Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [to-vb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of information that the general manager normally receives also affects his or her ability to conceive or to commit to new strategic ideas . |
| 2 | 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land . |
| 3 | In other words they aim to satisfy and to perform to satisfactory standards . |
| 4 | Deviance is thus used to describe behaviour that is outside the rules of society ; and these rules can be legal rules or social and moral rules , rules about the conventional way to dress or to speak to other people , for example . |
| 5 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |
| 6 | On intellectual development , they cite the example of the British Civil Service that , since the Northcote-Trevelyan Reforms of 1854 , has filled its policy-making posts with graduates , selected for their demonstrated capacity for independent thought , their ability to learn and to perform to high intellectual standards , without regard to academic specialization . |