Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hereford and Worcester has already voted for a similar ban , Northamptonshire 's decision only has to go to the full council , and Gloucestershire votes next week . |
| 2 | It comes about that the merchant has to go to the fair at Bruges on his business , and while he spends part of a day before departure in his counting-house reviewing his affairs the monk meets and converses with the wife . |
| 3 | Science has to cling to the available evidence even in the teeth of seeming contradiction . |
| 4 | Yeah she always wants to go to the expensive places . |
| 5 | It may be thought unwise to present a young a artist in repertoire as familiar and well-recorded as this , but one only needs to listen to the first minute of track one , the F major Sonata , to realise that Haefliger is in complete command and has something unique to offer , namely youthful energy , dash and charisma . |
| 6 | Indeed , in motorsport it 's not the colour of your clothes that matters , it 's whether they are fireproof , and the regulations stipulate that everything has to comply to the relevant safety standards . |
| 7 | It has to respond to the emerging consciousness of the black community , gay people , feminists by marginalising them and delegitimating their claims . |
| 8 | In addition , by having this land available at the value of its current use , rather than at a value based on speculation as to its possible development , the community will be able to provide , in the places that need them , the public facilities it needs , but can not now afford because of the inflated price it has to pay to the private owner . |
| 9 | We have just heard from the hon. Gentleman that all our proposals for discounts for single people and alleviation of the top rates of the tax are anathema to the Labour party , which wants to return to the full rigours of the rates . |
| 10 | And corporate income tax also has to rise to the same 36 per cent , from 34 per cent , because the slightest gap would cause the genuinely rich to incorporate overnight . |
| 11 | A member of the Orrell Park Community Centre which does n't own a snooker table he has to travel to the Red Rum Snooker Club in Croxteth to practice . |
| 12 | Their senior officer , Lieutenant-Commander Norman Teacher RN , was only thirty years old and one of COPPs ' greatest difficulties in the early days was persuading senior command staffs to listen to the young navigators . |
| 13 | It nevertheless refuses to conform to the narrative conventions of nineteenth-century realism . |
| 14 | The protagonist Oliveira refuses to submit to the accepted norms and , instead , surrenders himself to the irrational , seeking to live on a more authentic and vital dimension which appears absurd by conventional standards . |
| 15 | Talking of ‘ inflation ’ — a neat theoretical idea of exponential growth in the early history of the universe that disposed of a lot of problems in the marriage between theoretical physics and cosmology — he refuses to subscribe to the overwhelming enthusiasm with which many scientists discuss the subject : |
| 16 | Despite that , Jefferies refuses to resort to the usual remedy of a ten-man defence . |
| 17 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 18 | Experience during the past decades has shown that every acquittal tends to lead to the greater exposure to public gaze of what previous generations thought seemly only in private , if seemly anywhere . |
| 19 | As I said before , the risk of collective action of this sort , which is regretted by many teachers ( as reflected in the rise and fall of the memberships of the different unions over the last few years ) , is that it tends to reduce to the lowest common denominators of more pay on the one hand and a narrow-minded , knee-jerk resistance to change on the other . |
| 20 | The former case is an aspect of connected speech that will be encountered again in Chapter 14 : the main effect is that the stress on a final-stressed compound tends to move to the preceding syllable if the following word begins with a strongly stressed syllable . |
| 21 | 4 Pulling his left fist back , the defender prepares to strike to the same target area with his right arm . |
| 22 | He had about another ten paces to go to the next parked car , within the wheelbase of which he would be safe from the laser-axles of the passing traffic . |
| 23 | I believe that it is a convention of the House that , when a Member speaks , he waits to listen to the subsequent speaker . |
| 24 | To obtain this information , one measures their geometrical ‘ parallax ’ , the tiny distance by which they appear to move against the background of the farthest stars during the six months that the Earth takes to move to the opposite side of the Sun . |
| 25 | But from what little I do know of it , my understanding is that it basically dramatises the same power relationships , and so seems to appeal to the same inequalities . |
| 26 | In other words , the counsellor must seek the real feelings of the counsellee through careful listening to what is being said , how it is being said , and how this appears to relate to the real situation . |
| 27 | It aims to relate to the main area of the job description , but also leaves space for people to say what seems to them significant with more freedom . |
| 28 | This project aims to contribute to the empirical analysis of the relative concept of poverty . |
| 29 | The project aims to contribute to the home-school relations debate , and to the more recent discussions about the introduction of community education in Local Education Authorities . |
| 30 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |