Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] the [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd better get the kids to school , now … ’ |
| 2 | It is one thing to produce an unbiased manuscript which adequately tells the complex factors which contributed to the American disaster that day ; it is quite another to successfully bring the story to life before the cameras . |
| 3 | All the evidence available suggests that the rate of fall of the glucose concentration does not affect the response to hypoglycaemia in a clamp . |
| 4 | The Statute of Limitations itself does not affect the right to payment , but only affects the procedure for enforcing it in the event of dispute or refusal to pay . |
| 5 | In any event , the new regulations can not eliminate the risk to taxi drivers . |
| 6 | If the client is willing to pay for a comprehensive pro-active search , MAS will generally refer the search to MC Strategy Services . |
| 7 | He did not give the money to charity . |
| 8 | Firstly , there was a widespread opinion that arts staff do not give the priority to INSET which other areas of the curriculum do . |
| 9 | ‘ Open systems , client/server and case tools can not provide the answer to information technology alone , ’ he argued . |
| 10 | A few days ago Li Xiannian , a former President , broke his public silence to support the controversial Three Gorges project to dam the Yangtze , but did not use the occasion to back faster reforms . |
| 11 | Lagan Valley finished last and , despite beating RUC in the last meeting , could not avoid the drop to division two . |
| 12 | You should not just abandon the site to nature , these areas have very specific needs . ’ |
| 13 | Individual constructors can easily adjust the rates to suite their own fancy . |
| 14 | I do not have the statistics to hand , but they show how the number of smokers differs between socio-economic groups . |
| 15 | ‘ It is not possible to draw a line between human and human and say some do and some do not have the right to life , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I do not have the figure to hand , although I can assure the hon. Gentleman that it is a great many more than in 1979 . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) Where , in pursuance of the contract , the seller delivers the goods to the buyer or to a carrier or other bailee or custodier ( whether named by the buyer or not ) for the purpose of transmission to the buyer , and does not reserve the right to disposal , he is taken to have unconditionally appropriated the goods to the contract . ’ |
| 18 | I do not mention the onlooker to Rainbow . |
| 19 | If its investigation gives credence to the theory that people do not tell the truth to market researchers , the industry has a problem . |
| 20 | Our Parliament does not hold the Commission to account . |
| 21 | Although Roosevelt did not commit the USA to war , the Charter called for the " final destruction of the Nazi tyranny " as well as for the right of all peoples to national self-determination , economic and social freedom , freedom of the seas and ultimate disarmament . |
| 22 | Do not allow the onion to brown . |
| 23 | It protects the defendant in that it prevents the jury from speculating on the possible effect of adult literature on a young person who may just happen to see it , although it does not put the prosecution to proof that a majority , or even a substantial number , of readers would be adversely affected . |
| 24 | He was a rejected favourite who did not relish the advance to power of his rival . |
| 25 | Why not extend the study to co occurrence within the same phrase ( moon in a silver sky ) or within the same sentence ( the moon stared down with its silver eye ) ? |
| 26 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 27 | Another , at both A and B , was that very little genuine help was given with problems ; the question and answer sheets were not marked , for example , and tutorials did n't always provide the key to understanding what the work was about : |
| 28 | I mean I did not need to stay on at school or get my B.A. at Strathclyde to know when not to F or C. Fuck-me shoes , I just handed them back to the saleslady with as much dignity as I could muster and says , thanks but no thanks , I do n't know when I 'd ever have the occasion to werr them . |
| 29 | The published Programme did still commit the party to communism as an ‘ historic perspective ’ , but this , as the Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov commented , was very much in the spirit of an ‘ epitaph on a tombstone ’ . |
| 30 | If the claim is for less than £500 , the district judge of the county court will automatically refer the matter to arbitration , unless there are good reasons why the matter should go to trial instead . |