Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleep onset time was reduced from 33 minutes during baseline recordings to less than 5 minutes by the seventh night , and time spent awake after going to sleep was reduced from about 30 minutes to virtually zero . |
| 2 | The estimated time to get to sleep after going to bed was reduced to a quarter of the baseline levels , and reports of difficulty in getting to sleep were reduced to a third of what they had been . |
| 3 | However , the writer who most explicitly questions the Western cultural tradition and proclaims the need for an alternative way of relating to reality is Julio Cortázar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I asked you through the Medau News last year to all help and make our fund raising this year a really great success and when you know that the figure at the time of going to press is over £2,600 you will all be as pleased as our Treasurer is . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Richard Baxter 's ambition of going to university was never fulfilled . |
| 8 | For the parson the whole point of going to university was to become a minister of God . |
| 9 | ‘ Help me get out of going to Gran 's on Sunday . ’ |
| 10 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 11 | His only real chance of coming to grief was that of being struck by a stray round-shot , an unlikely mishap , for they sank as soon as they landed . |
| 12 | A second and smaller reason for attending to causation is that too dramatic conceptions of it , such as those which connect it with certain images or ideas of power , or fate or plan , or compulsion , or logical connection , distort one 's responses to determinism . |
| 13 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 14 | That amount of daily fresh air and exercise does wonders for health and fitness , so the time taken in travelling to work is actually being put to good use . |
| 15 | A further problem is that no one is quite sure exactly what defines health care and social care , since an individual 's progress in responding to treatment is often measured by an improvement in the performance of social care tasks and everyday activities . |
| 16 | The only people who had trouble in adjusting to work were those who for some reason deviated from this model — either by going up the social scale or by going down it ( social mobility is more fully discussed by Geoff Payne in this volume ) . |
| 17 | Studies have shown that the men most vulnerable to problems in adjusting to retirement are career ‘ high-fliers ’ and the self-employed . |
| 18 | We saw that the chief consequence of the change from foraging to hunting was the restitution of the primal father in the totem-animal which was worshipped , and also in the totemic taboos in which his moral authority lived on . |
| 19 | That certain carcinogens exert their effect without binding to DNA is well known . |
| 20 | The obvious fact that stressful circumstances , such as anger or danger , are not conducive to going to sleep is due to adrenalin to a large extent . |
| 21 | For example , students who have had a full-time job prior to coming to university are less likely to withdraw or fail , while conversely , students whose homes are close to university are more likely to become non-graduates . |
| 22 | The financial benefits gained in terms of productivity and maintaining an occupational income by returning to work are clear . |