Example sentences of "[noun] of going to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Baxter 's ambition of going to university was never fulfilled . |
| 2 | It seems there is a waiting list for uniform grants , because so many people can not afford to buy them and will not put their children through the humiliation of going to school without the proper uniform . |
| 3 | Covering yourself against the expense of going to law : Sue Fieldman describes schemes that insure a policyholder against the risk of legal expenses |
| 4 | In addition , the cost of equipment and armour , the quality of which could vary considerably , added greatly to the expense of going to war . |
| 5 | A healthy young adult will typically have reached this stage of sleep within 20 minutes of going to bed , and sleep now continues to deepen , with larger and more persistent slow waves dominating the EEG record . |
| 6 | In practice this means a regularity in mealtimes , times of physical and social activity , and times of going to bed and rising . |
| 7 | He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 8 | She says that although victims may be worried that the attacker will rape another woman , they also have to consider what many rape victims feel is the ordeal of going to court and re-living the rape in the witness box . |
| 9 | Some of these points are illustrated in Table 3.1 which compares the effects of sleep at night and during the day upon growth hormone release and deep sleep ( dominated by an external cause , the act of going to sleep ) and cortisol release and REM sleep ( dominated by the body clock ) . |
| 10 | Or do you believe in the act of Going to Church ? |
| 11 | The psychophysiologist can not as yet match the experiences of going to sleep with the measures of brain function that are currently available . |
| 12 | She paused , as the noises of going to bed reached them from downstairs — the snick of the light switch , the clang of the damper on the boiler , the sharp reports of bolts being shot home . |
| 13 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 14 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 15 | George and Elizabeth were on the point of going to bed when they heard a knock on the door . |
| 16 | For the parson the whole point of going to university was to become a minister of God . |
| 17 | All that changed , however , when he realised a rich talent for spin bowling was in danger of going to waste . |
| 18 | Successive governments have refused to implement the recommendation of the Evershed Committee in 1953 that the costs of going to law over issues of general public importance should be paid out of public funds . |
| 19 | But if a solicitor had made it and put three halves we could take an action against that solicitor or the executor could to erm for the costs of going to court to find out what on earth the will meant . |
| 20 | The costs of going to court are likely to be higher than the value of the contract and the only beneficiaries are typically the lawyers . |
| 21 | Now on twenty two and a half thousand , bearing in mind that you would n't have the costs of going to work erm your travelling expenses and everything that you would occur in work you would most probably be able to keep all of these |
| 22 | He was on the verge of going to bed when he heard footsteps in the hall . |
| 23 | When my father suggested I apply , I was pleased and very excited at the prospect of going to boarding-school , which seemed to me to be an adventure , an escape from boredom . |
| 24 | He walks up and down for a while outside , unable to settle to the prospect of going to bed . |
| 25 | ‘ Why , methought you were overjoyed at the prospect of going to court ! ’ remarked Joan , to whom the idea was akin to going as a mere mortal to fairyland . |
| 26 | She should have taken Clare up on her offer of going to work with her one day . |
| 27 | It is again the age of going to work by train . |
| 28 | A friend of Ken 's had just taken his life after being given the choice of going to prison or a mental hospital . |
| 29 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 30 | And what was your first memory of going to school ? |