Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew she did not want to be an employee or to set up on her own and accepted a position as Recorder on the South-East Circuit while looking at the appointments pages in the newspapers . |
| 2 | I was lucky enough , through my association with the Stornoway Sea Cadets , to sail whalers and dinghies around the islands and to cruise extensively in their forty-five foot motor vessel and training ship , T.S . |
| 3 | In the aftermath of the Orthodox Church leaders ' summit in Istanbul last month , when the assembled patriarchs spoke — as much in sorrow as in anger — of the proselytism addressed at their flock by what was carefully described as ‘ certain elements ’ in the Catholic Church , the mere presence of so benign a Catholic as Cardinal Hume in Moscow could well encourage local Catholics and Orthodox alike to reassess any confrontational attitudes to one another and to concentrate rather on their common ground , thus furthering mutual respect , concern and understanding . |
| 4 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 5 | For a new system to work it needs to be flexible and to fit in with your own personal requirements . |
| 6 | There are a great many who imagine that we can get Labour to take the shilling for us as it were and to fight simply for our old aims as an adjunct to our Party . |
| 7 | Anorexia nervosa patients seem unable to identify and to respond accurately to their emotional state , a deficit that has received some empirical support . |
| 8 | But to go back to my earlier question — why so long in my case ? |
| 9 | But to die horribly for your own common-sense view of the universe is rather splendid . |
| 10 | The testimony that was appropriate here was not about my conversion but to tell briefly of my own son who died in a cot death . |