Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably that produces omissions , and may lead the interpreter to stop altogether or to ask the speaker to slow down . |
| 2 | If you know you will be with people in the evening too , it would be ideal to have the afternoon away from people altogether or to postpone the evening appointment . |
| 3 | It was fascinating to watch how people of different temperaments and races worked together or to observe the way key personalities tended to colour the group . |
| 4 | For the second period of ten years again I discount down the full agency rates , totalling fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence year yearly , to the sum of forty thousand pounds annually and to apply a multiplier of six , producing the figure of two hundred and forty thousand pounds for the second period . |
| 5 | The ( Moslem ) Democratic Action Party ( SDA ) , led by Izetbegovic , on March 25 called on all citizens to reject the division of the republic along ethnic lines alone and to accept the concept of a unitary state . |
| 6 | Such a plan allows schools to manage themselves more democratically and to keep the curriculum as the major focus . |
| 7 | Travel agent Peter Marsh , 46 , of Colchester , Essex , said : ‘ Both should have made more effort to be together and to make the marriage work . |
| 8 | Despite the arguments in favour of the course which the King adopted , his encouragement to MacDonald to hold the government together and to fight the election as a government had quite momentous consequences for the politics of the 1930s . |
| 9 | To order any of the gifts featured above or to obtain a copy of the gift catalogue , please telephone National Trust Enterprises on Melksham ( 0225 ) 705676 . |
| 10 | Consequently it was decided to approve the proposals outlined in Section 2 above and to authorise the Director of Finance to initiate the appointment process . |
| 11 | Yet the survey also found the same drivers were far more likely to drive badly and to flout the law . |
| 12 | People are becoming increasingly aware of the need to take more care of our surroundings , to use our natural resources more economically and to improve the quality of life . |
| 13 | But we would all do well to learn to eat more slowly and to savour the taste of what we are eating . |
| 14 | An attempt was made in the 1920s and 1930s to pursue Japanese aims more skilfully and to enlist the cooperation of the Korean people . |
| 15 | Although he lacked the control over the southern kingdoms which might have put him on Bede 's famous list of kings holding imperium in the south , he remained a formidable ruler , with the resources to endow the church lavishly and to raise the navy which must have been necessary for his invasion of Ireland . |
| 16 | Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising . |
| 17 | On other occasions , the Provisionals have been hired by property speculators who wished to buy the bombed site cheaply or to reduce the value of adjacent property preparatory to buying it cheaply . |
| 18 | To find out more or to place an order , return the coupon or ring the number below . |
| 19 | She had one goal in life : to accumulate a huge fortune in dollars , to leave Europe forever and to spend the rest of her life in luxury in America . |
| 20 | This mechanisation helped the skilled workers to increase production rapidly and to produce the cloth more cheaply . |
| 21 | A will have the right to set the contract aside and to demand the return of the goods . |
| 22 | And then on Monday morning things moved around in his head and he started drinking quite a lot , a ] so for Sam 's sake , to toast the victory of seeing him once more and to say a damn to caution . |
| 23 | Please try and come along to your AGM on 26th February at to find out more and to give the committee your views and opinions . |
| 24 | We then went a stage further and to share the technology established joint teams for each of these major areas , so that er the specification while it was under Dasa 's leadership , it was actually done by a joint team which involved expertise from British Aerospace and the other three and er therefore at that time the whole Eurofighter consortium was confident that they were making the best use of the available expertise across the four partner companies , each bringing to the table , their own so that they could go forward on a confident basis . |
| 25 | It is possibly the spaciousness of design that brings audiences again and again to Ashton 's Symphonic Variations and Monotones , whose straighter and continuously moving lines require the dancers to draw them calmly and to fill the stage generously with movement . |
| 26 | No attempt is made to summarise or to quote extensively or to append the reference documents . |
| 27 | A winter stream runs past and to enter the house , one has to cross a small wooden bridge . |
| 28 | I look to those responsible , including local authorities , to use these resources wisely and to improve the value for money in the services they buy . |
| 29 | ‘ Active ’ had too much of the overtones of the busybody ; perhaps , as we shall see later and to change the metaphor , it had even more objectionable side-effects . |
| 30 | The judge is there to hold the ring impartially and to direct the jury on the law . |