Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Care should be taken for claims relating solely to loss of cash . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We will be offering advice and support , and listening carefully to feedback from centres on their experience of implementing the new awards . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 9 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 10 | She was not looking forward to life at her uncle 's house . |
| 11 | Successful and loving couple Jessie and Mark are looking forward to life in their new love-nest . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | THERE should be excitement leading eventually to excitation in the scientific community following President Reagan 's statement last week of his faith in science and scientists . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , many teachers ( and others ) foresaw , when they read the assessment proposals in TNC , the possibility of a ‘ national maths ( or science , etc. ) day ’ when all pupils would take the nationally prescribed tests leading eventually to publication of results for each class ( and their teacher ) , each school and each LEA . |
| 15 | • Media work has a particular significance , leading naturally to discussion of how spoken language and visual accompaniment are interpreted ; this leads to an understanding of the processes of selection , omission and editing which take place when any programme is prepared . |
| 16 | The development of relevant critical factors needs to be based on a properly sequenced series of requirements leading logically to success in the market place and hence NPV . |
| 17 | Worried about the impact of television on social habits , and disillusioned with British life , they constructed films depicting the destruction of traditional cultural forms , the dead-end nature of the proletarian life and the tawdriness of sexual relationships leading inevitably to closure in marriage . |
| 18 | Not that he was short of offers , but most of them , before the banal fashion for numbered sequels , were on the lines of After the Graduate , Another Graduate , Shadow of the Graduate , The Graduate Comes Home and Song of the Graduate , leading inevitably to Son of the Graduate . |
| 19 | In the economically more advanced countries , however , there does not exist a close relationship between age at first marriage and birth of first child , owing mainly to postponement of first birth through contraceptive use . |
| 20 | On reaching corner of hedge , right of way proceeds quarter left , aiming for left-hand side of small conifer plantation just in front of which cross footbridge and proceed to left of plantation to pick up track leading uphill to village of Bag Enderby ( a ) . |
| 21 | The essence of the model is that customer satisfaction , people [ employee ] satisfaction and impact on society are achieved through leadership driving policy and strategy , people management , resources and processes leading ultimately to excellence in business results . |
| 22 | Do not make for it but bear half right aiming just to right of nearest bushes . |
| 23 | Yet , whenever she contemplated a resumption of the life she had enjoyed before her initial meeting with Johnny , she felt a rising panic and a disinclination amounting almost to hostility at the very idea . |
| 24 | The Iranian government maintained its neutrality on the Gulf crisis [ see p. 37696 ] , reacting cautiously to news of the allied attack on Iraq on Jan. 16 . |
| 25 | Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December . |
| 26 | Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December . |
| 27 | So if you 're planning on running home to Mummy before tomorrow morning , you 'll have to phone Daddy to call for you , or take a taxi . " |
| 28 | At the end of 1987 they had failed to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup and then played two drawn series against India and Pakistan , in the latter case coming close to defeat before squeezing a two-wicket victory to square the rubber . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm glad that child 's coming here to dinner on Sunday , ’ Eddie Hogan said . |
| 30 | " But , hell , they 've been navigating safely to Aru for centuries . " |