Example sentences of "[noun] going [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Rail had been made aware of the danger of drivers going through red lights , a possible cause of the Newton disaster , as far back as 1951 , the inquiry was told . |
| 2 | It is the more-educated people who most use complementary medicine , thus helping to dispel the idea that it is ‘ unscientific ’ and used only by the uncritical ; and about 10 per cent of clients going to complementary practitioners are referred by doctors or paramedics . |
| 3 | Wells calculates that as approximately two-thirds of teenage pregnancies going to full term were reported to be unplanned in a study in South West England , effective contraception therefore has the potential for avoiding 76,000 unwanted teenage pregnancies each year . |
| 4 | I step back , then turn and run , the clinging wetness round my thighs going from warm to cold as I race beneath the snow-shrouded trees towards the house . |
| 5 | DESERT Rats going to war-torn Bosnia will be allowed to shoot first — and take the battle to their attackers — to protect themselves . |
| 6 | The similarities between the two groups of practices in the proportion going to private clinics in each individual specialty ( table VI ) were much more striking than the differences . |
| 7 | After talks with BR 's Chairman , Peter Parker , we agreed that the sensible way forward was for a new company , British Rail Investments , to be formed and for the subsidiaries to be transferred to the private sector , with the proceeds going to British Rail . |
| 8 | The personal social service departments of local authorities are similarly stretched , with priority in many areas going to statutory work with children , and more and more older people are living in the community either without support or with help from relatives increasingly burdened by this caring role . |
| 9 | Arrivals have frequently been noted at the coast during this period , and it seems likely that such movements are of birds going to favoured areas to moult . |
| 10 | It 's important to encourage as much contact with the outside world as possible , for instance going to local events , taking evening classes , joining clubs and so on . |
| 11 | The Marquess of Lincolnshire , a former Liberal Minister ( as Earl Carrington ) and confidant of Asquith , wrote in his diary on 8 December with emphasis , ‘ The general opinion is that Baldwin has made such a mess of it that he must go at once ’ , and on 18 December , ‘ There is a Chamberlain-Birkenhead intrigue going on backed by the ‘ Daily Mail ’ . ’ |
| 12 | Local NGOs criticised the tiny proportion of the US$167 million funding going to indigenous people , just 1.8 per cent of the total , and called for stricter controls on the use of the funds by Brazilian government agencies . |
| 13 | The normal pattern for the distribution of funding is a form of the Normal Distribution Curve , with the bulk of funding going to middle-of-the-road research carried out in Departments which are already pre-eminent , as can be seen from the figures for NERC support for geology quoted earlier . |
| 14 | Ruth hurried after him , her heart going in great jolts ; the rain came down bewilderingly , making it difficult to know where they were . |
| 15 | In the two countries where it was more important , the United States and United Kingdom , the proportion of transfers going to social aid hardly increased during the 1960s . |
| 16 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 17 | Sunday 's play was of a high standard with two semi finals going to extra time , then penalties . |
| 18 | A preference consists of anything done or suffered to be done by the vendor which has the effect of putting one of its creditors , or any surety or guarantor , into a position which , in the event of the vendor going into insolvent liquidiation , would be better than the position which such person would have been in if that thing had not been done . |
| 19 | It was only the stupidity of Treasury rules that had stopped BR under Labour and Tory governments going after private capital . |
| 20 | The group also offers support for individuals going through difficult periods . |
| 21 | Contracts could be with a specialist unit outside the area , which would be able to keep its facility going by attracting patients needing that care and bringing with them the cash to pay for their operation . |
| 22 | But as for the long-term , he acknowledges that non-IBM sales will be key to Havant 's success , and says that he hopes to see half of the plant 's output going to new customers . |
| 23 | Monitoring of lorries going through nearby villages takes place at frequent intervals and there are repeated calls for more potash to be transported by train . |
| 24 | There is certainly no question of a slump or the economy going into free fall . |
| 25 | Only in towns and at a few other places could trains going in opposite directions pass . |
| 26 | With the game going into added time Michael Galwey , after good work by Geoghegan , Clarke and Bradley , got in for an Irish try . |
| 27 | All that the King could do was to provide some sort of legal foundation of government for Englishmen going to unsettled and thinly populated areas , which he did by linking the legitimacy of their governments to the legitimacy of his government . |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to refer to the increased numbers of passengers going through Scottish airports — especially Glasgow airport , following the Government 's excellent decision to allow transatlantic flights from that airport . |
| 29 | He comments on the incorrect modelling of the airship going into great detail with regard to the number of ribs , panels , engine positions etc . |
| 30 | Recognizing that audiences could never identify with nobs , Hitchcock 's films showed ordinary people going through extraordinary experiences : ‘ The upper classes , ’ he remarked , ‘ are too ‘ bottled up ’ to be of any use as colourful screen material , too stiffened with breeding to relax into the natural easiness and normality required by the screen . ’ |