Example sentences of "[noun] to [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anyone who puts his mind to it can rise to the top , ’ was the confident reply . |
| 2 | Loyal and moderate as the noble constitutionalists seemed , any concessions to them might open the way to federalism , separatism and even more dangerous tendencies . |
| 3 | Given the diet of a species , determined by its ecology , the individual members have two behavioural problems , the best solutions to which will depend on their diet . |
| 4 | At this point , planning provided little guidance to what would follow ; the difficulties of extemporizing new manoeuvres were enormous and helped to reinforce the prevailing view that the overriding aim must be an early victory obtained essentially by good initial deployment . |
| 5 | The proletariat are ‘ free ’ labourers in the sense that they can sell their labour to whoever will employ them , but are not free to do anything but sell their labour , since they have no access to the means of production : land , tools , workshops , raw materials . |
| 6 | It was a tragic ending to what could have , undoubtedly would have , been a golden career . |
| 7 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 8 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 9 | An increased awareness of potential stressors brought about by better education and an understanding of individual and group responses to it can help to prevent stress from becoming unmanageable and overwhelming . |
| 10 | They are even optimistic about conflicts between women , on the grounds that paying attention to them can produce gains in feminine self-realization ( e.g. Caplan 1981 , Orbach and Eichenbaum 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Point ( b ) has been the subject of controversy about the impact upon professional activities of organizational , and particularly public , employment , the conclusion to which would seem to be , in short , that ‘ it depends on the profession and upon the organization ’ . |
| 12 | Not only did his broadsides provide the only small check there was against wholesale malai excesses , they alerted the population to what would have been kept secret . |
| 13 | Many of the suggestions made by the Government in the citizens charter give us an opportunity to contribute our own ideas to what should go into the citizens charter and for those ideas to expand and to grow as a result of the kernel in the programme that the Government have produced . |
| 14 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |
| 15 | It must be very doubtful indeed whether , in a free society , property can be used otherwise than as those with title to it will allow . |
| 16 | no , no , I was giving you an example to what would happen on the time scale , but let me go back to January nineteen eighty seven , if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven and I went to buy in March , April , May nineteen eighty eight , the figures in the service charges would be out of date |
| 17 | ‘ Your unwillingness indicates insensitivity to what must have been perceived as deeply held and deeply felt concerns and convictions of the Methodist people . ’ |
| 18 | Access to them will require the approval of a senior lexicographer and will be controlled by the Computer Group . |
| 19 | Historians have been attracted by the wealth of available material : Darwin 's private notebooks have survived , along with much of his correspondence , and this material is now being published so that scholars everywhere can have access to what must stand as a unique record of creative thought . |
| 20 | A petition to them might bring assistance for a particular project , but their schools received little attention : salaries were simply noted in the accounts and no one stopped to consider whether £10 which had been generous by the standards of earlier centuries might now be inadequate . |
| 21 | An inability to move through these feelings with some gentleness to ourselves can result in unresolved grief and even illness . |
| 22 | At least your writing to us may prevent the same thing happening to another reader . |
| 23 | And I suppose it 's up to us like the erm the old stagers to we should know better and I think Tom the Union chap , he 's he can see that and he wants to avoid it cos he 's got to speak to the lot of them ? |
| 24 | The island parable focuses not upon the reactions of workers and employers to what may turn out to be imaginary variations in the real wage rate but upon the reactions of producers to variations in the prices being paid for their products . |
| 25 | That is in stark contrast to what would happen if ever the Labour party came to power , with its plans to reduce our spending on equipment by many billions of pounds . |
| 26 | Their approach was in great contrast to what might have been the position had the official Opposition been in government . |
| 27 | The Danes , and the Swedes , were already perceived to pose a missionary problem in the ninth century ; their Christianization was one response to what would become known to historians as the Viking threat . |
| 28 | A more definitive response to him must await the time which will probably arrive when the clergy ordination measure is taken on the Floor of the House . |
| 29 | I am not sure how the law-breaking campaign is working or whether other companies would have joined B & Q , but the chief executive of my council felt that he was not in a position to commit the poll tax payers of Hull to what could have amounted to several million pounds , and a deal was finally struck that Hull city council would refrain from taking out an injunction and the cross-undertaking was therefore withdrawn . |
| 30 | The locomotive was ‘ Perseverance ’ , and the damage to her may have included boiler damage , as old tubes were sold and new ones bought as a consequence of the accident . |