Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca can we just look at a I do n't know which way to be specific or to look at the general first , can I just |
| 2 | Using exactly the same technique , I encouraged her to imagine doing just this and to practise for a further fortnight , after which she was in fact able to go to the local park and sit on a bench watching the children at play . |
| 3 | Mr Berge asked what could be more appropriate than to open with a French composer ? |
| 4 | And there 's no better way to keep warm than to tuck into a tasty treat or two . |
| 5 | In contrast to the UK , German industrial policies seem to be more consistent and to evolve from a strong , integrated network of organisations . |
| 6 | The text highlights specific engagements , sometimes in vivid detail , making the book one to sit down and read for pleasure as much as to use as a handy reference . |
| 7 | But the most preposterous law of all , a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal , is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime , even on the sunniest summer afternoon . |
| 8 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 9 | The tape showed Anderson sitting , struggling to keep himself alive and to communicate with the outside world , but the world was n't going to see it . |
| 10 | However , atherosclerosis appears to be more extensive and to develop at an earlier age in diabetic patients ( Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) . |
| 11 | The whole question of the salaries and allowances of the holders of the highest mevleviyets in the early days of the empire is a vexed one , but it seems likely that to speak of a 500-akce kadilik in the time of Mehmed II is anachronistic . |
| 12 | Any identifier allocated to an SPR which is created within LIFESPAN is guaranteed to be unique and to lie outside the predefined ranges for Paper SPRs . |
| 13 | And here we may note that the definitions of what constituted a Soviet national appear to be unique and to derive from no other known document or authority . |
| 14 | If a school intends to operate a form of option system allowing pupils to drop history at Key Stage 4 or to opt for the short course or continue with the full course , pupils and parents will presumably wish to base their decision on performance to date . |
| 15 | ‘ Now the good Lord knows better than to rain on the new Sandiford baby 's head . ’ |
| 16 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 17 | From our point of view we 're not in the position and it would be totally wrong of us actually to try in public to deal with those or to come to a specific conclusion about any particular proposal . |
| 18 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |
| 19 | As in all drilling , the aim is to achieve automatic control of the feature concerned and to react with the correct form in response to the appropriate stimulus . |
| 20 | The process is expected to make paper continuously available and to lead to an annual $5 million saving in hard currency . |
| 21 | Until now period performances have tended to be abrasive and to whizz through the slow movements , making even the sublime Largo of the Double Concerto into a trivial siciliana . |
| 22 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 23 | To complain individually is not as successful as to complain within a unified forum . |
| 24 | A new beer store , some kitchen improvements a new central heating system and considerable redecorations were completed in 1982 and to cope with the new handicapping scheme along came an Apple computer at a cost of £3,000 ( 1985 ) , its importance being such that the by-laws published in March 1986 included the rule that every male competitor 's computer number was to be written on his card ! |
| 25 | Although every ideology forms its own criteria and language of evaluation , it is doubly difficult to be discriminating and to carry through a particular form of objectivity when reading accounts of conservation in socialist or ‘ socialist ’ countries . |
| 26 | The address to send stuff to is DR BUTCHER ( MD ) , COMMODORE FORCE , So , if Nurse Enema would be so kind as to wheel in the first vict … erm patient , I 'll sharpen my instruments . |
| 27 | Nineteenth-century feminists did not demand measures to improve the status and conditions of wives and mothers other than to campaign for the equal right of married women to control their own property . |
| 28 | Members of the Royal Family have long been aware that to remain in the public conscience requires coming to terms with , and feeding , the needs of the media . |
| 29 | In those days , she might have been no more mad than to fall for a handsome stranger and carry his child . |
| 30 | It is true that to search for a legal framework in which the ill-articulated wishes of a testator can be given effect is to regard the testator 's intention . |