Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey . |
| 2 | The distal humerus and proximal tibia and femur are preferentially preserved in the predator assemblages where the greatest breakage overall occurs , while the species that do little damage to the bone cluster near the origin . |
| 3 | Also , his experience of the frequently inept English resistance doubtless caused him to guess that it would eventually weaken to the point where he would be accepted as king . |
| 4 | I do rather object to the sort of chap who farts in public and then says ‘ Better out than in . ’ ’ |
| 5 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 6 | Apart from quinine for malaria and arsenicals for syphilis and sleeping sickness , chemotherapy was unpromising , usually because the ‘ chemical ’ did as much damage to the patient as to the microbe . |
| 7 | I mean , to be quite honest about it , it 's a , it 's an unsatisfactory settlement , from whichever political party that you come from , and it 's about time , perhaps , the conservatives recognised that you ca n't support a national government policy that does as much damage to the people of LIncolnshire as this transport supplementary grant settlement has done . |
| 8 | The huge oil spills off Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the burning of oil wells in Kuwait during the Gulf War in early 1991 did less damage to the marine environment than had been feared , according to scientists . |
| 9 | The keyword LAST-CHECKED-ISSUE does not necessarily relate to the CHECKED-BY keyword in the MODIFICATIONS-RECORDS field of the module referenced , but is purely for the user 's information . |
| 10 | A charter party did not necessarily attest to the ownership of the goods shipped because the charterer might not have been a shipper , but merely a lessor of space . |
| 11 | He waited in growing irritation while a woman minutely described her missing cat , and impressed on the desk-sergeant that it would only answer to the name Roger . |
| 12 | However , ‘ FAST CASH ’ withdrawals and all transactions on machines which are not ABBEYLINK machines can only relate to the Primary Account , and no other account can be selected for these particular transactions . |
| 13 | Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together . |
| 14 | I do n't mind that television is trivial — one might as well mind that a banana is bent — nor do I much object to the BBC appointing a personnel director to implement witlessly trendy policies . |
| 15 | The structures of the Pentateuch were good but a stable and wealthy economic society could only flourish to the extent that Israel was obedient to the whole of the law and its commandment . |
| 16 | Cynics will automatically suggest that with the market at a low point , the art celebrities of the 1980s will naturally gravitate to the obvious locus of celebrity : Tinseltown . |
| 17 | It was evident that the skilled soldiers would naturally gravitate to the tougher units , like the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , giving the Legion a regiment full of highly-trained soldiers who had received their instruction at somebody else 's expense . |
| 18 | Hirst ( 1981:p. 55 ) reports that informants agreed that ‘ it ’ could only refer to the wine , and not to the table . |
| 19 | Since dogs have paws and not hands , ‘ him ’ can only refer to the vet ; and since , on configurational grounds , ‘ he ’ and ‘ him ’ can not co-refer , ‘ he ’ must refer to the dog . |
| 20 | It is clear from their context and from the structure of criminal appeals that these judicial doubts as to the right of the appellant/respondent to raise non-certified questions before the House of Lords can only refer to the situation exemplified by Berry ( No. 2 ) — viz , where grounds of appeal have been argued before but not determined by the Court of Appeal . |
| 21 | However , it is notable that the individual practitioner has far more discretion in legal advice than legal aid , and need only refer to the Area Director where he or she requires an extension to the financial limit placed on the amount of advice which can be given . |
| 22 | We can perhaps refer to the superior working-class culture and superior beer , but we are not allowed to refer to the economic or industrial successes . |
| 23 | One might remark that the working-class child considered it redundant to constantly refer to the presence of a picture since he knew that the researcher was present and could see it for himself . |
| 24 | The developmental stage follows , when maladaptive learning and abnormal family communication patterns may each perhaps contribute to the young person 's vulnerability to schizophrenia . |
| 25 | Trade union education can only contribute to the regeneration of the movement ; first , if it is prepared to subject what now exists to sustained debate and analysis , and if its development is tied to a thorough and far-reaching commitment to more campaigning , participatory and decentralised forms of trade union organisation and action . |
| 26 | However in apportioning the cost Lothian Regional Council 's share is based on our desire to only contribute to the operation of buses between the regional boundary and Penicuik . |
| 27 | The second point i is this issue about self containment , er Mr Davis accused me this morning of using some somewhat outlandish words , I think , erm , I did obviously refer to the er my vision of what a new settlement of this size proposed would be , and I I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't in that mean to imply that I did n't expect that with the right planning that it could n't have clearly local facilities , local school , library , etcetera , but it seemed to me quite clear that the scale proposed it would not have the higher order functions which as we 've heard earlier , Greater York has been defined based on York 's planning assumptions , clearly the major shopping , educational , and social facilities will continue to be provided in the city , and it will produce what is in effect dormitory settlement . |
| 28 | The terms ‘ old age ’ and ‘ retirement ’ are often used interchangeably , but they do not necessarily refer to the same things . |
| 29 | Nor does Herodotus necessarily refer to the Jews when he mentions Syrians and Phoenicians of Palestine , who acknowledge that they learnt circumcision from the Egyptians ( 2.104 ) . |
| 30 | In effect , Ayer has put them in a ghetto and they are happy to remain there , content to be making statements of nonsense in the assurance that what to the believer are the words of God must necessarily appear to the unbeliever mere gobbledygook . |