Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 12.20 : Another Social Worker asks me to arrange half-day visit to the School . |
| 2 | Details of the registers would be available before the bill reached the committee stage but he wanted them to contain enough detail to be wholly credible in the eyes of the public . |
| 3 | Actually he wanted someone to give some orders to and to deal with the press for him . |
| 4 | While the short-term expediency of such a position may be understood in the light of the desperate state of access to inland waters in England and Wales , as paddlers we must never allow ourselves to give any solace to the polluters . |
| 5 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 6 | Portugal has low labour costs and is basically an agrarian economy , making it a natural country from which to sell winter-grown vegetables to the more affluent Northern countries ; |
| 7 | In any case , the British hoped for an American-British-Dominions agreement that could be used as a basis on which to invite other countries to a conference . |
| 8 | The purpose of Scripture is to act as a ‘ yardstick ’ and ‘ tether ’ by which to assess any claim to contemporary revelation , and to regulate its interpretation . |
| 9 | Despite the observations of the Master of the Rolls , it is too early yet to build a pyre on which to consign conventional doctrine to its timely or untimely end . |
| 10 | Wearily he righted the fallen chair and sat down again , sifting through the lines of words , forcing himself to pay close attention to his own composition , the self-invented structures of his own being . |
| 11 | Paramedics have extra training to help them to administer on-the-spot treatment to patients . |
| 12 | Other naturalistic views , Marxist and some which indeed call themselves ‘ evolutionary ’ , have often proclaimed themselves free from any such picture , but it is basically very hard for them to avoid some appeal to an implicit teleology , an order in relation to which there would be an existence that would satisfy all the most basic human needs at once . |
| 13 | This page enables you to relate additional SPRs to your SSR , up to the maximun indicated . |
| 14 | One way to test your call to this work is to ask the Lord to help you to lead another person to Christ where you are . |
| 15 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't take it on you to use that tone to your mother ! |
| 17 | She has told you that I was kind to her in the summerhouse , though I 'll assure you I was quite innocent then as now , and I desire you to keep this matter to yourself . |
| 18 | This is the space left for the pharmacy 's stamp , so that the pricing authority knows who to pay and who to address any queries to . |
| 19 | It also provides instructions to enable you to have quick access to the information it contains via the Tools menu . |
| 20 | Knowledge of recent political history may enable you to correct these generalisations to some extent . |
| 21 | I would be grateful were you to bring this Mass to the attention of the people through your parish bulletins . |
| 22 | We urge you to make immediate representations to him , and to the Secretary of State for the Environment , expressing opposition to the impact their plans will have on your constituents and the environment . |
| 23 | We urge you to make immediate representations to him , and to the Secretary of State for the Environment , expressing opposition to the impact their plans will have on your constituents and the environment . |
| 24 | It may be difficult for you to make instantaneous response to what is said . |
| 25 | ‘ I have spoken to Mr Knighton this morning and we are discussing a formula which will enable me to give financial support to Manchester United . ’ |
| 26 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 27 | Universal services would be available with a level of resourcing that would permit them to give appropriate support to individuals within a common overall structure . |
| 28 | The Americans found that the deepening Cold War made it impossible for them to give equal priority to all their objectives . |
| 29 | On Jan. 19 the government had announced that all legal parties would be submitted to certain restrictions , binding them to give prior notice to the municipal authorities of any meeting , demonstration or public gathering , along with details of the organizers . |
| 30 | Moreover , their use of their disparate conceptions does not just lead them to give contradictory answers to common questions such as ‘ Were Athenian slaves a class or nut ? ’ |