Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibilities opened up are exceptionally exciting and realisable provided certain strange notions of academic freedom ( in this case often amounting to a student fishing desperately around for an ‘ original ’ and totally useless subject like the history of his old school ) , can be avoided . |
| 2 | Could there really be a building site in the middle of this swamp rapidly reverting to nature after a brief and unsuccessful flirtation with civilization , Zen wondered ? |
| 3 | The second gate leads to a road , which you cross to another road opposite leading to Far Arnside Caravan Park . |
| 4 | Today there are probably 12,000 healers in this country alone according to Denis Haviland , the director of the Confederation of Healing Organisations . |
| 5 | For this scheme it would seem sensible to order the foci within each facet differently according to the nature of the facet . |
| 6 | What he describes is a series of patrilineal descent groups , each person necessarily belonging to one because he has a father ; and necessarily belonging to only one because he has only one father . |
| 7 | Two lovely lads I 'll tell you and that concert tonight going to be er absolute corker it 's at the Royal Concert Hall tonight in Nottingham . |
| 8 | Is that verse there referring to the ones that have spiritual lives on the earth or the ones that already in , in the , the heaven with the spirit lives in there , you know what I mean ? |
| 9 | ‘ Subject as above , ’ — and subsection ( 1 ) deals with the fact that certain provisions extend to Northern Ireland — ‘ and to any provision expressly relating to companies incorporated elsewhere than in Great Britain , nothing in this Act extends to Northern Ireland or applies to or in relation to companies registered or incorporated in Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | One person in 10 failed to spell any word correctly according to the Gallup survey of 1,000 adults . |
| 11 | Though Sergeant was no longer in charge of " drill " ( that task now falling to the PE Department ) , he still had plenty to do , receiving visitors to the School , answering the telephone , issuing stationery , working the duplicating machine , looking after the dinner register , the absentee book , the late book , distributing correspondence , and looking after casualties . |