Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first-time 1.5p dividend should jump to 5p at the full-year stage . |
| 2 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |
| 3 | In the course of this book , we shall appeal to evidence in the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic literature which offers insights into the way in which discourse , produced in describable contexts for recognisable purposes , is processed and comprehended . |
| 4 | All these factors may contribute to problems in the older person 's AL of communicating . |
| 5 | Tata for now India could become to software in the 1990s what Taiwan and South Korea are to electronics today . |
| 6 | And for the first time a handful of trains will run to Tyneside via the main line , calling at Durham . |
| 7 | Hoteliers will increasingly look to Europe in the next 10 years to satisfy their investment needs , according to Jonathan Bodlender , chairman of Horwath Consulting . |
| 8 | We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment . |
| 9 | JIM McDONNELL will return to boxing in the new year with determination similar to that he showed against Azumah Nelson in their world title fight last Sunday . |
| 10 | The other half of it lies in mobilising party and public support sufficiently strongly to leave Mrs Thatcher with no choice but to readmit him to the Cabinet if the Tories do return to office after the next election . |
| 11 | In January 1931 he left the Shadow Cabinet on the issue and did not return to communion with the official Conservative leadership until after the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 12 | The morality of Ulysses 's speech just can not apply to life in the Greek camps ; base instincts clearly hold sway outside , as well as inside , the Trojan gates . |
| 13 | The West Lothian ban will also apply to members of the public visiting council offices to pay their rents or make inquiries . |
| 14 | However , this does not apply to books from the same print-run circulated in the UK since his works have now come into the public domain in that country . |
| 15 | Perhaps the women of the next generation will no longer submit to defloration in the normal way and will give birth to children only on condition of freedom from pain … ’ |
| 16 | Long words are less likely to be identified given current performance , but parts of these words will be , and they will correspond to homophones in the second set of valid words . |
| 17 | One male patient with chronic antral ulcer did not respond to treatment within the next six months ( H pylori and ulcer persistence ) , and in one female patient a resistent body ulcer was identified as gastric lymphoma . |
| 18 | Some experts believe that British Rail would respond to competition in the same way . |
| 19 | On the other hand , a variable , service-orientated transaction ( such as that provided by an international hotel concierge ) would best respond to recruitment of the right person in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ In order to change and adapt to shifts in the Italian business and political scene , a radical rethink of what the AIE has stood for until now is going to be necessary , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Art Nouveau would relate to furnishings of the 1890's , typified by the use of images inspired by plants and the sea reflected in sinuous curves in pale and subtle colours . |
| 22 | How does this relate to power in the public world of politics ? |
| 23 | More work is needed , however , to clarify such putative differential regulation of the two L1 chains ; possible immunohistochemical artifacts can not be discounted because quite contrasting results have been reported with regard to expression of the two chains in immune granulomas . |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what studies have been undertaken with regard to transfer of the avionic repair department from RAF Carlisle to RAF Sealand . |
| 25 | Company law also assigns to the members the ultimate right to make decisions in certain key areas , for example with regard to changes in the corporate constitution or increases in capital , again in order to ensure that the business is run in accordance with their , and not the directors ' , interests . |
| 26 | Given the very complex nature of France 's post-war politics , especially with regard to Algeria in the late 1950s it is hardly surprising that the SDECE , as the DGSE was then known , has found itself embroiled in numerous scandals . |
| 27 | With regard to prosecutions under the various Acts , in which social workers are occasionally involved in some way , the reader is recommended to study A. F. Wilcox 's The Decision to Prosecute ( Butterworth ) . |
| 28 | It is essential that all Teachers fill in the enclosed form with regard to information for the Annual Report as soon as possible and return it to the Office or to at the latest by the end of January . |
| 29 | This seems to have been not quite the case , though one of his ancestors did emigrate to Canada in the seventeenth century and become a beaver-trapper . |
| 30 | Substantial deviation of particle shapes from spheres may lead to underestimation of the characteristic intermediate diameter according to Ludwick & henderson ( 1968 ) . |