Example sentences of "[det] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that to go to a full service that is actually what 's moving , go back again is actually just confusing the people . |
| 2 | What this illustrates is that , notwithstanding the progress made in the past two years , the reforms in themselves have done little to compensate for the long term underfunding of the NHS . |
| 3 | In fact , if it were n't for the big blue logo and Oli Frey pic on the cover , there 'd be little to indicate to an early reader that this was indeed the same mag ! |
| 4 | He is not against the National Curriculum , and accepts O-levels needed updating , but feels the new system does little to indicate to the ordinary man in the street what is going on . |
| 5 | Organising , participating in or inciting another to participate in a banned procession . |
| 6 | Other worthwhile routes , both easy and difficult , are listed at the end of each chapter — which might inspire some to venture off the beaten track or on to more technically exacting ascents , although some of the gradings are a little overdone . |
| 7 | I allowed a couple of hours for this to mix with the original water then netted the goldfish and placed them in their new environment . |
| 8 | We know this to refer to a decorated water-spout , usually found in church architecture . |
| 9 | I take the reasons for this to lie in the heroic myth shared by doctors and public . |
| 10 | They were falling over one another to get on the winning side . ’ |
| 11 | However , for this to act as an effective discipline , the market must believe that the government would not rescue the firm if bankruptcy actually did occur . |
| 12 | I would n't expect this to happen in a capitalist country so why expect anything different from the USSR ? |
| 13 | To enable this to happen in a structured way a formal monitoring apparatus must be set up and continued . |
| 14 | I have never known this to happen in the nine years on which I have served on the board , irrespective of the political colour of its members . |
| 15 | The Puritan Elizabethan clergyman , George Gifford , ’ had this to say on the typical witchcraft setting : |
| 16 | Literature on the subject has chiefly been critical ; for example , in a special review of the world press in 1973 , The Times of London had this to say about the African press in what was a uniformly gloomy and disapproving report : |
| 17 | Ronnie Cairns , Head of Standards at Scottish Enterprise , had this to say about the three organisations ' joint commitment to quality : |
| 18 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 19 | 2 Immediately upon receipt of the Selling Notice , the Company shall give notice in writing ( a " Compulsory Sale Notice " ) to each of the members ( other than the Seller ) giving the details contained in the Selling Notice , requiring them each to sell to the Proposed Purchaser at Completion [ all of their holdings of [ " A " Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Shares ] / [ such proportion of their holdings of [ " A " Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Shares ] as is equal to the proportion which the Selling Shares bears to the total holding of [ shares in the Ordinary Share Capital/ " A " Ordinary Shares ] held by the Seller ( including the Selling Shares ) ] . |
| 20 | There is little to choose between a game-based policy and a trust-based one ; both are miles from a rule-based system that the world could understand and the government would stick to . |
| 21 | Stress-reduction exercises ( the thousand and one forms of meditation , relaxation , and mental diversion ) are indisputably valuable , though there is probably little to choose between the different methods apart from their cost . |
| 22 | There is much to enjoy in an unbuckled way in this basically commedia dell'arte wheeze of young lovers enlisting the wily servant 's help to outwit the old guardian-in this it springs from the same dramatic roots as much of pantomime . |
| 23 | There 's so much to see in the Black Forest and a fly-drive holiday is by far the best way to visit . |
| 24 | Postage and paperwork is a waster of the Association 's valuable resources which the membership does so much to create in the first place . |
| 25 | It was a tense match with not much to choose between the two sides until Scotland scored the first try near the end of the first half . |
| 26 | Consensus is too much to expect in the present state of English Studies , but I detect a convergence of ideas among those whose starting-points and ideological assumptions are very different . |
| 27 | If a firm considers it will have to spend too much to comply with the statutory requirements it can appeal to the Secretary of State . |
| 28 | They had found too much to discuss for the last train to Swindon to remain a realistic option and Harry had gladly accepted the offer of overnight hospitality . |
| 29 | His reasons had much to do with the continuous hounding by London journalists . |
| 30 | In fact , unknown to the convention , the pressure they exerted had much to do with the Colonial Secretary Glenelg writing to the colonial governments , even before the Strickland motion , to encourage local decisions to dispense with apprenticeship ; the system came to an end in the summer of 1838 . |