Example sentences of "[prep] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Th er there is a series of amendments in the name of the Noble Lord , Lord of Yeovil , Amendment six , seven , twelve to fourteen , sixteen , nineteen and twenty-one of which the most significant is Amendment twenty-one , these Amendments provide again that there should be flexibility in the size of police authorities and that the composition should be such as to secure a majority of local authority members of not less than three . |
| 2 | That 's what they 're there for to provide a service are n't they ? |
| 3 | ‘ The gentlemen soldiers , ’ it was recorded , ‘ dressed and trimmed themselves in their best clothes , for to drink a dish of tea with the ladies of this town , ’ who ‘ appeared in their best rigging ’ . |
| 4 | For to choose a man on the ground that you agree with him more than his rivals is quite clearly to choose a representative ; moreover , the set of people who agree with a candidate comes to look very like a party as soon as they concert their actions . |
| 5 | and I 'm sure that there must be listeners who are very interested in this , perhaps as parents , or perhaps being involved in education , is there any book or booklet they can get hold of to learn a bit more about the subject ? |
| 6 | I exercised all the patience I could muster , trying every trick I knew of to get a performance out of Monty . |
| 7 | Also tended towards to make a judgment of him , |
| 8 | In March 1959 the High Authority declared that coal overproduction was such as to constitute a state of ‘ manifest crisis ’ as that term had been defined by the Treaty of Paris . |
| 9 | Out here is dark and lonely , and as convenient a place as they could wish for to stick a knife in and leave me cold . |
| 10 | — Sid Breeze : By popular request , another chance to hear Sid tell us what it was like to drive a steam engine on British Railways . |
| 11 | While you 're still a lifer you 're generally more interested in what it would be like to see a ghost . |
| 12 | You know what it 's like to bear a child and bring him up and see him leave you and go to the other side of the world , knowing you 'll not see him again ? |
| 13 | Asquith 's début feature is fascinating both because its setting in a bustling film studio gives some impression of what it was like to shoot a picture in Britain at the end of the silent era , and because of what it argues as the future for British films . |
| 14 | This must be what it 's like to play a variety club on a Saturday night . |
| 15 | He sounded so fiercely protective that she wondered sadly what it would be like to have a man care for her as much as Roman cared for Berenice . |
| 16 | I do not truly know what it is like to have a child with Down 's Syndrome ’ ( Cunningham 1982 : 16 ) . |
| 17 | Oh , I built whole fantasies round you , I imagined what it would be like to have a child , to have had you as my son . |
| 18 | She could not even imagine what it must be like to have a brother who had been murdered . |
| 19 | I have been asked by several Society members what it was like to take a ride on the Bishop 's Castle Railway , and the best description that I know of is the account by the late Sir Jasper More in his book , ‘ A TALE OF TWO HOUSES ’ , published by Sir Jasper in 1978 . |
| 20 | However , it seems impossible to deny that each of us also has a sense of a self , or a centre of awareness , somehow within and integral to our ongoing experience , and such as to give a kind of unity to it . |
| 21 | First , has the state conferred special benefits on the corporators such as to justify a right of intervention of a kind that does not exist in regard to other business forms ? |
| 22 | He cleared the breakfast things and left him with the small addressed postcard that he had been provided with to write a message on for his mother . |
| 23 | ‘ Some mad plan he 's into to build a golf course in Cornwall . |
| 24 | ‘ I like to look for the distinctive features of a location , features that we can key into to get a synergy of strengths , ’ she says . |
| 25 | The treatment of the new product in all departments must be such as to ensure a product with a price/performance ratio and a quality — that is , fitness for purpose — which matches the market need . |
| 26 | The treatment of the new product in all departments must be such as to ensure a product with a price/performance ratio and a quality — that is , fitness for purpose — which matches the market need . |
| 27 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 28 | For to understand a sentence is to be able to pick out situations which justify us in believing that sentence to be true . |
| 29 | If you are called upon to plan a programme of independent items , such as those seen at the Reunion or at Area Rallies , consider the following points : — |
| 30 | It was the first acting venture in which he was called upon to perform a love scene . |