Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [pron] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms. Quant confided to delegates that she often jollied Plunkett ( her husband , entrepreneur Alexander Plunkett-Green ) into helping her dye her pubic hair some fantasy shade , or to trim it to a neat heart shape . |
| 2 | When the carrier acknowledges that he holds for and on behalf of the buyer , e.g. by accepting and acting upon the buyer 's instructions not to convey the goods as far as their original destination or to convey them to a further destination , or |
| 3 | However it is a very difficult and time-consuming operation to read through the evaluations and to compare them to the original project document . |
| 4 | The task of sociology is to develop tools and modes of understanding these different patterns and responses and to relate them to the broad strands of historical change . |
| 5 | The purpose of this chapter is to examine some possible answers to these questions and to relate them to the clinical situation . |
| 6 | The implications for individual managers are that ‘ increasingly it will come to be seen as the individual 's responsibility to maintain , alter or boost his skills , to find the right market for his skills and to sell them to the appropriate buyer ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Yeltsin had planned to leave that to Mr Yegor Gaidar , the architect of the reform programme , and to restrict himself to a general state-of-the-nation address . |
| 8 | It is hoped that readers will feel able to draw on the ideas presented to develop the work further and to apply it to a wider range of contexts . |
| 9 | A man has a right to take credit for past success and to attribute it to the real cause . |
| 10 | For this reason it is important in essay-writing to learn how to handle markers of cohesion , and to sensitise yourself to the underlying relations of meaning they signal . |
| 11 | The presbytery appoints the church officers of the respective parishes to make inquiry for her and to summond her to the succeeding dyets of the presbytery to be held in the isle . |
| 12 | The presbytery appoints the church officers of the respective parishes to make inquiry for her and to summond her to the succeeding dyets of the presbytery to be held in the isle . |
| 13 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 14 | It is a miserable and heart-breaking business to take peasant families who left Vietnam 's poor northern provinces with visions of a new life in America dancing in their heads , who endured dangerous sea voyages , and who believed that Hong Kong 's camps , however dreadful , were a way station to their dream — to take these families and to return them to the red dirt farms and meagre fishing villages from which they came . |
| 15 | It is a miserable and heart-breaking business to take peasant families who left Vietnam 's poor northern provinces with visions of a new life in America dancing in their heads , who endured dangerous sea voyages , and who believed that Hong Kong 's camps , however dreadful , were a way station to their dream — to take these families and to return them to the red dirt farms and meagre fishing villages from which they came . |
| 16 | The challenge for museum curators and archaeologists in the 1990s is to keep abreast of them , and to exploit them to the full . |
| 17 | A corollary of this is that such industries are far from simple to understand and hence they demand experts both to run them and to explain them to the general public , e.g. microelectronics , nuclear stations , oil refineries , etc . |