Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year 58 groups in Wales received grants of up to £750 towards practical projects ranging from the creation of a wildlife pond to setting up a community recycling scheme . |
| 2 | The new designation will enable the Fisheries Service to overrule opposition to drawing down the reservoirs that is expected from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bonneville Power Administration , who control both the dams and the electricity they produce . |
| 3 | Indeed there may be strong opposition to taking on delegated tasks for fear , perhaps justified , that failure will prove personally very damaging . |
| 4 | By a curious paradox , the nuclear lobby has a vested interest in ensuring maximum coal burn in UK power plant as an alternative to stepping up output from the new generation of gas-fired power plant . |
| 5 | The dead-pull reaction of your line indicates serious problems and there is no alternative to digging out , time-consuming and wasteful of time and energy though this may be . |
| 6 | This technique is particularly associated with street interviewing for public opinion and market research surveys as an alternative to calling on randomly selected households . |
| 7 | Morse hesitated then decided there was no alternative to sitting down . |
| 8 | There is no alternative to sitting down and slogging through long lists of vocabulary . |
| 9 | Some wives saw the farm as an alternative to going out to work . |
| 10 | For many day care attenders , the service provides an alternative to going out to work . |
| 11 | It was held that the agreement was void and that effect could not be given to it by rejecting the general restraint which appeared in it and limiting the agreement for the purposes of the action to carrying on the business of a tailor . |
| 12 | Herbal cigarettes are not recommended as an aid to giving up smoking because they contain both tar and carbon monoxide . |
| 13 | Knudson 's work cited earlier , using the challenge of producing video playlets as a stimulus to bringing about general improvement in the language work of under-achieving pupils , is a case in point . |
| 14 | New Scientist mourned the decay of that Victorian exuberance , the seaside pier , described Eire as a hive of electronic industry and indicated foreboding about the government 's attitude to forking out money for wave power schemes , at the same time laying out all the arguments for and against test-tube babies . |
| 15 | For both elections which hope hopefully covers the Euros and the er locals starting at the beginning er towards the end of the local election campaign to running through to the June . |
| 16 | Then I can relax and enjoy my holiday , and you can direct all that pent-up aggression to killing off your virus ? ’ |
| 17 | He turned his attention to rounding up his clothes and packing them in the holdall . |
| 18 | That dioceses and parishes give immediate attention to setting up schemes to encourage people to learn the organ , and make their instruments available for practice ( 598 — 601 ) . |
| 19 | Treat it in the same way as black spot , with particular attention to clearing up fallen leaves on to the fire . |
| 20 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 21 | This was vitally important to the Burmese who attached the utmost importance to keeping up with India in constitutional advances . |
| 22 | As an aside , the need to drawn up a will becomes particularly pressing if there are children to be considered , and do n't forget that marriage revokes the will of either partner , unless that is , it was drawn up in anticipation of the wedding . |
| 23 | League clubs yesterday gave their general approval to reverting back to a two-division competition . |
| 24 | An added incentive to tracking down the railways is that they are invariably in rural France , away from the speeding motorway traffic . |
| 25 | ‘ They have suffered a reaction to going out of Europe , just like we did last season , but they will bounce back . ’ |
| 26 | Further , there is a significant grief reaction to giving up the substance or process of addiction itself . |
| 27 | And bamboo is such a vigorous grower , a visit here can bring a whole new meaning to picking up a pot plant . |
| 28 | The departmental systems maybe mission critical in other words they may be important to them you know they may be necessary to doing business to getting out orders or what have you . |
| 29 | Methods and techniques are covered from priming your canvas to laying out colour on the palette . |
| 30 | By dedicating at least five minutes a day to thinking through his use of time , the Profitboss manages to get his priorities right . |