Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] to [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To register to vote for example , a union citizen must have been resident in Great Britain on the qualifying date of the tenth of October or fifteenth of September for Northern Ireland in exactly the same way as British or other commonwealth citizens and citizens of other member states who wish to be candidates of the elections for the European parliament must conform to the same nomination procedures as candidates have hitherto . |
| 2 | Children evidently realize this quite early in the process of language acquisition , and accept the fact that different words may refer to the same entity — e.g. , our dog , Fred , that wretched animal , and so on . |
| 3 | Two sets of words may amount to the same thing , but one set may be caught by the Act and another set not . |
| 4 | ‘ For to obviate the inconveniencies that might result from the too frequent communication with the out pupils the Professor will demonstrate to the latter only what might be useful to them as Surgeons and Physicians to the human body , such as the most important demonstrations of comparative anatomy as likewise experiences [ experiments ] on several animals , which could not be attempted on Man without imminent danger , and lastly , a comparison between epidemical and epizootic diseases — therefore the out pupils ought to be considered by the Society [ College ] as a separate Class : the consideration of which ought not to have any influence as to the situation of the establishments . |
| 5 | Often the same or a similar fault can occur to the same aircraft a number of sectors later . |
| 6 | Since considerations of probability are to the fore in one part of actual scientific practice bearing on causation , and there is little attempt to go beyond them , and there is to hand the Probability Calculus , we are invited to take it that causation can come to no more than probability . |
| 7 | Being , as I think , unattached , the statue was , prima facie , not a fixture , but even if it were attached , the application of the second test would lead to the same conclusion . |
| 8 | And above all , if the head , inside the school , is seen as someone who has a calm and consistent view of the rapidly changing priorities of school management , there is a chance that parents will come to the same view and will feel the same trust . |
| 9 | As the burial mound was of the period known as the Bronze Age , the horn and the mound could belong to the same period . |
| 10 | We confidently expect that an investigation of all other cases of sacred prohibition would lead to the same conclusion as in that of the horror of incest : that what is sacred was originally nothing other than the prolongation of the will of the primal father [ my italics ] . |
| 11 | Starting with Aristotle , elaborate classification systems have been built up to show that things may belong to the same class ( and therefore have common features ) even if their appearance is different . |
| 12 | ‘ A11 these passages must lead to the same place . ’ |
| 13 | The baselines may amount to no more than the total number of times each behaviour is noticed in a one hour session every day for a week . |
| 14 | It is also important that the substituted items should belong to the same syntactic class ; that is , there should be no change in the syntactic structure of the frame as a result of the substitution . |
| 15 | Clearly , to yield contrary sentences , a pair of colour terms must refer to the same area of uniform colour ; but it is far from obvious how to devise linguistic contexts which will guarantee this . |
| 16 | For a new or growing brand , the objectives will refer to the same sort of aspects of the market situation , but will be more concerned with increasing awareness , in developing a favourable view of the product , and persuading new buyers to try the product . |
| 17 | Those who have recourse to the deus ex machina of lethal rays or thunderbolts from outer space may incline to the former view , but only at the expense of disregarding the abundant evidence in the stratigraphic record of a correlation between mass extinctions and physical events on earth ( Hallam , 1981c ) . |
| 18 | A Bill will go to the latter two types of committee only if it is so moved by a Member immediately after second reading and so decided by the House . |
| 19 | And literature will amount to the same thing : all writers are copycats . |
| 20 | Correspondingly , when we quarrel with potential friends , we still recognize them as people like us " , both sides will conform to the same rules of the game . |
| 21 | Deictic or other definite referring expressions are often used to introduce a referent , and anaphoric pronouns used to refer to the same entity thereafter . |
| 22 | I do n't think your pony 's pinkness will revert to the former black colour . |
| 23 | Now Lloyds and Barclays argue that the debit card network should bow to the same principle — and that they should be allowed to process Switch transactions without first issuing Switch cards to their account-holders . |
| 24 | In many cases the two contentions might lead to the same result , but not in the present case . |
| 25 | In any event the handing of the letters to the son could amount to no more than using him as a messenger . |
| 26 | It will depend on the particular circumstances of each case as to whether a solicitor who has suffered financial loss as a result of having to comply with an undertaking given in the course of his acting for a client can look to the latter for reimbursement . |