Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation .
2 The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation .
3 The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation .
4 For high earners , the £75,000 cap is probably the strongest argument for hanging on to an existing Section 226 policy , since such policies are not affected by the earnings limit .
5 As the second round of European matches gets into full swing tonight , Rangers can only sit back and watch after tumbling out to a last minute goal from Levski Sofia .
6 Andrew Blaikie , 17 , on right , an aviation enthusiast , has a lot to grin about , and a double reason for looking forward to the coming year , writes ALAN DRON .
7 Unmould for serving on to a heated plate large enough to accommodate the pudding and the sauce that will seep from it .
8 This is not a matter of sticking doggedly to a particular diet , but also of looking at your eating habits .
9 Looking further into the future the railway still cherishes the hope of building back to a British Railway connection at Ruabon on the Chester-Shrewsbury line .
10 Although this use of the survey seemed to offer to social scientists a more scientific way of approximating closely to a natural scientific model of research , incorporating measurement and quantification , hypothesis-testing , generalisability and theory relevance , it has not been without its problems and controversies .
11 To include any such anticipatory provision has the merit of bringing home to the individual partners the importance of viewing their involvement in the firm as a long term commitment , which may serve to reduce , if not to eliminate , the pain felt if and when a cash call has to be made .
12 He had visions of booking in to the same hotel several weeks running and a knowing clerk saying , ‘ Ah , I see sir has a new Mrs Smith this weekend … ’ as his latest girl flashed her ring on the desk .
13 Instead of reverting automatically to the universal European scholarly tongue of Latin , they were gaining a new confidence in the language of their own people .
14 The purpose of this exercise , verbally repeated in funeral orations , was to instil in the young the duty of living up to the glorious achievements of their forefathers .
15 The strain of living up to the lofty concept of marriage that they have invented is tiring , at times , and she is a busy woman .
16 History is the study of the past using documents and inscriptions as evidence , and historians have recorded and interpreted events from the earliest days of writing up to the present day .
17 However the day turns out , she will already have enjoyed the prospect and had the excitement of looking forward to a pleasurable outing .
18 an effective means of looking forward to the next appropriate teaching steps .
19 She yawned , stretched herself , voluptuously enjoying the process of waking up to a lazy day .
20 Intimation had been received during the previous year that they were considering paying over to the Official Trustee of Charitable Funds the sum of £12,000 , the interest on which would be sufficient to maintain their endowment of £300 .
21 whether they were in favour of going on to a second cycle of review and reporting and if so whether reports should deal only with a particular aspect of the school ;
22 The chances of going on to an additional baby from a given family size ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) can be calculated from past data for women who have completed their families .
23 But you had a way of going straight to the two ninety in one go , do you remember what that was ? you 'd worked on it yourself , you you were doing just nicely .
24 Accordingly , if Mr. Lassman is correct , that kind of activity of going straight to the in-house computer and extracting confidential information from it could be committed with impunity so far as the three offences in this Act are concerned .
25 Instead of going straight to the front desk as usual , Charlie guided her towards the restaurant .
26 The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall .
27 Then she got the idea of going across to the American Shuttle .
28 Brockweir residents accuse the council of selling out to the highest bidder instead of letting future generations go to school in their own village .
29 He also disclosed that the company is considering moving up to a full listing .
30 Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) .
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