Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chemically based methods of attending to disease and their toxic effects will soon be replaced by electro-magnetic therapy on a global scale . |
| 2 | Differential strengths of binding to mucus may explain this , particularly since zinc and copper have greater affinity for most polyanionic metal binding substrates than magnesium and calcium . |
| 3 | The main topics covered are finance , health and leisure , together with the social aspects of adjusting to retirement . |
| 4 | Well , where disability commences within six months of returning to work after a previous claim due to the same or related causes in which case no deferred period will apply , and so therefore your right answer is B folks . |
| 5 | A healthy young adult will typically have reached this stage of sleep within 20 minutes of going to bed , and sleep now continues to deepen , with larger and more persistent slow waves dominating the EEG record . |
| 6 | In practice this means a regularity in mealtimes , times of physical and social activity , and times of going to bed and rising . |
| 7 | He even put the woman 's view to a certain extent : ‘ Miriam knew that their marriage was dead , but took comfort in the old rituals of going to bed together and getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 8 | The psychophysiologist can not as yet match the experiences of going to sleep with the measures of brain function that are currently available . |
| 9 | She paused , as the noises of going to bed reached them from downstairs — the snick of the light switch , the clang of the damper on the boiler , the sharp reports of bolts being shot home . |
| 10 | Costs of adjusting to inflation |
| 11 | Costs of switching to coal , the need for expensive handling facilities , the expense of pollution controls and storage problems are all limiting factors . |
| 12 | The Costs of Smoking to Industry |
| 13 | Successive governments have refused to implement the recommendation of the Evershed Committee in 1953 that the costs of going to law over issues of general public importance should be paid out of public funds . |
| 14 | But if a solicitor had made it and put three halves we could take an action against that solicitor or the executor could to erm for the costs of going to court to find out what on earth the will meant . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now on twenty two and a half thousand , bearing in mind that you would n't have the costs of going to work erm your travelling expenses and everything that you would occur in work you would most probably be able to keep all of these |
| 17 | Those who observed the Scots without the disadvantages of succumbing to rheumatism or feeling the humiliation of having failed to conquer them — or having been brought up in luxury in France — could see beyond the poverty to these characteristics . |
| 18 | Henderson was swamped by back-slapping colleagues who have helped him through the difficulties of adapting to life in Zimbabwe in the last two weeks . |
| 19 | 6.1 THE RELEVANCE OF THEORIES OF MEANING TO EPISTEMOLOGY |
| 20 | However , if the patient is younger , and would wish to return to work , you should not make any hasty decisions about the patient 's long-term prospects of returning to employment . |
| 21 | They offer adults ways of returning to education , perhaps through the desire for self development and change , or in search of fresh interests and commitments . |
| 22 | But once Pietro started sounding off to the press they had to stand by you to avoid charges of bowing to pressure . ’ |
| 23 | Gravity 's Rainbow ( 1973 ) marks Pynchon 's most complex investigation of the ramifications of plotting to date . |
| 24 | For a while it looked as though Germany were going to sidestep all the unpleasant consequences of going to war against its neighbours — the most predictable being the payment of reparations — by avoiding a full surrender . |
| 25 | His account of ideology on the other hand is much more rewarding , locating it as he does in the presuppositions necessary for social life and avoiding the philosophical consequences of attempting to privilege one perspective . |
| 26 | ‘ The economic consequences of having to achiee ‘ zero ’ emissions are , however , quite severe . |
| 27 | BRITISH hopes of returning to normalcy in negotiations with China over the future of Hong Kong appeared to have been thwarted yesterday as the 14th round of Sino-British talks ended with only limited signs of progress . |