Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Behbehanian , his banker , who believed that the British controlled every event in Iran , was still pressing him to repair there and to apologize to the British for insulting them in recent years . |
| 2 | To mourn is to be stripped of self-sufficiency and to identify with the needy on their own level , not from above them . |
| 3 | Because few of us possess universal skills , we learn to value one another 's and to look for the unexpected amongst our colleagues ( the music teacher who is a professional photographer , the lab technician skilled in electronics ) ; and because teachers must necessarily concentrate mostly on what is pre-eminently their task , the design and communication of learning experiences , we value those para-professionals able to concentrate on related areas , such as the production of resources from our basic design , and the collection and organization of recorded information and communication in all formats . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is the plan of agitators and the way of sensational writers to confound the two in one , to talk of ‘ starving millions ’ and to tack on the thousands of the working classes to the tens or hundreds of the distressed . |
| 6 | … the Messiah is to suffer death and to rise from the dead on the third day , and … in his name repentance bringing the forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to all nations ( Luke 24:46 ) . |
| 7 | Hundreds of keen gardeners have been visiting Blenheim Palace … not to inspect Capability Brown 's work , but to look at the best of the country 's autumn flowers . |