Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Care should be taken in any discussion to establish unambiguously which convention is to be used ; failure to do so leads to much confusion later . |
| 32 | Care should be taken in any discussion to establish unambiguously which convention is to be used ; failure to do so leads to much confusion later . |
| 33 | ‘ In that case , would n't you do better to apply to another wharf ? ’ |
| 34 | This naturally leads to another issue — that of the independence of children within their families . |
| 35 | It was apparently reassuring to this woman to have her aggression recognized so straightforwardly , because the couple was then able to have intercourse . |
| 36 | Firstly , I am naturally drawn to any thing that smacks of illegality , for the simple reason that the vast majority of life 's pleasures , from my point of view , are highly illegal . |
| 37 | Your decision here will obviously depend to some extent on whether you already have an aircraft radio and just how much you are prepared to spend on your first model . |
| 38 | ‘ I want you to be free before I make love to you , not morally tied to another man . ’ |
| 39 | The Group 's long-standing excavations at Wharram Percy in the East Riding of Yorkshire have greatly contributed to this work ( Fig. 30 ) . |
| 40 | A report in October 1989 said that many people were leaving the social work profession : low morale , increased pressure and poor pay all contributed to this exodus . |
| 41 | Higher production , higher oil prices and increased interest income all contributed to this improvement in performance . |
| 42 | Someone had put on a record , slow , lazy music , and the couples on the floor were n't really dancing , merely clinging to each other like limpets , nuzzling each other 's necks . |
| 43 | This group , all known to each other , were daily injectors of ‘ speed ’ and made a conscious decision to change to what they thought was a ‘ less dangerous drug ’ . |
| 44 | ‘ The two Testaments are organically linked to each other . |
| 45 | So far as the view is intended to be a strictly subjective one , it is capable of being summarised , frivolously but informatively , in a single word — ‘ jaundiced ’ ; but that , perhaps applies to all legislation and not exclusively to modern legislation . |
| 46 | Tiled windows , all linked to each other . |
| 47 | Each species ' range is determined by the area within which it can outbreed potential rivals because it is better adapted to that set of conditions : |
| 48 | As we will see below , marine animals have all adapted to this patchiness — and in some cases , as with the great whales , exploit it beautifully . |
| 49 | Those … who relapse into a culturally predominant style will find themselves rightly restricted to that part of the organisation where their culture prevails . |
| 50 | As Gavyn Davies , who may be better known to some Opposition Members than he is to us , has said , the interesting thing is at how high a proportion of GDP investment has settled , notwithstanding the recession . |
| 51 | I liked him , but he and Angela are — were — better suited to each other . ’ |
| 52 | Hence some policewomen deliberately seek out desk jobs — secretaries with uniforms , as someone described them — or jobs as drivers , in juvenile liaison , or in units which deal with sex crimes , because they see themselves as better suited to this type of work . |
| 53 | ‘ Perhaps they are just better suited to this sort of race and these headwinds , ’ added the man with a house 50 yards from the Thames at Putney . |
| 54 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 55 | How superior she suddenly felt to that woman in the bed , the woman whom she had so long admired , even idolised , but who knew little of human nature after all . |
| 56 | It will be difficult at first but going on would only lead to more sorrow . |
| 57 | ‘ Without the talks process , there is a vacuum in Northern Ireland politics that can only lead to more violence . ’ |
| 58 | We could go down and then , that way , and then we 'll all go to this way , and then join it up again . |
| 59 | While Helmholtz did not report solving problems in dreams , he did apparently rely to some extent on an autonomous process , so that once he had done the groundwork on a problem he sometimes achieved his insights apparently spontaneously , for instance when out walking . |
| 60 | my Lord that that 's with respect right , erm certainly what , what he says that does n't necessarily lead to that conclusion all it does is have void what maybe authority between |