Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The philosophers claimed both the privilege to attend to epistemological questions and the privilege of epistemology to be the sole locus for debate about what was ‘ true ’ knowledge . |
| 2 | I made a last minute decision to go to this game . |
| 3 | Such a concern is explained by the fact that these countries had repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to go to enormous lengths ( in effect taxing imports of capital , encouraging exports of capital and , even in the case of Japan , organizing plans for importing huge stockpiles of raw materials ) in order to prevent an upward movement of their currencies . |
| 4 | In Bolton the education authority made special arrangements for clients with a learning difficulty to go to local colleges . |
| 5 | And some of them want most of the money to go to Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | I have said that Mr. Millan is an honourable man — — and I am sure that Mr. Millan wants the money to go to those areas . |
| 7 | We must embrace change in the way we do things , to get better value for money to go to more places and cover more stories . |
| 8 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 9 | That is why we have invented the concept of trust status , which gives us the opportunity to entrust to local people — those who work in the hospitals — a greater discretion and influence over the way in which resources are used in their institution . |
| 10 | the historical biography of the relationship between carer and cared for : how far was it possible for people with a long history on one particular level to relate to each other on a level of physical intimacy , faced with the disgust that caring often demands . |
| 11 | They have been pressing the president to appeal to regional leaders for support , offering them more local powers under the new constitution . |
| 12 | Never a department to succumb to philosophical fashions , it continues to represent a wide variety of philosophical positions and approaches . |
| 13 | Yet too often English universities have made no attempt to relate to that community . |
| 14 | Which would you recommend , as I would not want any harm to come to either fish ? |
| 15 | Indeed , few files seem in practice to conform to this requirement . |
| 16 | So what I would like to propose is that I do a homework timetable for year seven that that homework timetable goes round to all the departments and that we ask the department to stick to that timetable as far as they possibly can . |
| 17 | You have already proved to yourself that you can find enough willpower to stick to this programme for three days . |
| 18 | The Bundesbank has never been an institution to bow to public pressure . |
| 19 | The NRA simply says that it is not the practice in the industry to assign to any scheme the costs of economic disruption during its construction . |
| 20 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 21 | Such an assumption is perhaps made most explicit in the Beckford Report when it comments on the apparent failure of the area officer in the case to recognize the apparently obvious indications that he was dealing with a ‘ high risk ’ child abuse case when chairing the initial case conference : Clearly it is of concern if health and welfare professionals are unfamiliar with the relevant research and it is one of the aims of this chapter to contribute to that understanding . |
| 22 | Not only was there an imperative to respond to threatened attacks by diverting much time , energy , and , above all , money into defence , principally into the building of urban fortifications and castles ; when the raids occurred the defenders ' means of production ( crops , fishponds , mills , barns ) were among the prime targets for destruction , so that their economic capability was seriously undermined . |
| 23 | To emphasise the difference between long-distance and short-distance sensing we coin the term aloof sensing to refer to non-intrusive measurements at laboratory distances . |
| 24 | take action to respond to these concerns . |
| 25 | ( Hand used the same term to refer to those theses from which no related papers were derived ) . |
| 26 | One by one we seized the cutlery to demonstrate to each other the blatant ludicrousness of el grip . |
| 27 | The longitudinal study is an attempt to respond to this problem . |
| 28 | In an attempt to respond to this need for training , WACC 's Pacific Regional Association has organised and funded four desktop publishing workshops since 1987 specifically to upgrade the skills of Christian communicators in the Pacific islands and help them to use the new technology to maximum effect . |
| 29 | And er we er ploughed through this until tonight , and er I think I 'm right , Mr returning officer , say that we 're the first Euro constituency in the northwest to get to this stage . |
| 30 | In IBS there is a tendency for both small and large bowel to over-react to various stimuli such as drugs , stress , balloon distension , and even eating , which may represent an exaggerated gastrocolonic response . |