Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I 'm doing about what , about three hundred fi three hundred fifty miles a week just going to work and back |
| 2 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 3 | Progress on these areas of activity should be detailed , with a statement also relating to achievement of targets . |
| 4 | Death was treated with a certain deference , although the passing of a sitting MP was regarded either as a blessing in disguise ( ‘ never liked him ’ ) or , if the Party was unpopular , as a confounded nuisance , a by-election inevitably leading to exposure , expense and humiliating defeat . |
| 5 | At the hearing some national experts came out strongly in favour of a system also extending to drawings , etchings , engravings sculptures , original photographs and , possibly , one-off designs of furniture and craft . |
| 6 | Now confidence has burgeoned , and they are looking the most complete side in the First Division , secure in defence and incisive in attack ; and , with a squad gradually returning to strength , they could dominate the second half of the season . |
| 7 | Though not entirely restricted to Friends , it was an approach particularly appealing to people in whom quietist instincts remained strong both before and after the direct political involvement exemplified by the election of Joseph Pease to parliament in 1832 . |
| 8 | Among these is a reproduction of Daniel Maclise 's The Death of Nelson , an image perhaps alluding to Minton 's identification with this famous naval martyr . |