Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 2 | The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition . |
| 3 | It is one in which young people often start life in improved or ‘ gentrified ’ housing in inner urban areas , thence progressing to large family homes in the outer suburbs and later retiring to a house purpose-made for well-off home owners . |
| 4 | First , they will be required to distribute most ( possibly around three-quarters ) of these funds ( the ‘ aggregated schools budget ’ ) between schools strictly and even-handedly according to a formula , to be devised by each LEA but requiring approval by the DES . |
| 5 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
| 6 | Their handbags are shopping bags , their holidays are day trips , and occasionally going to a son or daughter . |