Example sentences of "[noun] to go to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , the moment the decision to go to war was taken in Washington in November , the UN really faded out of the picture .
2 He also expressed " deep remorse over the unbearable suffering and sorrow Japan inflicted " by its " reckless " decision to go to war with the USA .
3 This was not quite a final decision to go to war , but when allied ships under Admiral Codrington moved into Navarino Bay on the south-western edge of the Peloponnese in October 1827 and , without having set out to do so , destroyed the fleet of the Sultan 's Egyptian forces , war became inevitable .
4 After all , there was no necessity to go to Benediction on a Saturday evening .
5 The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result .
6 Under Chilean law a 15-year deadline for such cases to go to court would expire on Sept. 21 .
7 However , total enrolment fell between 1980 and 1986 , suggesting that girls have had more opportunity to go to school under war conditions than boys .
8 If there were no need for sheltered workshops because disabled people were fully integrated into ‘ normal ’ society , then it would be a gain ; but if , as I suspect , in these hard times it is impossible for many severely disabled people to get a job of any sort , surely the lack of opportunity to go to work is a loss — even if the kind of work they do is far from ideal .
9 For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university .
10 David Chadwick , prosecuting , said the Crown Prosecution Service would be making representations for the case to go to Crown Court .
11 ( On appeal to the Court of Appeal it was held that the imprisonment was not a repudiation but a ‘ self-induced frustration of the contract ’ Quaere , would an election to go to prison instead of paying a fine constitute a breach ( repudiation ) of contract no matter how long the prison sentence , or would the Court of Appeal put this conduct within the category of ‘ self-induced frustration ’ also ? )
12 Archbishop Stratford maintained in 1341 that in March 1337 the king obtained the assent of parliament to go to war against Philip of France .
13 In the townships within white-designated urban areas , opportunities to go to school are greater , at least at primary level .
14 ( 5 ) Pursuing the case expeditiously. ( 6 ) Readiness to go to trial if need be .
15 ( vii ) Pursuing the case expeditiously. ( viii ) Readiness to go to trial .
16 Come back dinner time and they were saying well no you see you ca n't just a borrow a car to go to dinner in , yeah that 'll be alright man and I had n't even been in it since Roy bought it back !
17 So many times he had padded across this bedroom to go to Abigail that he knew it perfectly in the dark , only requiring to hold his hands out before him and , like a blind man , feel the bevelled comer of the wardrobe , the lacquered wicker of a chair back , the top of the radiator , cold at this hour , the glass sphere of the door knob .
18 Indy and Thirty Slews , said : ‘ I was close by as Lester was stretchered into the ambulance to go to hospital .
19 The word originally denoted the many single days when the labourer might break from his toil to go to mass and celebrate a saint in other , mundane ways ; as , in the dull prose of the twentieth century , on a bank holiday .
20 It was a pleasure to go to work .
21 It was just another thing he did — like dealing with wills and conveyancing at Harris , Harris and Overdene , or shouting at Maisie to go to bed .
22 Erm or we can make application for legal aid to go to court for a residence and contact order now .
23 But what about further education if they show an aptitude to go to university or college ?
24 Do n't you remember , she used to make me wear them in my shoes to go to school when it was raining ?
25 ( Suddenly telling a child to go to bed in the middle of an exciting TV programme is asking for trouble .
26 In the context of section 39(2) this might include ‘ accompanying the child in situations where it would be unsafe for the child to go to school unaccompanied ’ , where the child did live ( only just in this more recent case ) within ‘ walking distance ’ .
27 Trying to get the child to go to school .
28 It seems pity to go to school and not plant bulbs
29 ‘ Fabulous lot of chaps to go to war with .
30 Soon Cathy Carne would be shutting shop to go to lunch .
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