Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victimized workers may not have won their jobs back , but they and other workers learned about the value of self-organization at work as well as about strategies for relating to trade unions . |
| 2 | For details about applying to summer schools , see Appendix C on p 134 . |
| 3 | After going to evening classes to study dress design , Claire hoped for better things , but was soon disillusioned when she found that her employer expected to use her designs without paying her . |
| 4 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 5 | I did a lot of listening to focus groups in the middle of September . |
| 6 | Severe oesophagitis patients had a similar long history of smoking to adenocarcinoma patients ( median 38.5 , range 27–55 years ) ; again much greater than CLO patients ( p<0.003 ) ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 7 | The cost of smoking to industry results from lost productivity due to sickness absences , impaired productivity due to poor health , and interruption of production from time given to smoking . |
| 8 | Course I hung around in the park instead of going to clarinet lessons . |
| 9 | Patients in whom there is a loss of warning of hypoglycaemia , possibly linked with the use of human insulin , should be identified , counselled , and given the choice of switching to animal insulins ( specific advice is available from the British Diabetic Association ) . |
| 10 | Mr Nicoll stressed the importance of speaking to art historians in order to canvass opinion on where revisions are necessary , which old volumes would benefit from splitting up and also what new topics should be commissioned . |
| 11 | Management in the ambulance dispute told Acas , the conciliation service , that they had no intention of acceding to union demands . |
| 12 | In the Health Service , authoritarian corporatist administration is a way of responding to system pressures for restricted public expenditure . |
| 13 | If they stand a chance at all of appealing to agency workers , it will only be ( as the General and Municipal union have done in trying to attract the self-employed ) by appealing to individualist , entrepreneurial interests rather than collectivist , employee interests . |
| 14 | We still talk of yielding to animal passions . |
| 15 | Such pieces are also excellent for adding to spaghetti sauces and for mincing with other meats for meatballs , again to serve with pasta . |
| 16 | He was hoping that such a system of signs , reflecting English usage and grammar , might be acceptable as a tool for teaching to oralist teachers . |
| 17 | Two Japanese car makers are developing electric-powered versions of their luxury models , designed for leasing to government officials . |
| 18 | HMIP 's policing function will be crucial in bringing to book companies that pollute air and waterways . |
| 19 | Proponents of this definition often assume that criminal law is closely related to the consensus , although they accept that law may be tardy in reacting to changing attitudes . |
| 20 | Gradually , competition between the entrepreneurs as buyers , and again as sellers , will succeed in communicating to market participants a correct estimate of the other market participants ' eagerness to buy and to sell . |
| 21 | He said Labour , Conservative and Lib Dems have refused to share a debate with Dr Clarke but he warned the BNP would not be prevented from going to election meetings in the town . |
| 22 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 23 | I wa I wanted a a point that er respond er neighbourhood and the manager I spoke to said that the areas that were the case since er , de decentralisation because er people are er er in coming to neighbourhood offices and that of the of the managers arrange er er er aims or er either run in in two neighbourhoods er er I I feel personally it 's been very worthwhile because we were able to talk to the er , they they they were never able to go and and and they came to the er , the neighbourhood offices international conducive er er er or er er ah i i in areas they want to talk to , so I I , I personally would would like to see this continuing er for perhaps a it is n't the best value for money i i i it certainly far better for for for can come to their neighbour office Speak |
| 24 | It will concentrate in particular on the difficulties which people have travelling to work , in travelling in their search for jobs , and in travelling to health facilities . |
| 25 | The skills of the authorities in responding to stockmarket crashes , the spread of economic weight around the globe , the fact that the economic cycles of Japan and Germany seem unsynchronised with those of America and Britain , the role of taxes and public spending as automatic stabilisers in modern economies — all these are most reassuring . |
| 26 | In appealing to conference delegates he stressed the latter . |
| 27 | On returning to work employees are offered a position at at least the same level as their last job . |
| 28 | Joyce 's drawling nasal delivery ( the result of a broken nose in his schooldays ) attracted widespread interest in Britain , where no restrictions were placed on listening to enemy broadcasts , and he was quickly dubbed ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ , a kind of malign Bertie Wooster ( see Sir P. G. Wodehouse , q.v. ) , whose opinions were a subject only for entertainment . |
| 29 | The result is a flatter seven-layer management structure , the closure of seven factories , a tightening of the time it takes to bring products to market , and a concentration of effort on selling to industry sectors in which the company has established expertise . |
| 30 | The trust 's strategy may include putting paintings and sculpture in public places to be enjoyed by people not used to going to art galleries . |