Example sentences of "of going [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems an odd way of going about things , but the advising panels do carry a professional adviser so that talent is not merely being judged by local civil servants . |
| 2 | The existence of a ‘ done order of going about things ’ , even though it may be strange to us , enables us to cope . |
| 3 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 4 | The mammals of the northern hemisphere have a quite different way of going about things . |
| 5 | Well , yes , of course it could , but it seemed an odd way of going about things . |
| 6 | I 've got ta advise people of the correct forms , the correct er , way of going about things and what benefits there are available . |
| 7 | Barbara Cartland , you know , who really cares , so long as you 're sort of thinking right , I 've got to concentrate on this , because you know , have this different way of going about things . |
| 8 | I think that 's a prudent way of going about things , it 's responsive t to the questions which you might possibly have read and but it does n't make over optimistic assessments about the likely savings that the council control . |
| 9 | erm I have two children and I have found that it was quite a full-time job persuading them of the virtue of certain old-fashioned ways of going about things . |
| 10 | Davide 's client snapped finger and thumb together at any ignoble suggestion of peacemaking , at such a dishonourable way of going about life , and insisted on justice . |
| 11 | ‘ People just like the idea of us being in love , ’ he sighed at the thought of going over ground yet again as he explained the need for him to step out of Kylie 's tiny shadow . |
| 12 | If instead of going through life having shallow relationships , a man diligently makes each of his friendships an emotional one of real compassion and regard , life for him will be transformed . |
| 13 | It 's important to establish the invariable habit of going through replies to all your searches ( the same principle applies to the practical enquiries and requisitions on title ) , ticking each one after you have considered it and found it satisfactory ; if the contrary is the case , or if , for example , some information is disclosed that ought to be passed on to your client , mark it accordingly , and thereafter tick it when you " ve dealt suitably with the item . |
| 14 | The two sessions were a mixture of going through tapes and other materials , editing and adapting these for a thirty-minute radio programme , watching a documentary of a 1944 Lancaster raid on Germany and reflecting on the project as a whole . |
| 15 | start on the basis of going through page twelve . |
| 16 | He had made the mistake of going via Salisbury because his bride of six months , who was twenty years younger than him , wanted to look at the cathedral . |
| 17 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 18 | Verse 14 : Jacob has no intention of going to Seir , as the next stage of the journey shows . |
| 19 | As they became progressively more heavily taxed , that responsibility , instead of going to companies , went to government and government has been seen to do it very badly . |
| 20 | For example , anywhere which derives its existence from the sea is likely to be good to draw — marine architecture , quaysides , boats , fishing — all the complicated mass of detail and shape which surround the activity of going to sea . |
| 21 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 22 | If he comes through it well , Weir has a very good chance of going to New Zealand as a versatile forward who , in that company , could find himself pulling on the No6 jersey . |
| 23 | Much stronger action was necessary , to the extent of going to court . |
| 24 | ‘ Why , methought you were overjoyed at the prospect of going to court ! ’ remarked Joan , to whom the idea was akin to going as a mere mortal to fairyland . |
| 25 | But if a solicitor had made it and put three halves we could take an action against that solicitor or the executor could to erm for the costs of going to court to find out what on earth the will meant . |
| 26 | Instead of going to court he paid six hundred and fifty pounds for the damage and apologized to the shop 's owner . |
| 27 | The costs of going to court are likely to be higher than the value of the contract and the only beneficiaries are typically the lawyers . |
| 28 | Because of the case , of going to court to claim compensation for James , we had to have neuroligists to come and look at James and assess him for thes claim and they have said that James is not in a persistent vegetative state . ’ |
| 29 | She says that although victims may be worried that the attacker will rape another woman , they also have to consider what many rape victims feel is the ordeal of going to court and re-living the rape in the witness box . |
| 30 | I was thinking of going to Austria about the end of September October but , if Alexander 's not going abroad I do n't know , I shall have to change me mind probably , I 'll have to have a word with Sue . |