Example sentences of "[adv] to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better to knowing now than to know when you arrive there . |
| 2 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 3 | ‘ It owes much to acting of charm and conviction from Michael Crawford and Sarah Long as the boy and girl , ’ wrote the Coventry Evening Telegraph critic . |
| 4 | Critics claim this has contributed to a significant rise in homelessness and that the government 's policy on tenure has not contributed much to housebuilding . |
| 5 | Fuelled by fear , soured by defeat and reinforced by Dulles 's essential ingredient , self-righteousness , the American inquisitors devoted themselves single-mindedly to unmasking a conspiracy which did not exist . |
| 6 | Pask more determinedly attempted to block Self 's attempts to assert control , which he saw as unnecessary complications at a time when their efforts should be directed single-mindedly to overcoming the serious generating plant backlog . |
| 7 | Particular attention will be paid to the applicability of the newly-emerging connectionist models to comprehension , especially to modelling patterns of inference made during understanding . |
| 8 | The project attends especially to teaching practice as a context for learning what and how to teach . |
| 9 | You will still require transfer film decals for dual-in-line pads , edge connectors etc. , but crepe tapes lend themselves especially to designing your own artwork . |
| 10 | As Irish people are given naturally to speculating over ‘ CIA plots ’ , their excitement when real CIA security men arrived to safeguard the President can be imagined . |
| 11 | Newspapers would be reduced merely to printing what they are told — which means what the politicians want you to hear . |
| 12 | He goes on to point out that words like ‘ comfort ’ and ‘ home ’ are peculiar to the English language , so that the benighted French are driven to borrow confortable , since de la maison and chez nous relate merely to eating and sleeping places . |
| 13 | Learning strategies are also characterized along a holistic-atomistic axis , corresponding to attempts by the student to form a view of a programme of study as a whole ; or to an approach geared merely to understanding each element as it is encountered . |
| 14 | He did not restrict himself merely to giving his assent to publication , but added his comments , as , for example , on Two Treatises … concerning Infant Baptism ( 1645 ) by John Tombes [ q.v. ] , where he acknowledged that the author was a godly man ‘ and of the Presbyterian judgement , though I am not of opinion with him ’ and he agreed to the publication of these treatises to encourage further contributions to the debate on infant baptism . |
| 15 | And I think it 's close enough to looking like it that the public may believe it , and I hope the public wo n't believe it , but certainly I 'm not prepared to allow them to think it of me , and therefore I will vote against the motion . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm meeting her tomorrow off the boat train , ’ Harry replied , ‘ and we 're going down to Calking together . |
| 17 | This visit , he told Alice as the train took them back to London later that evening , had been a very happy one and it was his intention to go down to Calking to see them all again very soon . |
| 18 | Perhaps he should extend it , for he had not yet taken Alice to the promised lunch at the Ritz , or been up to Leicestershire to see Mrs Appleby , or fulfilled his promise to Jenny to go down to Calking to see the shop and meet Jack and his family . |
| 19 | Frank can then return to Leeds with a World Cup beneah his belt and settle down to getting a place . |
| 20 | The disconcerting ‘ first-disk ’ string sound may be down to miking difficulties ; likewise the booming timpani and overly forward woodwind , and these things do not make for comfortable listening . |
| 21 | Ultimately it must come down to taking a view of what effect it has had on the standard of living of her people . |
| 22 | Now they were down to living on his salary alone , this was an important factor . |
| 23 | When at last they are released , they are positively maniacal , and gallop and buck around the paddock twice as much as usual before settling down to eating the grass . |
| 24 | They all settled down to eating while Willie , amidst all the chatter and laughter , found himself an object of praise . |
| 25 | In such cases it may come down to allocating liability beween the parents and the occupier . |
| 26 | It 's partly down to trying to do the best you can for your artists . |
| 27 | After tea at 4.00 p.m. — usually apple pie — there was the milking to do again and then we would settle down to patching , mending and darning , and making rug mats . |
| 28 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 29 | Yeah , it 's like the little ones , they the , the , the , erm , they handle all sorts , and when you comes actually down to seeing it on paper , you ke , it 's alright if they 're just counting it there in the hands and stuff . |
| 30 | In Victorian and post-Victorian times , a woman of forty might settle down to wearing black and being an old lady . |