Example sentences of "[det] [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of policy there was little to differentiate the two main parties , with each committed to maintaining the essence of Labour 's laissez faire economic approach which had included extensive deregulation and privatization measures . |
| 2 | As the principals were all noblemen and their ladies , each used to having their own way in their own time , organising them was almost impossible . |
| 3 | How does this relate to measuring attendance and truancy ? |
| 4 | Some admitted to trying heroin or cocaine . |
| 5 | Critics generally agreed it was funny , but some admitted to feeling uneasy about laughing at Frank Spencer as his world collapsed around him . |
| 6 | This led to restructuring costs , including redundancies and closures and other one-time charges totalling approximately twenty million dollars , of which approximately eighteen million dollars came in the second half and a very large portion of that in the last quarter of the year . |
| 7 | This refers to concentrating on and looking out for specific details in the world around you . |
| 8 | This points to shifting the emphasis away from direct tax on people 's incomes and on to taxes on wealth or on spending . |
| 9 | This amounts to finding clusters in the training set by an algorithm such as the one above . |
| 10 | When trading in period t begins and the agent becomes aware of the price in his market , p ( ) t , it is clear from equation ( 4.8 ) that this amounts to becoming aware of . |
| 11 | erm I take refuge in the fact that this is what Proust says , and I report , erm I think this amounts to claiming that the artist can give us privileged insight into life . |
| 12 | In the present context , this amounts to having a market economy outcome and imagining what would happen if there were a mixed economy or , alternatively , imagining taking government activity out of a mixed economy to produce a market- or government-free economy . |
| 13 | In so far as this amounts to treating women less favourably than men , because they are women , it is unlawful . |
| 14 | In some cases , this amounts to giving away PCs . |
| 15 | Clip toenails straight across — never cut too far down at the sides as this leads to ingrowing toenails . |
| 16 | All this leads to swelling and shrinkage of keratin cells , and the bonds that hold together the nail weaken , causing brittleness . |
| 17 | This leads to landslipping . |
| 18 | To a certain extent this applies to dropping things on the floor and to car and aeroplane crashes , though as we shall see there are some important reservations . |
| 19 | But men do not want to get into demeaning details about how they help with the housework : few admit to doing the washing up . |
| 20 | Irritability , tension and depression rank as the most severe symptoms , and half admit to having more arguments at home during this time . |
| 21 | This fear does not arise from a view of themselves as unskilled in formal police requirements , for no policemen or women would express that they suspect this of themselves , although some admit to suspecting it of others . |
| 22 | Some admit to paying more than £200 on toys to fill their youngster 's Christmas stocking . |
| 23 | What we do at the end of the year we have n't quite worked out , but we are very much committed to sharing child care and professional space if you like , but we are very privileged in that academic work allows one the flexibility to work in the hours that you find convenient and so on and allows you the flexibility to make this kind of family arrangement . |
| 24 | I 'd never turn anyone in that turned to stealing . |
| 25 | But while " worth " in a school or college is measured in terms of the advancement of learning and the personal development of the pupil or student , the awareness of what that amounts to comes only gradually . |
| 26 | These have to harvested by hand , like coffee , as mechanised picking would lacerate the plant and produce a much inferior product . |
| 27 | Well what did you think of that compared to doing this with the numbers in ? |
| 28 | They all wanted to maintain peace , and they were all committed to defending Polish independence , a point which Bevin , on Lloyd George 's behalf , impressed on Soviet diplomats in London — ‘ his first experience of diplomacy ’ , A. J. P. Taylor remarks , with characteristic acerbity , ‘ but unfortunately not his last . ’ |
| 29 | No matter , what I mean why we all seem to wearing black , because they 're |
| 30 | This is the sort of thing we all get to talking about when the beer 's flowing , or to pass the time when we 're 4–0 down at home to Norwich . |