Example sentences of "going [adv prt] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | whether they were in favour of going on to a second cycle of review and reporting and if so whether reports should deal only with a particular aspect of the school ; |
| 2 | As might be expected , how useful the process of review is in proposing changes , and the extent to which teachers favoured going on to a second round of the scheme are both significant , those thinking that it is very or fairly useful being slightly positive and those thinking it not very or not at all useful , being slightly negative . |
| 3 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 4 | Going on to a weight-reducing diet actually reduces the rates of hormone production by the thyroid , and in turn slows down the metabolic rate . |
| 5 | Going on to a weight-reducing diet that is not adequately balanced may further compromise your feelings of well being and energy , and limit the degree to which you can undertake an increased level of exercise . |
| 6 | David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands . |
| 7 | Canada dominated the scoring , leading 22–6 at the interval and by 19 points in as many minutes with outside-half Gareth Rees , back after a winter in France , scoring the first nine and going on to a 20-point afternoon . |
| 8 | The chances of going on to an additional baby from a given family size ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) can be calculated from past data for women who have completed their families . |
| 9 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
| 10 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 11 | And indeed he would , very shortly , be going in to a great , gaping hole in the community . |
| 12 | Is the situation so serious that twenty-four hour care must be considered , whether the person is at home or considering going in to a residential home ? |
| 13 | The teams played four matches , spread over several weeks , against each of the others , with the top two then going through to a best-of-three final . |
| 14 | And what do his parents think — him going off to a distant town with a stranger like you ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ She ca n't be going off to a big party before the Championship . |
| 16 | We 're going out to an expensive restaurant , a very expensive restaurant , the sort of place Selina can dress up for |
| 17 | But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past . |
| 18 | Rights and properties going back to a remote and undocumented past appeared to him to have a sanction which no later enactment — not even by the pope — could alter . |
| 19 | Once you have taken silk there is no going back to a junior s practice . |
| 20 | ‘ In no way are we going back to a 1979-80 recession . |
| 21 | Darling — and I 'm sure this wo n't be inopportune — do n't worry about me , because I 'm really quite a ‘ happy warrior ’ ; it was the thought of leaving you , and the fact that you were going back to a hard grind , which prompted my outpourings . |
| 22 | , how did you did you find it , going back to a heavy engineering plant like after having been at for a while ? |
| 23 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |
| 24 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |
| 25 | Going back to a big house and long lawns , Jen ? said Michael Morrissey 's eyes last week . |
| 26 | I do not mean being reactionary , simply going back to a past state of affairs , I mean reaction as the antithesis of action . |
| 27 | It 's not much fun , you 're chained to the wall — it 's like going back to a medieval library . |
| 28 | I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter . |
| 29 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 30 | It was like going back to an old friend , familiar and almost cosy . |