Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On 6 October the Scottish Sunday Mail revealed in an excellent piece of investigative journalism that , in a draft letter to the Secretary of State for Energy , the Secretary of State for Scotland had made it clear that he would not object to fuel from an Iraqi nuclear reactor , damaged during the Gulf war , being sent to Dounreay for reprocessing . |
| 4 | Tata for now India could become to software in the 1990s what Taiwan and South Korea are to electronics today . |
| 5 | Although many patients are quite fit when admitted to the ward , they will become completely dependent when they have an anaesthetic and may only slowly return to independence after a surgical procedure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some experts believe that British Rail would respond to competition in the same way . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | How does this relate to power in the public world of politics ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Substantial deviation of particle shapes from spheres may lead to underestimation of the characteristic intermediate diameter according to Ludwick & henderson ( 1968 ) . |
| 19 | Over a series of evenings at the end of March and the beginning of April , 13 chief examiners gave Associateship candidates invaluable advice on the techniques which could lead to success in the approaching examinations . |
| 20 | The policy of withholding funds for investment in the reconstruction of the Basque Country , Catalonia and Asturias was a deliberate , punitive gesture , as well as a precautionary measure , lest too rapid or too successful economic recovery should lead to agitation for the political autonomy to which they had aspired — and , in the case of the Basque Country and Catalonia , enjoyed — under the Republic . |
| 21 | This same Report said that the majority of submissions to it complained that resources were spread too thinly , but if grants were to be concentrated in fewer centres , this would doubtless lead to criticism in the other direction , and could force closure of some departments which fail to attract sufficient grants . |
| 22 | Section 5 covers convictions for minor offences , e.g. a failure to deliver a return , account or document to the Registrar of Companies , and may lead to disqualification for a maximum period of five years . |
| 23 | And friendship with one generation does n't automatically lead to friendship with the next , ’ she pointed out with delicate sarcasm . |
| 24 | Data derived from the interviews will lead to analysis of the various perspectives about contemporary policy and its particular relevance to the work of the probation service , among committee members and chief probation officers . |
| 25 | In addition there are genuine conceptual and technical difficulties in assessing " performance " in services like the NHS or education and this may lead to concentration on the measurable rather than the important ( as the early history of performance indicators demonstrates ) . |
| 26 | Suggestions that this can lead to relaxation of the guiding principles of regular rations and insulin are disquieting . |
| 27 | In general , in any sufferer from addictive disease , recovery from addiction to one specific drug or behaviour may lead to activation of the addictive tendency towards another . |
| 28 | But to attract the funds needed to capitalize , NoS would have to persuade a merchant bank to sponsor it , which would inevitably lead to confrontation over the Right-On organizational principles on which the project was based . |
| 29 | The exception is when a new type of national resource , such as North Sea oil , is discovered when , if it is subject to a tax or royalty , can lead to distribution to the general public . |
| 30 | Even faults which are uncovered in the wood itself , like gum ducts or discoloured patches , are a cause of annoyance which will ultimately lead to dissatisfaction with the finished article . |