Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | BARNSLEY trainer Steve Norton ca n't wait to go off talent-hunting to America again in a fortnight 's time . |
| 2 | The winches could then be run instantly without having to wait for steam to be available . |
| 3 | Has to wait for food to be cooked and prepare to wait for it . |
| 4 | So at a minimum government needs to arrange for broadcasting to be undertaken by allocating and enforcing private sector property rights in these frequencies . |
| 5 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 6 | This alternative has been open to them since 1986 but unfortunately many landowners chose to seek the approval of Licences instead even though it is virtually impossible to arrange for land to be occupied without giving occupation rights . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Fate was kind to arrange for Penry to be there just when he was needed most . ’ |
| 8 | Cedric Humphreys , 65 , wants to retire as clerk to St Osyth Parish Council to devote more time to his interests in amateur dramatics and music . |
| 9 | She confirmed at the weekend that she is to try for election to Europe in next year 's polls in the Conservative marginal Euro-constituency of Bedfordshire South . |
| 10 | Teachers of this persuasion wished to accept for admission to higher education , and to English studies , only those students possessing a sufficiently high level of " qualitative literacy " and sufficiently hard-working and disciplined as well as competitively motivated to " benefit " from university education . |
| 11 | You will understand when I say that I should like a poem to stand as preface to your book , a poem which we have both admired so much , Thomas Hardy 's ‘ Afterwards ’ . |
| 12 | We have also taken the opportunity in the Bill to provide for water to be supplied free of charge for fire training purposes and for other emergency purposes as well as fire fighting . |
| 13 | Thus only the infinitive is part of the verbal system , and to is an element brought in from outside this system to provide for incidence to a support seen as occupying a place in time before the beginning of the event . |
| 14 | His farming having failed , Smith decided to try journalism and after a brief period as correspondent on a provincial newspaper , he went to London to work as secretary to Jerome K. Jerome [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | In 1975 she started to work as secretary to Tom Horton , in finance . |
| 16 | For , on the one hand , they dispensed valuable resources : opportunities for lamb-barrel politics were an incentive to people to participate in popular democracy , to stand for election to a committee , even if they doubted its suitability for managing a complex hierarchical organization . |
| 17 | By the 1890s it was the established practice for Nonconformist ministers , along with local clergymen , to stand for election to the Boards . |
| 18 | This had implications both for service delivery and for the recruitment of black staff — not to mention the encouragement of black people to stand for election to the councils . |
| 19 | Anthony Wedgwood-Benn renounced his peerage in order to stand for election to the House of Commons . |
| 20 | An ardent but always non-violent feminist , she campaigned vigorously for women 's rights , fought hard to improve rudimentary state education and medical services , and was one of the first women to stand for election to a borough council after the passing of the Qualification of Women Act in 1907 . |
| 21 | The opposition was further alienated by a clause in a government decree law of Aug. 22 governing the eligibility of candidates representing unregistered political parties , independent organizations and alliances to stand for election to the CCD . |
| 22 | AT THE Scottish Labour women 's conference in Perth last year , one delegate caused hoots of laughter when she described her attempt to stand for election to the district council . |
| 23 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 24 | Committee Miss J. Brown and Mrs. V. Hawkins have decided not to stand for re-election to the committee . |
| 25 | It passes by Largalinny Lough onto the forest lane for a short distance , leaving it to pass through forestry to Lough Fadd . |
| 26 | It will be a vision of success from which everyone profits , a vision which the Profitboss has developed over many years , a vision in which he passionately believes and is able to communicate with enthusiasm to his team and every other employee in the organization . |
| 27 | Take this opportunity to come with Travelsphere to China — one of the last great travel experiences . |
| 28 | More-over , the effects of imitation on performance seem to differ with respect to phonological abilities and grammatical abilities . |
| 29 | The thousands of varieties of European shirts may differ in terms of button types and collar lengths , but they remain recognizable as shirts as opposed to garments used in other cultures for an identical functional purpose ; and this is because the manufacturers , as it were , agree to differ with respect to these specific and limited dimensions . |
| 30 | But you can get an idea of what each gene does by comparing the bodies of two organisms known to differ with respect to a certain gene . |