Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many societies , the clothing , ornaments and tools belonging to an individual may be considered so integral to him or her that to touch or do harm to these inanimate objects is considered indistinguishable from taking the same action against the person . |
| 2 | The fact that manual workers married on average , and throughout the period , about a year earlier helped contribute to this , as did the fact that there was about fifty per cent more childlessness among non-manual families . |
| 3 | Erm if we actually look erm and I do n't know if we did introduce to all members Bryony who is my assistant and who works very largely on the programme with me and on the educational and events side , and is acting minute secretary while Judith is on maternity leave . |
| 4 | Now , I know colleagues some would like to stay till Sunday , or maybe even Monday next week , but we 're not in that situation , so I again , I do appeal to all colleagues , all colleagues , you know , to assist in formally seconding , and to thank those that have done it so far . |
| 5 | But , let's notice that , first of all , the Lord really did speak to this woman ! |
| 6 | Matadial 's statement of 12 January 1987 , like her deposition , did not mention the conversations in 1986 but did refer to that of 9 January 1987 , but her account in the statement of her telephone call on 11 January was that , when her husband gave her the receiver , she recognised the voice of the defendant who said , ‘ I have just shot Paulette . |
| 7 | Sir , when I do present to each training do you think that 's |
| 8 | Belgium 's most prestigious museum did benefit to some extent , but far less than anticipated . |
| 9 | It 's not certain that driver fatigue did contribute to this latest accident . |
| 10 | Most sailing schools do run to these standards and it is quite rate to find one that does n't . |
| 11 | It is , however , right and proper that we do report to this sub- committee on the activities of the staff commission , and that I do in the paper before you . |
| 12 | Finally , because the examination is set on knowledge and abilities required for secondary school entry , and because all children do aspire to such entry , it forces teachers to cover material with their pupils whether they are able to understand it or not ; the very antithesis of sound pedagogy . |
| 13 | Well Peter did remark to this lady did n't he ? |
| 14 | Equality did apply to some things . |
| 15 | So what DID happen to those Russian stars ? |
| 16 | Last year 's was no la it ca n't be the same one then cos last year 's was absolutely terrible , the one I went to with Right Said Fred was amazing I think someone else did go to that , Sue-Anna or somebody ? |
| 17 | Short-run variability of V. Even though monetarists stress the direct mechanism and a relatively inelastic L curve , they do admit to some variability of the velocity of circulation ( V ) in the short run . |
| 18 | The survey did point to some areas where improvements could be made . |
| 19 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |
| 20 | At the time , the defections did amount to this proportion , but JD leaders then expelled 25 of the defectors and claimed that , as the remaining 37 represented less than the legal quota , they should be disqualified from parliament . |
| 21 | Do come to some or all of these events . |
| 22 | A report circulated in the spring of 1939 admitted that the camps ‘ became slave markets where people with the best intentions in the world went to help one child , yet unconsciously did harm to many by looking them over and rejecting them ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ He did write to that American professor that Boz ‘ disappears and presently emerges from a bathing machine , and may be seen — a kind of salmon-coloured porpoise splashing about in the ocean ’ . ’ |
| 24 | Secondly I did write to all the members of the Council about the issue of the British National Corpus and their desire to have a record of English as she is spoke and their is a gentleman from here today , if you would care to stand up to identify yourself please . |
| 25 | if you tackle it , even go out there , or wine making come to that |
| 26 | I say you know , we do talk to each other as police officers and talking to the lads who work the flats , from when they were busy to you know , now it 's on the you know , I think what , there 's about three hundred people is there ? |
| 27 | Basically what if we do increase to that price . |
| 28 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 29 | This is convenient , and on occasion the European Court does refer to such preparatory works . |
| 30 | But it does give to some people that that will demonstrate that we 're always looking for people |