Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doors are tough and durable , and they require almost no maintenance , a quick wash down being all that is required to restore them to pristine condition . , , . |
| 2 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , there are many things about the Demoiselles that serve to relate it to other painting of the period and , more particularly , to the contemporary work of Matisse . |
| 4 | But Peyton 's heroics are unlikely to lead him to European glory . |
| 5 | It seems a bit extreme to banish you to solitary confinement — especially at this early hour . |
| 6 | I want to help them to enlightened self-expression , and to develop their imaginations — to rid themselves of repressions through self-expression . |
| 7 | The purpose of this chapter is to outline the elements involved in resource management in schools and to apply them to current practice . |
| 8 | Then he would be up and about , able to apply himself to unfinished business . |
| 9 | People who study psychology never seem able to apply it to real life . |
| 10 | The emergence of current cost accounting and of efforts to apply it to public sector organizations has necessitated taking an explicit view of capital maintenance in their accounts . |
| 11 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 12 | At this momentous hour His Excellency the Governor of Burma is to dedicate himself to Almighty God for the task with which he has been entrusted . |
| 13 | Ignoring the traditional possessiveness of the Home Office towards the content of the criminal law as well as its administration , the Law Commission declined to confine itself to civil law matters . |
| 14 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 15 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 17 | Thus the early engineers were constrained by the lack of ‘ signal to noise ratio ’ and ‘ sensitivity ’ to confine themselves to loud subject matter which could take place about one inch from the mouthpiece . |
| 18 | " Thank you , Mrs James , we should like you to confine yourself to first-hand evidence … you wrote to your husband , of course , to explain the arrangements you had made in his absence ? " |
| 19 | From the presence of enlarged joints and marine gastropods on these shelves , he was prepared to attribute them to marine action since the sea has stood at its present level . |
| 20 | The correct policy with respect to them was thus not to abolish them but to subject them to constructive supervision . |
| 21 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 22 | We may or may not be able to convert them to electrical use . |
| 23 | If he is unable to breathe spontaneously it would be cruel to subject him to positive pressure ventilation to prolong his life artificially . |
| 24 | The marker has stayed back ever since and there have been plenty of reminders of his erstwhile self ; enough , one trusts , to restore him to selectorial favour come tour time . |
| 25 | His sister invariably had the power to restore him to good humour . |
| 26 | However , it will take several hundred pounds in vet bills to restore him to good health . |
| 27 | He waded through it with a non-stop grin and managed to turn it to political advantage . |
| 28 | Most pupils ' experience of drama must be confined to ‘ drama lessons ’ and the easiest way to conduct such a short lesson is to devote it to improvised drama and movement , with its focus on individual objectives . |
| 29 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 30 | A Department of the Environment report on the condition of local authority housing in 1985 said that in England alone almost £19 billion needed to be spent to restore it to good condition . |