Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of his current responsibilities will fall to HP vice president Wim Roelandts , general manager of the Networked Systems Group . |
| 2 | Other areas ( or " dominoes " ) in South-East Asia would fall to communism , thereby adding to the credibility of the claims of communists that history was on their side . |
| 3 | But the outflow is perennially full , white water pouring down to where the moor cleaves open and lets it fall to sea . |
| 4 | Two of them may fall to Labor . |
| 5 | Er , the this generator er ran into some development difficulties er a while ago and er Eurofighter chose , say I say , a a standby or an alternative generator which is suitable for the first three prototypes and er again the cost of that particular delay will fall to industry . |
| 6 | He fears we may fall to disenchantment , bad old habits , national chauvinism , racist frenzy — or ‘ endism ’ . |
| 7 | To date , new services have all been on lines owned by Rail Freight — so they currently pay infrastructure costs which would otherwise fall to county councils . ’ |
| 8 | Will the Government issue clear guidance on which responsibilities will fall to health authorities and which to social services ? |
| 9 | Have lots of engrossing things you can fall to doing if you are abandoned . |
| 10 | To answer the question Why does a stone fall to earth ? |
| 11 | Perhaps some asteroid , nudged out of its place in the great gravitational gavotte , would fall to Earth ; a bullet into a face , obliterating . |
| 12 | Some say most of the caring , as always , will fall to family and friends . |
| 13 | The most generally accepted mechanism of evolutionary change is the modern version of Darwinian natural selection , based on the simple propositions that ( a ) like begets like , though with minor , essentially chance , variations ; ( b ) all organisms are capable of producing more offspring than actually can survive to maturity and reproduce in their turn ; ( c ) those offspring that do survive to reproduce must in some way be variants that are better adapted to their environment than those that fail ; and ( d ) those favoured variants are likely to reproduce the favourable variation in their own offspring . |
| 14 | Once they are in place , you can have the shingle delivered — it can be dumped directly on to a drive site from the road , but you 'll need to barrow it to remote garden paths , so set planks on the lawn if you have to run across it . |
| 15 | But he told the Legislative Council : ‘ We do recognise that the current uncertain situation can not be allowed to continue for much longer and that we will need to gazette the bill if a decision on talks ca n't be reached imminently . ’ |
| 16 | Patients do not need to home monitor every day when their diabetes is stable but rather two or three days a week testing three or four times during the day . |
| 17 | You do n't need to minute that . |
| 18 | Erm er so er you know it may be that you would need to work , and I 'm sure they would probably expect you to have worked with offenders erm |
| 19 | Full skirts — goodness knows how many petticoats made walking very hard , so all this almost enforced leisure upon them , and this was again part of the duty of the woman to show that she did n't need to work , she did n't in fact even have to lift a finger because the man or her servants would do all this for her . |
| 20 | ( Do we need to practice " thinking like a scientist " every time we learn something in a science course ? ) |
| 21 | Why do I need to practice that with you counting numbers up to thirty one ? |
| 22 | We will need to leverage our customers existing investments in other technology . |
| 23 | Outdoors , cordon and bush varieties are dealt with similarly except that you wo n't need to damp-down , mist or tap the blooms , Additionally , sink a perforated ice cream container rim-level next to each plant . |
| 24 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |
| 25 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
| 26 | There is n't a list so that you will need to sort of think it through . |
| 27 | Their forwards will also need to scrummage far better than they did against Armary , Genet and Gallart , who had them under the cosh from the second minute . |
| 28 | In fact , it is unlikely that you would ever need to side-slip without full airbrake unless the airbrakes became frozen or jammed . |
| 29 | It 's great fun to use , and will appeal to trivia buffs everywhere . |
| 30 | In the course of this book , we shall appeal to evidence in the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic literature which offers insights into the way in which discourse , produced in describable contexts for recognisable purposes , is processed and comprehended . |