Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The contrast between the to and bare infinitives can therefore be stated as one of subsequence ( before/after relationship ) vs non-subsequence ( the bare infinitive 's event is not conceived as an after-position with respect to something else ) . |
| 2 | wi not an extortionate amount of wages and we 've just had this two hundred pound for the to be transferred to Mansfield . |
| 3 | Now what we have done is looked at s these causeway relief arches which pass the water from one side of the to the other at . |
| 4 | English seems to obtain much the same effect with the to infinitive as subject . |
| 5 | There 's probably some disruption to the to the transmission or something for an . |
| 6 | And er he er he used I used Mother used to send me with the tea to the to the church to the churchyard to father . |
| 7 | Those people with dogs in that sort of situation are very welcome to walk through the playing field and then out the other side and away , I would n't stop them going over from that entrance to the to the top entrance . |
| 8 | Soviet aid has helped in maintaining the population 's morale and the regime 's credibility and unity , while US aid to the to the mujahedin has done little to increase their unity , morale or fighting ability . |
| 9 | As in the case of the infinitive of reaction , this use seems apparently to contradict the hypothesis that the support of the to infinitive is always situated before the place in time ( to be ) occupied by its event ; however , when compared with the use of the -ing form here , the contrasting expressive effects suggest another interpretation : ( 21a ) Reading Gideon on Beet was a new literary experience . |
| 10 | And those pro the , the guidelines would , if accepted , enable schemes two and three to continue , on the basis that the capital receipts from the sale of the are earmarked for this sort of investments , and that these in their turn will generate a flow of capital receipts which can be ploughed back for the benefit of the to the totality of County Council 's capital programme . |
| 11 | Even Mair , who proposes no basic meaning for the to infinitive , is led by his careful examination of the data to observe that with practically no exceptions all the matrix verbs followed by to + infinitive in the direct object , ditransitive , monotransitive raising , complex transitive , and SVOA constructions can be characterized as " forward-looking predicates " ( 1990 : 102 , 104-5 ) . |
| 12 | The problem of defining the potential meaning of the to infinitive has already been posed , in a summary way , in the comment from Jespersen ( 1940 : 157 ) cited in Chapter 1 . |
| 13 | The meaning of the to infinitive is thus in fact a combination of two potentials : the potential meaning of the bare infinitive , which gives the speaker the possibility of representing the realization of any action as unfolding from its beginning through to its end and any state as having a fully actualized lexical content ; and the potential significate of to , which affords the speaker the possibility of representing any movement in time from a before-position to an after-position ( corresponding here to the beginning of the infinitive event ) . |
| 14 | In both projective and reactive uses , however , the infinitive expresses an actualized contingent event and the impression of contingency implies a reference to a position in time when the infinitive 's event was not a reality ( i.e. before its actualization ) , so that the term " reactive " is no more appropriate here than in the canonical uses of the " infinitive of reaction " as a description of the meaning of the to infinitive . |
| 15 | The government of course are getting capital receipt now , but sale we only expected to bring in some seven hundred million , it was thought the budget made for three or four days against the to be measure but there are only much more important arguments in the financial consideration in my opinion . |
| 16 | Erm can I also draw your attention to the to the second erm part of the of the policy that would at least permit that type of development provided it it was able to demonstrate a need to be located in North Yorkshire . |
| 17 | So what 's your what 's your reaction to the to the picture then ? |
| 18 | Consequently , while it is true to say that the sentence with the to infinitive evokes a realized event , this is only part of the story : it also evokes the dispositions of the support previous to the realization of the happening denoted by the infinitive . |
| 19 | It is also to be noted that in all of the cases above the to infinitive expresses , not a particular happening , but something characteristic of the person referred to . |
| 20 | The substitution of the to infinitive , possible only in ( 88 ) , would create a very different effect : ( 90 ) The smallest pin could be heard to drop . |
| 21 | Substitution of the to infinitive gives a somewhat different impression : the events seem to be evoked in a much more resultative fashion — as the fact of having been made to scream , the state of Byron 's feelings — that is , as an object of reflection rather than a recall of actual experience . |
| 22 | In all cases , then , whether the infinitive evokes the possible or the real actualization of its event , the person of the to infinitive is referred to two positions in time , one before , one coinciding with this event 's place in time . |
| 23 | take the Conservative resolutions against a to afterwards taking . |
| 24 | It is plausible to assume that case and thematic systems in these simple examples and also in more complicated cases are interrelated , that the case and thematic structure changes from a to b are not independent . |
| 25 | If there is an arc in G from a to another node b , then ( r s t … u a b ) is a walk in G , so when reduced if necessary , it yields a node of G– . |
| 26 | In each case , whether represented as a guess or as a known fact , the notion is seen as conditioned by a mental process or state which allows one to predicate it and so is represented as a consequence thereof by means of the to infinitive . |
| 27 | What is the role of the to which distinguishes them on the level of the sign ? |
| 28 | On the basis of the meanings expressed , all the uses of the to infinitive can be divided into two general types which at first sight might seem to be in direct contradiction with one another . |
| 29 | All of the uses of the to infinitive with full verbs in the corpus fall into one or the other of these two categories . |
| 30 | The view of to proposed here allows one , furthermore , to account for the two major uses of the to infinitive . |