Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many parasites can probably attack a variety of related species in the initial development of the relationship , the parasite fine tunes its metabolism as the symbiosis progresses and may eventually adapt to a single species of the host . |
| 2 | They will rightly look to a Labour Government who will not look at the matter in the narrow economic calculus that we have heard from Conservative Members but will recognise that , unless we are prepared to accept the role of women in the labour force , we will fail as an economy to receive and achieve our full potential . |
| 3 | Major , addressing the Welsh Conservative Party conference on June 14 , dismissed those " sulking on the fringe of talks about the destiny of Europe " and declared that " the British government and the British parliament would only move to a single currency if they took a further , separate and explicit decision to do so , not just when to do so but whether to do so at all " . |
| 4 | We have , of course , stressed to our friends in the Baltic states that their membership of the CSCE — Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe — process and their aspirations to join the Council of Europe will naturally depend to a great extent upon their ability to meet international standards in such matters . |
| 5 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |
| 6 | Shakespeare evidently shared Donne 's dissatisfaction with the extant convention , agreed with him that unfulfilled love was a trope that could only lead to a limited number of stereotyped situations . |
| 7 | This can only lead to a partial picture where lenders try to succeed within their own parameters , without all the facts on the likely borrower . |
| 8 | With a very shallow L curve ( as in Figure 18.3 ) , a rise in money supply from M to M' will only lead to a small fall in the rate of interest from r 1 to r 2 . |
| 9 | ‘ Halliwell said that these sexual experiments can only lead to a dead end . |
| 10 | This exploratory and performance-based approach will not only lead to a deeper understanding of the text in question ( a dramatic exploration of a speech in Shakespeare , for instance , will show how the placing of different emphases can alter fundamentally one 's interpretation of character or meaning ) , but will also lead to an understanding of the play as theatre . |
| 11 | This however , will only lead to an inefficient facility in the long run . |
| 12 | The appetite for power these immense forces display worried Stead , and he argued their style could only lead to an autocratic national system with a minister of central government at the apex . |
| 13 | The finance director of one of the companies says he believes that the productivity increases attributable to IT are coming to an end : ‘ Auditors are getting more productive — but it can only go to a certain level . ’ |
| 14 | Saturday 's name change was the sixth this century , and the previous alterations did not necessarily lead to a radical renewal . |
| 15 | Actually it is wrong to think that your present diet will necessarily lead to a long and productive life . |
| 16 | It has been rightly pointed out that a quick ball from such a scrum does not necessarily lead to a running game and that the centre of the field , already bustling with activity due to the increased fitness and range of the modern player , would be clogged up with roaming loose forwards relieved of scrummage duties . |
| 17 | Land reform does not necessarily lead to an immediate rise in output , neither does it increase a physical supply of land , nor does it significantly alter the ratio of peasants for the amount of land available . |
| 18 | Neither creative nor conventional paths will necessarily lead to an acceptable solution in every case . |
| 19 | " A tomboy 's like a whistling woman and a crowing hen , who can only come to a bad end . |
| 20 | If you have tried sprinkling it on breakfast cereal and weighed the quantity , you will have discovered that you get a large volume for a quarter of an ounce — just about as much as you can palatably add to a single portion of breakfast cereal , without beginning to think that you are eating a bowl of sawdust ! |
| 21 | Until the 1988 Act , all a person had to do to gain copyright protection for a design was to make a drawing of the design in such a way that the design could be recognized from the drawing ( as long as the design did not relate to a spare part ) . |
| 22 | Of course , this problem could be eased by reducing the number of constituencies in Scotland and Wales , but since Labour has overwhelming strength in Wales and majority support in Scotland , the idea of cutting down their representatives in the Commons did not appeal to a Labour Government . |
| 23 | This negative element can be felt in ( 32 ) above in the fact that this sentence implies that he did not appeal to a higher court even though he could have . |
| 24 | They can be translated into English either by using a similar ‘ dummy ’ subject , They speak English , where they does not refer to a specific agent , or by using the passive voice , English is spoken . |
| 25 | Loose coupling relations do not refer to a specific version of a module — only to its name . |
| 26 | Loose coupling relations do not refer to a specific version of a module — only to its name . |
| 27 | It has already been noted that a criterion statement such as " can add two whole numbers summing to between 100 and 1,000 " does not refer to a precise domain . |
| 28 | ‘ Lifetime ’ partners do not refer to a finite time period but to partners since first sexual intercourse ‘ so far ’ ; this may be the most inaccurate measure because of difficulties of recall , whereas discrepancies over shorter time intervals are much smaller . |
| 29 | For many , ‘ law ’ and ‘ order ’ refer to the ideal of legality ( or ‘ the rule of law ’ ) — and while it is clear that this does not refer to an uncontroversial notion , it is arguable that most people would agree on certain core features of the rule of law : a congruence of official action with a previously declared rule so as to preserve individual autonomy and freedom from arbitrary state power , and a notion of equal treatment of individuals in the eye of the law . |
| 30 | But while the latter may not have a material impact on competition , they do nevertheless contribute to an incremental drift of decision-making power to a steadily diminishing number of companies . |