Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other rib , of beef I mean , to get a piece that 's worth cooking cos to carve it and everything else you need at least three ribs and the ribs are sort of usually it 's about that sort of size |
| 2 | But O'Neil 's line is more for effect than to express any real fears . |
| 3 | It stated that the private houses , which formed the Foreign and Colonial Offices , were ‘ inadequate to the present extent of public business , in parts unsafe , and generally in such a state of dilapidation as to render it inexpedient to expend any large sum in their substantial repair ’ . |
| 4 | The purpose was not so much to reproduce the direction of artists as to circumvent the unnatural effect of ‘ music coming out of a hole ’ . |
| 5 | Rather to present the appearance of resignation than to accept it . |
| 6 | Business hospitality When business is done and the meeting concluded , nothing revives the hardworking executive like a glass of Scotch … and when it 's time to seal the deal with valued clients , there is no more fitting toast nor better appreciated mark of esteem than to offer the noble spirit . |
| 7 | * I always think that it is better to make a fresh pot of tea than to top up the old pot . |
| 8 | It was the Bioscope 's view that for the person ‘ in search of different phases of human nature there is no better place to find objects of study than to visit a bioscope show ’ . |
| 9 | Our sole object is to find an arrangement which would be so attractive to the majority of Jews as to enable us to strike a bargain for Jewish support . ’ |
| 10 | These soldiers were generally known as Brabançons , but sometimes as Navarrese or Basques or Germans , not so much to indicate their precise place of origin as to express the fact that they were foreigners and spoke a language which was not understood . |
| 11 | To Great Britain and Austria-Hungary it was more important to check the expansion of Russia than to win territory . |
| 12 | Possible complications and side-effects are ignored or minimised in a target-oriented programme because it is more important to add to the numbers of acceptors than to help women make an informed choice about contraception . |
| 13 | I am less concerned to focus on the psychopathology of individuals than to point to a collective , cultural condition ‘ and the tendencies of people who make it up ’ ( May , 1969 ) . |
| 14 | But the warnings of Lord Brightman seem to have been made more to discourage even the modest number of applications than to respond to excessive use . |
| 15 | For it was the general election of 1931 which so drastically altered the balance of parties in the House of Commons as to give the politics of the 1930s its special character . |
| 16 | Otto struck me as looking so out of place as to seem absurd , standing at the cottage door trying to approve our living accommodation , but clearly regarding it as unpromising . |
| 17 | The manhood of England has been largely alienated from the organised Churches because we have been so absorbed by the interests of the individual soul as to neglect the woes of society , and so preoccupied with the delights of heaven as to overlook some of the most urgent duties of earth . |
| 18 | Better to have lain in the marshes of Halling than to end one 's time in a cardboard box in a steel locker with a fake ! |
| 19 | In pollution control work , however , there is none of the sacredness of the policing of the traditional code ( Lemert , 1972 ; Manning , 1977 ) , and it is more difficult to dramatize the threat of pollution than to portray the symbolic assaults on the community from criminals , addicts , vandals , and other sinister figures on the fringes of the moral order ( Manning , 1980 ) , notwithstanding the missionary zeal of some proponents of regulatory reform in the USA . |
| 20 | The detail of these two Appendices is indeed so full of problems as to make them rather grim reading . |
| 21 | If the victim reports it to a police officer , the police officer has an element of discretion whether to take the matter any farther , whether to give a warning , whether to get involved or not . |
| 22 | ‘ It will always be a matter of discretion whether to allow a point in no way connected with the certified point to be argued in the appeal . |
| 23 | Fair play Ipswich , you showed that the Shittes can be stopped — pity about you lack of firepower though to put them away altogether . |
| 24 | What better display of character than to overturn 0–2 into 3–2 ? |
| 25 | In this chapter I have done more to highlight some of the problems in reaching a definition of God than to offer a solution of my own . |
| 26 | Since sociolinguistics is full of incomplete theories and unanswered questions , it is often more important to find ways of thoroughly searching the data for different types of pattern than to generate hypotheses which might well be premature . |
| 27 | The concern of the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) stemmed from several considerations : regret that two neighbouring Muslim states should be spilling one another 's blood ; anxiety lest the conflict provoke the intervention of one or both superpowers , with dangerous consequences ; fear lest member states be attacked by one of the belligerents if they were suspected of sympathizing with the other ; a feeling that a conflict of this sort diverted Arab and outside world attention and resources from the paramount issue of palestine ; a desire not to see either belligerent emerge from the conflict so strengthened by the spoils of victory as to become the most powerful entity in the Gulf ; and , finally , anxiety lest their internal security should be threatened as a by-product either of the war or of Iran 's revolution . |
| 28 | Clearly it is easier for a minister to accept this sort of legislation than to develop a policy that effectively changes the direction of a great deal of work going on within the department . |
| 29 | There is no subtler , no surer way of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency . |
| 30 | Can there be , Berkeley asks , ‘ a nicer strain of abstraction than to distinguish the existence of sensible objects from their being perceived , so as to conceive them existing unperceived ’ ? |