Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 2 | In 1783 she proceeded to annex the nominally independent Crimea and to construct a large Black Sea fleet . |
| 3 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 4 | Henry was allowed to assume the title of Earl of Lancaster and to receive a great part of the Lancaster inheritance , but the Lacy earldom of Lincoln , which Earl Thomas had held in right of his wife , was not fully recovered until 1348 . |
| 5 | It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local . |
| 6 | Ultimate intentions are to house the new Tate Gallery of British Art at Millbank and to establish a new Tate Gallery of Modern Art in a new home elsewhere in London by the end of the century . |
| 7 | I imagined a morning 's stroll through quiet streets , gazing at patisseries , and then being able to nip up to Paris to visit the Musée d'Orsay or to see a major exhibition . |
| 8 | Family , kin , and the more extensive institution of Biraderi therefore serve to help Pakistanis in Britain and to forge a strong sense of community . |
| 9 | They are here to escort Ice-T and to play a short set on the second stage . |
| 10 | Is it not now time to lift the economic sanctions that are killing people , including children , in Iraq and to inject a huge amount of those essential medicines which are in short supply there ? |
| 11 | Operation Torch — the American invasion of French North Africa in November 1942 — was the culmination of Allied attempts to exclude de Gaulle and to promote a viable alternative to Gaullism . |
| 12 | The PAC reported that the government had agreed to disband CODESA and to establish a different negotiating forum . |
| 13 | I want now to look at " The retreate " by Henry Vaughan and to examine a small number of its elements and terms in relation to the methodology already described . |
| 14 | His father had decided in the year 1830 to move out of London and to take a small house in the country . |
| 15 | On becoming Chancellor he was determined to obtain more investment and jobs for the German economy , to maintain Ostpolitik and to withstand a new wave of terrorism from the Red Army faction . |