Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 2 | When the use of the term ‘ reading readiness ’ in education is examined , it will be seen not to refer to readiness to read , nor even to readiness to learn to read , but to quite a different state of affairs , namely readiness to cope with reading instruction . |
| 3 | Recent advances in knowledge of thrust belts based on seismic and drilling have been made easier to apply to frontier areas by published descriptions of typical geometries , improved understanding of the mechanisms involved , and the establishment of standard terminology ( see , for instance : Hossack 1979 ; Berger and Johnson 1982 ; Butler 1982 ; Boyer and Elliot 1982 ) . |
| 4 | In practice , the word seems to be used mostly to refer to animal sonar . |
| 5 | Concentrations of sulphur dioxide from burning of low-grade coal at the region 's power stations led to a heavy smog in mid-February ; children were told not to go to school and some pregnant women were evacuated . |
| 6 | We wandered back home and when we entered the yard we were called in to go to bed early so we could get up to help in the morning . |
| 7 | The Commission strongly affirms the value of silent as well as vocal participation , and it believes that worshippers need to be taught how to listen to music no less attentively than they do to the reading of Scripture , or to preaching , or to the recitation of prayers . |
| 8 | Among the young couples moving into the area were those who had dropped out of church life when they had left home to go to university , or when they got married . |
| 9 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 10 | There was one time she was all dressed up to go to town and I did n't know her because she had a hat on . |