Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [adj] [noun pl] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company must be able to communicate to potential customers the way in which its product would satisfy their needs , and provide competitive value . |
| 2 | The legislative function is exercised mainly through Parliament which has the power to make laws of general applicability and to grant to other bodies the power to make delegated legislation under authority of an act of parliament . |
| 3 | The 1882 Act in one respect served to grant to middle-class women the rights in property enjoyed by the middle-class male . |
| 4 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 5 | The point I think is not to count the numbers of fish raised , but to pass to fellow fishkeepers the knowledge gained . |
| 6 | On the one hand , a school curriculum must fulfil its primary function of serving to open to new ideas the minds of those who follow it . |
| 7 | The taxi-drivers waiting on the rank looked knowingly at the racing pages of evening papers folded into quarters , ready to suggest to uncertain fares the addresses of drinking clubs and prostitutes . |
| 8 | If we are to attribute to social classes the capacity to perceive their interests , we shall have to analyse this property . |
| 9 | The most important task now is to promote to potential employers the benefit of employing members of this Institute . |
| 10 | The owning Regions had their priorities to maintain to reasonable standards the stations on main lines and which were the calling points for InterCity trains . |