Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've mapped out a route to take you round , but are you sure you do n't want me do the actual deliveries ? |
| 2 | The reason is quite simple : it is not a route to do on a single rope . |
| 3 | This could be an alternative route back to the turret , I thought , a route to bypass the quire . |
| 4 | A particular place in the fence has been used as a route to cross the railway . |
| 5 | Such payment is not made to keep alive the right to recover it , inasmuch as the opportunity is thus afforded of contesting the demand , and payment in such circumstances is a payment to close the transaction and not to keep it open . |
| 6 | Such payment is not made to keep alive the right to recover it , inasmuch as the opportunity is thus afforded of contesting the demand , and payment in such circumstances is a payment to close the transaction and not to keep it open . |
| 7 | David Ross Stewart , the chairman of ESII , said the board had examined a number of options to ensure that shareholders received a payment to reflect the value of the company 's liquid assets , while achieving a satisfactory long-term solution in respect of the unquoted portfolio . |
| 8 | ‘ The original sleeping beauty , ’ said John , ‘ only she did n't have a prince to wake her . ’ |
| 9 | The only good and powerful females I can think of are fairies ( ie , not real people ) and for every fairy godmother there are 10 wimpy heroines waiting for a prince to rescue them . |
| 10 | Gregg Petersmeyer , director of the White House 's Office for National Service , denies that Mr Bush 's rhetoric is simply a ruse to allow the government to shed expensive responsibilities . |
| 11 | The natives were treacherous people , as everyone knew , ungodly and faithless , and their early shows of friendship were nothing but a ruse to lull the pioneers into a false feeling of security , so that they could ensnare them in their false enchantments , pounce on them unawares and kill them while they slept . |
| 12 | It drove him mad when she turned herself into a sphinx as a ruse to avoid facing the truth . |
| 13 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 14 | In vain , Agnes tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house . |
| 15 | Rival comics reckon it 's just a ruse to boost sales — and that Superman will be resurrected . |
| 16 | Developing nations argued that the motion on protection of rainforests abused their right to self-determination [ see ED 49-50 ] and the convention on biodiversity was seen by some as a ruse to gain control of their resources . |
| 17 | The less fortunate have to stand on aching pins as the carriage , unventilated ( it is impossible to fit air conditioning to tube trains as the tunnels are too small to acccommodate such devices ) , grows hot and foetid ; even the lines of Shirley Lim 's Modern Secrets up there amongst the ads- ‘ Last night I dreamt in Chinese/Eating Yankee Shredded Wheat ’ -brought to us by ‘ Poems On The Underground , ’ a ruse to make tube travel a little less stressful , can not alleviate the strap-hangers ' gloom and frustration . |
| 18 | Obviously this was a ruse to throw would-be pursuers off the scent . |
| 19 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
| 20 | Perhaps this was merely a ruse to trick them into a crossing at Forteviot . |
| 21 | Opposition politicians , however , dismissed the " coup " revelation as a ruse to cloud the issue of his responsibility in the scandal . |
| 22 | Local councils can get a warrent to tow away illegally parked caravans . |
| 23 | The Cotswolds have quite a variety to offer — small bare exquisite churches , the self-important wool churches , the eccentric , the beautiful , the ugly . |
| 24 | He therefore concentrated his attention not on the Kent coast but on the Isle of Wight , where the French had actually landed in the past and which , once occupied , could serve as a base to paralyse and capture Portsmouth . |
| 25 | He still needs the freedom of a four-year-old , to explore , to laugh suddenly in surprise at the world , to be open , to wander with the secure knowledge of a base to return home to . |
| 26 | Bozburun , in a deep and well sheltered inlet , is worth visiting to see the busy traditional boatyard , and a base to explore the many local day anchorages . |
| 27 | This would give me a base to aim for . |
| 28 | I had Radio One on this morning and on the news it said that Porsche had developed a , a base to shoe horses . |
| 29 | As a result , Brown reckons that the two companies are eager to cash in on such a base to generate interest in their own products . |
| 30 | ‘ And a base to store weapons and stuff . |