Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pron] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish have settled into this country and there are communities of them all over do they go and see your concerts and if they do that must mean a great deal to them I should think ? |
| 2 | Well I went and worked in a factory for about nine months I suppose , and the man himself , cos it was casting , brass castings , the man himself says , he says look son , this job 's no good to you I 'll tell you that . |
| 3 | If Ken had only put his mind to it he might have in the end come up with something even better . |
| 4 | If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards . |
| 5 | Formal signals are often grouped together in an induction programme , and so anxious are we to reduce the total uncertainty to something we can understand that we will swallow the formal induction without even a whimper . |
| 6 | I do n't understand your argument that having an E two type policy and without prejudice to what it may say , will make discussions at the local plan level about where boundaries are , more difficult or less difficult . |
| 7 | ‘ Solitude ’ and its cognates — a much more positive expression of the reality — but seven times , a not insignificant indication to which we must return . ) |
| 8 | However , while this tells us how not to solve the problem , it is less clear what positive steps we are to take — a dilemma to which I shall return later in the chapter . |
| 9 | Is there no gentleman or lady of virtue in this neighbourhood to whom I may fly only till I can find a way to get to my poor father and mother ? |
| 10 | Nor is it different in terms of another relation between cause and effect to which we shall come , or any relation between causal circumstance and effect . |
| 11 | Not all objectors to the Hinkley C plan supported such a straightforward advocacy of coal , especially with the growing problems of acid rain pollution and the greenhouse effect to which I shall return in Part Three . |
| 12 | One of these , Bernard Levin , memorably described a visit to Evita as " one ofthe most disagreeable evenings I have ever spent in my life , in or out of the theatre " , and " Do n't cry for me , Argentina " as a somewhat inferior melody to one he would hear as a boy , improvised on the saxophone by a busker outside the Albert Hall with only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 13 | Mr Davis , can you , would you like to sum up , and pick up these points , and before , I 'm going to bowl you a googly here , erm you have talked about fourteen hundred , as the size for the new settlement , erm , is that the top figure , or is that a figure to which you might aim by the year two thousand and six , but may have potential for growth beyond it . |
| 14 | Even so , that he was able to expel the powerful figure to whom he may have owed much of his victory in 1016 must say something about the effectiveness of the power base which he had succeeded in creating in England in the intervening years . |
| 15 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
| 16 | Venetian diplomats were likely to demand every ceremonial honour to which they could assert any shred of claim , and to be very touchy when faced with any apparent threat , however slight , to their status . |
| 17 | In addition there is the complex constitutional position of the constable to which we shall return later . |
| 18 | In the case of a woman who elects not to pay the full National Insurance contribution the full National Insurance benefit to which she would have been entitled if she had not so elected is deducted from the sickness allowance . |
| 19 | However , if , by the date of trial , it can be shown that the deceased 's income would have risen since his death , then the dependency will be calculated by reference to what he would have been earning at the date of trial , rather than what he in fact was earning at the date of his death . |
| 20 | To describe the positions and velocities of atoms in a polymer requires choosing a set of global axes , defining a continuum , with reference to which we may describe the positions and velocities of the atoms . |
| 21 | I 've come to you because I want you to tell me everything you can about Mr Hatton with particular reference to anything you may know about the source of his income . ’ |
| 22 | You have a second to whom I can present the note ? ’ |
| 23 | Such intimacy as life with my mother entailed should cease with parturition , and since Syl so resembled her in his attitude to me I could see no end to my continued childhood . |
| 24 | It is the younger age range to whom we must make ourselves more attractive and appealing . |
| 25 | If we allow for the expectations of individuals and the values ( valency ) they place on certain outcomes or rewards , then we can propose that the degree to which they will release energy in the pursuit of their goals is a function of their expectations about likely outcomes and the importance they place on those outcomes or rewards : |
| 26 | The degree to which we may have to , to use a fairly shoddy word , compromise . |
| 27 | But the degree to which we can control our environment is often determined by others as Morgan goes on to point out : " We all construct or shape our realities but not necessarily under circumstances of our own choosing " ( p. 140 ) . |
| 28 | Technical problems usually revolve around the degree to which we can isolate or manipulate a single target system in a consistent and reliable way ( Bures , Buresova , and Huston 1976 ) . |
| 29 | Going on to a weight-reducing diet that is not adequately balanced may further compromise your feelings of well being and energy , and limit the degree to which you can undertake an increased level of exercise . |
| 30 | It is important to realise early on that the degree to which you can let the computer get on with producing your pages automatically corresponds exactly to the amount of control over those pages that you will be able to exert as a user . |