Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one goes to greater lengths to get the perfect fruit for their juice . |
| 2 | It is true that if someone talks to intelligent people regularly and is well informed and advised , then much is absorbed . |
| 3 | Er I t I suspect that most of the tickets have gone to people who you know who who are who I know and have rung up er not It 's no good putting notices out , no nobody responds to that . |
| 4 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
| 5 | On the one hand , various syntactic rules seem to be properly constrained only if one refers to pragmatic conditions ; and similarly for matters of stress and intonation . |
| 6 | I think this , this one refers to Blind does n't it . |
| 7 | Earlier chapters have drawn out some of the consequences of this peculiarity ; this one turns to procedural matters , and to the way in which the involvement of third parties , once an obstacle to the legal recognition of trusts , was turned into a virtue and one of their greatest strengths in the legal enforcement of testamentary dispositions . |
| 8 | The exceptional quality of the portrait of Spring is immediately apparent when one turns to that of Summer … it is difficult to think that it was produced by the " painter " of Spring : the delineation of the features is insensitive , the colouring inferior " ( Smith 1976 , 9 ) . |
| 9 | When an apostrophe comes just before an s at the end of a word , it shows that something belongs to that word . |
| 10 | But erm on the absolute scale of temperature , zero kelvin is the lowest one can get , and all one can hope to do is to get ever closer to that zero , when one goes to low temperatures . |
| 11 | No one goes to such lengths now , though you do sometimes hear complaints from artists about the position of their work . |
| 12 | If one writes to British Rail , one gets the brush-off . |
| 13 | If one adds to this one other incontrovertible fact — that the overwhelming majority of women have lived their lives without economic freedom or autonomy , but as dependants or chattels lacking control over the crucial fixed aspects of their own lives — then it becomes clear that the chameleon nature of women is their necessary self-protection . |
| 14 | If one adds to this not only the fictionalised account of Nizan 's existence in Les Chemins de la liberte and " Drole d'amitie " in the guise of Brunet and Schneider/Vicarios , but also the dramatised account of Nizan 's existence in Les Mains sales in the guise of Hugo and Hoederer , it is clear that Nizan played a highly significant role in Sartre 's life , and that his memory lingered long after Nizan 's death in 1940 . |
| 15 | For example , if one consents to sexual intercourse , one does not consent to being strangled : Sharmpal Singh [ 1962 ] AC 188 ( PC ) . |
| 16 | At this sort of a reunion , one looks to another and says I do n't look sixty , do I ? |
| 17 | In this country where the same vicious law which imprisoned Wilde still operates one looks to those with pretensions to a scientific approach not to be victims of prejudice and intolerance but to give a lead for at least a saner and more comprehensive attitude towards the homosexual in society . ’ |
| 18 | Can I , can I just say chairman , finally for point of clarification in case there 's any doubt about it I 'm not looking to turn it into the , into an absolutely like efficient business you know and everything succumbs to that . |
| 19 | One responds to some basic drive , like an animal . |
| 20 | Whatever weight one attaches to each of these factors , the extent and pattern of accumulation undeniably drove down the rate of profit in the years before 1973 . |
| 21 | In principle , everything applies to diverging lenses just as well as to converging lenses . |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't take one decision on a particular area of reform in isolation because everything relates to some other aspect , so we are carrying the study of the different components of reform forward on a broad front . ’ |
| 23 | They spoke as one speaks to distracted children or incapable old people , who do not look or listen . |
| 24 | Two percentages are shown in each case : one relates to first responses to the question ‘ Do you like … ? ’ and the other to all responses . |
| 25 | It should be clear now that whereas for Marx it is one 's economic class position ( crucially how one relates to productive property ) that determines much else in one 's life , for the Functionalist it is the status one has established through developing marketable skills and the value put on them by society that determines one 's life chances . |
| 26 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 27 | The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end . |
| 28 | The amount of discretion relative to the amount of prescribed action only increases as one moves to higher occupational strata , thus allowing the enlargement and fulfilment of personal needs . |
| 29 | The more one talks to individual cat owners , the greater the variety of cat personalities one finds . |
| 30 | Yet when one talks to leading figures in American school librarianship one detects an uneasy dissatisfaction . |