Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 2 | During learning , each training instance is presented just once , and the learning process consists of writing once to each RAM chip . |
| 3 | Possibly their bruises were simply the effect of ejecting on to hard sand from a fast aircraft . |
| 4 | As noted above , a majority of Oxfordshire teachers are in favour of going on to second round of reviews and reports . |
| 5 | Despite this perceived impotence , a majority of teachers are in favour of going on to another round of reviews and reports . |
| 6 | This thought , of why Jasper consented to let her sleep here , instead of going up to another room , or asking her to go , made her mind swirl , as if it — her mind was nauseous . |
| 7 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 8 | It 's quite good on D'Urbino and Speckle particularly ; if you were ever thinking of going back to that monograph . ’ |
| 9 | The mere signal of takeover intentions normally engenders a rise in the share price , hence a lessening in the advantages of selling out to another party . |
| 10 | So are they looking for it to lead to a , sort of getting back to last week 's terminology , a restoration or , or are are they actually , do they know that they 're getting involved in a revolution ? |
| 11 | It is useful for the client to set him/herself specific homework assignments to complete before the following session — the notion of reporting back to one person , or a group , acts as an incentive for action . |
| 12 | In all , over 300 tons of stores will be delivered into Safra this way , with individual aircraft capable of dispatching up to twenty-four one-ton containers per sortie . |
| 13 | Their career opportunities consist of a fairly good chance of moving up to senior technician , and a very slim chance of becoming a lab director . |
| 14 | Raising the level of skills amongst British workers is so crucial , not only to any immediate programme of moving back to full employment , but also to maintaining and improving Britain 's long-term performance , that the question of training can not be left to the free play of market forces . |
| 15 | It may be asked why psychiatry has made such heavy weather of coming round to that view . |
| 16 | But the company which has built most of the world 's most impressive superstructures could be in danger of losing out to Korean competition . |
| 17 | Stigma make a very good 50 mm , f 3.5 lens with a full macro facility , which is capable of focusing down to one inch and giving one to one magnification . |
| 18 | Diana had felt unwell for much of the early part of her pregnancy , and was not quite herself , which made the process of settling down to married life all the more difficult . |