Example sentences of "go to the [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Given full rein to run as far as they want , the plants are living very well and do n't feel in any particular danger , so there is no need for them to waste energy by perpetuating the species and going to the trouble of producing flower and setting seed .
2 The main problem is that the cost of most new resistors and capacitors is now so low that it is barely worthwhile going to the trouble of removing and testing them .
3 It 's even worth going to the trouble of sending your own System file of font suitcases .
4 Dr Owen said the Welsh Office should re-examine their selection before going to the expense of appointing consulting engineers to draw up detailed designs .
5 To overcome the problem of missing and lost keys and keys not being handed back by the guest on departure and to combat the problem of security by which unauthorised persons obtain keys to rooms , many hotels are going to the expense of installing keyless locks on their rooms .
6 As er already mentioned some local authorities have already implemented such schemes by going to the expense of introducing private legislation through parliament .
7 He would place two cigarettes in his mouth , light them both , then hand one to the sex-starved spinster , sometimes even going to the length of installing it between her lips .
8 Even going to the length of alleging in the public press that it was the Board which was in breach of its contract .
9 Having harvested a quick crop ( Hong Kong 's pride ) , the Taiwanese are now ken to learn more — even if it means going to the length of copying someone else .
10 So we 're l , we 're l , we 're looking at a couple of the options to see , you know , how much will it cost to actually put the money on the policy rather than going to the effort of writing it out , and it 's gon na cost about two hundred thousand pounds just to do that , erm and that , we need , we need to weigh that up with the cost of actually dealing with ten thousand letters to clients , ten thousand enquiries erm I just wondered what your thoughts were on how we should proceed .
11 It would be a waste of time actually to go to the trouble of filling the space itself with blanks .
12 The high standards aimed at in such a sifting process are important if we want teachers to go to the trouble of organizing the use of our materials in their teaching .
13 From this point onwards it was entirely unnecessary for a testator to go to the trouble of writing a general damnatio in his will .
14 Interesting that Bill 's going to go to the trouble of taking out windows putting in
15 My own guess is that there was no significant demand for free condoms ; nobody is going to go to the trouble of collecting free condoms who would not be prepared to buy them for himself .
16 Since he wanted to delay the ceremony , but did n't want to go to the trouble of desecrating any graves , he only had one option .
17 It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly .
18 We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make .
19 If you do n't want to go to the expense of buying them , check out the travel section at your local library .
20 The two councils must now decide whether to go to the expense of appealling through the courts .
21 However , as a result of this legislation , somebody will no doubt have to go to the expense of drawing up tenders and specifications and of sending them out .
22 Most importantly , farmers are unlikely to go to the expense of installing anaerobic fermenters unless the gas saves them money .
23 However , London Transport was unwilling to go to the expense of refitting proper external lighting and the headlamp masks were never removed , as they incorporated red slides for display at the rear end of the car and the combined side lamps-tail lamps and route numbers had been removed or rendered ineffective at the beginning of the war .
24 Rangers had to go to the expense of putting £30,000-worth of protective covering over the pitch after a day of persistent rain .
25 This does not necessarily mean you have to go to the extent of bringing in high-power floodlights together with their attendant supply-cables .
26 WHEN Ron Dennis , the managing director of McLaren International , goes to the trouble of stressing that his team intend to continue giving Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost impartial treatment during the final two races , such a commendably even-handed approach immediately arouses suspicion in a sport governed by an organisation which is not exactly noted for its equitable methods .
27 The Epitome or Gaius ' Institutes still distinguishes between legacies and trusts , and even goes to the trouble of explaining what the difference is .
28 Unless one goes to the bother of fetching a ladder every time , the only way up is to scramble chimpanzee-like via a window-sill , the top of the stable partition , the nearest iron roof-girder , and finally the barn wall itself , along which one has to shuffle sideways , sitting down .
29 The motor industry often goes to the expense of building a completely new factory site to ensure that the manufacturing capability does match their requirements exactly .
30 Accumulated errors were to be erased from the holy books , services were to be conducted in a more intelligible manner , sermons were to be encouraged , and scholarship was to be actively fostered in a number of monasteries ; at the same time , new saints were canonized , clergy and laity alike urged to observe the prescribed fasts , and for a brief time the government even went to the lengths of closing the taverns .
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