Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And with fine understatement it records where getting from A to B is virtually impossible : ‘ There are no rail services in Equatorial Guinea , few tarred roads , very few buses and no taxis . ’ |
| 2 | If his plan worked , he would have an hour or two to himself dawdling along the reef , which was a better way of spending the afternoon than acting as nanny to four Latinos . |
| 3 | Worst match I 've ever seen ? losing away to Frickley Athletic in a pre-season friendly aa few years back — even worse than losing at home to Chester in the league/milk/littlewoods/whatever cup |
| 4 | Both stand outside religion , as formally understood ; but sympathetically , as if longing at times to be inside , and sadly conscious of its insuperable intellectual difficulties . |
| 5 | The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 ( see pa 90 of this issue ) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth , where she was based for some days for familiarisation trials . |
| 6 | The plane hit a mountain during a monsoon while flying from Bangkok to Kathmandu . |
| 7 | The allegations stemmed from a letter received by BR 's area manager at Gloucester in November 1990 , in which a woman alleged that her son and a friend , while travelling from Stonehouse to Gloucester , were stopped by the steward and asked if they were trying to avoid paying their fare . |
| 8 | While travelling from Kano to Lagos an officer of the French army recounts to a British member of the Nigerian Civil Service the mysterious circumstances in which , going to the relief of a desert fort manned by legionnaires , surrounded by rebel Tuaregs , he reaches his objective only to find no sign of a battle or siege , but a fort defended by corpses . |
| 9 | Joseph Gamgee recorded that on his return from the Continent , Sewell said ‘ I have seen more lame horses while posting from Harwich to London than I have met with in all my journeys and during my inspection of veterinary schools and public places in France , Switzerland , Germany and Belgium ’ . |
| 10 | Whether writing in response to an advertisement or making a general enquiry about work , the following points apply |
| 11 | When applying for entry to a conversion course , past experience and qualifications will be taken into account , of course , but the demand for places on the 52-week courses is such that returning nurses are likely to be disadvantaged from those already practising . |
| 12 | The tips of the fingers and toes are equipped with sucker-like discs that help them to cling on , and the long tail is used as a balance and brake when leaping from branch to branch . |
| 13 | Equation 7.7 can be compared with the earlier expression for geodesic deviation : taking account of the sign change in the spatial components of the metric when passing from Euclidean to Minkowski space . |
| 14 | There is nothing so soul-destroying as living from day to day with no purpose . |
| 15 | In general , it 's wise to think of each term 's tuition fees as costing from £1300 to £1600 ( prices current in 1989/90 ) . |
| 16 | Together they designed and supervised a large number of contracts , including the Wye Valley Railway , the Guernsey Tramway , the Cardiff and Penarth Tramway , the East Worcestershire Waterworks , and Totland Bay pier , as well as acting as engineers to the West Bromwich sanitary commissioners . |
| 17 | Certainly some men of the S.A.S. did ( as Captain Derrick Harrison tells us ) make a few training flights in gliders when waiting at Fairford to be sent to France ; and the use of gliders for later operations was considered . |
| 18 | ( We changed the sign of the dual variables corresponding to rows when going from TRP to TP . ) |
| 19 | Those whose careers were wholly tied to the Prison Service looked on the generalist civil servants at headquarters as lacking in commitment to the service . |
| 20 | As well as flying from Madrid to Miami , Iberia can now pick up extra passengers in Miami , ferrying them on in smaller aircraft to six Central American cities and the Mexican resort of Cancun . |
| 21 | Martin Knapp ( 1993 ) has summarized the dimensions along which reform is concurrently progressing as moving from supply-led to needs-led services ; from an emphasis on institutions to a reduced emphasis on institutions ; from a public welfare model to a mixed economy ; and a movement from health service to local authority provision . |
| 22 | Inability to shift status when moving from workplace to home can also cause difficulties . |
| 23 | Use your peripheral vision widely when moving from place to place . |
| 24 | When moving from place to place , we often carry things . |
| 25 | They seem to run more smoothly and quickly together when reading in comparison to the heaviness of the first part . |
| 26 | As well as differing from place to place , what is defined as crime changes over time . |
| 27 | It can therefore be argued that the virtuous conduct of which mankind is capable can be regarded as varying from individual to individual by quantity only . |
| 28 | When dealing with regression to an earlier stage in this lifetime , I like to try and go back initially to a relatively happy time in the patient 's life . |
| 29 | As well as campaigning for Oban to be made into a national park , WWF is also working closely with the government to nurture sustainable forest management . |