Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | High welfare benefits may attract electoral support from the recipients , but the high taxes to pay for them may lead to electoral unpopularity with the wider population ; balancing the two is a difficult political act . |
| 2 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 3 | When both cheetahs and gazelles reach the maximum running speed that they can ‘ afford ’ , in their own internal economies , the arms race between them will come to an end . |
| 4 | Nearest you 'll get to Tina Turner , dear ! |
| 5 | Part of me would love to be in a relationship , but I 'm cautious about getting involved , even though I desperately want to be loved . |
| 6 | While generally true this does not solve the difficulty in the case of John and Ruth since each of them may claim to be both a theoretical and a practical authority . |
| 7 | Two of them may fall to Labor . |
| 8 | There are 27 women deacons in the Chester Diocese at the moment and diocesan spokesman , Rev Tim Barker , said he anticipated that many of them would want to be ordained . |
| 9 | Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over . |
| 10 | These events hastened moves towards a formal military alliance of the Western powers , and in April 1949 , 12 ( later 15 ) powers signed the North Atlantic Treaty , which set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) under which the signatories agreed that an attack on any one of them would lead to whatever action was deemed necessary , including the " use of armed force " ( CORE , pp. 85–6 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Shelley was elevated to the Bible this morning , ’ one of them would whisper to the other , but they were fond of Mabel and would never hurt her . |
| 12 | ‘ Eventually , just from listening to albums you could tell what tunings they were using , because a lot of them were n't using a regular tuning , most of them would tune to a particular chord . |
| 13 | Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer . |
| 14 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 15 | Even if an idealised model of the two kinds of society could be constructed , it is apparent that the nature of communication in each of them would have to be less strongly differentiated than Goody is claiming . |
| 16 | She had suggested that one of them should pretend to be ill , shout for help and then , when one of their captors responded , the others should attack him . |
| 17 | The heading in the manuscript appears to tally with a stage direction in the word-book , ‘ A Chinese Man and Woman dance ’ , printed between the final verse and chorus ‘ They shall be as happy as they 're fair ’ But this direction means merely that the Chinese Man and Woman are to dance to the music of the verse , just as the next printed stage direction , ‘ All the Dancers join in it ’ , which follows the words of the final chorus , means that all of them should dance to its music . |
| 18 | Charlotte then employed every sign that she knew to tell the other fishermen that none of them should put to sea on that day , to no avail . |
| 19 | A It is unfortunate that you have used only ‘ common ’ names , as some of them could apply to a number of species . |
| 20 | Fifteen of them will travel to the region which has been devastated by civil war to bring back its most heart rendering victims … the children . |
| 21 | And some of them will go to extraordinary lengths to try to find out . |
| 22 | Now , one of them will rotate to the right , one will rotate to the left what you need to be able to do is to identify the condition that will give that give rise to optical isomers , in other words , to be able to say yes , that molecule will have optical isomers . |
| 23 | Many of them will want to be cared for at home . |
| 24 | To add to its headaches , 500,000 people are expected to arrive today and four fifths of them will have to be turned away amid massive traffic jams precipitated by a railway strike in the area . |
| 25 | For instance , it is estimated that around 1m of the 1.7m new jobs forecast for the mid 1990s will be in the professional and managerial areas , and demographics suggest that a substantial proportion of them will have to be filled by women . |
| 26 | These will need to be defined , and then some means of assembling a list of them will have to be found . |
| 27 | There will be one or two at the margins where we have to look at our priorities and one or two of them will have to be reassessed . |
| 28 | The College maintains close and constant links with the other seven Welsh colleges which run courses in agricultural education and students who obtain a National Certificate in Agriculture at one of them can transfer to the Welsh Agricultural College on to an Ordinary National Diploma course . |
| 29 | Asquith thought that the erosion of his would lead to the growth of an irresponsible opposition , undermining the near unanimity of support for the war effort . |
| 30 | That steely Irish charm of his would appeal to some women , I do n't doubt . |