Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 2 | The most difficult aspect of a merger is trying to put a team together of people who come from different business cultures and trying to adjust them to a different end . |
| 3 | It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal . |
| 4 | Ken , in the event neither fulminated nor frothed , and managed to restrict himself to a 15-minute speech in which he advanced some very cogent and well measured arguments for preventing bolting gaining the same sort of prominence it has in other countries — notably France and America . |
| 5 | When Donald examined his wire in the last stages of the illness it might be necessary to lead him to a medical textbook and steer those calm , grey eyes in the direction of the chapter headed ‘ The Guillain-Barré Syndrome ’ . |
| 6 | Half of her could n't wait to escape from him , to relegate him to a past memory , enjoyable at the time but without consequence — like Tivoli … a temporary pleasuring of the senses but insubstantial … åd the other half ? |
| 7 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 8 | For Spender , it makes no sense for reformists to restrict themselves to a small set of targets like generic pronouns and man . |
| 9 | Well , that 's not how schoolboys talk , so they sneered some more and waited for Oliver to challenge them to a formal fight . |
| 10 | Truisms like ‘ the world is full of things that have what it takes to be in the world ’ are trivial , almost silly , until we come to apply them to a special kind of durability , durability in the form of lineages of multiple copies . |
| 11 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 12 | Right , so that 's the digression over and done with it 's pretty fascinating stuff okay , you 'll you 'll need that in the in erm in your Q M project if you have to apply one to a particular problem . |
| 13 | Even in normal society it is boring and , after a while , meaningless to trace everything to a common source , especially when the detail is elaborate . |
| 14 | How Dustin would have managed to submit himself to a real auteur like Bergman must remain a matter for conjecture . |
| 15 | Elfyn Llwyd , Plaid Cymru MP for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy , protested : ‘ To leave it to a mayoral fund is pathetic . ’ |
| 16 | To leave it to a free vote of the House might be taken as an indication that the Government had not made up its mind and would be an invitation to the House of Lords to delete from the Bill the clause abolishing the death penalty . |
| 17 | I tried to imagine Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher agreeing to submit themselves to a monthly grilling by members of the public , and failed . |
| 18 | In the fullness of time , we will afford , perhaps , to send you to a finishing school , or a conservatory to study music . |
| 19 | It had been their intention to send her to a finishing school in France or Germany , but she had begged so hard to be allowed to stay where she was , with Breeze and Gay . |
| 20 | ‘ One would have shuddered to send him to a public school , ’ said the lady , who had in fact sat long and agonized in calculation of the cost of doing so . |
| 21 | In 1925 the ship was bought by a Glasgow shipowner who planned to convert her to a nautical museum . |
| 22 | Ms. Quant confided to delegates that she often jollied Plunkett ( her husband , entrepreneur Alexander Plunkett-Green ) into helping her dye her pubic hair some fantasy shade , or to trim it to a neat heart shape . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is not possible to reduce it to a single definition , but for the purpose of this passage I will concentrate on the individual learner . |
| 24 | Technical yeah the technical people but you have to ensure do n't you that with with your audience that you understand who they are but if you do n't then you have to keep it to a common denominator . |
| 25 | And her husband Steve , who had been planning to treat her to a new look for her birthday , wholeheartedly approved of her dramatic transformation . |
| 26 | Health expenditure increased , but not by enough to lift us to a comparable position with our main industrial competitors . |
| 27 | There are two ways to make an application protocol-independent : the first is to re-write it , incorporating MPTN , the second is to connect it to a separate gateway that will do the conversion . |
| 28 | To have any chance of raising the fry to a reasonable size , you will have to transfer them to a separate aquarium . |
| 29 | Presumably I 'll have to transfer them to a separate tank first , but should it be planted or bare ? |
| 30 | An order may require the child to comply with any directions given by the supervisor : ( i ) to live at a specified place or places for certain periods of time ; ( ii ) to present himself to a specified person or persons at times and places as specified ; ( iii ) to participate in specified activities at certain times ( para 2 ) . |