Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 2 | When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change . |
| 3 | Nor because legal institutions intend to or will ever admit to violating human rights . |
| 4 | For Virgo , Fate takes a hand today when a delayed or missed connection may lead to a contact that may eventually prove to be very beneficial . |
| 5 | Via central training departments and other inter-authority groups specifically designed to assist training , such as Local Government Training Boards ; funding/staffing library departments , sometimes being directly responsible for the allocating of funds on training ; and by funding other organizations that may ultimately contribute to training in libraries . |
| 6 | One preliminary point that may still need to be made is that the switches between the two media are not arbitrary , but motivated according to a series of conventions practised by other Elizabethan dramatists . |
| 7 | They also look at wider issues such as their own up-bringing which may have been in an addictive family and may have led to many grief or abuse or other issues that may still need to be processed with a sponsor or a professional counsellor if there is to be further progress in recovery . |
| 8 | He had failed to gain a scholarship to St. Paul 's and one assumes that his father decided that his son 's lack of ambition and apparent aimlessness about a career did not justify the money spent on a schooling that should naturally lead to Oxford or Cambridge , and thereafter to the Civil Service . |
| 9 | In effect the staff , in making this statement , are erecting a ‘ fence ’ around the unit which excludes those agencies that might otherwise expect to be involved . |
| 10 | For most people whose political and economic power is limited , history is something that is made every day , every week , in a way of living that might either accommodate to future possibilities or wrestle with them . |
| 11 | At this stage in the study , there were still many questions unanswered about detailed aspects of the new legislation , and it was also necessary to find out more about College activities and functions , particularly those that could eventually contribute to the exercise of balancing costs with income . |
| 12 | This technique may have some application where there is a manifest disproportion between the scale of expenditure and any benefit that could possibly result to the business . |
| 13 | Perhaps , when she 'd grown stronger , she could slip away into the night and keep on 166 walking … after all , what was the worst that could possibly happen to her ? |
| 14 | Shakespeare evidently shared Donne 's dissatisfaction with the extant convention , agreed with him that unfulfilled love was a trope that could only lead to a limited number of stereotyped situations . |
| 15 | His hands tightened when she tried to step back , and Claudia , refusing a struggle that could only lead to one thing , stood very still . |
| 16 | It i my Lord Mayor , it is indeed colossal cheek and pure hypocrisy on the part of the Tory Group , and particularly on the part of Councillor , to be putting forward the resolution congratulating schools on their success in responding to the introduction of Local Management , when they and the Government , between them impose such conditions that could only lead to chaos and disorder . |
| 17 | ‘ It is the most awful thing that could ever happen to me . |
| 18 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
| 19 | More than could ever come to Siward 's aid , no matter where he sent for them . |
| 20 | And bread that would also have to be thawed . |
| 21 | An ideal self-teach tool that would also appeal to those tutoring in the field of advanced mathematics . |
| 22 | If truth were told , it made her a lot more than simply afraid , but telling him that would simply add to his ammunition . |
| 23 | Panorama will enable users to keep windows open and processes going off-screen that would otherwise have to be closed down for lack of space . |
| 24 | The advantage of using d'Compress as the launch pad for other programs is that you can use the facilities of d'Compress to gather the files together , a stage that would otherwise have to be done in the DOS window . |
| 25 | First , is this treatment , when successful , likely to reduce the effects of the disease , or does it have only a palliative effect , in that side effects are avoided from powerful drugs that would otherwise have to be used ? |
| 26 | Among the listeners there was already a nascent chaos that would soon grow to pandemonium . |
| 27 | These councils were granted the same economic development powers as the ‘ other districts ’ , but they were additionally invited to submit an annual programme that would normally lead to greater Urban Programme funding than would be made available to the lowest tier of authorities . |
| 28 | Since that advert , I mean we 've picked up customers that would normally go to Bristol . |
| 29 | The specific plan announced by Schuman had been drafted by Jean Monnet who certainly did see it as only a first step in a chain that would ultimately lead to political integration . |
| 30 | To get to that point , there was a quantum leap to be achieved , the proverbial turning point in a young man 's life when fate or some other thing takes a hand , and it was at this point in time that June — whom he says he still believed was his sister — reappeared in the story as a catalyst to a decision that would ultimately prove to be the most important in his life . |