Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observers commented that the modifications would make only a token difference to the King 's real power . |
| 2 | But it will make only a marginal difference to the stagnant housing market . |
| 3 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 4 | I shall describe later the hostile response to this demand , putting it into the context of sixteenth-century protest and rebellion . |
| 5 | I shall discuss later the theoretical objections to technological determinism ; Goody in any case recognises the dangers and in a later essay himself rejects such determinism , refuting the claims that this is what he was doing . |
| 6 | Between Alice and Mary and Reggie took place the accounting session which would bring in a regular contribution to the household . |
| 7 | The emergence of such standards , and the ability to re-use programs written in conventional languages , should bring down the last barriers to wide acceptance of parallel computing . |
| 8 | Even if — which in some cases is a big ‘ if ’ — the patent system does not give away the vital clue to an innovative product of process , innovating enterprises now increasingly prefer to keep their knowledge to themselves in order to preserve their options on when , where and how to market it . |
| 9 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
| 10 | And , initiative succeeding , brighter futures for 15 million people in the North of England could light up a new way to many more . |
| 11 | FRANCIS Lee told crisis club Manchester City 's supporters and shareholders today : ‘ I 'm ready to help bring back the good times to Maine Road but only with your backing . ’ |
| 12 | Then she retreated in bleak anguish to her bedroom , and sat hunched in the window-seat , looking out over the soft rolling lawns and distant Cotswold hills , dimly aware that her single most painful desire was that her mother were still alive , so she could pour out the secret desolation to the one person who 'd have understood … |
| 13 | But farmers operating under a quota regime question the economic sense of introducing BST and are concerned that its use would send out the wrong signals to consumers . |
| 14 | But farmers operating under a quota regime question the economic sense of introducing BST and are concerned that its use would send out the wrong signals to consumers . |
| 15 | Living Together as Husband and Wife is very concerned about being ‘ fair ’ to the married couple , but the only way they could truly be ‘ fair ’ to the married housewife would be to entitle the single housewife to less SB than she gets … and you can not entitle even a single housewife to less than nothing . |
| 16 | In conclusion , I would like to reiterate my earlier remarks concerning our own enthusiasm for your project and indeed would look forward to being part of the team that would bring about a successful conclusion to your plans . |
| 17 | Sometimes a mood , or a phase of the menstrual cycle , will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances . |
| 18 | What needs to be spelt out very clearly before polling day is that PR would bring about the opposite effect to what many voters comfortably believe . |
| 19 | Conventional railways may of course provide only a partial answer to congestion-busting , and Regional Railways is happy to co-operate with the promoters of the proliferating light rail schemes . |
| 20 | Moreover , while Phizacklea and Miles believe that changes in the material circumstances of the working class can provide only a partial solution to the problem of racist ideologies , the political project of the transformation of capitalism and working-class conditions advocated by Hatcher and Shall ice ( and other left antiracists in education ) squeezes out of consideration the rather important caveat entered by Phizacklea and Miles about the prospects for change in racist ideologies as a result of changes in the material base . |
| 21 | The results should provide both a critical guide to the existing literature and a coherent framework within which to interpret it . |
| 22 | The she can work out a different course to the Fraxilly sector . ’ |
| 23 | Oxford United are facing their own big challenge … four defeats in a row has dropped them back into the bottom half of the table … last home win was this one against Millwall … tomorrow they should … they must dish out the same treatment to struggling Southend |
| 24 | It is , I believe , a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world , and this quality is probably best summed up by the term ‘ greatness ’ . |
| 25 | The Webbs ' account of the transformation of the Metropolitan Trade Union is instructive : Here we can see how the general impulse to a fairer social order , one which would displace Owen 's ‘ old immoral world ’ , became concentrated upon parliamentary reform . |
| 26 | But it does sound quite a big area to me if you have n't got the land in the first place . |
| 27 | ‘ I believe we could build up the parliamentary group to more than 100 members . ’ |
| 28 | The effective teacher of history was the person who could elicit clearly the moral messages to be gleaned from studying the lives of the great and the good ; the age demanded that this should be interpreted mainly within an imperial context with the emphasis upon citizenship and service . |
| 29 | Solicitors may set up a corporate practice to practice solely outside England and Wales provided that ( a ) this is permitted by local law , ( b ) all the directors and shareholders are solicitors , lawyers of another jurisdiction or members of the Bar of England and Wales acting in accordance with the Overseas Practice Rules of the Bar and ( c ) the practice complies with the Overseas Practice Rules ; but such a company could not practice in England and Wales . |
| 30 | If 5% , let us say , of the total of first-preference votes are given to minute parties and frivolous independent candidates , there is no good reason why they should secure even the minimal representation to which they might in strict theoretical proportionality be entitled . |