Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [noun] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year . |
| 2 | As Derek Brown of Birchfield , who at 13 years old and speculating on a career in athletics , spending two evenings and a Sunday morning training , said : ‘ I do n't let it bother my school work 'cause I can get it all done in my other time , but this [ athletics ] is what I 'd really like to do ; I keep setting myself goals every year to get to the top . ’ |
| 3 | I would give him a fresh buttonhole every day to go to the university until he said he did n't like it . |
| 4 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
| 5 | British companies rarely welcomed headhunters positively ; they engaged them out of desperation , but it gave the good firms the chance to rise to the occasion . |
| 6 | It is more important in his view to give unit staff the freedom to respond to the particular circumstances that exist with each pupil . |
| 7 | Of his own interest in flying , Mr Tholen said : ‘ I was using air taxis a lot to go to the Continent when I was working at Billingham . ’ |
| 8 | Our silence offers God an opportunity to speak to the soul and it can provide blessed relief from over-activity and the torrent of speech and song with which we assail both his ears and our own . |
| 9 | So the best way to begin to understand such a belief system would be in terms of the emotions and unconscious feelings involved ; in this case , the wish to live again in Hinduism , and in Buddhism the desire to return to the womb-like state — Nirvana . |
| 10 | Working , living and playing together in the knowledge that this may continue for many years to come increases the pressure to conform to the wishes of the group . |
| 11 | We give children the opportunity to develop to the best of their potential . |
| 12 | George Bernard Shaw was the only one who did not accept with alacrity the invitation to contribute to the library , and , in the Princess 's own words , he refused ‘ in a very rude manner ’ . |
| 13 | That was clear evidence of how the operation of the Trades Union Congress 's Bridlington principles can deny employees the chance to belong to the union of their choice . |