Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was there a custom in the glen for folk to go ceilidhing to one another 's houses ? |
| 2 | WE WERE sailing from the Queensland port of Cairns to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 3 | The only firm suggestion to emerge from the meeting was a commitment by the Malaysian state of Sarawak to cut logging by 1.5 million cubic metres a year over the next two years . |
| 4 | But worries about psychologists ' neutrality continually resurface in the discipline , in a history which includes 1960s concerns with experimenter effects ; 1970s ethogeny ; a 1980s preoccupation with the social representations which psychologists as well as subjects draw on ; and a long list of attempts to replace living with automated experimenters , from written instructions , to computers . |
| 5 | The Party chairman would decide later that day on what course of action to take pertaining to the Young Conservatives : the morning 's debate would continue as planned . |
| 6 | The formalised and structured use of a variety of books to support learning in schools came into play only when the school population had been weeded down to less that 10% of the state school population . ’ |
| 7 | I had to use a lot of rudder to keep sailing on a straight course . |
| 8 | Rejection of proposal to curb testing on animals |
| 9 | It took about a year to organize , partly because the idea blossomed in the summer , too late for that year ; it is not the sort of place to go cycling in the winter . |
| 10 | Another key area is that of alternatives to heat curing of coatings . |
| 11 | Claudia frowned , an icy feeling of trouble to come stealing over her . |
| 12 | Australian studies confirm the effectiveness of campaigns to reduce smoking with major mass media components ; the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation has made it possible for Quit to afford such components . |
| 13 | This clause was construed by both Evershed J and the Court of Appeal to include acting as a consultant . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ We can therefore expect , on government logic , local Conservative Associations to be taken over by business ratepayers bent on winning control of councils to promote spending on services and goods they either supply or would benefit them . |
| 15 | We all had an extra cup of coffee to celebrate meeting in a foreign land . |
| 16 | There developed a scrabble amongst dealers to avoid going to the bottom of the heap . |
| 17 | The Zimbabweans have even changed a World Cup date against Togo to avoid clashing with Grobbelaar 's testimonial game against Everton on October 10 . |
| 18 | She prayed for Oliver to come crashing into the flat and take control . |
| 19 | By early April large numbers of civilian refugees had crossed into Thailand to avoid fighting in the eastern town of Phaw Hta . |
| 20 | Rigby worked with ardour to suppress trafficking in slaves and his efforts to enforce the 1845 treaty were unremitting . |
| 21 | In the longer term , development work is well under way to continue adding to organic sales and profit growth in 1994 and beyond . |
| 22 | The aim of the ‘ new ’ hospital was in part to lessen overcrowding in the other twenty mental hospitals of the region , from which referrals would be taken , and in part to develop specialist methods of treatment for those who did not get better under ordinary therapeutic regimes . |
| 23 | I did n't have it in mind to go looking for a four-piece group . |
| 24 | In the Christmas of 1979 , Richard Branson took a holiday from Virgin to go ski-ing in the Colorado resort of Aspen . |
| 25 | The delicate balance of cooperation between them — occurring across the corpus callosum and involving some kind of filtering process — is therefore of crucial importance in allowing the left hemisphere to remain responsive to the right hemisphere 's influence , yet sufficiently in control to avoid overloading of conscious , directed thought . |
| 26 | and finally next Tuesday the country 's top dogs … are in Oxford to start racing for the Pall Mall trophy … its the richest prize of the year … at the Cowley Stadium … the final 's on March the twentieth |
| 27 | On the other , and more importantly for us here , it gives meaning to the past in order to give meaning to the present . |
| 28 | In order to give meaning to this sentence one would have to imagine a situation such as the following : someone was sorting pins of different sizes on a table ; without him seeing it , the smallest of these pins fell off the table and was heard to hit the floor by those present in the room . |
| 29 | The main role of the National Savings movement is to collect the savings of small or relatively unsophisticated savers in order to finance borrowing by the public sector . |
| 30 | Of the pole there is no sign , but it was originally so constructed as to act as a kind of lever in order to minimise jolting on rough surfaces . |