Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seemed all set to continue my way to the top outdoors , but as it turned out , the highlight of my summer was getting my photograph in Athletics Weekly , the bible of the sport , for the first time . |
| 2 | There 's no doubt he relieved the pressure on me and the rest of the dressing-room and enabled me to enjoy my game to the full . ’ |
| 3 | Now I 'm finding it difficult to find my way to the correct place . |
| 4 | The president of the employers ' federation , the Union Patronale de Côte d'Ivoire ( UPACI ) , Joseph Aka Anghui , cited rampant fraud , inefficient bureaucracy , price controls and high taxes as key problems affecting industry ; he also complained of the failure of government bodies to meet their debts to the private sector . |
| 5 | The longer they have been Christians and the more they have been preoccupied with their Christian activities , the more difficult it becomes to relate their beliefs to the perceived needs of their friends . |
| 6 | Some small successes had already been achieved ; for example , by 1880 foreigners had agreed to entrust their mail to the Japanese postal system . |
| 7 | A divorced woman can only use her former husband 's contribution record to establish her right to the basic pension and only provided she contributes in her own right as soon as the marriage ends and she does not remarry ( unless she is divorced over the age of 60 ) . |
| 8 | Finally , there were merchants , the men who organized the markets that enabled the corn or flour or bread to find its way to the hungry , the wool to the weaver , fuller and dyer , the cloth to the man who needed a new costume , timber to the shipbuilder , timber and stone to the church . |
| 9 | Introducing the collection of essays , Crisis in the Humanities , in which Steiner 's essay appeared in 1964 , J. H. Plumb calls for " less reverence for tradition and more humility towards the education systems of those two great countries — America and Russia — which have tried to adjust their teaching to the urban , industrial world of the twentieth century " . |
| 10 | Active during the day as well as at night , they appear to adjust their pace to the human by-products on which they depend , such as scraps from butchers shops and other handouts . |
| 11 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 12 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 13 | Many other contemporary examples of both national as well as international institutional policy in which the market is seen as the only means to improve peasants ' and pastoralists ' incomes and to increase their contribution to the national exchequer can be found in Heyer , Roberts and Williams ( 1981 ) . |
| 14 | Even that great opponent of the industrial system of the nineteenth century Thomas Carlyle ( 1795–1881 ) failed to relate his criticisms to the Christian doctrine that he had abandoned as a young man . |
| 15 | Book Seven enhances the impression of a century of civil war , but again allowance must be made for the fact that this one book covers scarcely more than twelve months of 584/5 , and that it is concerned largely with the attempt by the " pretender " Gundovald to establish his claim to the Frankish throne . |
| 16 | In 1299 Boniface VIII ordered Edward to abandon war in Scotland since that kingdom was a papal fief , and he invited Edward to send proctors to Rome to establish his right to the Scottish crown . |
| 17 | Thus the examiner must look at the bottom of the page as well as the top in order to find his way to the new question . |
| 18 | Should you wish to change your holiday arrangements in any way we will endeavour to meet your wishes to the best of our ability . |
| 19 | Searching for the implications of a question is beginning to relate your knowledge to a specific question . |
| 20 | Can you begin to adjust your life-style to the new time zone in the days immediately before departure ? |
| 21 | it is your duty as a manager or supervisor to tell your subordinates all that they need to know to perform their work to the best of their ability |
| 22 | Individuals are required to perform their job to the full , but not to overstep the boundaries of their authority . |
| 23 | For some chairmen , moreover , the prospect of playing Father Christmas ( which their rural electrification largesse offered them ) provided a not entirely unwelcome opportunity to affirm their commitment to the local community , and the voices of discontent raised against the policy were few . |
| 24 | In both cases students may choose either to continue their studies to an advanced level in all four main subject areas or to drop some and specialize in others . |
| 25 | LASMO aims to conduct its business to the highest possible professional standards . |
| 26 | This time around , the national spotlight is far less intense , leaving the candidates to peddle their messages to the local electorate without the big boys to lend a hand . |
| 27 | Experience of the families — It would be neither feasible nor desirable to intrude upon these families at frequent intervals to monitor their response to the emergent diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy . |
| 28 | The National Governing Bodies whose sports can be accommodated in the facilities have taken the opportunity to promote their sport to a potential audience of four million people and are organising displays , coaching clinics , tournaments and so on . |
| 29 | The link between economics and mathematics now became close and direct ( with A. A. Cournot [ 1801–77 ] and L. Walras [ 1834–1910 ] , both Frenchmen ) , and the application of statistics to social phenomena was already sufficiently advanced to stimulate their application to the physical sciences . |
| 30 | Other directors have to target their audience to a large extent . ’ |