Example sentences of "of [v-ing] to [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those for whom free care might be extended should be only those with a realistic possibility of returning to self care in the community within two years . |
| 2 | Initially he will work for Carr O'Connell Book Marketing , the freelance team which has been carrying the Headline list since his accident , with the aim of returning to Headline full-time in April . |
| 3 | The task will fall to the manager to persuade advice workers to attend race-awareness training in addition to popular updating in welfare benefits ; managers may have the task of explaining to management committee members why they now need training after so many years without it ; it will be the manager 's job to be attuned to advice workers ' weaknesses and tactfully point them to the relevant additional training ; the manager must find a balance in workers ' meetings between training , casework and group support . |
| 4 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 5 | Theatre in the world at large is unimaginable without an audience : I would n't dream of listening to radio drama with anyone else in the room . |
| 6 | I did a lot of listening to focus groups in the middle of September . |
| 7 | Mozart and his contemporaries , who ( unlike the English ) had no continuous tradition of listening to baroque music , found it sparse in texture in a way that to them must have seemed musically primitive . |
| 8 | Severe oesophagitis patients had a similar long history of smoking to adenocarcinoma patients ( median 38.5 , range 27–55 years ) ; again much greater than CLO patients ( p<0.003 ) ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 9 | The cost of smoking to industry results from lost productivity due to sickness absences , impaired productivity due to poor health , and interruption of production from time given to smoking . |
| 10 | We check and re-check the information about accommodation and resorts both at home and abroad to ensure that it is correct at the time of going to press Dec ( 1989 ) . |
| 11 | The play has already been written over several months by an enthusiastic team from all the churches involved ; and by the time of going to press casting will already have taken place and all performing groups : the singers , dancers and actors , will be involved in their own regular rehearsals in March . |
| 12 | Try to get some er old door casings rip down from me you know , now , I was thinking of going to North Wales but I know what they 'd say cos it , the ones that I got from our Rob 's you know the they 're quite clean but of course they 've had nails in the , you know , the head like I made the cab some cabinets you know . |
| 13 | From somewhere I got the idea of going to art college I 'm sure it was because I 'd read about all the rock musicians who 'd started their bands at art colleges — John Lennon and Keith Richards in particular . |
| 14 | If we were you thinking of going to Health Chardonne ? |
| 15 | Course I hung around in the park instead of going to clarinet lessons . |
| 16 | This was a real blow to me , as I had done well in form 5a at school and had to watch my luckier contemporaries going into the sixth form for another year with the sure prospect of getting to teacher training college , or the luckiest of them all , to university . |
| 17 | Patients in whom there is a loss of warning of hypoglycaemia , possibly linked with the use of human insulin , should be identified , counselled , and given the choice of switching to animal insulins ( specific advice is available from the British Diabetic Association ) . |
| 18 | Mr Nicoll stressed the importance of speaking to art historians in order to canvass opinion on where revisions are necessary , which old volumes would benefit from splitting up and also what new topics should be commissioned . |
| 19 | ‘ With hindsight ’ , the HAS commented , ‘ it can be seen that the exercise of moving to community care should have begun with the provision of substitute facilities for longer term dependent patients ’ . |
| 20 | Management in the ambulance dispute told Acas , the conciliation service , that they had no intention of acceding to union demands . |
| 21 | In the Health Service , authoritarian corporatist administration is a way of responding to system pressures for restricted public expenditure . |
| 22 | Normally that would mean they qualified for the world indoor event , but Johnson has the option of appealing to Athletics Canada for one of Canada 's two 60m berths . |
| 23 | If they stand a chance at all of appealing to agency workers , it will only be ( as the General and Municipal union have done in trying to attract the self-employed ) by appealing to individualist , entrepreneurial interests rather than collectivist , employee interests . |
| 24 | We still talk of yielding to animal passions . |
| 25 | In W. L. Warren 's words , " Henry had adopted the tactic of trying to discipline Richard by keeping him in uncertainty and had then become caught in the toils of his own deviousness . " |