Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or are poorer respondents simply less prepared to admit to an interviewer that they would be prepared to break the law ? |
| 2 | By proclaiming the arrival of democracy , and with it " the end of ideology " and ideological politics , the revisionists of the 1950s perhaps hoped to bring to an end the perennial debate about democracy . |
| 3 | It is hard to exaggerate the importance of this development , which , for reasons purely of financial accountability , involved the Colonial Office intimately in economic planning for the empire and thus helped to bring to an end the old imperial system in which colonies had puttered along as virtually independent satrapies , with the Colonial Office exercising only a watching brief . |
| 4 | These days the word salame is also used to refer to an idiot with less brains than a sack of potatoes ! |
| 5 | As Richard Attenborough once said to me , ‘ If you have n't learnt to play to an audience that is present , how can you expect to play to one that is n't ? ’ |