Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The games , which have become an annual event , are intended to appeal to weekend sportsmen and women . |
| 2 | In those early days they were expected to go to chapel every morning ; bells seemed to announce every change in the timetable . |
| 3 | All this time , her cries and weepings had so increased in volume and in duration ( sometimes she cried for five or six hours ) that she was forbidden to go to church , and had to be confessed and absolved in a private chapel . |
| 4 | REACTION TO CAMP ROUTINE AND RESPONSIBILITIES : Lenny can be trusted to carry to completion any task given to him . |
| 5 | The mortgage is fixed for three years at 10.3pc ( APR 10.9pc ) and is designed to appeal to home buyers seeking an affordable mortgage with inbuild stability of payments . |
| 6 | A ministerial meeting planned for November in Copenhagen is expected to agree to phase out ozone- destroying chemicals by the end of 1995 . |
| 7 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 8 | On the basis of a 5-4 majority in a Missouri case judged in July , the cases are expected to lead to expansion of the right of individual states to pass laws regulating abortions . |
| 9 | It is also expected to lead to student transfers between the two centres , distance learning through new technologies and Kirkcaldy running franchised courses for at least the early years of Dundee 's courses . |
| 10 | Second , he was expected to lead to war the king 's benefice-holders ( vassi ) from within his county . |
| 11 | In the early Middle Ages , Lectio , Meditatio and Oratio were all designed to lead to Contemplation , but Contemplatio was not regarded as an esoteric discipline , an advanced state of prayer or the cultivation of an alternative mode of consciousness . |
| 12 | Michael Howard , Secretary of State for Unemployment , in announcing employment action in Parliament , stated , this Government , have placed policies designed to lead to job creation and they will succeed in the future as they they have succeeded in the past . |
| 13 | Suddenly he realised the single glaring inconsistency in any line of argument which was designed to point to revenge or the settlement of a grudge as a motive for the attempt . |
| 14 | Within a year or two the government ( of whichever party ) is expected to put to Parliament a radical reform which would do away with the charade of having to prove marriage breakdown . |
| 15 | The first two logical assignments in this file ( ie to RDBICONFIGURATION and LIFESPANCONFIGURATION ) should be modified to point to LIFESPAN RDBI and LIFESPAN configuration files respectively . |
| 16 | Failure to take formal action under the relevant legislation or unjustifiable delay in doing so , in respect of obnoxious odours which amount to a statutory nuisance or for breach of a condition attached to a site licence for waste disposal , may be deemed to amount to maladministration if they cause injustice such as injury to health or depreciation in the value of property . |
| 17 | The principle of orality was considered to contribute to unanimity in decision making because of the thorough sifting and testing of argument in unrestricted oral argument . |
| 18 | They argued that the basis of the national assessment system should be essentially formative , that is designed to contribute to learning and not simply summative , by which is meant the simple recording of acquired knowledge or skill . |
| 19 | These proteins have been reported to bind to calmodulin . |
| 20 | FORMER North British Railway 0-6-0 Maude is expected to return to steam on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway later this summer . |
| 21 | The doctor concerned is now recovering and is expected to return to work in the near future . |
| 22 | Dockers at Sharpness are expected to return to work on Monday , although they 've been reluctant to speculate on any future action . |
| 23 | Alan had obviously expected to return to university alone , once the fuss was over . |
| 24 | Two months of treatment has failed to clear up the trouble , so Molby has had surgery and is not expected to return to action for another six weeks . |
| 25 | All 27,000 dismissed and striking workers would be permitted to return to employment in the same job and at the same grade and wage as at the beginning of the strike , provided that they returned to work in the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 . |
| 26 | Eric Howard , manager of Diadora Division Three Bracknell Town , has resigned to move to Division Two Egham Town as general manager . |
| 27 | They fear either that we are committed to move to stage three or that , irrespective of the provision in the treaty allowing us a free choice , we would none the less be obliged to move . |
| 28 | Mix and match elections ( see para 1.2 above ) may be offered where some shareholders are expected to want to realise their investment and others are expected to want to roll-over their capital gains into new ordinary shares of the offeror . |
| 29 | Financial control was centralized under one accounting officer , the Permanent Under-Secretary for Defence , with subordinate Deputy Under-Secretaries to oversee the individual Service votes , which were still retained for administrative convenience , but could be adjusted to conform to Defence , as opposed to single Service , priorities . |
| 30 | Similarly , one minute I 'm a busy wide-awake person , and the next , when the decision has been made to go to sleep , I 'm a wide-awake person lying down in bed . |