Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have an instrument like this for listening to the TV . |
| 2 | Was , was everybody embarrassed about going to the pawnbrokers or did n't did n't some people |
| 3 | Engineering is a professional subject and the BEng and MEng degrees offered in the School are all accredited by the appropriate Professional Engineering Institution as acceptable for leading to the status of Chartered Engineer . |
| 4 | Writers about midlife are fond of referring to the empty nest syndrome , much to the annoyance of feminists , who deplore the notion that women need children to bolster their sense of self-worth . |
| 5 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |
| 6 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Anyway , what 's so wrong with going to the lavatory ? |
| 8 | ‘ But note that this is quite different from attributing to the Church in its established structures the dignity of being the Kingdom of Christ . |
| 9 | This is a matter which is particularly in the province of the justices who are deciding the case after hearing five days of evidence and it is impossible to suggest , in my judgment , that they were wrong in coming to the conclusion that the children ought not to be separated . |
| 10 | It predisposes us to think of coming to know , not simply as active in itself , but as inseparable from reacting to the object and acting in reply . |
| 11 | Many appointed in this way were ex-professional theatre actors or directors who for various reasons ( not always the best ) were interested in transferring to the amateur world . |
| 12 | Everyone was too interested in singing to the actions of the game to take much notice , but as the game came to an end the Brownies saw that Brown Owl was gazing upwards with a rather troubled look on her face . |
| 13 | They were still interested in affiliating to the Labour Party , though under the Labour Party rules this could not be recognised until 1940 . |
| 14 | We had quite a simple shot to make the green , and Lee says to me , ‘ Willie , I 'm only interested in getting to the middle of the green . ’ |
| 15 | He said he 's like to try just not er old en Robert Hardy 's our special patron really here , he 's very interested in coming to the banquet , he was up the other week was n't he , last Friday whenever it was . |
| 16 | Well , I would be interested in going to the Blackburn game , that is if there is still room in your car ! |
| 17 | If you did n't all want to go , you know you do n't have to go , but then I could just take maybe ten or fifteen of you , but how many will be interested in going to the one in the summer in this lovely out-door theatre ? |
| 18 | Now , i are we interested in going to the |
| 19 | Anybody interested in going to the theatre from tonight onwards a member of the G M B if they 've produced a ticket , you 'll get it for half price at the King 's Theatre . |
| 20 | erm , I do n't know if I 'm gon na have a spare ticket , but are you interested in going to the theatre on Thursday if I have . |
| 21 | Its chairman was John Grierson who had never been particularly interested in responding to the requirements of the commercial market-place , and production control was in the hands of John Baxter , a onetime director whose films had been of the prosaic but worthy variety . |
| 22 | What a delightful reflection for you and your dear wife that you should have been instrumental in contributing to the loveliness of the celestial kingdom , and that your beloved infant should be an additional star in diadem of Jesus ! |
| 23 | The report continues by making reference to the factors that might be instrumental in contributing to the development of a whole school policy : curriculum-general , language , mathematics , expressive subjects and physical education , science , social education ; schemes of work , children 's progress and school organisation . |
| 24 | The Cambridge Board was fully committed to its existing developments in the other counties , considered earlier in this chapter , and the LEA were averse to contributing to the salary of the tutor until the scheme had become firmly established in the county — a Catch 22 situation — and the scheme petered out in 1934 . |
| 25 | If all can be made relatively understandable to newcomers , then they will be better disposed to listening to the word of God preached with conviction , which the Bible says contains the seed of life to those who are otherwise perishing . |
| 26 | It is , however , difficult to account for properties 1 and 2 without appealing to the anthropic principle . |
| 27 | The Royal Commission sought to rectify this by returning to the twenty-four hour yardstick as the general rule . |
| 28 | At the time of King William 's visit in 1861 , Prussian policy had been simply that of holding to the treaties of 1815 with no thought of altering the status quo . |
| 29 | the fact of belonging to the same class , and that of belonging to the same generation or age group , have this in common , that both endow the individuals sharing in them with a common location in the social and historical process , and thereby limit them to a specific range of potential experience , predisposing them for a certain characteristic mode of thought and experience , and a characteristic type of historically relevant action . |
| 30 | This is primarily achieved by taking his appointment out of the control of the executive and making his statutory responsibility that of reporting to the House of Commons . |