Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A day to unwind and slow down to the leisurely pace of a Greek Cruise . |
| 2 | If they think peace is impossible , they will hang on to the extra layer of defence these territories provide . |
| 3 | In the case of single or dominant firm monopolies while it is accepted that these may behave detrimentally to the public interest at large , few democratic governments have had , or are likely to have , the political will to intervene directly in their operation , particularly where their market positions have been legitimately attained , and their activities are not overtly illegal . |
| 4 | We will opt in to the Social Chapter of the new European Treaty and introduce employment standards common in successful economies , including the best health and safety legislation . |
| 5 | But then the feet began to stretch wider and wider apart , and I knew that when the feet were as far apart as I was long , I 'd fall through to the heaving belly beneath . |
| 6 | Ahlburg 's work is a major botanical revision , but I suspect that Rice and Strangman will appeal more to the general gardener . |
| 7 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 8 | I did n't want to stay at home I wanted to get back into education and I did n't know how to the easiest way I suppose . |
| 9 | It is hoped that the greater environmental control available in the new Tropical House will contribute eventually to the successful breeding of these reptiles . |
| 10 | Since ferric iron is poorly absorbed from the small intestine , that secreted into gastric juice ( ca 0.2 mg/l ) will contribute appreciably to the daily loss of about 1 mg of endogenous iron . |
| 11 | The difficulty of winning a championship , the strain and gamble it involves , are so great that if a driver does not carry through to the following year sufficient momentum and he does not have the same advantage — of car , team , etc. — that he had the previous year , the results are often disappointing . |
| 12 | The majority of economic historians would probably incline more to the latter view now , though the extent to which revisionist case can be taken remains debatable . |
| 13 | Perhaps we will refer later to the blatant dishonesty — I am sorry , I must watch my language ; let us say something bordering on the dishonest — of the suggestion that we can have a banding system which avoids for ever the problem of revaluation . |
| 14 | If the dramatic frame is an enquiry or an investigation the children might well be creating still images , which they can then bring back to the whole group . |
| 15 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
| 16 | It would be logical to expect an author to cite his thesis in his first related paper , so that readers could refer back to the original source . |
| 17 | Even in cases where the husband and wife contribute equally to the family budget , there is no guarantee that both will contribute equally to the day-to-day running of the home and caring for the children . |
| 18 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 19 | However , conversion does not refer exclusively to the initial act of reorientation . |
| 20 | Training is available in diatom taxonomy and material preparation , and input from visiting researchers would contribute significantly to the international value of the database . |
| 21 | But in vivo these mutants are all wild-type within experimental error , suggesting that this contact does not contribute significantly to the overall stability of the operator complex . |
| 22 | Although one would probably incline pragmatically to the former interpretation in sentence 3 and to the latter interpretation in sentence 4 , the context could easily override these preferences — most obviously , perhaps , in the case of the president being a woman . |
| 23 | It was nearly a mile of steep climbing , he knew , before he would emerge on to the open heathland where The Drover 's Arms stood . |
| 24 | Basic Stable Management , is designed as an introductory course and students could follow on to the Senior Horsemaster Course 1 and then onto the Senior Horsemasters Course 2 which is an equivalent level of study to the BHS Stage IV . |
| 25 | Sometimes during the night someone from Wouldham would run down to the opposite bank and call for the Doctor . |
| 26 | They do not always transfer easily to the public sector . |
| 27 | The three-lane motorway will run close to the existing line of the A74 between the Annan to Eaglesfield Road ( B722 ) in the north and Kirkpatrick Fleming in the south where it will join the section of motorway recently completed between Kirkpatrick Fleming and Gretna . |
| 28 | In this situation you should gradually work up to the 20-minute target . |
| 29 | You will probably find that the sander will not work up to the very edge of the floor , so you will have to hire a smaller unit to finish off the job . |
| 30 | All attendance allowance beneficiaries aged under 65 and all mobility allowance beneficiaries will transfer automatically to the equivalent level of disability living allowance . |