Example sentences of "[adv] to [v-ing] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the five-wicket beating by one of Test cricket 's minnows , the England manager , Keith Fletcher , came close to admitting that the whole tour selection policy had been misguided . |
| 2 | For Lecercle violence erupts from below , at least in the matter of language ( though , like many others , he comes close to saying that the linguistic is the social and the cultural ) and is the revenge of the repressed . |
| 3 | Of course the question in the EPQ does not refer solely to driving and the population they sampled are unlikely to be driving particularly regularly . |
| 4 | I go back to thinking that the best way of changing the environment of the colleges would be to try and erm I mean talking again as if it 's boys perpetrating it all the time erm boys will stop doing it if women respond differently . |
| 5 | An attempt should be made to quantify the likely usage through enquiry of those who attend back-to-nursing courses and through local advertisements which seek information from those who would consider coming back to nursing if a child-minding service was provided . |
| 6 | The criterion moves closer to asking whether the courts believe that the exercise of discretion was reasonable . |
| 7 | Sadly , some of the things we most look forward to eating as the weather warms up are just those which are likely to cause allergic reactions . |
| 8 | Years later I have come round to thinking that the proponents of live worship were right . |