Example sentences of "[conj] to [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 'll have to change that to we 'll write it as six over ten then we 'll write it as point six . |
| 2 | I would say that to we should give you a bit of freedom in terms of price , therefore I think we should er allow you to spend up to say five thousand pounds ? |
| 3 | Mozart and his contemporaries , who ( unlike the English ) had no continuous tradition of listening to baroque music , found it sparse in texture in a way that to them must have seemed musically primitive . |
| 4 | Now you could just vote for m motion three eight eight , and to which would say that delegates from the T U the trades councils could go to Congress , but not actually speak on any motions or you could vote for three eight eight and three eight eight and three eight nine , which of course , I 'd like you to do . |
| 5 | But , with simultaneous political vacuums this weekend in Prague and East Berlin , there must be some apprehension as to what may happen if either or both implodes . |
| 6 | Surely an ethical theory is not much use without some view as to what may induce humans to live by it . |
| 7 | I you know how conservative I am with figures and er with advising you as to what may occur I 'm myself relatively confident that erm we shall meet our ticket sales target by the year end and that there will be no as there as there 's been in previous years since er the aforementioned not to be noted er crisis . |
| 8 | They probed and measured and cross-questioned Phoebe in the most condescending manner , made worse by the fact that they clearly did not have a clue as to what might have happened . |
| 9 | For a clue as to what might have been going on , we turn again to the Chinese system of feng shui , which was mentioned in Chapter 4 . |
| 10 | He certainly engages in speculation as to what might have happened but treats it as such , continually emphasising that multiple interpretations of the data are possible , that there are many important matters to which he has not had access and that only limited and tentative conclusions may be drawn . |
| 11 | Chrissy Allott , Catherine Snelling and Nick Spokes of Fullwell Cross Library in Ilford , Essex , have written to me in response to Brough Girling 's recent call for suggestions as to what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth . |
| 12 | Mira takes these facts and re-inserts them in narrative — not the original narrative representations from which they were drawn , for these are inaccessible to her , — but playful conjectures as to what might have been . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , all Heather 's friends and relatives have racked their brains for clues as to what might have become of her , as you can imagine , and I remembered her mentioning visiting you here a few months ago . ’ |
| 14 | My Government accepted your presence here despite warnings as to what might happen if they did so ! ’ |
| 15 | And he was under no illusions as to what might happen to their relationship if Philippe Chaumont returned . |
| 16 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 17 | Since in the case of a solicitors ' partnership all parties to such agreements should be taken as being familiar with the legal principles governing covenants in restraint of trade as well as with the particular circumstances of the practice with which they have all been involved , it might be thought that the court would be unwilling to substitute its own ideas as to what might constitute reasonable protection for the business . |
| 18 | Do you carry out your research by studying actual disasters as they take place or do you build models , theories as to what might take place ? |
| 19 | I could n't get any clear commitment er from er you Mr Mayor , or the leader of the council as to what would do with that three point two million pounds . |
| 20 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 21 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 22 | So I asked her advice as to what would look nice , |
| 23 | She was being looked after at home by her children and there was a great deal of anxiety being expressed by all the carers involved as to what would happen to the children . |
| 24 | She was weepy when her husband was first admitted to hospital , concerned as to how she would find him and worried as to what would happen if he came home . |
| 25 | Where in the 1930s the mother was given solemn warnings as to what would happen if she disobeyed the rules , the mode now is to refer her , with continual reassurances however , to what might possibly result from some mistaken handlings : ‘ Here 's what happens once in a while when the needs of the child are n't recognized ’ ( Spock , 1946 , chapter on ‘ The Two Year Old ’ ) . |
| 26 | er as to what would happen to the metered charges as as against what they are at the moment . |
| 27 | It remains an open question as to what would happen with further repetitions . |
| 28 | In the meantime the only guidance as to what would constitute an acceptable limit on Article 8(1) rights is the rather equivocal decision in the Klass case which concerned the operation of surveillance procedures in the German Federal Republic where legislation authorized telephone-tapping and other surveillance techniques if a number of conditions were satisfied . |
| 29 | Also , in a similar way , many people , not necessarily just old people , prepare by sleeping with instructions by their bed as to what should happen to their effects if they should die during the night . |
| 30 | The daughter who lives round the corner that gives most of the support [ PC ] is heading for a breakdown herself , she 's under considerable stress about Mum , but ca n't get cooperation from her brother and sister as to what should happen regarding the mother 's future … |