Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reasons for writing to the Lancet are frustration that we have been discredited , that our grants depend on this work and also that all the evidence is in writing . ’ |
| 2 | He gave me two good reasons for moving to the city . |
| 3 | Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ . |
| 4 | Vice Chair , I have given the Council , I believe , many good reasons for electing to the office of Lord Mayor for this year . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |
| 6 | And three words per second is the way that television presenters make er , their scripts for presenting to the public in a news bulletin . |
| 7 | The child needs to be motivated and so receiving rewards for going to the lavatory when reminded or for staying dry can be an incentive for the younger child . |
| 8 | It is also evident that , unlike Carter , Reagan had no inhibitions about tending to the needs of congressmen in return for their support . |
| 9 | The hope is that these peptides might compete with the virus proteins for binding to the receptor molecules . |
| 10 | In part this resulted from increased opportunities for exporting to the periphery . |
| 11 | Although throughout the crisis Alexander III had expressed his contempt for any concessions to appease the government 's critics , for some two months after coming to the throne he hesitated to reverse official policy . |
| 12 | I 'm getting worn out doing this , it 's hurting my eyes after going to the pictures and then doing all these bingo cards for granddad |
| 13 | Signatories of GATT could institute tariff changes which might discriminate against third parties only if done over a long period of time , so giving those third parties the opportunities of adjusting to the change without suffering severe economic disruption . |
| 14 | Five aspects of belonging to the Spirit |
| 15 | Make a simple plan of the area and trace or copy shapes of paving to the same scale . |
| 16 | A lot of people went back to hospital within 2 or 3 months of moving to the community . |
| 17 | In November 1558 , she was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth , who within a few months of coming to the throne had authorized a new religious settlement which once again left the country officially Protestant . |
| 18 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 19 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 20 | Contemporaries believed that the riots which occurred at elections were frequently caused by " hired gangs " employed by one of the parties to prevent their opponents ' supporters from coming to the poll . |
| 21 | The fans absolutely loved him and would throng the terraces to witness his extrovert pre-match warm-up sessions , in which he entertained and even amused the supporters before returning to the dressing-room as mud-stained and soiled as if he had been playing in a game . |
| 22 | ‘ These factors do discourage shoppers from coming to the centre . |
| 23 | He intended to stay six months before returning to the secure family practice . |
| 24 | THERE was a somewhat disturbing influence of life imitating art at San Quentin prison last month when Robert Alton Harris chose his last words before going to the gas chamber . |
| 25 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 26 | Political opponents such as Mr Chihana take great risks by returning to the country ; Dr Banda recently said that if they did , they would be ‘ meat for crocodiles ’ . |
| 27 | The storyteller explains her words by referring to the deaths of her father-in-law and husband , as well as the capture of the ark . |
| 28 | He ignored her words by reverting to the former subject . |
| 29 | Once you start walking regularly you can vary your walks by going to the park , the beach or the hills . |
| 30 | Ambassador Lipski had begun to complain to Göring that German newspapers like Der Stürmer and Der Gessilige from Pila were stirring up resentment against the Poles throughout the border districts by referring to the forcible separation of Danzig from the Reich , and by referring to the Polish Corridor as land ceded to Poland . |