Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest ranking muderrises-those at the Suleymaniye medreses -go to certain named kadiliks such as Damascus and Aleppo , for example , while the muderrises of the next two lower classes — the and the — may choose either to take up kadiliks such as those of Jerusalem , Baghdad and Filibe , or to go to the next higher rank of medrese . |
| 2 | We have not intended in this article to prove any specific origin for UFO phenomena , or to appeal to the scientific community for greater respect . |
| 3 | When considering the development potential of land incorporating bridleways or footpaths and the cost associated with overcoming the problems , there are two alternative options : either to incorporate the footpath within the layout of the development , or to apply to the local authority for the footpath to be diverted . |
| 4 | Even if the insurance market allows that to continue to the same extent , it will be small compensation to the director who abdicated in the first place an increasing responsibility to him or herself to ensure that necessary controls and preventive measure were in place to prevent a risk turning into a reality . |
| 5 | In both cases the parents ' resignation to the inevitability of the assessment outcome arose from their having no opportunity to determine or seriously influence the objectives of the assessment nor to contribute to the conceptual framework within which their children 's needs were being assessed . |
| 6 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 7 | It would be churlish of me not to say how much I welcome that statement , and how much I rejoice in the fact that to add to the four climbdowns that I announced at 4 o'clock , there is a fifth — the abandonment of the proposal announced by the Home Secretary in column 167 of Hansard on 2 July . |
| 8 | Mr Behbehanian , his banker , who believed that the British controlled every event in Iran , was still pressing him to repair there and to apologize to the British for insulting them in recent years . |
| 9 | The meeting recommends the Committee respecting the Lint Miller " to meet with the Lint Miller , and to show him such Evidence as they can recover respecting the weight of fflax in other Countrys — and Endevour to get him to agree to dress & deliver fflax for the same payment and by the same weight , and to report to the next meeting . " |
| 10 | Upon his decision ( or decisions , for the opportunity may arise more than once ) rests the ability of the spirit to learn that lesson and to progress to the next stage in its development . |
| 11 | In such circumstances , it is clearly easier to establish more or less uniform procedures on a more or less informal basis , and to disseminate to the general public the sort of information which will generate trust . |
| 12 | A recent communiqué states : ‘ The Church of Christ in Zaire urges the entire political class , and particularly the present administration , to renounce the pursuit of selfish interests and to submit to the common good expressed by the will of the people ’ . |
| 13 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 14 | Accordingly , the Commission intends to limit itself to those measures that seem necessary to achieve the social dimension of the internal market and to contribute to the social cohesion of the Community . |
| 15 | Namibia 's example has encouraged the Eritreans to press ahead with their own policy and to respond to the widespread need for media training . |
| 16 | Namibia 's example has encouraged the Eritreans to press ahead with their own policy and to respond to the widespread need for media training . |
| 17 | It is also undeniable that he sees a part of the truth — such ceremonies educated the young at large to respect their elders and betters and to aspire to the same glory ( Polyb. 6.54.3 ) : they were civic festivals . |
| 18 | To be a hero on the field and to aspire to the red jersey of Wales was far and away the most dashing thing you could do . |
| 19 | Finally , and to return to the first century AD , although Christianity inherited much from its Judaic roots , it did not embrace the need for circumcision . |
| 20 | Alter most of Britain 's major wars there is a rush to demobilize , and to return to the parsimonious levels of peacetime Defence expenditure . |
| 21 | PF1/1 — the BREAKOUT key allows you to break out to a VMS subprocess , and to return to the same field on completion . |
| 22 | The new law gave every citizen the right to travel abroad and to return to the German Democratic Republic ( GDR ) at any time . |
| 23 | A good deal of money has been made tarting up riverside and bank top pubs to take account of the new ambiance and to cater to the non-industrial affluent . |
| 24 | The time has come for the Prime Minister to stop playing Conservative party politics with the issues and to rise to the real level of the challenges that confront us in Britain , everyone in Europe and , indeed , every inhabitant of the planet . |
| 25 | But to go to the other extreme and elevate people suffering from such abnormalities into a norm for society not only threatens society but is dangerous to the individuals themselves , since it excludes them from the consideration of help and treatment . |
| 26 | ‘ What we have sought to do ’ , claims Francis speaking for the organisers of the exhibition , ‘ is not to reconstruct time past but to expose to the light things that have run the risk of acquiring the patina of nostalgia and the glamour of neglect . ’ |
| 27 | But to return to the old bee-keeper : |
| 28 | But to return to the initial arrival at the accident site , what is the operational investigator looking for ? |
| 29 | But to return to the Turkish DC-10 . |
| 30 | But to move to the other extreme and regard it as some kind of waste product was to endorse bourgeois correctionalism and , worse still , to acknowledge that the forces that were supposed to produce socialist consciousness could also produce something quite different . |