Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From being a comprehensive Weltanschauung , in which there were to be found , according to Gramsci , all the elements that are needed for the construction of a new ‘ integral civilization ’ , it has come to be regarded by many thinkers as a much more limited and tentative body of thought , which is far from being able to predict , in any detail or with any certainty , the future development of society , or to offer anything but the roughest of guides to political action . |
| 2 | It was also a pleasant break from air-travel to go by road from Agra to Delhi , and to see something of the country . |
| 3 | On the one hand , as I wrote , I found myself wanting to alert readers to an increasing amount of detailed literature , across a wide range of disciplines , currently being reported ; and to indicate something of the complexity of the issues being pursued . |
| 4 | But Richard 's polite attempt to straighten himself and to give something like a slight bow made the damage to his lung rather worse . |
| 5 | The aim of this chapter is to explore the nature of RMI , and to understand something about the key elements ( information , cultural change ) . |
| 6 | This concept of individual timetables enables us to get away from the focus on the family or household as an undifferentiated unit , and to understand something of the complex patterns which evolve when individuals ' lives are woven together over the period of their lifetimes . |
| 7 | He goes on to connect the semantic change with ‘ the general tendency of the Enlightenment not to accept any authority and to decide everything before the judgement seat of reason ’ ( p. 241 ) . |
| 8 | It 's not felt that your private life in terms of your political opinions will necessarily impinge on your public life , and , and to deprive somebody of the right to express their opinions in public would be regarded as an infringement of his civil liberties , which would be unthinkable in a republican erm situation . |
| 9 | But before we move on , it may be instructive to look at the relationship between language viewed as a formal system and language as part of a wider social and psychological context , and to say something about the place of these two approaches in the development of ideas about language in general . |
| 10 | Then I know it is my duty to score goals and to bring something to the team . |
| 11 | The counsellor 's task is not just to understand only one facet of the counsellee 's life , but to know something about the totality . |
| 12 | Like some of your more illustrious colleagues ( Ron Atkinson , Graham Taylor , etc. ) , you have a tendency to say a lot but to say nothing at the same time . |