Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building a stock exclusively upon the results of this kind of study is bound to lead eventually to some distortion between requirements and provision . |
| 2 | For example , maintenance staff in a hotel can benefit in situations where they need to talk constantly to another member of staff located in a separate part of the hotel , such as while they are repairing and testing lighting or heating . |
| 3 | Nor will she be able to look forward to that sense of completeness when her grieving is over which is experienced by the widow whose marriage was happy , and she will have some difficult emotional adjustments to make in order to come to terms with her situation , in which both love and life seem to have betrayed her . |
| 4 | Shanti and Chris discovered in February that they were expecting a baby , There was tremendous excitement and we all began to look forward to this addition to the family . |
| 5 | Give yourself something really special to look forward to this winter with a wonderful trip to two of the most beautiful cities in Italy . |
| 6 | Better to surrender quietly to that hell of pain , to slide into it , to crumble and fold like burning straw , to merge and coalesce and become one with it , until , phoenix-like , she floated away on the other side , whole and free . |
| 7 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 8 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 9 | So instead of an export binge , the industry is more likely to go straight to offshore production in America and Europe . |
| 10 | The best return route is to descend steeply to Red Tarn below Crinkle Crags and then follow the broken track beside Brown Gill into Oxendale , with the shapely Langdale Pikes dominating the skyline ahead . |
| 11 | Being free from the constraint of responding to logged calls and from the need to react quickly to one call after another gives the neighbourhood police the opportunity to engage in prolonged contact with the public . |
| 12 | Alkaline bile secretion is known to contribute significantly to duodenal protection against acid injury to a similar ( if not greater ) degree than pancreatic secretion and stimulation of biliary bicarbonate secretion during or before feeding would seem to be of physiological benefit . |
| 13 | The art of the general in dance means that the choreographer must understand the working of a dancer 's body and its ability to respond physically to any demand for movement . |
| 14 | One in five pairs of socks sold in Britain is made by Sherwood , which can turn around designs in a matter of hours , allowing it to respond quickly to high fashion for its high street customers which include Marks & Spencer , BhS and Littlewoods . |
| 15 | The main value of Hinduism is its belief that all life is one , and it is not possible to hold fast to this belief without accepting that man is the servant and not the lord of creation , and that all men are brothers . |
| 16 | John Wakeham , the British Energy Secretary , had put a new twist on the need for nuclear power at the September 1989 World Energy Conference in Montreal by suggesting that the developed countries might have to turn increasingly to nuclear power to ‘ make room ’ for more use of fossil fuels by developing countries . |
| 17 | ‘ I am concerned that if I now have to respond fully to that part of the plaintiffs ' order of 5 June dealing with the various alleged payments my position vis-à-vis the police investigation may well be prejudiced . |
| 18 | The project aims to provide and analysis of children 's understanding of television which will enable broadcasters and educationalists to respond constructively to public concern about the ‘ effects ’ of the medium . |
| 19 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 20 | Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now . |
| 21 | It would not be quite true to claim that his wide experience of light music , and the strain of singing long parts , with numerous encores , throughout the week left no mark on either his style or his vocal chords ; but he can be justly likened to two other similarly popular tenors , John McCormack and Tito Schipa , in his ability to return successfully to serious music until the end of his career . |
| 22 | One can not be so clear when considering other mosaics which appear to owe much to this manner of arrangement and depiction . |
| 23 | Well , if we 're going to move forward to that sort of union , there are really only three unions in this country that can be used as the base for that new structure , that new organization . |
| 24 | The MA(General) is especially well suited to those who intend to proceed subsequently to vocational training by means of a Diploma , Certificate or second degree . |