Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Bond is intended as a medium to long term investment , it may be encashed at any time . |
| 2 | While they are best regarded as a medium to long term investment , you can always sell your units at any time you wish . |
| 3 | Yeah , but were you the sort of people that walk into hospitals and start praying for the sick to be healed . |
| 4 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 5 | The elements of the administrative structure will be sketched as a preliminary to discussion of the offences created by this Part of the Act . |
| 6 | Now that would do , that would do whether the , whether the knuckles were hurt or it was just a minor cut in the palm of the hand there , that would do and you can use the same type of bandage on the foot alright , so that 's if the hand was damaged , now supposing we did n't have the hand damaged , but we had instead a cut up here , okay , again clean it and if you clean it with lots of water always remember to dry off around the wound because bugs love a moist skin to grow in , dry the wound before you apply the dressing okay if you can , dry it off the best you can and then you 're going to place that over the cut , remember you want the pad to be long enough , big enough , okay , now she can hold this for you again , she can hold it above where the wound is and now when you bandage this one you always bandage from the narrow part to the fat part of the limb , you always bandage from the narrow to the fat , so you take the bandage down |
| 7 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 8 | Methods for measuring the amount or intensity of radiation had not been developed , and the doses to which different patients were exposed probably varied from the imperceptible to the lethal . |
| 9 | Even a writer such as Elizabeth Roberts , who has a very strong view of women 's sense of responsibility towards their relatives during this period , acknowledges that old people living with relatives but unable to contribute any longer to the household economy might well be ‘ neglected ’ or ‘ pushed into a corner ’ through force of circumstances : ‘ Although the duty to care for relatives was a paramount one , rarely ignored , it is also true to say that the quality of care varied from the dreadful to the superb ’ ( Roberts , 1984 , p. 179 ) . |
| 10 | Although there has been some shift in the 1980s to the political right in the United States and West Germany , the socialist share of the vote has hardly changed over the two decades in Austria , Scandinavia , West Germany , and Italy . |
| 11 | Answers ranged from the grudging to the generous , from the instantly certain to the flabbily relativistic . |
| 12 | It is to Alan Rough 's eternal credit that he developed a sense of humour which carried him through experiences that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous . |
| 13 | Despite his good intentions , and despite the more rational management principles and institutions introduced by Speranskii , the actual administration of Siberia , the manner of its economic exploitation , the low levels of popular enlightenment , the permanently suppurating sore of the exile system , the treatment of the native population — which still ranged from the paternalistic to the spasmodically genocidal — and the survival of traditional ‘ imperialist ’ attitudes in St Petersburg , meant that in practice the old core-periphery , metropolis-frontier relationships still remained in force , and Siberia continued to be treated and governed in a manner which reflected its original quasi-colonial status . |
| 14 | As with teaching and journalism , so with literature : he developed his small talent to the full , writing short stories , poems , and plays in Irish and English , which ranged from the mawkish to the genuinely moving . |
| 15 | They ranged from the sleazy to the downright soppy . |
| 16 | One group that disappeared was the fusulinids , complex protozoa that ranged from the microscopic to two or three inches in size . |
| 17 | Consequently , childbearing is concentrated within the first decade of married life ( 84 per cent of births within marriage in 1956–60 , 92 per cent in 1976 ) , and especially in the second half of the decade — 33 per cent of births occurred in the fifth to the ninth years of marriage in 1976 compared to 26 per cent in 1951–5 ( figure 4.11 ) . |
| 18 | Ordyn-Nashchokin , one of the more forward-looking Russian statesmen of the seventeenth century , objected in the 1660s to any permanent foreign diplomatic representation in the country because it would " bring harm to the Muscovite state and embroil it with other nations " and because foreign diplomats would " find out everything that went on in Moscow and tell it abroad " . |
| 19 | Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity . |
| 20 | For the part-time farmer lack of time was often associated with fatigue , with an hour or two of manual work being added to a 7 to 8 hour working day . |
| 21 | Very few local authorities responded to these recommendations and of those that did a number are in the process of returning to the five to eleven pattern . |
| 22 | Earnings crashed by a third to 41p . |
| 23 | Profits have dropped by a fifth to £34.8 million in the first half of this year , and he 's not expecting an early recovery . |
| 24 | The dividend is lifted by a fifth to 12.74p , with a final 8.92p covered by normal earnings of 34.4p , up almost 4p a share . |
| 25 | The dividend is lifted by a fifth to 12.74p , with a final 8.92p covered by normal earnings of 34.4p , up almost 4p a share . |
| 26 | In a famous episode in February 1985 , Oxford University congregation voted by a 3 to 1 majority to deny the Prime Minister an honorary degree , a rebuff previously extended only to the late President Bhutto of Pakistan . |
| 27 | This position is echoed by Lehrer ( 1987 : 256 ) , who states that " to has no meaning of its own " , by Buyssens ( 1987 : 341 ) , who asserts that it is a " well-known fact that when the infinitive is used as the subject , the predicate , or the direct object of the sentence , it is normally preceded by a meaningless to " , and by Andersson ( 1985 : 57 ) , who distinguishes between the preposition to , which has a meaning , and the pure to infinitive marker , " which only has the syntactic function to introduce [ sic ] an infinitive " . |
| 28 | The mill was largely rebuilt in the early 19th century , reverting by the mid-1850s to its original purpose , that of corn milling . |
| 29 | Since bats are considered by the Chinese to be symbols of good luck they are one creature that is likely to remain safe when the British hand over Hong Kong . |
| 30 | Display of passions , congratulation and excitement between men on the pitch , otherwise considered by the British to be dangerously continental ( see xenophobia ) , or , more generally , deviant ( see opera , innocent looks , sex ban and drooling ) . |