Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they will do is give the GPs a role to play in allocating resources to the hospital services and will contribute nothing to the delivery of better VFM within the family practitioner services . |
| 2 | It did n't make a great occasion for me , though I think the backstage tension did contribute something to the success of the production . |
| 3 | Should you use one to the exclusion of the others ? |
| 4 | That said , there 's absolutely no way I 'd stick one to the side of the Eizo T560i I use every day , purely because of the degaussing circuitry that you mention . |
| 5 | This impressive series of statutes may owe something to the influence of Justinian 's Code and Digest , which was the core of Roman law and the foundation of the training of civil lawyers ; yet while Roman law was part of the atmosphere breathed by nearly all lawyers in the thirteenth century , and at least one outstanding civil lawyer , Vacarius , was familiar to Englishmen , the statutes on the whole betray little impress of Justinian , concerned as they were largely with the clarification of traditional indigenous and feudal problems . |
| 6 | From this perspective , the growth of government may well owe something to the need by capital to socialise demand and legitimate the mode of production ; on the other hand , political power is relatively open and the growth of government may be driven by pluralistic bargaining , rising expectations and through effective working-class parties seizing power due to a fortuitous combination of forces in the political struggle over and around the state . |
| 7 | But whatever the proportion agreed with the taxman , the cost of superfluous luxury , of expensive servicing and of trading-in a fully-depreciated old faithful for a new machine would once again mean something to the wallet of Mr Toad 's great-grandson . |
| 8 | He would drive everyone to the end of endurance . |
| 9 | It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one 's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one 's ability and beyond , so that thereafter one has new standards by which to judge oneself . |
| 10 | the first thing is to understand the object before you : as long as you think that the corkscrew was meant for opening tins or the cathedral for entertaining tourists you can say nothing to the purpose about them . |
| 11 | Frequently couples at their golden wedding celebration will say something to the effect of ‘ we made it a point never to go to bed angry ’ . |
| 12 | And do n't worry , we wo n't say anything to the stationmaster about yesterday . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 'll be just as well if you do n't say anything to the group about it . |