Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moidart 's trip from her Newmarket base to Edinburgh last time was rewarded with victory and she should score closer to home in the Charter Handicap . |
| 2 | Moidart 's trip from her Newmarket base to Edinburgh last time was rewarded with victory and she should score closer to home in the Charter Handicap . |
| 3 | Mrs Stych wrung her hands behind the reporter 's back , and wished passionately she could run home to Mother on the pig farm ; she longed suddenly for the smell of hens and milk , for a place where nobody had to keep up appearances or be other than what they were . |
| 4 | ‘ I shall look forward to hearing of you . ’ |
| 5 | This would apply equally to abstraction for private or commercial use . |
| 6 | If the green light came on for either project , the paper would go straight to capitalization as a commercial company . |
| 7 | I would go straight to bed after finishing my work with all my clothes on , including Uncle 's old tweed coat and socks . |
| 8 | The nationalist camp in Likud argues that such contrivances will lead eventually to dialogue with the PLO and to the establishment of a Palestinian state . |
| 9 | Group production reached a new peak , encouraging oil and gas discoveries were made , new fields were brought on stream and material progress was made in development activities which will add further to production in the short and medium term . |
| 10 | The answer to that may lie closer to home with parents . |
| 11 | In his attempt to determine whether the methods and concepts of ecology and physical geography can contribute effectively to analysis of urban issues in the context of the city as an integrated open system of living things interacting with their physical environment , Douglas ( 1981 ) argues that an attempt must be made to link the city as a habitat or an ecosystem with the city as a social system and he develops an ecosystem approach to the study of cities . |
| 12 | ‘ ALTHOUGH the contribution of the world we live in to the levels of risk is most obvious for accidents , developments in medical thinking throughout the last two centuries have indicated how by modifying the way we live — originally through general improvements in diet and hygiene , more recently through changes in education and social welfare — we can contribute substantially to prolongation of healthy life or its reduction by increasing smoke pollution and cigarette consumption ’ . |
| 13 | Furthermore , pH i can recover spontaneously to baseline within minutes after exposure of cells to acute acid and alkaline loads . |
| 14 | If I can talk immediately to scope of that amendment before moving on to some points about the budget . |