Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first feeling was one of excitement : I was getting all the pleasure of being in a conspiracy without having to take any of the responsibility for it . |
| 2 | A kidney transplant can free a person from having to spend many hours every week on a machine which cleans the blood ( dialysis ) . |
| 3 | It is always useful for a student of acting to have some practical knowledge of stage management , helping him/her to appreciate the need for efficient technical support for any production . |
| 4 | ( 8 ) ) , and unreasonable delay in completing the premises is to be a ground for refusing to renew such a grant ( subs . |
| 5 | He had n't done much walking before , and had made what I think was a mistake in deciding to carry all his food with him from day one . |
| 6 | As for equipment , part of the purpose of the exploratory work is to agree a memorandum of understanding to cover all procurement aspects . |
| 7 | To rely upon the 1982 accounts as providing a reason for deciding to discount these bills would have been reckless ; it would have been just and equitable to require Union Discount to bear the whole of the loss . ’ |
| 8 | Admittedly he has some reservations even about free-range farming such as the need for castration , transportation and slaughtering techniques but , as Francis and Norman point out ( 1978 : 516 ) , since Singer himself thinks that much of this suffering could be eliminated , it is simply a matter of working to bring these improvements about . |
| 9 | Giving a person a hearing before deciding to refuse such a licence application can help to ensure that this goal is correctly applied in a particular instance . |
| 10 | So I think the school is in a position of wanting to think more about the problems of the brighter child , but they were not unaware of it and were attempting to deal with it . |
| 11 | As a result , many actions that presidents allow to happen are covert and frequently illegal , usually concealed under a cover of wanting to help another country defeat Communism . |
| 12 | Could not a promise in effect to forgo this liberty constitute consideration ? |
| 13 | So GATT has a purpose in trying to sweep these injustices away and achieve a fair balance , if necessary by forcing some countries to cut production . |
| 14 | This project was started in York in the early 1970s and V&RWC would like to contact anyone who was involved with it with a view to helping to complete another otherwise ‘ extinct ’ type . |
| 15 | Injuries and deaths at work are a significant and reducible source of danger to the citizen , and the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 provides the framework for the regulation of safety in work-places with an offence of failing to ensure that , ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable ’ , employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety . |
| 16 | This has been done because it is believed that the State has an interest in seeking to prevent those actions and to punish those who so act . |