Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms respondents used to describe the advantages of early retirement , or to rationalize it in retrospect , often showed concern for the position of young people in the labour market , although this was rarely cited as a reason for taking early retirement . |
| 2 | But student attendances after Christmas were appreciably lower , as cars stayed at home and public transport was withdrawn , and several branches decided not to start a spring course at all , or to restrict them in length . |
| 3 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 4 | ‘ That is an inquisitorial power , which may work with great severity against third persons , and it seems to me to be obvious that such a section ought to be used with the greatest care , so as not unnecessarily to put in motion the machinery of justice when it is not wanted , or to put it in motion at a stage when it is not clear that it is wanted , and certainly not to put it in motion if unnecessary mischief is going to be done or hardship inflicted upon the third person who is called upon to appear and give information . |
| 5 | Teachers may want to use this information for reference in the case of individual pupils with visual defects or to study it in order to increase their general understanding of the implications of visual handicaps in learning . |
| 6 | Or to place themselves in stasis for centuries on end ? |
| 7 | I have written to Professor Vessey to request permission to film at the Radcliffe Infirmary and to interview you in part of our Project Video English language teaching video programme . |
| 8 | Mr Keegan said : ‘ We want to personally thank the people who have contributed to this memorial and to thank everyone in Kirkby for their support and kind wishes over the months . ’ |
| 9 | He wanted to forget for a while — to escape from the prison of his real life , and to lose himself in dreams . |
| 10 | There can be no question but that the people of Belfast are showing , by returning day after day to work , to shop and to enjoy themselves in Belfast , that they are the people who are succeeding . |
| 11 | They are designed to be equivalent in standard to existing qualifications , such as those of the RSA and CGLI , and to replace them in Scotland . |
| 12 | The slow transit rate of fibre-depleted diets is also thought to encourage the formation of these potentially dangerous substances within the body — and to leave them in contact with the gut for too long . |
| 13 | Erm , twenty-two two the recommendations not yet dealt with , the first is the review of the County Farms estate , and I will move paragraph nine one , that is to say the recommendation of the property services sub-committee okay , here we are , which is a recommendation to this committee to adopt option one as set out in the submitted report namely to maintain the County Farms estate at around it 's present size , and to manage it in accordance with the nineteen eighty-eight review of the estate . |
| 14 | This will enable to do that , and to do it in fashion where it still qualifies er , to attract grant if necessary . |
| 15 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 16 | They are the weaknesses which can be exploited to keep men at work producing the goods which this society needs , and to keep them in subjection . |
| 17 | Convocation ( a requirement of the University 's constitution ) on the other hand only wants your friendship and to keep you in touch . |
| 18 | The governors decided to give all these matters priority and to consider them in detail at the next meeting . |
| 19 | Bennett , on the other hand , had my absolute loyalty and to witness him in action led one to understand in later years what Lord Reith — founder Director of the BBC — meant when he said " I was never fully stretched " . |
| 20 | So it is important to read the ‘ expanded pupil ’ signal very carefully and to place it in context before interpreting it . |
| 21 | This discovery made it all the more important to me to maintain my behaviour and to maintain it in secret . |
| 22 | Recent field studies of the extant great apes by Wrangham , MacKinnon , and Dian Fossey allow us to formulate new models of the relations between social organization and ecology of these species and to present them in terms of the reproductive and social strategies of individuals . |
| 23 | English Hops works closely with the hop research centre at Wye Valley and with the British Brewing Foundation in Surrey to develop new varieties of hops and to test them in brewing conditions . |
| 24 | Now , says Mr Donald Pais , GM 's vice-president of materials management , practice is shifting toward what he calls ’ collective progress' — The idea is to establish longer-term relationships with suppliers , and to involve them in product development much earlier — almost like internal departments of the company . |
| 25 | It was one thing for Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall , pampered beauty , to contemplate the horrors of poverty from the relative comfort of Vetch Street , but to see it in practice , that was quite another thing . |
| 26 | For such Catholic sixth forms or sixth form colleges , therefore , the challenge is not simply to be as good as the alternative but to exceed it in reputation and appeal . |
| 27 | His alternative was to increase the army 's number of permanent divisions from thirty-one to forty-seven , to maintain them at a relatively low level in peacetime , but to triple them in size on the outbreak of war . |
| 28 | But to do it in lane three , to get out and change a tyre is beyond belief . |
| 29 | If there is a fracture it 's possible it may show up more clearly now , in which case I 'm afraid we wo n't have any choice but to put it in plaster . |
| 30 | We have recently succeeded in bringing in a number of new projects but to put it in perspective we need something like 250,000 hours of work a year and a major project like Tencel was about 50,000 in total . |