Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] the [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I felt strong enough to write the truth to Margaret . |
| 2 | However , these fun boards winds are not frequent enough to recommend the resort to experts . |
| 3 | Luckily , 21-year-old Emma , was well enough to make the trip to St. Bart 's on Monday morning by train , said Lyn , — but a few months ago the situation would have been completely different . |
| 4 | In addition to making an order for the child 's attendance the court may order any person who is in a position to do so to bring the child to court ( s95(5) ) . |
| 5 | If the maxim of Quality is interpreted as the injunction to produce non-spurious or sincere acts ( a move we need to make anyway to extend the maxim to questions , promises , invitations , etc . ) , |
| 6 | • Does the machine have an effective cool zone into which loose particles of food can fall so as not to expose the oil to carbonisation , which will reduce the life of the oil ? |
| 7 | At first he tried halfheartedly to appeal to me not to send the story to England for ‘ the sake of the side ’ . |
| 8 | He reached this conclusion notwithstanding the fact that the defendants had received this information as agents for Mr. Brant and that they owed accordingly a duty to Mr. Brant not to disclose the information to others . |
| 9 | But the establishment of these facts is only one step on the way to a consideration of whether , in all the circumstances , the situation created by the delay is such as to make it an unfair employment of the powers of the court any longer to hold the defendant to account . |
| 10 | Although it may be argued that the effectiveness of local social pressures not to take the crime to court declined as a consequence of colonial rule , this change was gradual , and therefore does not explain why the rate of criminal litigation was highest in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | The return journey is steam-hauled and runs to Oxford and then along the Cotswold route to Worcester for Kidderminster where the diesel will take over to return the train to Birmingham . |
| 12 | He was asked politely not to bring the rifle to lectures in future — or at least to leave it with the umbrellas in a corner of the room . |
| 13 | For him it must be said that he went at once to report the death to authority , and then came back to us and again told the same story . |
| 14 | Mrs Chandler , a senior occupational therapist from Chepstow , had set off to do the Coast to Coast Walk from Bees Head to Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 15 | By June 23rd he had found some , and took off to fly the bag to Balsley in his hospital . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh … we 're just off to get the train to Holborn . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My aim is not only to raise money but also to introduce the trust to non-members . |
| 18 | How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent ‘ god ’ , had themselves been aware that the human race , sooner or later , would have to control its rate of procreation , for the world can never provide for unlimited human life . |
| 19 | Defence against medium high tides : A project is already underway to limit the damage to Venice itself , acting on the fact that a high water level of 80 cm. above mean Sea Level occurs on average fifty times per year , while a 100 cm. high ( almost half that of 1966 , when the water reached 194 cm ) occurs six to seven times . |
| 20 | The Queen Mother , 92 , is now to make the journey to Crathie Church on Saturday . |
| 21 | There are quite sufficient echoes here to direct the reader to Keats 's ‘ ode on a Grecian Urn ’ where he finds the urn ‘ With brede/ Of marble men and maidens overwrought , / With forest branches … ‘ and finds too scenes of love ‘ For ever warm and still to be enjoyed , / For ever panting , and for ever young — ’ as well as the heifer approaching the altar ‘ with garlands dressed ’ . |
| 22 | The drawbacks would be mainly administrative : how to ensure that products really did contain as much recycled material as was claimed — and how to apply the scheme to imports . |
| 23 | Ouko had been about to deliver the report to President Moi on the weekend he died . |
| 24 | A policeman came earlier to break the news to Miss Garland . ’ |
| 25 | Sergeant Troy picked up his bag and was about to take the road to Bathsheba 's house , when Boldwood stepped forward . |
| 26 | Having said this , I am not against courses teaching how to tell the gospel to others . |
| 27 | Most of the ballroom saw the despatch being given , and could tell from Webster 's dust-stained boots that he must have ridden hard to bring the paper to Brussels , but the Prince merely thrust the despatch into a pocket of his coat and went back to his scrutiny of the younger women . |
| 28 | He leaned forward to offer the package to Denis . |
| 29 | he wrote in only a few important imitative leads — bars 17–18 , 25–26 , 30–34 and 97–105 — which suggests that the composer had yet to commit the remainder to paper . |