Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the beat ( upwind leg ) the board is not sailed level as on all other points of sailing , but is deliberately heeled to enable the leeward rail to dig in and thus providing more lateral resistance . |
| 2 | This we have called antecedent , a way of seeing causation which calls for the use of the to infinitive to signify the before/after relation between the cause and the effect . |
| 3 | It was a pleasure to me to see the housewifely way in which Mr Wilson set about everything . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal has ruled that she can use an ancient law to sue the Today newspaper for claiming she stole letters belonging to the princess . |
| 5 | Dent followed up with a request for Barnet to meet the 11am deadline an hour before the League 's annual meeting at Walsall . |
| 6 | Although ignoring man and control systems , taking many detailed facts from the period of physical geography before systems and beginning with two chapters which are very climatologically inspired , nevertheless the approach was refreshing in that it indicated what could be done to redress the imbalance detected by some physical geographers ( e.g. Brown , 1975 ) and to counter the increasingly fissiparist tendencies of the previous decades . |
| 7 | Since the infinitive evokes the effect , to represent it as a mere result produced on the patient implies representing it as coming after the operation of producing this effect ( = the making ) , whence the use of to express the before/after relationship between the two events . |
| 8 | One of the objectives of this work was to trace the south-westward extension of the Highland Boundary Fault . |
| 9 | May , sporting an Elvis Presley head-piece nodded to Jenny who had decided to don the best selling Scousers wig set comprising curly wig and moustache straight out of the Harry Enfield 's series . |
| 10 | The first was to cut public expenditure as part of a monetarist approach to inflation control , and the second was to reduce the apparently deadweight burden of ( income ) tax upon incentives . |
| 11 | On his second attempt , Cadfael made straight for Upton to enquire where their younger shepherd was to be found , and set out stoutly to tramp the further mile to a fold high and dry above the water-meadows . |
| 12 | This is why when you tack it is important to weight the leeward edge as you turn . |
| 13 | While faecal occult blood testing is likely to prove the most cost effective method of screening large populations , genetic tests could initially be targeted at selected high risk groups . |