Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made the readers share in the horror it described and thereby so disgusted , shocked and outraged them that instead of tending to encourage anyone to homosexuality , drug-taking or brutal violence it would have precisely the reverse effect . |
| 2 | At length , Boeing conceded the point , leaving Bob Wilson to lament that ‘ it was easier to sell a fleet of aircraft to United Airlines , than to sell one to Virgin . ’ |
| 3 | Then she would go down to his cluttered little house in South Kensington with his hundreds of contacts ( for he was clever enough never to leave anything to chance ) and he would pronounce them all ‘ Absolutely Divine , ’ but at last succeed , with supreme anguish , in selecting one or two which were even more divine than the others . |
| 4 | The concept of ‘ manliness , of course was derived from public-school culture , which also inspired Smith to bind ‘ the boys together and create an esprit de corps that would make them proud of their company , jealous of its honour , ashamed to do anything to disgrace it , and prepared to make any sacrifice rather than be dismissed from it ’ . |
| 5 | Since Novell 's fiscal year closed on October 31 , Univel did n't want to do anything to louse things up for Novell . |
| 6 | With that number about little more than a century ago , it might be thought an easy matter to run one to earth . |
| 7 | Once installed FAXgrabber can be configured to monitor fax activity automatically and to convert everything to text as soon as it arrives . |
| 8 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |
| 9 | Berkeley , nevertheless , thought that to concede anything to materialism was to concede too much , and that any element of materialism inevitably led to scepticism and atheism . |
| 10 | The job will take some hours and you will be without hot water while you are doing it , so you need to have everything to hand before starting . |
| 11 | I 'm not likely to take anyone to court . ’ |
| 12 | There are also times when there may be no option but to admit someone to hospital for treatment when there is a serious risk that the person will harm him or herself or is becoming physically ill through inadequate nourishment and self-care . |
| 13 | The jury will be ‘ death qualified ’ ( in the case of Alabama capital law ) : all jurors have to believe in capital punishment , and be prepared to sentence someone to death . |