Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 2 | It was successfully argued that the phrase " is or " could only relate to a customer when the soliciting is taking place . |
| 3 | Well , as a sonic snapshot that might be true , but it does n't necessarily transfer to a musician playing live , in anger , and across the gamut of dynamics that a night 's performance involves . |
| 4 | But beyond this , I think the prohibition in regulation 143 against making an order ‘ forthwith ’ can only apply to an order which is to take immediate effect and that a suspended order which the Legal Aid Board has the opportunity to contest in no way contravenes the regulation . |
| 5 | Storing things up will only lead to a build-up of anger . |
| 6 | The growth in the sum of will only lead to an increase in the price of consumer goods if the sum of grows too . |
| 7 | This should obviously lead to an improvement in the situation but regardless of the size of the corpus there will always be some transitions that are not found . |
| 8 | They were men of such unyielding integrity ( they would only admit to a fault in order to show how it might be overcome ) that the wavering personality of a child could not rest for long against those monumental shoulders . |
| 9 | It has been argued , falsely I believe ( 22 ) , that investment in this sector of agriculture , as has occurred in the lowlands , will necessarily lead to a fall in the rural population . |
| 10 | The transformation of the problematic does not necessarily lead to a transformation of the form of validity of knowledge . |
| 11 | Professor Chapman points out that this does not necessarily lead to a drop in standards of physical care , but stresses the apparent risk that patients may occasionally be made to feel ‘ merely an appendage to a machine ’ . |
| 12 | A Halifax spokesman stressed the £20m provision on loans to the Kentish development Burrell 's Wharf was highly prudent and would not necessarily lead to a loss of the same magnitude . |
| 13 | Restricting car access does not necessarily lead to a loss of trade . |
| 14 | He reaffirmed the belief he held then , that the use of soft drugs did not necessarily lead to a progression to hard drugs , although he conceded that he would never have encountered any other drug if he had not become involved with smoking marijuana . |
| 15 | To abandon ‘ news values ’ as the sole criteria of the media would not necessarily lead to a dereliction of duty . |
| 16 | Sympathy with the conditions of the poor did not necessarily lead to a desire for reform by the state but for further voluntary action . |
| 17 | I does not necessarily lead to an increase in the price of consumer goods . |
| 18 | Thus birth control groups during the inter-war period were careful to argue that the use of birth control would not necessarily lead to an increase in childlessness or very small families , but rather would result in better planned families and healthier mothers and children . |
| 19 | It does not , of course , follow that because markets are of only limited effectiveness that legal intervention , in the shape of a more active liability regime or a reformed governance structure , would necessarily lead to an outcome closer to the ideal , since the costs of intervention may exceed the benefits . |
| 20 | The lights upstairs were still on ; if she could only get to a window she might be able to see what the men outside were doing . |
| 21 | I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt . |
| 22 | After all , cannabis does much less harm to a person 's health than nicotine , and yet cigarettes are legal . |
| 23 | In Island Export and Finance Ltd v Umunna [ 1986 ] BCLC 460 it was held that a director 's fiduciary duty did not necessarily come to an end when he ceased to be a director . |
| 24 | If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice . |
| 25 | Breakfast will only stretch to a cup of coffee unless I get my arse in gear and go to Sainsbury 's . |
| 26 | I think one of the most valuable points that emerged from the Felixstowe experience , as far as I was concerned anyway was the fact that with all those people there when we heard their views , erm , it was quite apparent that it was n't the case of local people opposing what the County Council traffic people propose to do , many there were many different and varying interests there and , and we , we could , we can then basically come to a conclusion which satisfied , satisfied I hope most of them , but , we , we , at that meeting among the local people some supporters with some of our road safety and some were very much against them , others were neutral , but it was n't just a question of erm a , a united opposition of what we proposed to do er , and this was very valuable . |
| 27 | This power can only belong to a person if others acknowledge him to be an expert . |
| 28 | In the latter case addressing will probably only point to a bucket number , and in searching the bucket for a particular record using the direct technique it will no longer be an error to detect a dummy record , but part of the search . |
| 29 | The more experienced dealers guessed it might paradoxically refer to a disaster on the horizon , but kept their thoughts from clients . |
| 30 | They are likely to be fairly extrovert personalities , who are clear and confident in their approach to people and can easily relate to a stranger by establishing immediate contact . |