Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students at Cuddesdon still found him very odd , and very unpractical , and very absent-minded , and much given to muttering to himself . |
| 2 | Scholars and gentlemen were much given to complaining of the venality and corruption of stationers , but Martyn was to a large extent an exception . |
| 3 | If they would only return to playing with their undoubted flair and to enjoying the game as they once did . |
| 4 | Terrestrial birds highly adapted to climbing about trees , extracting insect prey from their bark and rotten wood , and also excavating nest holes : tail stiff ( except in Wryneck ) , to act as support against vertical surfaces , with zygodactyl feet ( two toes pointing forwards , two backwards ) but one toe vestigial ; legs short , bill stout ( except Wryneck ) , and tongue very long . |
| 5 | The story was current when I was there that this distinguished classical scholar , so accustomed to dealing with the textual problems of Thucydides and Greek epigraphy , was somewhat disconcerted on arriving at Bletchley station to be greeted by an evacuee urchin , jeering : ‘ I 'll read yer secret writing , guv'nor ! ’ |
| 6 | As anyone who has worked in an English department will know , many of those listening to the lecture will not have done the necessary reading , and are so reduced to hearing about and taking notes on something of which they have not had direct literary experience ( even passing on their notes to friends who were absent from the lecture ) . |
| 7 | In the fourth sentence , the focus suddenly shifts to talking about creators in general and how they realize their dreams . |
| 8 | Often we are not even aware that fear is affecting our lives because we are so conditioned to living with it . |
| 9 | But many of them are failed physicists who found it too hard to invent new theories and so took to writing about the philosophy of physics instead . |
| 10 | and it 's a different , it was a different exam to the one she was doing at Cuthbert Main , so I do n't know , erm I 'm not certainly enough qualified to arguing about qualified matters |
| 11 | Escapism is n't just limited to dipping into science fiction or a romantic novel . |
| 12 | In the Morning Star , a newspaper not given to writing about the rich and over-privileged , Stewart Lane wrote |
| 13 | Parents are now full shareholders , no longer limited to voting by proxy through giving their children advice about subject choice . |
| 14 | No , I would not object to working with him again . ’ |
| 15 | It is likely that we will have to add £200 million to the billions of pounds we are already committed to spending on a genocidal weapon , which even from a purely military point of view is regarded as redundant . |
| 16 | These sums were separate from the 128,300 million yen which they had already confessed to paying between 1987 and 1990 , and which had been revealed in July 1991 [ see p. 38342 ] . |
| 17 | If a beach is ridged at right angles to the land the swash will diverge from the ridges into the furrows , while the backwash will be concentrated into the furrows , thus leading to scouring in them . |
| 18 | Speaking to venture capitalists , accountants or lawyers about business plans or any other aspect of a buy-out does not amount to working for the business and if done in working hours , may be a breach of service contract . |
| 19 | Says Souness : ‘ I think you realise quite quickly if someone is not suited to playing for you or your club then you do what you have to do . ’ |
| 20 | Modern silage-making on a large scale involves the use of sophisticated , expensive machinery which is beyond the economy of a smallholding and not suited to working in small fields . |
| 21 | This was clear to Leibniz but not at all to Kant , although Leibniz , not surprisingly , found it difficult to provide a satisfactory clarification of the conditions of intelligibility of the idea of existential uniqueness , or explain why should there not be duplicate universes , and was finally reduced to appealing to the idea of a rationally acting God . |
| 22 | But this time we were not restricted to looking at them , but could follow them . |
| 23 | Of the available types the unification-based grammars appear to be best suited to dealing with a large coverage of English . |
| 24 | Siporax requires a much lower flow rate than yours , and is best suited to sitting in plant baskets in an upflow chamber . |
| 25 | The Indians in America soon took to travelling on the trains . |
| 26 | Control of the party passed to a new generation — the third Earl of Sunderland ( the most experienced , but somewhat erratic ) , James Stanhope , Charles Viscount Townshend , and Sir Robert Walpole — who soon fell to competing amongst themselves for political dominance . |
| 27 | It may be true , as some suggest , that working-class budgets would not stretch to paying for the regular use of new birth-control methods but old , tried and cheap techniques might still be used . |
| 28 | Tom Clarke , meanwhile , has to persuade a hard core in his own party that acting in concert with the SNP on certain occasions does not equate to dancing with wolves . |
| 29 | She also found great pleasure in reading , but although my father had brought to Fontanellato a large number of Slovene books , she had soon to resort to reading in Italian , which she inevitably found more difficult . |
| 30 | He was the butler , a gentleman full of his own importance and not usually given to conversing with the lower servants . |