Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teaching often involves looking in detail at particular passages , in the hope that the part will relate coherently to the whole , but the doctrine of the hermeneutic circle reminds us that we can not understand the parts until we understand the whole ( and vice versa ) . |
| 2 | He said well you 've got to stay to the end I mean , but do n't stay right to the end , you know sort of |
| 3 | Er at this stage I do n't think so to be honest with you because |
| 4 | I do n't think so to be perfectly honest |
| 5 | The stockmarket has in effect been closed to new equity issues for three years , and banks will lend only to the safest borrowers . |
| 6 | ( The English Electric number quoted in the October FlyPast may well relate only to a sub-section . ) |
| 7 | Clearly in that case any statements about the services at the hotel can relate only to the future . |
| 8 | The statements could relate to past facts ( i. e. they could mean that those services were provided last season ) or they could relate only to the future ( i.e. that they will be provided next season ) . |
| 9 | Evidence continued to be submitted relating to the CPSU 's role in Soviet politics in the period since March 1990 , when it surrendered its constitutionally guaranteed monopoly of power [ see p. 37299 ] , the Court having indicated that its evaluation of the party 's constitutionality would relate only to this limited period . |
| 10 | The exclusion of parts of the centre " let or constructed or adapted for letting " is fair and reasonable , but quite often an exclusion will relate only to parts of the centre " not let on the same terms as this lease " which could result in the occupying tenants paying part of the service charges for unlet premises . |
| 11 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |
| 12 | I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene . |
| 13 | So Mr Fenwick agreed to donate two plastic heart valves worth £4,000 which Dave Pick will deliver personally to the Brasov area of Transylvania in Romania where the sick woman lives . |
| 14 | If banks are short of liquidity they will lend less to both markets and rates will rise ; if the Bank of England readily provides funds to the discount market , houses will offer less attractive terms to other banks who will deposit instead with the parallel markets causing rates there to fall . |
| 15 | J happen somewhere , and the spaces must relate sensibly to convenient use . |
| 16 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 17 | From the above it is evident that the quality of a reading experience does not relate entirely to the quality of the reading material , but that it partly relates to those things the reader brings to the text . |
| 18 | Stand up , stretch your arms above your head , then let them fall loosely to your sides . |
| 19 | He would count slowly to a hundred . |
| 20 | Yet , he counselled himself , he would not behave badly to her . |
| 21 | In the case of single or dominant firm monopolies while it is accepted that these may behave detrimentally to the public interest at large , few democratic governments have had , or are likely to have , the political will to intervene directly in their operation , particularly where their market positions have been legitimately attained , and their activities are not overtly illegal . |
| 22 | The charm of this resort lies in its quiet , friendly atmosphere which will appeal most to those who like to avoid the larger resorts . |
| 23 | In a letter to Richard Bentley , a leading philosopher of the time , he agreed that a finite collection of stars could not remain motionless ; they would all fall together to some central point . |
| 24 | Thus , for basic civic rights like not being enslaved or imprisoned without trial , people should need only to be people . |
| 25 | She opened her long arms and let them fall gently to her sides again with another smile , gesturing to a couch and taking a seat herself nearby . |
| 26 | In addition to his military household , rewarded with " annual gifts " of clothes and equipment , Charles had to field armies for the sort of warfare that did not appeal much to Frankish nobles — namely , defensive or non-expansionist war ; and here the availability of cash stipends may have helped recruit professional warriors ( including Vikings ) . |
| 27 | It was the truth , but she knew it sounded evasive and that evasiveness was not a quality that would appeal much to Guido . |
| 28 | This would appeal greatly to the crowd as they are being given a reasonable , simple reason to why Caesar was killed , because he was out for himself . |
| 29 | She added , by way of conversation , that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living . |
| 30 | There is little point devising programmes that will appeal only to Britain 's newly dispossessed . |