Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb infin] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that were so , no one would ever eat or drink to excess . |
| 2 | British cinema licences have for most of this century prohibited the exhibition of films which are ‘ likely to encourage or incite to crime ’ , which anticipated the deprave-and-corrupt test of 1959 . |
| 3 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 4 | This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings … |
| 5 | Typically he would break his normal routine for several days in order to write and commit to memory his lengthy " answers " to pre-determined questions . |
| 6 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
| 7 | Participation could perhaps be increased if the event is planned beforehand ; for example , it might be an advantage if groups of children who all live in the same area arranged to meet and cycle to school together . |
| 8 | Learning that your loved one is having an affair is a body-blow to trust and poison to self-esteem . |
| 9 | This is how I came to know and subscribe to CD REVIEW whose cover-mounted CDs have been excellent . |
| 10 | Despite these dangers , there is a widespread belief that Japanese society differs from Western societies because of the greater willingness of the Japanese to conform and defer to group consensus . |
| 11 | One of the most common forms of insider dealing , and probably one of the most difficult to detect and bring to court is the share dealing ring . |
| 12 | It has followed it up because I personally and other members of the Board and er and members of our staff have accepted invitations to go and speak to presbytery conferences on human transplants . |
| 13 | They 'd bring their tapes or their guitars and every day I 'd have to sit and listen to music I did n't understand , music I hated , which is crazy . |
| 14 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 15 | The aim is to invite the Holy Spirit to reveal what is causing this block to growth and to invite him to heal and restore to wholeness the person in question . |
| 16 | ‘ I am a man , and a man of passions ; I must go to a woman , otherwise I shall freeze or turn to stone … ’ |
| 17 | If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great . |
| 18 | If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great . |
| 19 | Government authorities in Scotland , Britain , Germany and the US are all co-operating and conducting independent investigations to identify and bring to justice the terrorists . |
| 20 | We should have produced campaigns by now to identify and bring to justice the inevitable sanctions-busters . |
| 21 | If I give you a bit of paper and the lot , yeah well you know what to do and go to school and fill them in ! |
| 22 | Animals would die of cold and thirst , food supplies would soon run out and most of the human survivors would starve or freeze to death . |
| 23 | Material which is difficult to understand or open to misinterpretation is a recipe for trouble . |
| 24 | If my wife and I both go then the car is cheaper by £10 , but that is not a lot to pay for the increased safety of rail travel , the convenience of not having to take a car into London and indeed the fact that we can read or go to sleep on the train . |
| 25 | I 'm not forcing them to be anything because we have other bands and artists who we can force and push to success . |
| 26 | Without women men revert to animals , without men women could heal and restore to harmony a world raped and ravaged . |
| 27 | The indirection operators provided in BBCBASIC(Z80) enable you to read and write to memory in a far more flexible way . |
| 28 | When the accompanying stream drops over a ledge , it is a signal to retreat and return to daylight . |
| 29 | I 'll try and look to sort of student access erm , total theoretical will have , erm , some of your own transcripts by then . |
| 30 | He would try and remember to post it in the Sandyford Toll Receiving House on the way back , if nothing else intervened . |