Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the USA has always tended to look to education to solve its national problems , education in the UK has traditionally been viewed more as a benefit to the individual . |
| 2 | Over the past five months , despite everything that has gone wrong with his adventure in Kuwait , he has calmly refused to bow to pressure , whether political , economic or military . |
| 3 | However , I am assured by those who know that public persons — premiers in particular — do not become reconciled to criticism , and despite affecting not to be , they remain immensely conscious of what is being said and are troubled if what is said is not to their liking . |
| 4 | Alan had obviously expected to return to university alone , once the fuss was over . |
| 5 | Remembering that philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century had already assimilated thought to perception , this is not surprising . |
| 6 | A few crew and individuals had already refused to go to war . |
| 7 | She had not wanted to talk to Finn but she could not help it when he came and sat on the counter . |
| 8 | It had not gone according to plan . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've always preferred to starve to death on one peanut , you mean ? ’ |
| 10 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 11 | In a report published on January 1990 , the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) in Basel noted that banks in the major industrialized countries had significantly increased lending to east European countries in the first half of 1989 . |
| 12 | From this has come the immense development of Justice and Peace Commissions , both in Rome and throughout the Catholic world , which have greatly helped bring to fruition a whole new dimension of church life , a social activism concerned with the service of the poor , of economic justice and of genuine peace ( Paul VI later declared that ‘ Development is the new name for Peace ’ ) . |
| 13 | Women , especially married women , have increasingly desired to return to work and remain there by having a break to give birth . |
| 14 | It has , as they say , ‘ all the toys ’ , and is Fiat 's executive-class contender in a field in which they have consistently failed to shine to date . |
| 15 | Perhaps the best result of the current fascination with ‘ world music ’ is that , after decades of using it as a fashion accessory or status symbol , people have actually begun to listen to music again . |