Example sentences of "in [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 2 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
| 3 | On that occasion we lost no time in speeding over to the courts , finding a judge , and obtaining an injunction almost at once . |
| 4 | ‘ the whole object of the section is to assimilate the practice in winding up to the practice in bankruptcy , which was established in order to enable assignees , who are now called trustees , in bankruptcy to find out facts before they brought an action , so as to avoid incurring the expense of some hundreds of pounds in bringing an unsuccessful action , when they might , by examining a witness or two , have discovered at a trifling expense that an action could not succeed . |
| 5 | But COS influence was at its most profound in passing on to the service the principle of casework , for this embodied a number of middle-class assumptions about individualism , character , and family responsibilities . |
| 6 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
| 7 | Several schools commented on the importance of involving the whole school in living up to the agreed health policy . |
| 8 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 9 | The 28-year-old Londoner should have an even more straightforward task in going through to the last four when he meets either Tim Garner or Hadrian Stiff , whose appearances in the main draw came as a result of the withdrawal of Del Harris and Tony Hands respectively . |
| 10 | Herodotus 's Histories and Aeschylus 's Agamemnon serve as touchstones for Brooke-Rose 's novel , for in going back to the classical period , it is able to return to the point at which these distinctions began to be associated with different ways of talking and writing attributed to fact and to fiction . |
| 11 | ‘ There was no point in going back to the hotel . |
| 12 | My guess is that I am not alone in waking up to the stunning brutality of boxing . |
| 13 | She suspects me of a form of vanity in sidling up to the existential questions . |
| 14 | The answer seems to lie in facing up to the fact that one particular cycle or era has finally come to a close and therefore both personally and professionally it would be wiser to channel your energies into something new . |
| 15 | The worst part lay in facing up to the fact that some of the things he 'd said were true , much as she might try to deny it . |
| 16 | If we had more courage at Goodison in facing up to the truth unpalatable though it may be things might begin to improve . |
| 17 | The most important thing to remember about juggling is that , if you throw the ball well , the catch will look after itself , except for those one in ten people who have great difficulty in holding on to the ball . |
| 18 | Although Crawford had two safety wires attached to him , he succeeded in holding on to the car during all the filming . |
| 19 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 20 | He had great difficulty in getting through to the club . |
| 21 | Robertson did not hesitate , and dived overboard and swam out to the dinghy which he succeeded in getting back to the fishing boat for the crew to get off . |
| 22 | Anyone who has difficulty in getting down to the floor and up is safer exercising on a firm mattress . |
| 23 | I naturally felt very good about it and proud of myself for the discipline I had shown during the winter in getting down to the work necessary to achieve the successes I had obtained . |
| 24 | Yet as well as the returns , Mal also delights in giving back to the sport that he loves . |
| 25 | He cursed under his breath , shaking his head at his own folly in coming up to the house at all … |
| 26 | In showing off to the raw recruits he might even throw the small plane into such daring bankings or dives that it could n't be manoeuvred out of . |
| 27 | It was very successful , both in appearance and in standing up to the wear small children give their clothes . |
| 28 | It involves one of the few regulators that have shown some teeth in standing up to the powers that have been conferred by the Government on privatised British Gas . |
| 29 | The property PAPAL is here associated intensionally with the noun assailant ( or , strictly , with the entity that is primarily identified by the noun assailant ) in order to satisfy the writer 's desire for specificity in putting across to the reader her idea of the person to be mentioned ; yet the property PAPAL was referentially applicable to somebody else , a person otherwise known as Karol Wojtyla . |
| 30 | There was something about cutter work — glamour , adventure , battling the elements , or just plain escapism — call it what you will , but once you had experienced it you had great difficulty in settling down to the more prosaic existence ashore . |