Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pension cost assessed on the basis of actuarial advice and charged in the accounts relating only to Scheme 1 was £4 million [ 1991 £2 million ] . |
| 2 | In one form of the argument , which is found in Pizzorno , the periphery has a very limited role in residual economic activities , usually in those associated with peasant farming , characterised by small-scale , low-technology , fragmented units operating close to subsistence . |
| 3 | As Trudgill ( 1974 ) has shown ( see figure 5.2 ) , [ h ] -loss in Norwich is socially stratified , with lower-class speakers tending strongly to loss of [ h ] , despite the fact that surrounding rural dialects tend to preserve [ h ] . |
| 4 | On the positive side , however , the months leading up to independence offer time to discuss the future direction of the country and to draw up specific plans . |
| 5 | On the positive side , however , the months leading up to independence offer time to discuss the future direction of the country and to draw up specific plans . |
| 6 | Young Outdoor Action readers heading back to school will at least have something to look forward to — outdoor activity lessons . |
| 7 | ‘ I ’ m going downstairs to bed . ’ |
| 8 | Unexpectedly peaceful gardens with Delphinium called Johnson 's Blue , some mauve-white and cobalt Campanula ; peonies ; poppies ; trefoils in brilliant mauve ; scents of lavender and musk rose ; four phallic cypress bushes , two of acid-green-yellow , two of dark green ; on the tower , eyeless turrets each with a little pennanted wind-vane , the wind is from the west and the flag flies , brilliant yellow predominating , a ship with sails filled , a cross in black and red , and an antlered deer 's head ; in the bright , southern lee of the castle 's core , long buildings roofed with tiny slates , stepped corners ; the comfort of a loosely-enclosed , highly aromatic rose-garden ; a peony walk , a wall of Euphorbia ; in the reaches of the garden , oasal recesses , stone steps leading up to stone seats ; a bee visited along thick heavy honeysuckle ; rectangular stone troughs , abundant and velvet with flowering plants ; old walls placid with centuries of absorbed heat from the sun ; a holly tree : did Cawdor once contain all the seven sacred trees from the Celtic grove ? |
| 9 | Worried about the impact of television on social habits , and disillusioned with British life , they constructed films depicting the destruction of traditional cultural forms , the dead-end nature of the proletarian life and the tawdriness of sexual relationships leading inevitably to closure in marriage . |
| 10 | By 1946 , Ghatak had become a Marxist activist , this was the year that the communal rioting leading up to Partition began in earnest . |
| 11 | Just then he saw a small boat moving out to sea , towards a ship . |
| 12 | spring term coming up to easter because until you know your budgets and your |
| 13 | We wait in anticipation of his future coming back to earth . |
| 14 | He seemed to cause embarrassment to his side of the room , but a sense of doors opening and light coming in to mine ( p. 41 ) . |
| 15 | The army occupies an area of land the size of Torness turbine hall with each soldier standing stiffly to attention a few inches from his neighbours . |
| 16 | It was the oldest cottage in the area and I spent hours looking out to sea . |
| 17 | Many of the seafront hotels on the long esplanade have become nursing homes or been demolished for cliff-like apartment blocks with their individual balconies looking out to sea . |
| 18 | But , like turkeys looking forward to Christmas , industry heavyweights queued up to be part of the action . |
| 19 | Here 's your reservoir going down to town , there 's a a big drop there they 'd normally put it through the turbine and pick up some free electricity |
| 20 | Most volumes appeared during the two decades leading up to World War 1 . |
| 21 | This is the only occasion when I personally remember seeing a wicketkeeper coming on to bowl and it may be the earliest such occasion in a first-class game . |
| 22 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 23 | The interplay of these forces on governments created a strong political will to embark on a course leading eventually to EMU . |
| 24 | As I biked up St Giles ’ yesterday afternoon I passed one of the group walking up to North Oxford . |
| 25 | Wycliffe was received in the lounge , which had a large picture-window looking out to sea . |
| 26 | Ramsdens Bridge is a swing bridge with a stone keeper 's house which has been badly modified , a red brick porch stuck on the front and a concrete extension to the chimney owing more to utility than aesthetics . |
| 27 | Neither had any inkling of Gooch 's worries as he reported for two days pre-tour training at Lilleshall in each of the weeks leading up to Christmas . |
| 28 | In the subsequent weeks leading up to Christmas , Liza saw Freddie Nash only twice : once at a private party given by two officers who rented a small cottage in the district , the second time at a dance organised by a certain county grande dame , who seemed to think she was destined to introduce the opposite sex to one another as her personal contribution to the war effort . |
| 29 | In the weeks leading up to Christmas , festivities abound . |
| 30 | Just saw a little lad going off to school , carrying half hundred weight of books ! |