Example sentences of "of [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Housing is an important component of welfare : it is difficult to imagine anything more damaging to an individual 's welfare than the lack of somewhere to live , and this is especially so in the case of families with young children and elderly people . |
| 2 | But I have to restrict myself , otherwise I will face the same problem I had with the books — the lack of somewhere to lodge all these wonderful toys . |
| 3 | If they 're short of somewhere to put it we 'll send it up Top Valley Terry . |
| 4 | Crossing the Place Henri Barbusse , Melissa went in search of somewhere to eat . |
| 5 | I was telling her about our need of somewhere to meet , and she said she would love to help us but that Mr. Olinton would n't hear of it . |
| 6 | To her horror he slowly turned the canoe out into the lake instead of in to shore . |
| 7 | ‘ Today , information technology must be conceived of broadly to encompass the information that businesses create and use as well as the wide spectrum of increasingly convergent and linked technologies that process the information . ’ |
| 8 | while you 're still able sort of comfortably to drive and that sort of thing , I mean if you put it that way and you 'll be saying anyway she 's my er she 's my only living |
| 9 | They had to be disposed of quickly to make room in the depôts for the new cars on order to work on the main line . |
| 10 | Fire crews were called out to Farmway at Piercebridge in the early hours of yesterday to tackle a blaze involving animal feed . |
| 11 | I got , oh I sort of like to use two and then cross out the wrong one . |
| 12 | There was enough of both to provide an organisation and there would be paid officials . |
| 13 | The beginner should be looking at an initial purchase of one sail to allow them to learn in light winds of up to force two . |
| 14 | people just sort of out to get a quick buck . |
| 15 | I mean , we do look for things on the papers to try and justify giving people marks , you know , we 're not sort of out to fail you . |
| 16 | However , it is probably the various film versions and sequels that enable youngsters of today to make such connections . |
| 17 | To find it so utterly demystified by these modern religions keen to allow people of today to understand … it really appals me . |
| 18 | Referring to the by now well-established consensus that grammar should be based upon " educated " usage rather than some abstract principle of " correctness " , Gurrey is none the less unconvinced that any radical change is likely to take place given " the inability of the leaders of today to learn , and their intellectual self sufficiency " . |
| 19 | For details of how to claim , see far right . |
| 20 | The strengths lie in its readability , its practical freshness ( he gives examples of how to see the metaphors of physics through simple exercises ) , and its gentle and humorous approach . |
| 21 | ‘ Dr Traber added that ‘ for both the media and the theologians , the problem of how to see the world with new eyes should be tackled first by a removal of ideological blinkers which have been worn for so long . ’ |
| 22 | My sense of how to go on determined by the vividness of my imagination of what it will be like when done . |
| 23 | It was all very well for Bragg to instruct him to go the rounds of prostitutes ' haunts , but he had precious little idea of how to go about it . |
| 24 | Full details of how to go about it are shown on page 7 . |
| 25 | ‘ Please , ’ he said , ‘ at least give me some idea of how to go about it . ’ |
| 26 | I could n't imagine myself making my children happy , having no conception of how to go about it . |
| 27 | ‘ At some point I was torn between two or three different possibilities of how to go ahead ’ said Christina Gillespie , the secretary of the group , ‘ when I got a phone-call from the Salvation Army , saying that they were praying for me . |
| 28 | Now , those little reminders ought to give you a kind of mental map of how to go about writing your press releases this afternoon . |
| 29 | Please send me more information about schizophrenia and the Fellowship , including a publications list , covenant form , and details of how to join . |
| 30 | Speakers included Walter De Backer of the European Commission , giving the European view of how to migrate to open systems . |