Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It exasperated his grandmother to see this forceful spirit drifting like a rudderless boat , directed neither to work nor to leisure . |
| 2 | There is one subject of philosophical curiosity to be found in Edinburgh , which no other city has to shew ; a college of the deaf and dumb , who are taught to speak , to read , to write and to practice arithmetick by a gentleman , whose name is Braidwood . |
| 3 | His light-hearted and amusing banter hid a serious and thoughtful approach to work and to life in general , and one became aware that it was a privilege to know and work with him , both at Woolley Hall and in the early days of Bretton where he came one day each week to teach painting . |
| 4 | But Durkheim , Eliot noted , did not attribute the origin of religion to wonder or to speculation , but saw in mythology only the savage 's attempt to rationalize and justify his religious practices , ‘ in regard to the true origin of which he is as much in the dark as the scientific investigator ’ . |
| 5 | What would turn me either to stone or to desperation would be the boredom of hearing the same thing over and over again . |
| 6 | We decided not to wait and to content ourselves instead with the street exhibition that day . |
| 7 | And the social base of a governing elite can be open or closed , but is always susceptible to challenge or to displacement by a counter-elite : ‘ History is the graveyard of aristocracies ’ ( Pareto , 1966 , p. 249 ) . |
| 8 | Can you spare as little as half an hour each day to unwind or to commune with nature ? |
| 9 | Sutton 's writings are difficult to identify and to date , and some have in the past been confused with writings of Thomas Aquinas . |
| 10 | It was a regrettable side-effect of such disputes that the " general public " suffered — villagers might see their homes and livelihoods destroyed , they might be hurt or occasionally even killed , but how else was their lord to be brought to reason or to arbitration except by ensuring that he could not collect his rents ? |
| 11 | … to some people , especially those vulnerable to fear and to pain , there sometimes seems no refuge , no support . |
| 12 | It was yet another layer in what was to become the bountiful and complex nature of Burton 's attitude to sex , to authority , to love and to loyalty . |
| 13 | He had no right to marry or to father children . |
| 14 | I was 19 years old when I made To Have and To Hold , but Humphrey Bogart was never my idol . |
| 15 | Moggach 's last three books have been the social dramas Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( adapted from her own television scripts ) , and the thriller The Stand-In . |
| 16 | By contrast , when she wrote the novel versions of Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( ‘ ghastly title — it was a television title ’ ) , her characters had already been embodied , by other people . |
| 17 | The police were empowered to direct and to route processions , but a ban could only come from the Home Secretary . |
| 18 | Holomisa had ended Transkei 's state of emergency on Nov. 7 , 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] , freed ANC and PAC prisoners , and encouraged contact with the ANC ; during a visit to the United States at the end of January 1990 he said that these measures showed a commitment to change and to unity on the part of all black people , and that he wanted to make Transkei 's independence an instrument of liberation for South Africa . |
| 19 | The ‘ battle of the sexes ’ has penetrated into the heart of modern family life , leading not only to change but to role confusion . |
| 20 | Their case is that if they had been properly and correctly advised as they were entitled to be under the contract , they would not have proceeded to exchange or to completion . |
| 21 | Indirect experience , through diagrams , film sequences , and similar means , helps to explain and to structure what we experience directly . |
| 22 | The Children Act 1989 bringing disabled children into the same system as children in care , will provide an opportunity for a much needed impetus to research and to development in policies and practice concerning disabled children . |
| 23 | Protection is granted , in the context of a trade dispute , to interference with contract ( and not merely a contract of employment ) , to intimidation or conspiracy to injure and to interference with trade by unlawful means but by the Employment Act 1980 this protection was to a large extent withdrawn in case of ‘ secondary action . ’ |
| 24 | Libft is a library of C language functions that can be used in the application programs to specify and to checkpoint critical data , recover the checkpointed data , log events , do exception handling , and do N-version programming — presumably a means of ensuring that something vital written into the first version of a program survives unadulterated in subsequent versions . |
| 25 | For there is indeed an observable general tendency ( however deeply complicated by historical and cultural diversity ) to distinguish and to value kinds of work which meet no immediate and manifest need , of an everyday practical kind , and which are at least not necessarily taken as evidence of some metaphysical or non-human dimension of reality . |