Example sentences of "of [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indulging in passive leisure activities such as reading and listening to the radio cost nothing and can seem a luxury after a lifetime of sticking to a working schedule . |
| 2 | Virtually anything is possible here and , for a relaxing change of pace , it is worthwhile hunting out a slow boat instead of sticking to a frenetic dash in the fast lane . |
| 3 | The importance of stopping smoking needs to be very strongly emphasised , as well as the advisability of sticking to a low animal fat diet for the future , of getting the weight down to normal and of taking those measures necessary to reduce blood pressure to an ideal level , i.e. reducing salt and alcohol intake , keeping the weight normal , taking regular exercise and avoiding anger . |
| 4 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 5 | This phenomenon raises the possibility of returning to a previous tableau , leading to the occurrence of cycling ( cf. Chapter 3 ) . |
| 6 | Those who are newly bereaved and naturally dread the loneliness of returning to an empty house should be visited frequently in their own homes ; and when you are able to persuade them to get out of their own four walls as much as possible for fresh air and exercise and to meet others and visit relatives , it can be a considerable help if you can bring them home and go in with them for a cup of tea or a chat , even if it is only just for a quarter of an hour . |
| 7 | The justification is that while someone is receiving acute care they have the prospect of returning to an independent life in the community , with consequent retention of personal housing . |
| 8 | Lamb stresses the importance of keeping to a strict timetable for meals . |
| 9 | The lower hill-slope fields show signs of reverting to a semi-natural state . |
| 10 | It was not until they levelled out that she thought again about the possibility of living to a ripe old age . |
| 11 | The auditory task consisted of listening to a random list of numbers and repeating them as they were presented . |
| 12 | Complaint may be made to the local authority environmental health department whose responsibility it is under s.91 of the Public Health Act 1936 to inspect their areas for the detection of nuisance and institute formal proceedings either summarily or in the High Court , where , in their opinion , the odour complained of amounts to a statutory nuisance within s.92 of that Act . |
| 13 | Such a construction put on the word ‘ nuisance ’ however renders the public health legislation ineffective in controlling odours which are neither prejudicial to health nor amount to a nuisance at common law but are still a source of annoyance and it still leaves environmental health officers with the task of assessing whether the odour complained of amounts to a common law nuisance . |
| 14 | The ‘ stick ’ of going to a rival company who would use the publicity can act as another pressure . |
| 15 | Like tonight , faced with the ordeal of going to a grand dinner party with people who all knew each other and were far removed from her experience , she had acquitted herself proudly and well . |
| 16 | Is there any possibility of going to a separate system and using er non potable water for all these other activities which must take up about seventy five or eighty percent of the quantities ? |
| 17 | An honourable offer from Covent Garden or Glyndebourne for a worthy artistic venture is acceptable , but ‘ if I have a feeling that someone 's dreaming of going to a small provincial European theatre because they 're offered 1,000 dollars and they think it 's more important than a whole season at the Kirov , I am so angry and upset that I am absolutely confident when I say do n't come back . |
| 18 | But what is the meaning of this apparently nonsensical ritual of going to a running stream at midnight at the time of a full moon ? |
| 19 | The mayor of Washington DC , Marion Barry , was indicted on Feb. 15 on three felony counts of lying to a federal grand jury and on five counts of cocaine possession . |
| 20 | Each faces the problem of adding to an existing work once thought complete . |
| 21 | Knowing an author 's homosexuality makes that decoding far easier ( if at the same time rather less triumphant there 's an undeniable pleasure in finding out that a favourite writer , actor or director you have admired for years turns out to be gay , as you always privately hoped and ‘ knew ’ ) but it returns us once again to the problem of biography , the danger of regressing to a simplistic reading of texts which simply locates their meanings in the author 's life story . |
| 22 | There is no need here to consider what is capable of amounting to a reasonable excuse , but it suffices to say that the defence is clearly of very limited scope . |
| 23 | and Otton J. ) affirmed his acquittal by the Crown Court ( which had allowed an appeal against conviction by justices ) on the ground that the defendant , when required to give blood , had raised an objection capable of amounting to a medical reason why blood should not be taken and that this could only be determined by a medical practitioner . |
| 24 | Of ge of getting to a hundred years old ? |
| 25 | Ethnicity , like social class , presents problems of definition , but can reasonably be described as an individual 's sense of belonging to a distinctive group whose members share a common history and culture . |
| 26 | In the first place , there are universal factors which contribute powerfully , in almost all cases , though in different measure ( see Brubaker , 1992 ) , to the formation of a sense of nationality : common descent ( that is , the idea of belonging to a distinctive ‘ people ’ ) , the occupation of a definite territory , a common language , and more broadly a common culture . |
| 27 | It did not challenge the essentials of the system between the wars but concentrated on edging up the maximum wage and stressing the benefits of belonging to a mutual aid society for sickness or injury . |
| 28 | The question of children 's spiritual development and formation has previously been discussed in this Report , and many former girl and boy choristers testify to the benefits , spiritual as well as musical , of belonging to a good choir . |
| 29 | But this was not accompanied by deradicalization , and by contrast with many western societies , did not conflict with their sense of belonging to a wider working class . |
| 30 | The satisfaction of belonging to a worthwhile organisation and helping to promote the development of Medau work |