Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] to the " in BNC.

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1 Intramural physician monitors adjusted the cyclosporin doses to maintain cyclosporin trough levels between 80 and 120 ng/ml thus allowing the investigators to remain blinded to the study treatment .
2 Indeed General de Gaulle , the French leader after 1958 , insisted that the policy must be introduced if France was to remain committed to the Community .
3 One thing I would like to see added to the A2 would be a second pair of outputs to send a DI signal straight to the front of house mixer while the main outputs were feeding the guitarist 's own rig .
4 Consider someone deciding not to try to go to the theatre .
5 On June 18 Shamir continued his efforts to appear committed to the peace process , proposing in an interview with the Egyptian magazine Mayyu to invite President Hafez al-Assad of Syria to visit Jerusalem for peace talks , and declaring his willingness to talk to any " elected Arab representative " from the West Bank or Gaza ( but not Jerusalem ) .
6 Phantasy is that part of mental functioning which continues to work according to the pleasure principle , even after the emergence of the reality principle in mental life .
7 Sobibor was the scene of the biggest prison escape of the Second World War when six hundred Jews rose against their guards to try to escape to the surrounding forest .
8 Unless those eight masked High Masters were sufficiently confident in their associates to try to journey to the next galaxy and back — in some incredible megaship — to take advantage of time-compression !
9 The lines from Sheffield and Wath were always difficult to work owing to the heavy traffic and steep inclines , so the LNER started a programme of electrification in 1936 .
10 But Christians believe that God acts in history , so the Church always has to try to respond to the leading of the Holy Spirit in each age .
11 Gedanken remembered the tunnel along which she had to pass to get to the Imaginary Universes Laboratory .
12 If the marital rape exemption had been abolished in England and the decision to prosecute left to the police , there is no reason to think that their approach to marital rape cases would have been anything other than cautious .
13 Desperate scribes battled with bureaucracy to try to get to the athletes .
14 Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy .
15 DINGHY SAILING all you need to know to take to the water
16 An approach , born of experience , to overcome this problem is to request to speak to the finance director 's secretary and to explain to her :
17 In the end I decided to try to speak to the old man again .
18 The fact that unemployment did not result prior to deflationary policies suggests that real wage rises did not exceed those required to adjust scrapping to the pace of accumulation and labour supply .
19 Item No. 1 : this winged lion of St Mark in a gondola is the typical sort of item you would expect to find attached to the top of expensive furniture .
20 Dealers often advised pet clients to demand to speak to the chairman .
21 Justified copy also has the effect of looking more authoritative than ragged setting — where the right-hand margin is allowed to float according to the amount that can be fitted onto the line .
22 Mr Gorbachev reportedly offered to resign at Saturday 's meeting after Kemerevo party chief Alexander Melnikov ‘ really let himself get carried away and said something like this : ‘ Is it proper to go bowing to the capitalists ? to go asking a blessing from the Pope ? ’ ' according to a conservative Central Committee member .
23 The task of the sociology of science was to study the social context that permitted science to proceed according to the norms of this ethos .
24 That is nearly twice as long as patients should have to wait according to the John Major 's Patients ' Charter .
25 And something has to be done about the over-breeding of pedigree dogs : I 've met Home Office Minister Angela Rumbold to discuss important changes I would like to see made to The Dog Breeding Act . ’
26 How different that is from the Labour party 's position — it wants to lead according to the principle which states that where others go must be right .
27 He was also alleged to have dragged or thrown their sister by the neck so as to cause bruising to the upper arm and neck .
28 The duty not to ask and the right not to answer relates to the actual spent offence and , in terms of section 4 ( 1 ) ( b ) , also to any circumstances ancillary to it , including the conduct that constituted the offence , proceedings preliminary to sentence , the sentence itself and any review or appeal proceedings .
29 Under her bare toes the floor felt real and solid , and although she was lonely and sad she knew she was going to choose to return to the real and solid world .
30 If these proportions were to continue to apply to the projected household population , the proportion of owner-occupier households would fall from 58 per cent in 1981 to 55 per cent in 2001 ( including allowance for difference in concepts of married male heads and married couple households ) .
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