling them to distribute liquified gas . |
| 10 | There are seven demanding par-4s in excess of 400 yards , not to mention the lovely 3rd hole — at 394 yards a cracking dog-leg over a hill to a green nestling alongside the mere . |
| 11 | You did n't mention that kind of thing to a detective investigating the death of a fellow club-member 's wife . |
| 12 | The French medical company also suffered because of a three or four month disruption in the supply of the only product it does not design and manufacture itself — a plantable port , manufactured by a US company , which is used to control the amount of drugs given to a patient undergoing chemotherapy , met with quality problems . |
| 13 | Betting giant Ladbroke responded to a £10m upgrading to Pounds 170m of UBS Phillips & Drew 's profit forecast . |
| 14 | It also gives access to a bibliography containing hundreds of documents on clean technology and a directory of contacts . |
| 15 | Kinsey defines the underclass by turning to a bibliography spanning Social Darwinism to Monday 's Daily Mail , via Sir Keith Joseph and the US political scientist Charles Murray , published recently in the Sunday Times . |
| 16 | Here it becomes clear that this route from Morar is in fact a simple passage to a valley draining east to less harsh landscapes ahead . |
| 17 | Hitler had stood for resistance to a cancer spreading across Europe . |
| 18 | Where it is suggested to professional advisers , the suggestion will commonly be met with the caution and dubiety they naturally bring to a proposal lying outside their experience or practice . |
| 19 | Attached to it was a sash cord , linked to a rope hanging down to the track . |
| 20 | The Volkskammer on Jan. 11-12 gave a first reading to a law allowing an alternative of 18 months ' civilian service . |
| 21 | By notice of motion dated 14 May 1990 the Director of Public Prosecutions sought judicial review of ( 1 ) the decision of a single justice sitting at the Liverpool Magistrates ' Court on 16 February 1990 declining to proceed under section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 in respect of John James Bell , who had been arrested pursuant to section 7(3) of the Act , until such time as the bench was composed of at least two justices ; ( 2 ) her decision adjourning the proceedings to a court sitting on 19 February 1990 for evidence to be called and until such time remanding the defendant in custody ; and ( 3 ) the decision on 19 February 1990 of the justices before whom the adjourned decision came declining jurisdiction to hear the section 7(5) proceedings . |
| 22 | The Director of Public Prosecutions brings this application for judicial review of these decisions of the single justice on Friday , 16 February ; the first , declining to deal with the issue of the alleged breach of bail condition by Mr. Bell on the ground that that issue could not be resolved by a single justice of the peace but required a court consisting of at least two justices , and the second , to adjourn the hearing of the alleged breach of condition to a court sitting on Monday , 19 February , and to remand Mr. Bell in custody in the intervening period . |
| 23 | This coy introduction refers to a problem consisting of a ‘ vegetable ’ child who is kept locked away in a cupboard , and who they eventually kill . |
| 24 | It then glues these thin twigs to a wall using its own saliva as a fixative . |
| 25 | Clydal was almost brought to a standstill approaching the home-turn , having received a might bump at the initial bend , but remained undeterred in his victory bid . |
| 26 | Two or three numbers might be required as input to a calculation lasting several hours , impossible to accomplish except by computer and producing only a small volume of output . |
| 27 | A tunnel , 5.5 m in diameter and 80 km long , will then carry the water under the Beersheva and Arad regions to a plateau overlooking the Dead Sea . |
| 28 | But matters came to a head following her surprise defeat by the 83rd-ranked Veronika Martinek , of Czechoslovakia , in Hilton Head two weeks later . |
| 29 | The TCCB , bless them , have tried with all their splintered might to redress a short-changing of the public by players in knockout competitions which has bordered on the fraudulent , and only came to a head following the Benson & hedges Cup final at Lord 's last year , and the Oval semi-final of the Nat West Trophy a month later . |
| 30 | France agreed on Sept. 14 , 1989 , to a debt rescheduling agreement with Iraq worth F8,850 million ( or one-quarter of Iraq 's debt to France — US$1.00=F6.5907 as at Sept. 18 , 1989 ) . |