Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loop could act only as a monitor to be interrogated in the case of breakdown of comprehension . |
| 2 | Rather , they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit . |
| 3 | The Frenchman , before turning to her sons , let his glance fall pointedly for a moment to the swell of her breasts tightly bodiced beneath a new Fifth Avenue day dress of sheer white silk chiffon ; then he smiled secretly at her again and this undisguised expression of passionate interest brought a faint flush to her face . |
| 4 | I did n't know enough about the subject to be able to query it . |
| 5 | But much will hang also on the extent to which teachers succumb to the temptation to teach for the test , and thereby create a classroom atmosphere that focuses narrowly on learning the content and the skills that will be tested , and is therefore less lively , less varied , more repetitive and more anxiety-provoking for the pupils . |
| 6 | Oxford Practice Grammar contains over a hundred double-page units with the exercises facing the explanations so that students can glance across from the exercises to the rules and back . |
| 7 | Whereas a visit to the Design Museum can feel disconcertingly like an excursion to Covent Garden ( window-shopping interspersed with sups of cappuccino ) , the V&A 's 20th Century Gallery opened in a period where consumerism has become an even more problematic model for museological display . |
| 8 | Besides , from this path we could see right across the meadows to a clutch of villages nestling beneath the highest point on the Gower , the rounded silhouette of Rhosili Down ( 632ft ) . |
| 9 | He did n't look much like a doctor to Alina . |
| 10 | He does n't look much like a philosopher to me . |
| 11 | Many children do n't look forward to a visit to the doctor 's — not surprising , as they may associate it with illness or injections . |
| 12 | II.C.236 ’ , one could move upward in the classification to ‘ 2 . |
| 13 | As the MIND report concludes , not only must the system be made more user friendly , but it must move away from a supply-led to a consumer-oriented approach . |
| 14 | It was arranged that Charles would book a table at the Ecu de France in Jermyn Street and that they 'd meet there after the visit to the agent . |
| 15 | None the less , Henry did not rush headlong down the road to schism . |
| 16 | Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Industry meets today to consider the Task Force draft proposals and the consultation process will develop further in the run-up to the EC decision which is due in the Autumn . |
| 17 | The factors which come within the first category are those which must exist independently of the substance to be decided . |
| 18 | Well he was a very active man my word he would soon go right from the house to the top of as you would say because we had sheep then . |
| 19 | Where did you go away for a fortnight to ? |
| 20 | A plan occurred to her ; she and Lucy would go away for a weekend to the heart of the country , roses round the door , and find out how they would be lovers . |
| 21 | ‘ Well done , Percy , old boy ! ’ he would call out to Percy Harvey , who would grin and pass quickly up the stairs to the Music Library with his scores . |
| 22 | Average walkers will go further along the glen to the Lochan Dubha at the foot of Blaven before returning happily after a most interesting ten-mile trek . |
| 23 | She did n't go straight from the house to the Station Hotel . |
| 24 | Margaret Shepherd , whose cafe in Queen Street has for many years been popular with parties of elderly people , said many handicapped groups had cancelled this year because they could no longer walk straight from the cafe to the seafront . |
| 25 | I do not suggest that to restore benefit to 16 to 18-year-olds would solve this problem overnight , but it would go far down the road to alleviating this problem which surely must be unacceptable in 1993 . |
| 26 | But the text could serve equally as a tribute to the man himself . |
| 27 | It ought never to happen that firms with incompatible ideas as to the sort of service to be provided for their clients should ever come together with a view to merger . |
| 28 | The idea of a youth employment service , however , did not figure prominently as a solution to the problem , probably because social scientists did not begin to examine the possibilities of labour exchanges until after 1905 . |
| 29 | If everything went well , they would get there at a quarter to two and wait for Johann to open the front door . |
| 30 | With cars , tractors and lorries , farmers can travel daily from the lowlands to the hills . |