Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In addition to its obvious use as a cultural asset , we might also provide part-time courses for local people to come in to learn about Art History and to use the collections in the Barber as their source material .
2 ‘ Growing older may mean you have to work harder to stay in shape , but it can be done — think of all the glamorous film stars who are in their fifties ! ’
3 We need to know how to prepare for sleep so that it refreshes us .
4 The Royal Navy needs its chefs to know how to bake at sea , the RAF uses local bakers on contract .
5 Because there was a shortage of pasture in many districts , cattle were allowed to wander freely to search for food , especially during the seasons when they were not wanted for agriculture .
6 Jaswinder Kaur , a Sikh girl from such a family , described , in Oppression of South Asian Women Vol I , 1977 , what she had to go through to get to college :
7 What a dreadful day that was , and I was on my own because Uncle had to go away to attend to business matters .
8 In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools .
9 She is about to leave home to go to drama school .
10 Be ready to ease up to stay in position as the tug starts to climb .
11 There was no alternative for the guilds than for them to go out to trade for assistance , passing on their additional expenditure to the client .
12 One would expect those whose dementia was more advanced or who had more problematic home circumstances to be heavier consumers of community care services , and thus to cost more to sustain at home .
13 He got to his feet and tried to fly up to get at Bower-bird , but every time he leaped into the air he fell back to earth .
14 Employees require information to determine whether , in the first place , to work for a public sector agency and subsequently to determine when to press for salary increases or an enhancement of conditions of employment .
15 Suppose we use it to decide how to travel from home to somewhere .
16 In a 4,000 word decision , the Californian Court of Appeal ruled that in some instances the threat of homosexual rape is fearsome enough for a prisoner to seek justifiably to escape from jail — The Times .
17 The following day Gould visited the Catamaran River area again , but by now he was running short of fresh collecting sites and desperate to get back to work in earnest .
18 Two-up and with half fuel , we briefly was over a thousand feet per minute of the VSI before I had to throttle back to slide into position behind the struggling Cessna 150 camera ship .
19 After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship .
20 That 's why astronauts need to learn how to deal with disorientation .
21 In the late 1950s , for example , listeners had to learn how to listen to stereo .
22 If this happens , problems will arise unless the second dog is allowed to learn how to cope with life alone .
23 Finally , there is another aim which relates to both Sections A and B , and which none of the models has taken seriously enough : 7. help pupils to learn how to cope with controversy , complexity , confusion , and uncertainty within a safe environment , so that they are able to manage these unavoidable aspects of life without trying to resort to premature certainty , dogmatism or exclusivism .
24 Czechs in Cleveland to learn how to cope with job losses WAYS in which the North-East came through the industrial upheaval of the '70s and '80s could prove an invaluable blueprint for revival for the people of Czechoslovakia .
25 However , it is important to learn how to plot by hand .
26 Many countries would also need to borrow heavily to pay for oil imports .
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