Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the timescale for contributing to planning and design features has been shortened drastically , and in fact most of that detailed work has to be completed by the end of this month . |
| 2 | ‘ Nurseries provide the best possible start for children and give women choices about returning to work or returning to training . ’ |
| 3 | Within the confines of the garden your dog will have learnt the basic commands such as walking to heel and sitting . |
| 4 | What 's the point of returning to work and allowing someone else to bring up the child ? |
| 5 | In the former exhibition , George Mackie , DFC , RDI , RSW , one of this century 's leading graphic artists , confronts the challenge of explaining to layman and bibliophile alike the nature of his ‘ invisible ’ craft and the intellectual and emotional considerations which underline it , and this theme is further elaborated in the accompanying catalogue , Books , mostly scholarly and some Ephemera , designed by George Mackie , which was produced thanks to the generosity of The Stinehour Press , who printed it . |
| 6 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 7 | Lots of listening to music and singing from an early age always helps , ’ she says . |
| 8 | The Video book not only has optional teletext but there is a double soundtrack to give the viewer a choice of listening to commentary or bird song , or both . |
| 9 | She says that although victims may be worried that the attacker will rape another woman , they also have to consider what many rape victims feel is the ordeal of going to court and re-living the rape in the witness box . |
| 10 | All interest rates and lending criteria were correct at the time of going to press but readers should check with the lenders for the latest up-to-the-minute information . |
| 11 | THE ROYAL FOREST OF DEAN TOURIST ASSOCIATION AND THE DESIGNERS BELIEVE THAT ALL STATEMENTS HEREIN ARE CORRECT AT THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS AND CAN NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS . |
| 12 | However , since those changes were not finalised at the date of going to press and further revisions are possible in the light of comments it is not appropriate to review them here . |
| 13 | In practice this means a regularity in mealtimes , times of physical and social activity , and times of going to bed and rising . |
| 14 | A friend of Ken 's had just taken his life after being given the choice of going to prison or a mental hospital . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Invasion from Mars certainly contains some graphic case notes , such as the spinster who believed humanity deserved destruction for being too hedonistic ; and the unemployed young man who thought that this finally scuppered his chance of getting to college and work . |
| 17 | Beliefs are acceptable or not according as to whether they succeed in their goal of conforming to reality and receive credit or discredit for this by being called true or false . |
| 18 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |
| 19 | We begin by talking about their daily routine of coming to school and returning home , which they enact individually and in pairs . |
| 20 | Chemically based methods of attending to disease and their toxic effects will soon be replaced by electro-magnetic therapy on a global scale . |
| 21 | training and certification of competence ; this includes identifying training needs , distance learning and introduction of licensing to practice and certification schemes for workforce |
| 22 | His first memorandum began by indicting the government 's supposedly annexationist motives for going to war and went on to inveigh against the economic and cultural backwardness which the conflict had brought to light . |
| 23 | They 've been to bed and got up in the morning , and now they 're going off and doing things , like going to work and that . |
| 24 | Now I 've been most places it 's just like going to work and doing your gig . |
| 25 | They can carry on a normal life like going to school or work and having fun with their family and friends , but they will be infectious to other people for the rest of their lives . |
| 26 | In my excitement I had forgotten all the good advice about acclimatising to altitude and alcohol . |
| 27 | WORKERS have good reason to dislike Mondays … but it 's got little to do with returning to work and a lot to do with the air-conditioning , a researcher said yesterday . |
| 28 | In our own Ulster Nation we would have a free hand in bringing to justice and finally ridding the country of these butchers . |
| 29 | Intersleek works by preventing water-borne organisms from sticking to steel and concrete surfaces . |
| 30 | Six C&P employees were treated at the occupational health centre before returning to work and two members of the public attended hospital but were later discharged . |