Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might be the best time to get that extra reading done ; to work on a project report ; to earn spare cash ; or to attend to non-urgent domestic responsibilities . |
| 2 | Firms may use advertising to defend their existing position or to signal to potential entrants that incursions will be challenged . |
| 3 | The manager 's inability to delegate responsibilities or to communicate to those lower down . |
| 4 | The new awards , like the current series of general SVQs , will be broadly-based , designed to enable candidates to enter a range of occupations , or to progress to higher education . |
| 5 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |
| 6 | On pain of loss of temporalities which you hold from us , we strongly inhibit you in the council now called at Lambeth from presuming to attempt anything to our prejudice , or that of our realm , or against us or our rights which our predecessors , kings of England , enjoyed by ancient and approved custom , or to assent to any such move . |
| 7 | If care is taken with is preparation , and perhaps photographs inserted , you have a ‘ house handbook ’ to keep for reference or to leave to future owners . |
| 8 | The real attraction of the pension was its insurance value and the option it gave to retire completely or to turn to full-time farming on retirement . |
| 9 | It would be inappropriate for us to dwell on the matter unnecessarily or to attempt to second-guess the decisions of the Lord Advocate in Scotland on the matter . |
| 10 | This right of control is manifested in , among other situations , the consignor 's retrieval of goods from the carrier or the carrier 's warehousing agent and in the consignor 's instruction to refrain from delivering to the named consignee or to deliver to another consignee . |
| 11 | The kind of information that the general manager normally receives also affects his or her ability to conceive or to commit to new strategic ideas . |
| 12 | Deviance is thus used to describe behaviour that is outside the rules of society ; and these rules can be legal rules or social and moral rules , rules about the conventional way to dress or to speak to other people , for example . |
| 13 | Only one thing was certain — in his letter Mr Robinson had ordered Branwell never to return to his house or to speak to any of his family again . |
| 14 | We ask the general assembly to remit to the assembly council to give attention to the placing of health and healing within the overall work of the church and to report to next year 's general assembly on where they think this remit should most effectively be discharged . |
| 15 | In other words they aim to satisfy and to perform to satisfactory standards . |
| 16 | On intellectual development , they cite the example of the British Civil Service that , since the Northcote-Trevelyan Reforms of 1854 , has filled its policy-making posts with graduates , selected for their demonstrated capacity for independent thought , their ability to learn and to perform to high intellectual standards , without regard to academic specialization . |
| 17 | A key clause defined freedom of information : journalists had the right to demand information ( including access to documents ) from state bodies , social organizations and officials , and to appeal to higher bodies or officials and ultimately to the courts if their demands were refused . |
| 18 | Saddam Hussein had urged the Iraqi parliament " to adopt your just decision to lift the travel ban on all foreigners and to restore to all of them the freedom to travel , apologizing to those who may have been harmed , and seeking forgiveness from God " . |
| 19 | The legislative function is exercised mainly through Parliament which has the power to make laws of general applicability and to grant to other bodies the power to make delegated legislation under authority of an act of parliament . |
| 20 | Each different form requires the mastery of its specific skills if , as is surely the object of the enterprise , the product is to be available and to communicate to all who may be interested . |
| 21 | Through their attendance at specialist classes children learn to cope outside their own classrooms and to adjust to different teachers with differing expectations . |
| 22 | Providing opportunities runs through two aspects of management : unless colleagues are given the opportunity to understand the world outside education , unless they have the opportunity to look around and to come to some new conclusions of their own about what they are doing , the head will say that he or she is failing . |
| 23 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 24 | But if it was so easy for me to see this evidence and to talk to those who had substantial proof of their ownership of homes in mandate Palestine , surely it would be no more difficult to go to Israel , find those same homes and — the idea had a special excitement about it — to knock on those same front doors . |
| 25 | Ada and Daisy 's task was to hand round food , and to talk to those who could manage some conversation . |
| 26 | IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador . |
| 27 | We 've been back to some of the places in the film to see what changes there 've been and to talk to some of the people who were in the original film . |
| 28 | Nowadays , people all over the world unequivocally reject the idea of gulags , yet they are still willing to let themselves be hypnotised by totalitarian poesy and to march to new gulags to the tune of the same lyrical song piped by Eluard when he soared over Prague like the great archangel of the lyre , while the smoke of Kalandra 's body rose to the sky from the crematory chimney . |
| 29 | This should make it easier for students to gain access to higher education and to progress to higher levels of education by building on previous achievements ; and I welcome this development . ’ |
| 30 | Nevertheless , it is clearly important that pupils should have opportunities both to read silently and to listen to well-written books read aloud throughout their school years . |