Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was luck that Anne came out on top because she did n't want to go to medical school anyway . |
| 2 | ‘ The businessman does n't want to go to different people to talk about things on the marketing front and someone else on the financial front . ’ |
| 3 | Vice-President and Finance Minister George Saitoti presented a budget on June 15 , 1989 , largely intended to appeal to international donors through its aim to curb public expenditure and to reduce the deficit to 4.2 per cent of GDP in 1989-90 , from 4.5 per cent in 1988-89 . |
| 4 | If an exchange had a rule that required members to state that every contract was intended to go to physical delivery , notwithstanding the fact that since the rule was made the exchange had introduced a number of cash-settled contracts ; this would almost certainly be subject to some sort of variation . |
| 5 | Christie 's had secured a good selection of attractive conversation pieces and landscape paintings calculated to appeal to private collectors on a budget , as well as the more interesting portraits and equestrian compositions , while the quality of the works at Sotheby 's was particularly thin . |
| 6 | After Victoria 's accession Lehzen , never skilled in personal relationships , failed to adjust to changed circumstances and her charge 's coming of age . |
| 7 | This meant that the troublemakers , including many who did not want to come to Great Engeham in the first place , were given a pretty free run . |
| 8 | So RE needs to attend to encouraging pupils consciously to get beyond just looking for information or entertainment and see that there is a quite different way of looking at things . |
| 9 | Academic libraries may be expected to contain collections of research papers but too often one has to go to public libraries to find valuable collections of records and documents of local interest . |
| 10 | Although companies are not expected to go to unreasonable lengths to accommodate someone who is not able to carry out his job to the full extent , an employer who disregards altogether the possibility of finding you some other position and is unwilling to consider any other form of compromise may be vulnerable to an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 11 | The dispute was now expected to go to international arbitration , although the Belize government of Prime Minister George Price emphasized that not " one inch " of national territory would be conceded and that there would be no foreseeable cuts in the size of the British forces stationed in the country . |
| 12 | The Bush administration also moved on proposals for tax cuts , designed to appeal to middle-class voters hurt by the recession , and to counter a plan put forward by Senate finance committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen ( Democrat , Texas ) for tax cuts of $72,000 million over five years financed by a 5 per cent cut in defence spending . |
| 13 | Violinist Nigel Kennedy and Scottish rock group Wet Wet Wet completed a balanced programme designed to appeal to different types of audiences . |
| 14 | FIRST Option Bonds are designed to appeal to basic rate taxpayers , and the minimum investment is a lump sum of £1,000 . |
| 15 | Changing to a vegetarian diet is a big step as the body needs to adjust to different foods and sources of protein and you need to cope with new methods of cooking and shopping . |
| 16 | And , of course , she is a director of Walter Lassally Productions and has to disappear to exotic places occasionally . |
| 17 | Noted as relevant to the Clapham accident were the factors that : Working practices were permitted to slip to dangerous standards and quality of supervision was permitted to slip to an equivalent degree ; quality of testing did not meet BR standards ; no proper system of training of installation and testing staff was in use , and there was no vetting of weekend staff to prevent excessive overtime ; and there was failure to communicate both up and down lines of management . |
| 18 | Surprising data from the machines can still clash with big egos that want to trust to old-fashioned hunches . |
| 19 | The four week visit furthered the process of mutual understanding of local government systems , which is expected to lead to joint research activities . |
| 20 | Conversely , strong ‘ selection pressure ’ , we could be forgiven for thinking , might be expected to lead to rapid evolution . |
| 21 | This is known as the " Greenhouse Effect " — the subsequent gradual raising of the earth 's temperature is expected to lead to climatic problems throughout the world unless the " effect " is checked . |
| 22 | This was done to maximize the possibility of detecting contrasts over conditions , since an asymmetry would be expected to lead to high proportions of singular continuations which might make differences between conditions hard to detect . |
| 23 | They believe he 's carried out several sex attacks in one town , and want to talk to other victims who may have been too scared to come forward . |
| 24 | Act and that I want to talk to local authority associations about that , so we will be in consultation with them . |
| 25 | Mo agreed that even politicians could not please everybody and moved to talk to 31-year-old Sandra Gordon-Morgan , a part-time dressmaking teacher who lost her job when the local authority cut its adult education budget . |
| 26 | Conversely , while pupils are expected to conform to certain role images , pupils who exaggerate these are also problematic . |
| 27 | In particular , fare increases appear to lead to high losses of passengers , particularly at off-peak periods . |
| 28 | In April , the President announced measures to safeguard democracy and under which to begin discussions on constitutional reform , designed to lead to parliamentary elections . |
| 29 | In this connection , and considering the high frequency of anti-lactoferrin antibodies found in the present study , it is interesting to hote that lactogerrin has been reported to lind to intestinal brush border via a specific receptor . |
| 30 | Mutations that appear to predispose to myocardial infarction ( in the angiotensin converting enzyme ( ACE ) gene ) and hypertension ( in the angiotensinogen gene ) have been identified recently . |