Example sentences of "[to-vb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All film , video and television production is an example of the use of tools other than language to communicate to an audience . |
| 2 | As a concession to his mother 's tireless instructions , Jean-Claude allowed her to write to a farmer she had known , to see whether we could rent one of his cottages . |
| 3 | I have n't been brave enough to write to a publication of any sort before , but it is one of my favourite pieces of music , and this is the greatest performance I 've ever heard ( and I mean of anything ) , so thanks for the opportunity . |
| 4 | This guidance often comes in the form of impulses to do this or that — to write to a friend , to read a certain book , to meditate , to go to a meeting , to buy some flowers , to sign up for an evening class . |
| 5 | ‘ Is it any good to write to a Solicitor ? ’ he asked Hooton . |
| 6 | Please verify that there is sufficient disk quota and privilege to write to a file in the supplied working directory . |
| 7 | If you try to write to a file opened for input you will get a " Write protected " error ( error number 252 ) . |
| 8 | In it , you mentioned that you would be willing to write to an official in support of the building of a proper path between Bloomiehall Park and Muirwood Road , to give children a shorter and potentially safer route to school avoiding the Lanark Road . |
| 9 | 22 year old Katherine Monastyrskaya managed to struggle to a road where she was helped to hospital by passers by . |
| 10 | Her bright tone brought a reluctant smile to Faye 's lips , then she dabbed her swollen eyes with the tissues Belinda gave her and tried to struggle to a sitting position . |
| 11 | Second , there was the difficulty of staffing the hospital to an adequate level , given that new entrants to the service were difficult to attract to an institution which was closing . |
| 12 | Examples of teaching practice are rejected because they seem too remote from the trainees ' own situation : " Yes but … my students would never ( work in pairs/bring things to class/respond to a video screen . ) " |
| 13 | But when they tried to call their ambulance depot at Mayfield , the radio reception was so poor one of the men had to dash to a phone box . |
| 14 | It is at the point in Scale 2 , where Hilton starts to emphasise this , that he uses the image of the ladder to look back at what has gone before , and to point the way ahead : The rest of the book illuminates the subtle inner movements of the personality in which man engages with the power of God to come to a knowledge of his being , the " wirkyng in a soul " when Scale 2 is more engaging as a work which marshals literary resources to illuminate Christian mystical theology . |
| 15 | An appeal can also be made if the council takes more than eight weeks to come to a decision — this is called an appeal against non-determination . |
| 16 | Naidoo reiterated that the NSC was expecting Sacu to come to a decision and could not ease it for them by offering guarantees of future tours . |
| 17 | On an afterthought , she said ‘ Thank you very much , children , ’ and then paused as if trying to come to a decision . |
| 18 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 19 | For after another second or two of awkward silence , his lordship seemed to come to a decision . |
| 20 | He paused at a street corner and tried to come to a decision . |
| 21 | He seemed to come to a decision and stared hard at Jack Stone . |
| 22 | It 's a romantic notion I know — but to me , with his system idling yet the brain activity so intense , I think it 's as if he 's trying to come to a decision . ’ |
| 23 | Tanner appeared to come to a decision . |
| 24 | A late identification of visual handicap calls for information and advice to be readily available and sympathetically discussed with parents who are often expected to come to a decision about their child 's educational placement while they are still trying to come to terms with the implications of a medical prognosis for their child that may be depressing . |
| 25 | It also obliges the outside world — meaning the West , and above all , the United States — to come to a decision about the military action it has been threatening . |
| 26 | The role of the doctor is to give as accurate and helpful information as is possible to enable the patient to come to a decision . |
| 27 | There is one other point , although erm you know , it 's good that they are in the er areas which the tenants er , live so it 's er not very difficult for tenants to come and see their councillors but er er , there is a difficulty at times when er the er air the housing manager has to ring around to get the er members , who are able to sit on that panel and sometimes that is difficult because we have just three members and sometimes they ca n't all fit in the , whereas when you have a larger group if one member ca n't attend , there 's invariably sufficient there to be able to come to a decision so I think that that 's on the other side of the balance sheet . |
| 28 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 29 | Prior to 1952 , section 14 of the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1848 provided that justices ‘ shall convict … or make an order … , ’ i.e. that they had to come to a decision . |
| 30 | ‘ If it was necessary to come to a decision on this aspect , I would have to say that , in my judgment , to go from the grandmother 's house where she is at the moment and leaving the job she has in Birkenhead with the Social Services Department , to Canada with no work and no money and living on charity and food banks , would be an intolerable situation for the child . |