Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] of going " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked you through the Medau News last year to all help and make our fund raising this year a really great success and when you know that the figure at the time of going to press is over £2,600 you will all be as pleased as our Treasurer is . |
| 2 | And being part of the tradition , they are part of the way of going on in those sub-cultures . |
| 3 | These large , rather crudely decorated , earthenware teapots were made at Coalville and Swadlincote , and many of the East Anglians who went up before the 1914–18 war brought ‘ Burton teapots ’ back with them because it was part of the experience of going to Burton , like buying a new suit . |
| 4 | ‘ Part of the purpose of going was to remind the people in the Vatican how much we value and treasure ecumenical relationships in Great Britain . |
| 5 | The Mayor , Coun Trevor Lloyd , yesterday handed over a £400 cheque towards the cost of going to the event in Winchester in June . |
| 6 | We came upon the idea of asking this question as the result of going to a for Change conference . |
| 7 | Or , at least , not with work in the sense of going to an office or a factory . |
| 8 | I Pressed home the usual arguments about duty and not fighting the war for the privilege of going to the cinema . |
| 9 | They have not shrunk from setting aside gifts made to persons in a position to exercise undue influence over the donors , although there has been no proof of the actual exercise of such influence ; and the courts have done this on the avowed ground of the necessity of going this length in order to protect persons from the exercise of such influence under circumstances which render proof of it impossible . |
| 10 | She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops , perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet , or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street , browsing in all the shop-windows ; afterwards , Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard . |
| 11 | His teachers at his Plymouth school threw scorn on the idea of going to a redbrick university when he could have chosen Oxford , but he felt a strong pull towards oil engineering and displayed the stubborn streak that was later to characterise his industrial career . |
| 12 | The information given reflects the University 's admissions policy at the time of going to press , and may be subject to change . |
| 13 | Your holiday price already includes your GUARANTEED ENTRY TICKETS to EURO DISNEYLAND worth over £19 per adult at the time of going to press . |
| 14 | Your holiday price already includes your GUARANTEED ENTRY TICKETS to EURO DISNEYLAND worth over £34 per adult at the time of going to press . |
| 15 | Staff are not allowed to anticipate paid leave beyond what has accrued to them at the rate shown on the annual leave slip at the time of going on leave . |
| 16 | ‘ You could sense Elizabeth 's excitement at the thought of going out and meeting her friends . |