Example sentences of "[noun] to [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The Irish have settled into this country and there are communities of them all over do they go and see your concerts and if they do that must mean a great deal to them I should think ?
2 Well I went and worked in a factory for about nine months I suppose , and the man himself , cos it was casting , brass castings , the man himself says , he says look son , this job 's no good to you I 'll tell you that .
3 We gave them two addresses to which they could write in case we did not return and told them where our more precious belongings were .
4 If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better .
5 If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards .
6 Formal signals are often grouped together in an induction programme , and so anxious are we to reduce the total uncertainty to something we can understand that we will swallow the formal induction without even a whimper .
7 I do n't understand your argument that having an E two type policy and without prejudice to what it may say , will make discussions at the local plan level about where boundaries are , more difficult or less difficult .
8 He also had an unerring instinct , when faced with awkward legal problems , of finding solutions to them which would work in practice .
9 There were always polite formulae to which one could adhere .
10 ‘ Solitude ’ and its cognates — a much more positive expression of the reality — but seven times , a not insignificant indication to which we must return . )
11 This is shown by the Hellenic prototype , thanks to which we can see that we are now recreating the Hellenic epochs , hut in reverse order , passing from the Alexandrian to the tragic .
12 ‘ Many thanks to anyone who can help . ’
13 Perhaps , too , he may have believed that once the gloss on my love affair dimmed , his money would act as a reminder of the comforts to which I could return .
14 However , while this tells us how not to solve the problem , it is less clear what positive steps we are to take — a dilemma to which I shall return later in the chapter .
15 Is there no gentleman or lady of virtue in this neighbourhood to whom I may fly only till I can find a way to get to my poor father and mother ?
16 Nor is it different in terms of another relation between cause and effect to which we shall come , or any relation between causal circumstance and effect .
17 Not all objectors to the Hinkley C plan supported such a straightforward advocacy of coal , especially with the growing problems of acid rain pollution and the greenhouse effect to which I shall return in Part Three .
18 One of these , Bernard Levin , memorably described a visit to Evita as " one ofthe most disagreeable evenings I have ever spent in my life , in or out of the theatre " , and " Do n't cry for me , Argentina " as a somewhat inferior melody to one he would hear as a boy , improvised on the saxophone by a busker outside the Albert Hall with only three fingers on his left hand .
19 Mr Davis , can you , would you like to sum up , and pick up these points , and before , I 'm going to bowl you a googly here , erm you have talked about fourteen hundred , as the size for the new settlement , erm , is that the top figure , or is that a figure to which you might aim by the year two thousand and six , but may have potential for growth beyond it .
20 Even so , that he was able to expel the powerful figure to whom he may have owed much of his victory in 1016 must say something about the effectiveness of the power base which he had succeeded in creating in England in the intervening years .
21 The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department .
22 Like many socialists and intellectuals educated in the traditions of the high establishment , he fussed about the education of his own children and about the schools to which they might go .
23 They had been thinking of a job in Parma to which I would commute daily ; but this one sounded very interesting , something after my own heart .
24 Venetian diplomats were likely to demand every ceremonial honour to which they could assert any shred of claim , and to be very touchy when faced with any apparent threat , however slight , to their status .
25 In addition there is the complex constitutional position of the constable to which we shall return later .
26 Furthermore , there are certain limitations to what we can learn from science because the concept of replication does not obtain in police investigation .
27 In the case of a woman who elects not to pay the full National Insurance contribution the full National Insurance benefit to which she would have been entitled if she had not so elected is deducted from the sickness allowance .
28 However , if , by the date of trial , it can be shown that the deceased 's income would have risen since his death , then the dependency will be calculated by reference to what he would have been earning at the date of trial , rather than what he in fact was earning at the date of his death .
29 To describe the positions and velocities of atoms in a polymer requires choosing a set of global axes , defining a continuum , with reference to which we may describe the positions and velocities of the atoms .
30 I 've come to you because I want you to tell me everything you can about Mr Hatton with particular reference to anything you may know about the source of his income . ’
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