Example sentences of "[vb infin] to a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not therefore appeal to a widely accepted body of theory , and much of the discussion is qualitative in nature . |
| 2 | The mulberry can grow to a very great age , and some of those planted over 380 years ago can still be found . |
| 3 | Sponges can grow to a very considerable size . |
| 4 | In its annual World Economic Outlook , published at the recent Washington meeting of the IMF and World Bank , the Fund forecasts that average GNP growth in the industrial world will ease to a still healthy 3% or so in 1989 and 1990 , and inflation , though it will rise to 3.8% this year , will drop back in 1990 . |
| 5 | Though in time Henry would succeed to a far greater inheritance than either brother , he did not possess the patience to wait . |
| 6 | In common parlance ‘ the Crown ’ probably signifies the monarch if , indeed , it does not refer to a rather elaborate piece of headgear on show in the Tower of London . |
| 7 | Although ethnicity is not coterminous with regional or racial origin , both may contribute to a more general sense of distinctiveness with which a sense of linguistic distinctiveness is often associated . |
| 8 | For the foreseeable future , units involving the microcomputer as a teaching aid can only contribute to a very small proportion of curriculum time — at present certainly no more than a few hundred hours out of about 50,000 hours of ‘ different ’ teaching in the school curriculum for ages 5 to 18 . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that future historians will look to a more complex structure of data . |
| 10 | Indeed they would have argued — and perhaps with some justice — that theirs was a more refined branch of the art : for did it not demand to a quite exceptional degree a sense of the romance of the past and a feeling for an evocative relic ? |
| 11 | The scuffling over Patrick 's soul may soon move to a more prosaic level , that of his modest estate and , in particular , the Irish copyright to his writings . |
| 12 | One of the good things about such clubs is that they offer a range of courses , so that , having mastered the basics , you can progress to a more advanced level . |
| 13 | The region was overwhelmingly German in character , and in a sense its problem would have to be resolved before Franco-German relations could return to a more normal footing . |
| 14 | I can flood the paper using this frame and be sure that once dry it will return to a perfectly flat surface . |
| 15 | What happens next is not completely clear , but it seems likely that the central regions of the star would collapse to a very dense state , such as a neutron star or black hole . |
| 16 | Adult Schwann cells normally are quiescent , but retain the capacity for cell division and can dedifferentiate to a highly proliferative state after nerve injury . |
| 17 | The Rex/Olympia doubling soon finished but before they could relax to a comparatively simple regime of five shows a day , they were told to double at the Paramount . |
| 18 | ( If more volume really were needed then the direct outputs could be fed to a stereo power amp and then to additional speakers , but I 'm sure Marshall have aimed the S80 at a specific player who would find its volume adequate and who , if he or she needed more , would probably upgrade to a more powerful Marshall product . ) |
| 19 | When examining the role of a specific , unitary affinity with regard to a more general affinity , the stylistic comparisons at the more specific level are especially important . |
| 20 | ‘ On 14 October 1991 the Children Act 1989 is going to become effective and , when that takes place , I very much hope that the adversarial approach to care proceedings will disappear to a very large extent . |
| 21 | Article II laid down that if Queen Anne failed to leave an heir the succession should pass to a relatively distant claimant , ‘ the most excellent Princess Sophia , electress and duchess dowager of Hanover , and the heirs of her body being protestants ’ . |
| 22 | For a start the old problem of slow play reared its ugly head once more , causing one member of the field to suggest that he might switch to a more active sport like angling . |
| 23 | That is , high productivity can lead to a misleadingly high ratio . |
| 24 | But recent work by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund could lead to a completely new approach in cancer treatment . |
| 25 | A worrying 22pc of the tyres examined had sidewall damage which could lead to a potentially fatal blow out . |
| 26 | For example , inflammatory conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease or rheumatoid arthritis may lead to a spuriously high ferritin or low total iron binding capacity even in the presence of iron deficiency . |
| 27 | There 's a move to slow them down , but the hauliers say it could lead to a very dangerous situation . |
| 28 | Some go on to postgraduate courses aimed at giving their degree a particular vocational emphasis , but a degree in Italian can lead to a very wide variety of careers . |
| 29 | Failure to benefit from a complete briefing in that respect can lead to a very rapid termination of your sport , so the onus is on you to ensure that you are fully aware of the exact boundaries . |
| 30 | So a direct democracy will lead to a very inefficient running of the state . |