Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of this book , we shall appeal to evidence in the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic literature which offers insights into the way in which discourse , produced in describable contexts for recognisable purposes , is processed and comprehended . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll speak to Dad in the morning . |
| 3 | Lee Jang-lim , 46 , said the faithful would ascend to heaven in a ‘ rapture ’ on October 28 as Armageddon struck the world . |
| 4 | Increased thromboxane A 2 production may also contribute to thrombogenesis in atherosclerotic vessels . |
| 5 | Via central training departments and other inter-authority groups specifically designed to assist training , such as Local Government Training Boards ; funding/staffing library departments , sometimes being directly responsible for the allocating of funds on training ; and by funding other organizations that may ultimately contribute to training in libraries . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd choke to death in half a minute , ’ said the fireman . |
| 7 | Tata for now India could become to software in the 1990s what Taiwan and South Korea are to electronics today . |
| 8 | There are circumstances , however , where the visual — spatial characteristics of signs may work to advantage in the perception and processing of BSL . |
| 9 | Eleven does not begin to rate in the surf numbers game . |
| 10 | No one could convert to Christianity in Sri Lanka without a complete break from their family and culture . |
| 11 | Whatever formal characteristics Lyons might attribute to English in theory , in practice it would be difficult for him to sustain the claim that ‘ it is possible to address someone or talk about someone in English without indicating one 's relative social status or attitude ’ . |
| 12 | At the end of 1981 BNFL was holding 14.5 tonnes of separated plutonium at Sellafield ( the government has promised to update the tally as far as March 1983 and will report to parliament in June ) . |
| 13 | They should burn to death in their shoes . |
| 14 | Written over twenty years ago , it is admittedly a tentative sketch put on in the hope that some English historians and archaeologists would set to work in a more expert way and on a bigger scale . |
| 15 | His starting point can be anything from a scale drawing prepared by a draughtsman to a crude sketch , but as long as the room dimensions are correct Andrew can set to work in the Sheffield studio . |
| 16 | We can aspire to excellence in the arts , broadcasting and sport . |
| 17 | It was a move rich in symbolic overtones , true to Gimson 's conviction that one must live near to nature in uncorrupted , incorruptible surroundings . |
| 18 | ‘ A temporary farewell only — I doubt not I shall return to court in the summer , whether it be at Westminster , Eltham or Richmond . |
| 19 | JIM McDONNELL will return to boxing in the new year with determination similar to that he showed against Azumah Nelson in their world title fight last Sunday . |
| 20 | Later in the war he would return to action in Italy , becoming a flight commander with D.F.C . |
| 21 | The morality of Ulysses 's speech just can not apply to life in the Greek camps ; base instincts clearly hold sway outside , as well as inside , the Trojan gates . |
| 22 | Perhaps the women of the next generation will no longer submit to defloration in the normal way and will give birth to children only on condition of freedom from pain … ’ |
| 23 | He did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year but was instead apprenticed for £630 to the London wholesale grocery firm of Newnham and Shipley , in Watling Street It was a large indenture payment and coming , as it did , soon after his father 's death in March 1743 , was probably intended to secure a profitable mercantile future for him . |
| 24 | The proposed course will proceed to validation in the spring and , if this is successful , will be offered from August 1992 . |
| 25 | But managers do not respond to competition in simplistic ways and price signals , which are in any case weak , are usually ignored in favour of other factors which purchasers deem to be more important , for example GP referral patterns . |
| 26 | Some experts believe that British Rail would respond to competition in the same way . |
| 27 | For example , hearing impairments provide a common aetiology for linguistic difficulties among deaf children and for this reason it is usually assumed that deaf children will respond to therapy in similar ways . |
| 28 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 29 | companies as defined in companies legislation to account for finance costs which do not relate to revenue in the statement of total recognised gains and losses . |
| 30 | Suppose , now , that the shed was clearly ban of everything and A's suspicions did not relate to theft in the shed . |