Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amid the build-up to the great birthday extravaganza , North Korea watchers have gone on the alert for signs of the president handing over power to Kim Jong Il . |
| 2 | It should be appreciated , however , that exactly the same kind of analysis as we shall develop here could be made equally revealingly of practical , everyday communism , Christianity , the apartheid philosophy of white South Africa , l the delusions of the mentally ill , or , as Ernest Gellner so tellingly shows , contemporary linguistic philosophy.2 So while our quest to understand the mysteries of witchcraft may take us deep into the inaccessible jungles of distant continents , we shall regularly encounter disconcertingly familiar images showing how dose to home we really are . |
| 3 | The reform of the national insurance system advocated here will also lead to all workers building up entitlement to national insurance benefits . |
| 4 | This makes Britain in autumn a very special place as a staging post for birds flying further south to the Mediterranean and Africa and as a winter home for many others . |
| 5 | A great deal of Thomas 's trade had passed through the hands of Spencer Grenfell who seemed to have trouble bringing in payment to her father on time . |
| 6 | They feared that well-meaning people giving out money to the poor would merely encourage the ‘ non-deserving ’ poor to pursue their lazy and irresponsible ways . |
| 7 | In two-road Dinsdale , the only crossroads was where the Roman road running straight north to Sadberge from the Tees was intersected by the east-west lane joining Stockton and Darlington . |
| 8 | Cos that 's , we go to Newark then Grantham going down south to me mum 's we go all that way . |
| 9 | With the approach of the second anniversary of the brutal suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations by the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , and no sign of the regime handing over power to the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) despite the latter 's sweeping electoral victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ; 37612 ] , there was a marked increase in tension and a renewal of violence at protests in early August . |