Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [noun sg] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of farm buildings at the site that date from the 17th and 18th centuries , the actual mill appearing to date from some point in the 19th century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | For this reason , the great part of reports relating to warfare in this period concern sieges . |
| 7 | Returning to education at any time is not easy with small children , little money and few available childcare facilities , but it can be done . |
| 8 | 10.2 Prior to an employee returning to work in these circumstances , the Director of Social Work will also consider : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The policies of the Fabians were described by Beatrice Webb during the 1890s as ‘ essentially collective ownership wherever practicable ; collective regulation everywhere else ; collective provision according to need for all the impotent and sufferers ; and collective taxation in proportion to wealth ’ . |
| 11 | The most noteworthy consequences of such an attitude was that at the same time as growing numbers of Latin Americans , particularly young people , were looking to Marxism for some kind of solution , the orthodox Communist parties were widely perceived to be inert and impotent . |
| 12 | ‘ Merymose is a braver man than I thought , if he is going to Kenamun of all people for the help of a former scribe of the Great Criminal ! ’ |
| 13 | So really I need to firm up with them , I 've dropped the seeds in to firm up the process and they 're going to work through that with the kids at the same time talking about what a record of achievement is , showing them what goes inside it , the importance of it etcetera . |
| 14 | We have n't set up a company , we 're just going to work on each other 's customer base and then take the value proposition to the market . |
| 15 | but I want to ask you , are you going to work on this idea of a core curriculum ? |
| 16 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 17 | He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it . |
| 18 | But if I 'm going to work for these people — and what choice do I have ? — I need all the forewarning I can get . |
| 19 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 20 | I think you 'll be going to bed in that soon and if you mess it up then you 'll never sleep . |
| 21 | AT the time of going to Press with this edition of The Embalmer , we received the sad news of the death of Past President and Fellow Tom Horsfield on Sunday 4th October . |
| 22 | Are you going to sleep in that pit all fucking day ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not going to sleep in this house , ’ she insisted in a tearful , hiccupy voice . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 26 | Most men and women would be better off for not going to prison at all . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They 're really going to town on these pavements are n't they ? |
| 29 | I was going to garden for some active therapy but when I got there I thought better of it . |
| 30 | This type of family construct can become entirely negative , leading to unhappiness on all sides . |