Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it can be argued that neither strategy has succeeded in making a significant enough difference in Third World women 's access to information and skills relevant to them and useful for contributing to development in their communities . |
| 2 | Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’ |
| 3 | What advice can you give to anybody thinking about applying to university in nineteen eighty-five ? |
| 4 | Just five months after returning to football after a lengthy ban for failing a drugs test , the temperamental star faces a showdown tomorrow with Sevilla officials . |
| 5 | True Brit Christie 's first action after storming to victory in just 9.96 seconds was to snatch a giant Union Jack flag from British fans and drape it around his shoulders for his rousing lap of honour . |
| 6 | After going to work in the Gulf states she was offered a job with the princesses . |
| 7 | PS I do n't think you should marry that young man in the back row of the chorus , it 's too soon after going to bed with your horse dressed up as a Praetorian Guard . |
| 8 | She was found slumped dead on the floor after going to bed with a sore throat , the inquest heard . |
| 9 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 10 | Most living reptiles and all of the primitive ones lay eggs , and this amniote egg , from which perfectly-formed baby reptiles hatch , marks the complete emancipation from the necessity of returning to water for reproduction . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The question of keeping to convention versus innovating is particularly acute in this kind of example ; and on balance it may be a good idea to reformulate problematic sentences slightly so that they can follow punctuation conventions and be clear at the same time . |
| 14 | The existence of this body of appellate decisions in social security matters has the obvious effect of contributing to consistency of decision making not only by adjudication officers in their initial decisions on claims , but also by SSATs . |
| 15 | On the other hand , you may be looking for video material which gives your students the experience of listening to speech against background noise , coming from speakers who are making no concessions to their listeners . |
| 16 | Williams maintained he has no intention of bowing to pressure from the French government by including a black player in their all-white touring party . |
| 17 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 18 | And she told me about her relations , of one young cousin in particular , who had never thrived but sat by the fire instead of going to school with the other children , not growing an inch . |
| 19 | It seems there is a waiting list for uniform grants , because so many people can not afford to buy them and will not put their children through the humiliation of going to school without the proper uniform . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | AT the time of going to Press with this edition of The Embalmer , we received the sad news of the death of Past President and Fellow Tom Horsfield on Sunday 4th October . |
| 22 | The psychophysiologist can not as yet match the experiences of going to sleep with the measures of brain function that are currently available . |
| 23 | Who was talking of going to work for a different firm then ? |
| 24 | She should have taken Clare up on her offer of going to work with her one day . |
| 25 | It is again the age of going to work by train . |
| 26 | If you went out to dinner , you did n't think of how to get out of going to bed with him , it was how to get out of the car without kissing him . ’ |
| 27 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 28 | But the idea of going to bed with a woman revolted him . |
| 29 | ‘ It almost broke me to hear you accuse me of going to bed with you to get a story . |
| 30 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |