Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning to the prices of individual stocks , in many cases the price is above par ( £100 ) because of the fall in interest rates , so investors have to take into account the fact that if they hold the stock to maturity they will incur a capital loss . |
| 2 | If you are taking a journalist to lunch you should know exactly why you are doing it and what you expect to achieve from it . |
| 3 | But to avoid this return to voluntarism he must have in mind some further conception of strategy , and it is not surprising to find him talking about it in what might be called its objective sense : the strategy of a class — the course of action which will best enable it to gain power over other classes — is estimated in the light of its objective interests and its position in a formation , and is detached from the beliefs and aspirations of its members . |
| 4 | To explore this alternative dimension to politics we must return to Freud who , with LeBon , developed his distinctive theory of politics and the state . |
| 5 | If you have a positive attitude to life you will get there in the end . |
| 6 | But being a martyr to duty I 'll settle for tea . |
| 7 | It would be harsh to hold a person liable for the act of every casual visitor who has bare permission to enter his land and of whose propensities to evil he may know nothing ; e.g . |
| 8 | Day to day he 'll work from home . |
| 9 | A sense which can work against his best interests — for I need not repeat how much I respect Amaryllis , how entirely delightful and suitable I find her and how wonderfully rare she is for me who has — as man to man I can tell you what you must guess — several times been urged to marry . |
| 10 | and this would , you would think , because there 's a shift back of capital to agriculture you 'd get a rise in agricultural wage rates because that changes the capital to labour ratio again and so this would counteract the movement . |
| 11 | ‘ Sailing on a sunny day , with a fresh breeze blowing , with maybe somebody you really care for is the nearest thing to Heaven I will get on this earth , ’ she wrote . |
| 12 | If he had accepted her invitation to supper she would have taken it for encouragement ; he would simply have put off the evil day . |
| 13 | So if a dinosaur changed its skin colour from white to black it would cause a 7 or 8°C increase in body temperature ( so perhaps colour varied with size ? ) . |
| 14 | They 're the times when when actually look at which ones we 'd use remember the strengths in these some of the biggest yes you can go into greater detail you can see the reaction face to face you 'll get feedback straight away verbal as well as non-verbal er you know immediately what the answer is if there 's if you 're waiting for some sort of reply to it , you 'll have more effect because it 's face to face erm , cheap on material but it 's expensive on time you do n't have a formal written record and it can be very time consuming . |
| 15 | If you can see the mothers face to face you might discuss colours , motifs and so on . |
| 16 | Face to face he could give the impression of being a rather mild , good natured , even compassionate man . |
| 17 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |
| 18 | From time to time they would engage in what read like mannered conversations on whether they were acting as Cabinet ministers or as purely departmental ministers . |
| 19 | By the end of a week she was little more than a living skeleton : her hand lay all day long in Jennifer 's , and from time to time she would open her eyes , staring pathetically up , with a mute pleading in her expression that no words of comfort or whispered prayers could dispel . |
| 20 | From time to time she would glance back into the room , her eyes coming to rest on the casually seated figure of Tsu Ma . |
| 21 | From time to time she would turn over irritably , and try to compel herself to sleep . |
| 22 | Miss Young was Ian 's teacher , not mine , but from time to time she used to read to our class ; and I was always captivated by her stories . |
| 23 | And the human frame on to which I had grafted this delusion had definitely left Cliff Top , but despite this , from time to time I would come across what seemed like obscure messages , quirkily encoded , that threatened to upset my peace of mind . |
| 24 | From time to time I shall send one or other of them to you with documents to examine , and it would be helpful , I think , if you looked in periodically to study our work in progress . " |
| 25 | From time to time I 'd close my eyes |
| 26 | Then there would be silence , but from time to time I should receive a ‘ chit ’ from regimental HQ to say that all was well . |
| 27 | Nevertheless the Bank of England still requires banks ( and other institutions in the monetary sector ) to maintain sufficient liquidity , and from time to time it can order them to increase their liquidity ratio if it feels that this is necessary . |
| 28 | From time to time he would visit his family in Germany and when he left in July 1939 everyone assumed he would return . |
| 29 | Always popular with older Jamaican audiences , from time to time he would perform on ‘ revival nights ’ , still giving a stirring performance on classics like ‘ Come Softly To Me ’ and ‘ Keep On Running ’ . |
| 30 | From time to time he would take it out and read it , but no others came ; and he had to be content from time to time with the sight of Dinah above him on the lighted stage , playing her part superbly , her breasts outlined by scarlet netted silk . |