Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made a last minute decision to go to this game . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yet too often English universities have made no attempt to relate to that community . |
| 4 | Indeed , few files seem in practice to conform to this requirement . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You have already proved to yourself that you can find enough willpower to stick to this programme for three days . |
| 7 | The Bundesbank has never been an institution to bow to public pressure . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One by one we seized the cutlery to demonstrate to each other the blatant ludicrousness of el grip . |
| 12 | The longitudinal study is an attempt to respond to this problem . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | MARK JOHNSTON 'S dream double attempt failed in France yesterday — but only just.Johnston sent out Marina Park for the £100,000 Prix Morny at Deauville in a bid to add to Quick Ransom 's Ebor success last week . |
| 16 | With three world champions to her credit , Brazil is already nurturing more talent to add to that number and the likes of Mauricio Gugelmin are ready to step into Piquet 's and Senna 's shoes . |
| 17 | You 'll have a great deal to say to each other , wo n't you ? |
| 18 | He wants to breath new fire into the cause of aggressive free market Conservatism at the point in political history when it is being discredited and there is a muddled attempt to return to consensual government . |
| 19 | Grain prices during the 1880s and 1890s , in Russia as elsewhere , were severely depressed , making it even more difficult for landowners accustomed to rely on serf labour to adapt to commercial farming . |
| 20 | The intensity of their love , and their readiness to speak to each other directly from the heart , fed rapidly on this period of enforced absence , made tolerable — and enhanced — by the writing of letters . |
| 21 | One of the more important of these was the quota sample , an attempt to approximate to random sampling methods but in a way that minimised the practical difficulties often involved in selecting and contacting respondents , so offering considerable advantages in cost and convenience . |
| 22 | The leaders who went out to any area of European expansion had to make all their own decisions because it would take months , if not years , for their sovereign to reply to any request for instructions . |
| 23 | If you do feel left out of it , try and make every opportunity to talk to other care assistants . |
| 24 | But you will have an opportunity to talk to another adult and this will help remind you that you have just as much to offer as anyone else . |
| 25 | The Bureau wants the freedom to listen to any phone call , even if it is encoded or encrypted ; not only this , it wants to make the telephone companies bear the cost of letting it do so . |
| 26 | The purpose of the section is clear : it is to enable a 16-year-old to consent to medical treatment which , in the absence of consent by the child or its parents , would constitute a trespass to the person . |
| 27 | It has , in contrast , been Western orthodoxy to cling to technological superiority as a substitute for what is often taken to be an unbridgeable quantitative gap . |
| 28 | Now the r the reason for us doing that is that if they do accept it , they are duty bound as a council to write to Prime Minister , Prime Minister , direct , saying they support the declaration of intent . |
| 29 | They are reported to , they define the policy , and I do n't believe that it 's the intention of the executive committee to come to this meeting every time there 's a change of investment policy . |
| 30 | Is it worth training somebody who has never , has n't got the mental capacity to progress to another job or perhaps performing ? |