Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays there are still tourist boats taking visitors to see Cabo Girâo or Machico or to swim in the sheltered coves , but Madeira now has a fine road network stretching to every small hamlet , whether it be on the top of a mountain or in the bottom of a valley . |
| 2 | Members of the Royal Family have long been aware that to remain in the public conscience requires coming to terms with , and feeding , the needs of the media . |
| 3 | Nuclear Electric , a third generating company , was to be established to take control of the nuclear power stations and to remain in the public sector . |
| 4 | We deserved our lead and to lose in the last minute was terrible . ’ |
| 5 | With a view to aiding the assessment of a patient 's progress there are a few simple guidelines that can be followed ; for cure to be taking place the disease should go from within to without , from organs of greater importance to lesser importance , from above to below and to disappear in the reverse order to their original appearance . |
| 6 | This is a striking indication of the role of money in European society as a whole ; it reveals that even the peasantry must have reckoned , under good conditions , to produce , and to sell in the local market , a substantial surplus . |
| 7 | Technically , this is quite difficult to play accurately up to speed ; I find the best approach is to try to maintain a very relaxed right hand wrist and to pick in the general area around the top end of the fingerboard . |
| 8 | Common to much of the literature has been a notion … that these kids — and many others like them — have been trying to ‘ recover magically ’ territory , both physical and cultural , that they have lost and to appropriate in the same way territory that has never been theirs . |
| 9 | We 'll visit the Jewish quarter , count statues of Saints on the famous Charles Bridge and walk up to the Presidential Palace area , stopping to see the wax figurine of the infant Jesus and to rest in the lovely gardens . |
| 10 | And to succeed in the long run , they have to grow big . |
| 11 | ‘ Abstraction ’ should help us to move when we wish and to settle in the best camping places . |
| 12 | In further discussion the suggestion was made that the best course would be to introduce the Bill without any provision abolishing capital punishment and to explain in the Second Reading debate that , since the question of capital punishment was one on which there were differences of opinion transcending Party lines , the Government felt that the matter should be left to a free vote . |
| 13 | In view of the evident division of opinion among Ministers , it was suggested at the meeting of the Cabinet on 19th June that the best course would be to introduce the Criminal Justice Bill without any provision abolishing capital punishment and to explain in the Second Reading Debate that since the question of capital punishment was one on which there were differences of opinion transcending Party lines , the Government felt that the matter should be left to a free vote on the Report Stage of the Bill . |
| 14 | Leporello is hiding under the table when Giovanni meets his just desserts ; he survives to tell the tale and to join in the final ensemble warning the audience to take heed of the libertine 's dreadful fate . |
| 15 | The FSLN decided to call an end to the civil disobedience campaign , and to join in the national dialogue , following the negotiations on Oct. 2 between Daniel Ortega Saavedra , the Sandinista leader , and Antonio Lacayo , a close adviser to President Violeta Chamorro . |
| 16 | We used to visit Toftingall frequently , not only to fish , but to delight in the wide variety of bird life that called the loch home . |
| 17 | If it is true that no man knows what may befall him , nor how he may make himself safe against all future evils , is it not therefore the wisest course to make no provision , but to live in the present experience only ? |
| 18 | The point , however , is not to lament over the once great dace swims which have changed for the worse , but to think in the opposite way — that some of the swims you tried three or four seasons ago without any success may now have turned into ones where dace congregate . |
| 19 | About half a dozen employees decided not to relocate their homes immediately at the time of the company 's move south , but to relocate in the following year . |
| 20 | The big decision in Brussels is whether to stay in the Lower Town ( historic and lively ) or the Upper Town ( elegant and leafy ) . |
| 21 | " that it is desirable that before anything is done as to interfere in the internal arrangement of the School , that application be made to the Goldsmiths ' Company for an additional grant . " |
| 22 | The address to send stuff to is DR BUTCHER ( MD ) , COMMODORE FORCE , So , if Nurse Enema would be so kind as to wheel in the first vict … erm patient , I 'll sharpen my instruments . |