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Vladv Posted 3 years ago
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Noun plus to plus ing.

When “to” acts as a preposition it is usually followed by an –ing form (which in this case is a gerund) or a noun/noun phrase, as in these examples:There is no obstacle to registering the company. Can you please provide a list or wrtie the most common nouns that are used in the pattern - noun plus to plus ing. ( like with a view to selling, a key to understanding) I can't find such a list on the Net. Thanks a lot.
  

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Vladv When “to” acts as a preposition it is usually followed by an –ing form (which in this case is a gerund) or a noun/noun phrase, as in these examples: There is no obstacle to registering the company. Can you please provide a list or wrtie the most common nouns that are used in the pattern - noun plus to plus ing. ( like with a view to selling, a key to understanding) I can't find such a list on the Net.

— CalifJim

  • Vladv When “to” acts as a preposition it is usually followed by an –ing form (which in this case is a gerund) or a noun/noun phrase, as in these examples: There is no obstacle to registering the company.
  • Can you please provide a list or wrtie the most common nouns that are used in the pattern - noun plus to plus ing.
  • ( like with a view to selling, a key to understanding) I can't find such a list on the Net.
  • Thanks a lot.
  • See 'To' + 'ing' and also follow the suggested links at the bottom of my post there.
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Vladv When “to” acts as a preposition it is usually followed by an –ing form (which in this case is a gerund) or a noun/noun phrase, as in these examples:There is no obstacle to registering the company. Can you please provide a list or wrtie the most common nouns that are used in the pattern - noun plus to plus ing. ( like with a view to selling, a key to unders
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You can do this sort of search in a corpora.

I used to use the American Corpus, but the interface has been changed and it is practically useless now.

There is one other that is working. (News on the Web ) https://www.english-corpora.org/

I searched on N

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