Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [noun sg] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 2 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 3 | Since history is a discipline of a highly verbal nature , a grasp of its terminology is obviously an important objective , contributing to achievement in all aspects of its study … |
| 4 | For this reason , the great part of reports relating to warfare in this period concern sieges . |
| 5 | 10.2 Prior to an employee returning to work in these circumstances , the Director of Social Work will also consider : |
| 6 | He would discover that the report advocates the grouping of pupils according to ability in many circumstances , in order to place the pupil in a specific ability group for a particular purpose as that is a more flexible device for teaching older children in a number of subjects . |
| 7 | I think you 'll be going to bed in that soon and if you mess it up then you 'll never sleep . |
| 8 | Are you going to sleep in that pit all fucking day ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not going to sleep in this house , ’ she insisted in a tearful , hiccupy voice . |
| 10 | its not how they came into the world of real names to stick with prat names like Beatrice and , I mean I know its old royal and that and I mean fancy going to school in that bloody Henry and William , I mean William 's not too bad |
| 11 | The terrier , a Jack Russell , was always a hunting animal , working rough ground and even going to ground in those situations where it could safely get down into a fox earth or a drainpipe . |
| 12 | Furthermore , pointing to inflexibility in some prices does not by itself show that the assumption of general price flexibility is unreasonable . |
| 13 | The reality , however , was that , once the great crisis failed to appear , de Gaulle played out his hand in a conventional electoral fashion , because he saw no alternative to coming to power in that way . |
| 14 | However , most respondents who were not themselves sole practitioners stopped well short of endorsing this argument although they were often inclined to the view that in choosing to practice in this way , sole principals should accept that the greater risk they represented to the profession should be reflected in increased contributions on their part to the Compensation and Indemnity Funds . |
| 15 | ‘ Imagine , man , trying to kip in this , ’ he kept asking , to anyone who would listen , as he demonstrated the inconvenience of his garb . |
| 16 | This will-to-meaning , Frankl argues , is more important than will-to-power but , of course , an individual can be obsessed by power and gives meaning to life in this way . |