Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came as the parents of 12-year-old victim Timothy Parry — hanging on to life by a thread in a Liverpool hospital came to terms with the fact that he is unlikely to survive . |
| 2 | However , the parents of 12-year-old victim Tim Parry — hanging on to life by a thread in a Liverpool hospital yesterday came to terms with the fact that he is unlikely to survive . |
| 3 | Today , we debate a legislative programme that could have been proposed only by a Government who have no purpose other than hanging on to office for a few more months . |
| 4 | Track descends ; 150 yds before bottom of slope , where track bends to the left and immediately before copse begins on right , cross ditch on right and bear half left on other side , keeping close to copse on your left . |
| 5 | Radio Rentals take a pride in keeping up to date with new broadcasting technology . |
| 6 | ‘ I really enjoy my job and especially like keeping up to date with all the modern styles , ’ says the enthusiastic young stylist from Hampshire . |
| 7 | Having an overview also means being in the picture about your role and those of your subordinates and superiors in the company , about your company 's profile in the larger comparative corporate picture , and keeping up to date with all that 's new in your business or profession through professional organisations , the trade press and national newspapers . |
| 8 | Keeping up to date with developments in your own specialty can go a long way to adding to your confidence . |
| 9 | In those days all aircrew had to take a six monthly Basic Efficiency Examination to ensure they were keeping up to date with equipment and training procedures . |
| 10 | At present the fiction that each MP acts on his own judgement and takes a discriminating part in legislation is preserved by insisting that members must be present and pass through the lobbies night after night , though in fact such activity makes no material difference , but seriously impedes MPs in their task of keeping up to date with their special interests and with their constituency work . |
| 11 | Keeping up to date with the latest product developments can be a full time job , particularly in the scientific world . |
| 12 | That , er , Chairman , if I could say the thing that bothers me here is that , it always has done about food , is that we should be keeping up to date with information , all these decisions and all this advice . |
| 13 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |
| 14 | By contrast , general purposive browsing describes the academic researcher who indulges in a similar activity of looking over books but with a serious purpose in mind , such as keeping up to date in his field or looking for new ideas . |
| 15 | Four activities , in , matter : the way in which teaching and learning are conducted , keeping up to date in a subject , applying a new technology and managing the sequence of review , improvement and change . |
| 16 | We hope that the more frequent training schedule will enable us to get students out teaching classes earlier in the course , returning later to top-up for the examination . |
| 17 | Many of our class members attended both the Easter Course at Walsall and the Lilleshall Course , returning back to base with glowing reports stimulating much interest for next year 's Courses . |
| 18 | Care should be taken for claims relating solely to loss of cash . |
| 19 | Returning now to monism v. pluralism , the central issue , expressed in terms of predicates , reduces to the question whether we can somehow make do without any polyadic predicates , except perhaps those of the " reflexive " variety ? |
| 20 | Emerge on to estate road , turn right and after 50 yds where road bends right , take gate ahead and cross parkland , passing just to left of Fawsley church . |
| 21 | The last time he had seen him the Trollslayer had been wandering off to booze with his fellow outcast Dwarfs . |
| 22 | We will be offering advice and support , and listening carefully to feedback from centres on their experience of implementing the new awards . |
| 23 | Taking off as a conventional aircraft the plane would take its passengers into space , reaching 18,0000 mph before gliding back to earth like the Space Shuttle . |
| 24 | I swear that dog was looking out to sea with his blind eye . |
| 25 | As Trudgill ( 1974 ) has shown ( see figure 5.2 ) , [ h ] -loss in Norwich is socially stratified , with lower-class speakers tending strongly to loss of [ h ] , despite the fact that surrounding rural dialects tend to preserve [ h ] . |
| 26 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 27 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 28 | She was not looking forward to life at her uncle 's house . |
| 29 | Successful and loving couple Jessie and Mark are looking forward to life in their new love-nest . |
| 30 | He had worked hard all his life and had served his country for four years and was looking forward to retirement in the home he had worked for all his days . |