Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The circumstances of a particular case may oblige the partners as a matter of good faith to proceed first by way of warning as to future conduct or to offer a personal hearing to the offending partner , but few general rules can be laid down in this respect . |
| 2 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 3 | Operation Torch — the American invasion of French North Africa in November 1942 — was the culmination of Allied attempts to exclude de Gaulle and to promote a viable alternative to Gaullism . |
| 4 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
| 5 | The sophistication of this turn is indicated in its formal lexicon and its syntactic and semantic complexities ( both visible when he reverses Wittgenstein 's famous statement to produce his own aphorism , " Whereof we can not speak , thereof we are by no means silent " ) but he uses this complexity deliberately to obfuscate the sense of his utterance and to enable a swift escape to the World Cup qualifier . |
| 6 | By the terms of the Tomlin order the appellants agreed to pay off the second charge and to grant a further charge to the plaintiff for the purpose of securing payment to the plaintiff of the sum of £150,000 , such payment being one of the terms of the agreement made between the parties . |
| 7 | Its major proposals were to give the Secretary of State for Employment the right to impose a twenty-eight day conciliation pause in the case of ‘ serious ’ unconstitutional strikes ; the power to call a strike ballot of all members ; and to establish a legal liability to certain financial penalties if trade union members failed to comply with such orders . |
| 8 | Parents are needed to respond to the overtures of their offspring , to stimulate their interest and to provide a living presence to which they can relate . |
| 9 | I would argue at least that concentrating a group of students on one course should enable our scholarships staff both to tailor a more relevant course and to provide a better service to students . |
| 10 | Preparatory schools proliferated to replace tuition at home and to provide a middle-class alternative to the Board Schools following compulsory education in 1870 . |
| 11 | As he will know , our reforms for further education as a whole are designed to provide enhanced opportunities for both young people and adults and to provide a further stimulus to increased participation . |
| 12 | These are augmented by an advanced stop line to aid cyclist visibility at the junction and to provide an early start to the turning manoeuvre ( Figure 6.24 ) . |
| 13 | In its place the aim was to build up communities on the periphery equipped with all the necessary facilities , including local employment and to set a firm limit to the size of these communities . |
| 14 | Table 3.8 draws on these figures to show the sizes of the largest bond markets in the world and to give an international context to the sterling bond market . |
| 15 | US District Court Judge William Hoeveler , who presided over the arraignment proceedings , entered a not-guilty plea on the prisoner 's behalf on the 12-count indictment which charged Noriega with having used his position as Commander of the Panamanian Defence Forces to provide protection for drug traffickers and to allow a cocaine-manufacturing laboratory to be established in Panama . |
| 16 | Society has to decide how much risk-taking it wishes to encourage and to allow a proper return to risk-taking as an economic cost against accounting profits . |
| 17 | A sensible compromise is to use the first method for longer photo-stories and to add a sticky label to the photograph giving outline details and the source and to use the second method for short captions . |
| 18 | And to add an extra thrill to the afternoon , William Hill are giving both our winners the chance to win a fortune with £200 of free bets . |
| 19 | Within a few years , most Boards felt that the Consultative Councils helped to defuse individual complaints and to present a favourable image to the public , and were willing to defer to them on some matters of general policy of an essentially political or presentational nature , such as priorities in rural electrification or aspects of domestic charging . |
| 20 | Well I think gentlemen on tall stools with quill pens are becoming increasingly hard to find , and to pay a living wage to . |
| 21 | The refusal of the members to commit themselves in controversial matters certainly made it possible to achieve uniformity , and to make a powerful contribution to the debate on curricular diversity . |
| 22 | Like with the previous meeting , the accountability aspect of the appraisal seemed to be underplayed and the governors considered the appraisal from the perspective of trying to bring about improvements in the school , and to make a special case to the authority to facilitate improvement by making available additional resources . |
| 23 | To enable the researcher to contribute new and significant ideas , and to make a positive contribution to knowledge , and |
| 24 | The object of the exercise … was not to enhance others ' enjoyment and understanding of Jane Austen , still less to honour t e novelist herself , but to put a definitive stop to the production of any further garbage on the subject . |
| 25 | In the first stage of training the subjects had received instructions to emit a given response ( a key-press in one study , a word in another ) to one of the tones and to the light , but to emit a different response to the other tone . |
| 26 | To me the mist seemed like a veil of a moslem bride that is used not to hide but to reveal a subtler beauty to the lover . |
| 27 | In the summer of 1101 , faced with Robert 's landing in England and the immediate prospect of widespread desertion , Henry went so far as to promise a general obedience to the papal decrees , and it seems likely that Anselm 's activity on his behalf , secured by this promise , turned the tide in his favour , and brought Duke Robert 's invasion to a halt . |
| 28 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 29 | More significantly , the organisation was now free to manage itself so as to give a better service to patients . |
| 30 | The Thatcher fiscal revolution — redistributing income to those with most — must be reversed , but in such a way as to extend an incentive-based society to all taxpayers , and particularly those at the bottom of the income pile . |