Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I would love to write to or to meet anyone with similar interests , or with children of a similar age . ’ |
2 | If you do not make a will , your partner has no right to look after your affairs or to inherit anything of yours . |
3 | The articles opened with the comprehensively damning statement that the king ‘ is not sufficient to govern ’ because throughout his reign he had been led and governed by others who had given him evil counsel , to the dishonour of himself and the destruction of Holy Church and his people , and he had refused to provide any remedy , or to allow one to be made , when he was asked to do so by the great and wise men of his realm . |
4 | From being a comprehensive Weltanschauung , in which there were to be found , according to Gramsci , all the elements that are needed for the construction of a new ‘ integral civilization ’ , it has come to be regarded by many thinkers as a much more limited and tentative body of thought , which is far from being able to predict , in any detail or with any certainty , the future development of society , or to offer anything but the roughest of guides to political action . |
5 | It was also a pleasant break from air-travel to go by road from Agra to Delhi , and to see something of the country . |
6 | Mr Keegan said : ‘ We want to personally thank the people who have contributed to this memorial and to thank everyone in Kirkby for their support and kind wishes over the months . ’ |
7 | CAMPAIGN is completed by a full terrain and unit editor , allowing you to build your own scenarios , and to re-create any conflict from this period , and to try lots of ‘ what-ifs ’ by tweaking and altering the balance of power . |
8 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
9 | Often there are letters in the papers from parents who have sent off for T-shirts and pictures from a band 's fan club , only to have their cheque cashed and to receive nothing for months . |
10 | We would ask everyone to be patient and to leave plenty of time for their journey , ’ he stressed . |
11 | This is a unique opportunity both to help the Magdalen Bridge Appeal Fund and to leave something of your life to posterity . |
12 | Eternity as the sound of endless babble : one could of course imagine worse things , but the idea of hearing women 's voices forever , continuously , without end , gave her sufficient incentive to cling seriously to life and to do everything in her power to keep death as far away as possible . |
13 | Toby Weaver , Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education and Science and a merciless private critic of successive Ministers , found in him ‘ the first person to stop talking about comprehensive reorganisation and to do something about it ’ . |
14 | It enables groups to identify their own needs and to do something about meeting them . |
15 | From such an analysis we can pick out causes and action points : we are then in a better position to understand what is happening and to do something about it . |
16 | A special feature is a cantilevered bay window which is designed to create more space and to give plenty of natural light . |
17 | But Richard 's polite attempt to straighten himself and to give something like a slight bow made the damage to his lung rather worse . |
18 | We 'll probably take this on paper , so the reason it 's on the agenda is to tell you as a department that we 've had this sent to us , erm we 've got a meeting later this week to actually sit down and analyse it and to put something on paper to send up to command . |
19 | Once installed FAXgrabber can be configured to monitor fax activity automatically and to convert everything to text as soon as it arrives . |
20 | The first child wants to be the most important , and to keep everything for itself . |
21 | The aim of this chapter is to explore the nature of RMI , and to understand something about the key elements ( information , cultural change ) . |
22 | This concept of individual timetables enables us to get away from the focus on the family or household as an undifferentiated unit , and to understand something of the complex patterns which evolve when individuals ' lives are woven together over the period of their lifetimes . |
23 | He goes on to connect the semantic change with ‘ the general tendency of the Enlightenment not to accept any authority and to decide everything before the judgement seat of reason ’ ( p. 241 ) . |
24 | So it 's my great pleasure to declare congress open and to welcome everybody to Portsmouth . |
25 | Rather , it has set out to demonstrate how seriously we take the many connections between pupil and teacher language and learning and teaching in schools , and to describe something of how staff and students proceed . |
26 | You will need the time to orient yourself to your new way of eating and to get plenty of relaxation . |
27 | It 's not felt that your private life in terms of your political opinions will necessarily impinge on your public life , and , and to deprive somebody of the right to express their opinions in public would be regarded as an infringement of his civil liberties , which would be unthinkable in a republican erm situation . |
28 | It 's designed to operate across multiple computer systems and to integrate anything from personal computers to mainframes . |
29 | Well I really you know , felt that that was a good experience , to see people who were normally classed as powerless , having erm that kind of strength within themselves and and the the power to push on and to face lots of difficulties . |
30 | They should be advised to avoid sudden cold , hypoxic conditions and infections and to take plenty of drinks , especially when hot . |