Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these legislative changes have made it increasingly difficult for local authorities to avoid appearing to lurch from crisis to crisis . |
| 2 | In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent . |
| 3 | Then I asked , as we were going to go from century to century , if I could be allowed to collect a few bits of paraphernalia as we went along — odd little items that had taken my fancy which would then turn up in other stories . |
| 4 | A girl who I go with , she 's been teaching as well and her husband 's already in the hope that when she finishes they 're going to emigrate to America to . |
| 5 | Now it 's obviously going to vary from establishment to establishment , but do you feel that we perhaps still have some way to go ? |
| 6 | Peter Eatherley , head of T&L 's speciality sweeteners division , admits that food and drinks customers are not going to switch from aspartame to sucralose overnight . |
| 7 | I was to have broken my leg attempting to get from bed to the top of the stars . |
| 8 | I I 'm going to say about back to this erm sump oil . |
| 9 | Each of these later terms implies an act of variable social choice : deciding to recognize a poet or poets ; deciding to act as patron to them . |
| 10 | The report says that tan begun in Torremolinos and beginning to fade on re-entry to the UK , is decidedly downmarket . |
| 11 | The cab was , very gently , beginning to sway from side to side . |
| 12 | Above us the sky is beginning to turn from black to purple , and the walls of the canyon are faintly visible as immense dark shapes looming overhead . |
| 13 | In this chapter we can only suggest some of the factors which ought to be considered in beginning to think of answers to them . |
| 14 | It stood four square , its dark red walls half covered with large-leafed Virginia creeper just beginning to change from green to gold and russet colours . |
| 15 | By the end of the 18th century , however , the emphasis was beginning to change from fieldwork to excavation . |
| 16 | The winches could then be run instantly without having to wait for steam to be available . |
| 17 | Service trades offer the opportunity to create jobs quicker because they fulfil a requirement that already exists , rather than attempting to create a market for a new product and often having to wait for factories to be built and machinery installed . |
| 18 | However , overloading of certain services remains a major problem , and reports have been received of passengers having to stand from Birmingham to Aberystwyth ! |
| 19 | Her eyes , threatening to turn from amber to gold as the two of them sat there over a casual dinner on her balcony , briefly dared him to develop the theme , just before she dropped them . |
| 20 | Having the conduct of the drafting of the agreement is a considerable advantage because points agreed in negotiation can be reflected in the document in the way in which the lawyers drafting it prefer , and it is the other party who is always having to ask for changes to the text . |
| 21 | ‘ but an excess of out door ceremony tended and still tends to prevent the female from acquiring the proper use of her limbs , and of learning to bound from rock to rock with the celerity of the fleecy rangers of the mountains . ’ |
| 22 | They had shot and killed Chris Gueffroy , the last person to die trying to escape from East to West Germany , as he attempted to cross the border to West Berlin on Feb. 6 , 1989 . |
| 23 | Aeroflot is also hoping to fly from Stansted to the United States later this year , now that traffic agreements between the two countries for the state airline have been agreed and when long range aircraft become available . |
| 24 | Since deregulation , buses are only trying to get from A to B as fast as possible in order to make as much profit as possible . |
| 25 | He says he set out last night and is still trying to get from Bristol to Bracknell . |
| 26 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |