Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not a matter of sticking doggedly to a particular diet , but also of looking at your eating habits . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However the day turns out , she will already have enjoyed the prospect and had the excitement of looking forward to a pleasurable outing . |
| 11 | an effective means of looking forward to the next appropriate teaching steps . |
| 12 | She yawned , stretched herself , voluptuously enjoying the process of waking up to a lazy day . |
| 13 | 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 ; |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Instead of going straight to the front desk as usual , Charlie guided her towards the restaurant . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Then she got the idea of going across to the American Shuttle . |
| 20 | Brockweir residents accuse the council of selling out to the highest bidder instead of letting future generations go to school in their own village . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | At least Gooch had the consolation of getting out to the best of the home bowlers , and to a man who is coached by former Indian captain , Kapil Dev . |
| 23 | The drive to surpass had originated and was maintained from home ; my sense of neglect and isolation was a partial consequence of belonging intermittently to a cohesive community . |
| 24 | Everyone — whether self-employed or working for an employer — has the choice of continuing as they are or of switching instead to a personal pension . |
| 25 | He was breathless with the effort of clinging precariously to the limited footholds and it was time , he decided , to risk climbing down to the ground . |
| 26 | means of reporting back to the full governing body ; and |
| 27 | When a suitable site for a new hive is found the bees have to learn its location and get rid of their earlier learned behaviour of flying back to the old hive . |
| 28 | 1 People with anxiety disorders may have exaggerated , irrational beliefs concerning the consequences of facing up to the feared or difficult situation . |
| 29 | However , the Junkers , instead of facing up to the industrial , economic and social changes that were sweeping Europe , preferred instead to set about the ruthless suppression of any and every gesture of sympathy for the French revolutionaries , and they took military action against the few tiny peeps of protest that emanated from Pomerania . |
| 30 | More often , they simply died ; the after-dinner heart attack while slumbering in one of the club 's deep leather chairs was a popular way of moving on to the great gentleman 's club in the sky . |