Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 2 | A year later , on Tuesday , 13 April 1773 , Boswell ‘ again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life . |
| 3 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 4 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 5 | You can not count the features of loveliness here , but I attach some pages from my notebook to discover to you the ingenious flora of this fair isle and their many productive and rich uses . |
| 6 | And it 's not until that economic climate changes that people are l are able to relate to what the politicians say . |
| 7 | It would be helpful to David Wilson to know if either of the organisations named above or any other similar organisation has been in touch with you or any of your staff and also to indicate to him the nature of this contact and details of what was being offered . |
| 8 | When the boy told him how the police had made the arrests , the Prince called the division commander , whose men had arrested the twenty-four , to listen to what the boy had to say . |
| 9 | From the Reagan administration 's first decision to listen to what the Israelis were saying , the Iran-contra affair had found its firm foundation in political and diplomatic illusion . |
| 10 | Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word |
| 11 | With that side of his face he seemed to listen to what the other side was doing . |
| 12 | Once men were released from trying to defend them as scientific documents they were able to listen to what the text was actually saying . |
| 13 | It is important to democracy that government should be not merely ready , but obliged , to listen to what the people ( in all its multiplicity ) has to say . |
| 14 | The whole secret was not to listen to what the other person was saying , Masklin had noticed . |
| 15 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 16 | Boutros Ghali , last Monday , I took the opportunity to suggest to him the need for more action in Somalia . |
| 17 | Professor Donaldson was so irate at my letter in the Times , which he considered to reflect upon English architects in general , that he proposed moving the Institute to reverse the recommendation of their council to award to me the annual Royal Gold Medal of the Institute , and was only dissuaded from attempting to inflict that gratuitous dishonour upon me by strong remonstrances . |
| 18 | He was Otto I 's brother , and his biographer was not slow to apply to him the biblical phrase , ‘ a royal priesthood ’ . |
| 19 | A turning point in the history of the republic came in 1358 , when Ludovic of Hungary forced the Venetians to cede to him the whole of Dalmatia , except for Ragusa . |
| 20 | That announcement to W. could , in my judgment , only serve to underline to her the extent to which she is in control . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 22 | The traditional Keynesian view of the conduct of monetary policy has been to assign to it the role of interest rate and/or exchange rate stabilization . |
| 23 | Mesmerised , Kate shook her head , unable to deny to him the truth of his words . |
| 24 | A libel which falsely accused a local authority of applying policies of sex or racial discrimination in the recruitment of staff could , in my view , damage that authority in its reputation in the performing of its statutory functions and I can see no reason , other than the public nature of the authority , to deny to it the remedy which the law allows to a trading corporation in respect of similar damage . |
| 25 | Thus the implementation of the Maastricht Treaty is seen by Northern and Central Europeans as an earnest of the will and capacity of the West Europeans to extend to them the benefits of European Union . |
| 26 | It requires government to speak with one voice , to act in a principled and coherent manner to ward all its citizens , to extend to everyone the substantive standards of justice or fairness it uses for some . |
| 27 | We have been all around Britain to put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents were too afraid to ask . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been alarmed at the easy way the Labour Party has in recent years allowed certain factions in society to dictate to them the philosophical approach they should be following . |
| 29 | He told himself : I 'll have to be more careful ; have to keep to myself the things Miriam divulges about her husband 's past . |
| 30 | The intricate and ever-growing industrial co-operation of the civilised nations through trade does not permit any nation to keep to herself the gain of any market she may hold . |