Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France boasts a rich and varied tradition of film-making where going to the cinema is an accepted part of people 's cultural and intellectual lives . |
| 2 | If you are a well-known personality , attractive looking and charming , you will find your task much easier : people tend to respond to such individuals rather than reacting to the content of their message . |
| 3 | Also the lack of organisation , although contributing to the involvement of members , makes it difficult to expand and develop these movements to any sort of state or national level . |
| 4 | Moving the special report , Section and Industrial Conferences and also President if I may , at the same time , moving motion one one one A on behalf of the C E C , rather than returning to the rostrum a second time . |
| 5 | Lorenzo with his Jessica await the return of Portia , remaining out in the still night rather than returning to the house . |
| 6 | In Tchaikovsky 's Second Symphony , Svetlanov allowed some brash brass and unrefined woodwind , seemingly relying on a performance routine rather than applying to the score any insight into the instrumental detail , the folk intonations which can bring it to life in terms of rhythm and melodic inflection . |
| 7 | But Paying Your Way was not respectable , any more than Keeping To The Left . |
| 8 | It 's worse than listening to the cricket match . |
| 9 | giving inaccurate advice based on previous experience rather than listening to the family |
| 10 | In comparison with other peoples of the world , Latin Americans read newspapers more than watching television , but less than listening to the radio . |
| 11 | This will mean that funding will go where it is most needed locally rather than according to a set of priorities determined in Whitehall . |
| 12 | Further evidence to suggest that events are important in depression according to their threatfulness rather than according to the amount of change they signify comes from a study by Tennant and Andrews ( 1978 ) . |
| 13 | Although according to the Manpower Services Commission 2 out 3 people get jobs after the Youth Training Scheme , this varies again between schemes and between regions . |
| 14 | Services run by FIS-controlled local councils remained suspended , although according to the Economist of June 8 " the strike fizzled , partly because so many of the FIS 's young followers have no jobs to strike from " . |
| 15 | Inman was retired prematurely and his post abolished , and Hunt was given an annual salary of £1,000 for a minimum of one day a week at the Office , although according to the Secretary , he was usually there ‘ nearly half a week ’ . |
| 16 | Standards for exposure to benzene are expected by the UK government to be set in 1993 : a level of 3 ppb is under consideration , although according to the World Health Organization there is " no known safe threshold dose " . |
| 17 | I had always been keen on hillwalking and loved nothing more than escaping to the peace of the hills with my three oldest and closest friends . |
| 18 | Bacardi and coke is my only tipple and I do sometimes get through a couple on nights when I 'm in myself , well it 's better than turning to the biscuit barrel is n't it ? |
| 19 | Some sales managers feel that selling abroad is impossibly difficult , but those who try it feel that it is no more difficult than selling to the home market . |
| 20 | When an old issue of bonds is approaching maturity , the Bank of England will probably enter the market to buy them back over a number of weeks or months , rather than waiting to the maturity date and then suddenly releasing a large amount of liquidity into the economy . |
| 21 | You will find yourself well satisfied by one dish rather than succumbing to the temptation of eating several smaller dishes that eventually mount up ! |
| 22 | Allocations under this heading are based upon estimates of actual numbers of pupils , with the result that discretionary expenditure on children above the minimum school leaving age is compensated , rather than adhering to a principle of assessing basic needs equitably . |
| 23 | David Tweedie and the Accounting Standards Board have made it clear that they are losing patience with companies — and their auditors — that bend the rules by interpreting the letter of pronouncements rather than adhering to the spirit . |
| 24 | He used to say that nothing could be more ludicrous than going to a football match and then reading somebody else 's account of what you had already seen . |
| 25 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 26 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
| 27 | It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye . |
| 28 | Cheaper than going to the specialist , and you may still benefit from some after-sales service . |
| 29 | than going to the court , erm for |
| 30 | Having your hair cut in a professional salon can be even more traumatic than going to the dentist . |