Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 2 | Here the occupants of the house would ascend to the first floor by way of the outside steps , as originally there would have been no inner staircase . |
| 3 | I shall refer to the first case as Mr. A. He wrote to me in March saying : |
| 4 | He and She can refer to the third party in either of the triangular relationships , but in Sonnet 2 He refers to the Friend 's future child , while in 3 She refers to the Friend 's mother ; in 50 and 51 He refers to the poet 's horse ! |
| 5 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
| 6 | " Increment descriptor " makes the descriptor refer to the next character in the string . |
| 7 | It would date to the 1st or 2nd century AD . |
| 8 | The proportion of the current land supply undeveloped after five years will contribute to the next five year period . |
| 9 | There is not enough time to meet even short-term demands for preparation , marking , report-writing , sorting out pupils ' disputes and clearing up heat-of-the-moment misunderstandings with colleagues , let alone to invest in the longer-term necessities of clearing the backlog of paperwork , replying to letters , ordering supplies , planning schemes of work , reorganizing last year 's course , thinking about what your tutor group can contribute to the fourth year assembly , setting up a meeting with the educational psychologist about Jessica , and spending some time with the word processor manual . |
| 10 | Students whose performance is exceptional may transfer to the second year of the BSc Honours Computing and Information Systems course at Jordanstown ( see page 159 ) . |
| 11 | Students who successfully complete the course may transfer to the second year of the BSc Hons Mathematics , Statistics and Computing course at Jordanstown . |
| 12 | If you wish to do neither then you may simply TAB to the next message or press RETURN if you wish to exit the option . |
| 13 | Now we must look to the next stage of development . |
| 14 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 15 | ‘ No , no ; I think we will just stick to the first choice . |
| 16 | Both Campbell and the AMA 's Guy Robertson believe the government will stick to the next three years ' funding pledges . |
| 17 | Furthermore , external auditors are left with a very difficult decision as to whether they should report to a third party if they suspect the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 18 | The panel would have responsibility for counselling the external assessors on whether they should report to a third party when they suspect that the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 19 | A seven-strong team will examine a number of ideas and will report to the next executive meeting on 16 April . |
| 20 | She could almost see him searching for another string of quips if Jessica would not thaw to the first attempt . |
| 21 | Like Julia , in the earlier book , Beth catches things ‘ on the hop ’ — almost as a student whose mind is more imaginative than philosophical will react to a first reading of Bishop Berkeley by quickly turning his head , hoping to witness the sudden appearance or disappearance of those external objects which are supposed to depend on his perception of them for their existence . |
| 22 | The cursor will move to the first occurrence of ‘ @ ‘ |
| 23 | will be displayed and the cursor will move to the first field in error . |
| 24 | If that action is not taken within the agreed time and your debtor 's promise is broken you must immediately move to the next collection stage . |
| 25 | If this is the value required , the user can move to the next field by pressing the TAB key . |
| 26 | When the age has been entered the cursor will move to the next line . |
| 27 | And if , if he says to us in meeting that he 's got no small talk and no erm ability for visiting in a hospital situation where you can ask people how they are , and then can move to the next person you 've got to see I 'm not sure how he would be visiting someone in their home . |
| 28 | Let's move to the third section . |
| 29 | If that decision is the right one , then the spirit can progress to the next lesson ; if the person gives in to temptation , then the spirit has to be faced with that choice again and again ( either later in that same life or perhaps in a future one ) until the right decision is reached . |
| 30 | If they correspond , then all is well , his concept of the situation is confirmed and he can progress to the next step in the context of his objectives . |