Example sentences of "an [noun] [to-vb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should the export of live slaughter animals be approved it could strengthen primestock prices and offer finishers an opportunity to sell to a wider range of markets . |
| 2 | This presents an opportunity to contribute to an important issue of social policy — the pattern of association between disease , especially childhood cancer , and sources of environmental pollution . |
| 3 | Yet there can be little doubt that Joseph 's reformism was genuine and was combined with an attempt to appeal to the national past ; he encouraged the national theatre , set up a commission to exhume Cervantes ' remains , patronized a national museum of painting . |
| 4 | It is an attempt to conform to a divine reality and standard that the soul can not ‘ see ’ at this early stage but which she has to take on faith . |
| 5 | This is not an attempt to return to a nineteenth-century form of laissez-faire but to change the structures of our society in a direction more consonant with our Christian principles . |
| 6 | Competition within the white collar section is another nail in the coffin and an attempt to reduce to the paying conditions . |
| 7 | For all Mellor 's protestations that the tabloids brought him down in an attempt to dictate to the Prime Minister who should be in his Cabinet , the truth is that the Heritage Secretary was rejected by his peers . |
| 8 | I have also enclosed an article to add to the considerable amount of reference material you should now be holding on this subject . |
| 9 | an instruction to reproduce to the same size as the original . |
| 10 | The liability to repay the deposit at the end of the term remained throughout on the original landlord and was an obligation to repay to the original tenant . |
| 11 | The Intoxicating Substance Supply Act , passed in 1985 , makes it an offence to supply to a young person under 18 a substance which the supplier knows , or has reason to believe , will be used ‘ to achieve intoxication ’ . |
| 12 | The reader develops an ability to respond to the visual as well as the literary . |
| 13 | Where a need is identified , the USSR has repeatedly shown an ability to produce to the technical standard adequate . |
| 14 | Verbs , nouns and adjectives that may take an infinitive with to may be followed by to without an infinitive to refer to a preceding verb or verbal group : Do n't go unless you want to ( Zandvoort 1957 ) . |
| 15 | John Major , who believes £150 billion of extra world trade hangs on a GATT deal , is anxious for an agreement to take to the forthcoming Edinburgh Euro summit . |
| 16 | On May 18-19 the government signed an agreement to ship to the Soviet Union 1,700,000 tonnes of wheat , barley , flour and pasta , worth US$218,000,000 , in stages over the following year . |
| 17 | Note the reverse of the U B A T B that we 're issuing and pass it to the client with an envelope to send to the right D S S office . |