Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To rearticulate them back to working-class interests required considerable ideological work . |
| 2 | From a subjective viewpoint , these differences do not seem to depend on linguistically-represented concepts , and moreover are of such a general character that it is implausible to ascribe them uniquely to human perceivers . |
| 3 | But whereas Roosevelt and Churchill hoped that ‘ friendly ’ policies could be guaranteed through liberal-democratic regimes , Stalin , with bitter memories of Western policy in eastern Europe between the wars , was willing to trust himself only to Communist-led governments . |
| 4 | We believe it would be a cynical interpretation of sustainable development to pass it on to future generations to solve . |
| 5 | We believe it would be a cynical interpretation of sustainable development to pass it on to future generations to solve . |
| 6 | If you have been nominated to respond to an SPR , this option enables you to accept responsibility for the SPR or to pass it on to another user . |
| 7 | That 's what you 're gon na do , you 're gon na be given a pile full of bits of rubble , shells , all sorts , and you 've got to sort them out to different piles . |
| 8 | With only small amounts of money changing hands , a limited number of dedicated venues , and , if it were to restrict itself solely to black audiences , a finite number of punters , the black comedy scene is clearly still in its infancy . |
| 9 | A cool shower managed to sharpen her up to normal . |
| 10 | So how far do you actually want God to forgive you up to three times and then no more you know it 's it 's that kind of er question that we 're asking and that we that I feel that is something we should be thinking about that how far should a Christian go in forgiving . |
| 11 | The relevant ages of consent in English law vary : 16 seems to be the general age , but the offence of gross indecency with or towards children only applies where the child is under 14 , and the age of consent for homosexual offences is 21 and the recommendation is to lower it only to 18 . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ Julia said with an expression on her face that he could not quite read , ‘ but the law is the law and one ca n't decide to apply it only to those whose motives and characters one dislikes . |
| 13 | But in my early days it was quite common for some of the old horsemen to walk anything up to two or three miles , and sometimes more , to bring harness down to the shop . |
| 14 | The best way to enjoy Italian white truffles is to shave them on to hot , simple food — risotto , taglioni or fresh pasta . |
| 15 | Erm , it 's like to keep my day planned out but , like the district manager might walk in or people might go off sick , and then you have to fill somebody in to that position . |
| 16 | Soviet negotiators had been eager to preserve for the Soviet Union the right to retain something close to 80 per cent of the Warsaw Pact total . |
| 17 | costing us lately , we 're having to get these , I mean we have that on two in the morning to get this room warmed up do n't we have to put it down to one |
| 18 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 19 | Think you 're supposed to fill it up to that mark Stephen says . |
| 20 | So in 1911 Steel-Maitland offered to join the Halsbury Club in order to guide it on to safer lines — and was immediately accused of disloyalty by Walter Long . |
| 21 | Given that our five-frame match is likely to last anything up to six hours at our normal rate of play , I have decided to spring a new psychological tactic on Martin : I shall eat bananas throughout the match , as top tennis players do . |
| 22 | ( It is also possible to confine oneself specifically to Modern Scottish Gaelic in the two-year combination of Celtic 1A and Celtic 2A . ) |
| 23 | An alternative for viewing and drawing small peels or segments of larger peels is to mount them in 35 mm transparency mounts ( preferably with glass both sides ) and to project them on to white paper or card , on which tracings can be made . |
| 24 | We can supply you with more copies if you would like to send them out to other people : please ring us for more information . |
| 25 | have a small stock remaining of their Centenary Souvenir Dinner Brochures , and would be happy to send them out to keen rugby folk in return for a cheque for just £1.50 , which will be used to raise funds for the paraplegic centre at Stoke Mandeville . |
| 26 | Well it seems like that 's hoping for pie in the sky , though , because there 's first of all not enough money , and I do n't think that teachers are that good at well talking about their own emotions , and I asked the Oxfordshire County Council Education Department to send someone along to this programme , and they said ‘ I 'm sorry , there 's no-one to send ’ . |
| 27 | He 'd wanted to send her off to some relative in the country , but she did n't seem to have any family . |
| 28 | ‘ Mind now , Donald , ’ he put in , ‘ or Angus will be telling you to keep it down to forty-nine . |
| 29 | Some earlier teams collecting wild cocoa had lost 50 per cent or more of their material by attempting to send it directly to distant breeding centres ; our intention was to bring the collections back to a local base for propagation and planting . |
| 30 | We 're gon na need more than twenty five cos we 're also gon na to send it off to one or two major er er certainly Peter and people like that I think . |