Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] to [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , while virtually all schools wished to increase access to a better-stocked library in a way which would stimulate RBL , only 14 of the schools specified existing or intended extension activities in their plans , while nine made reference to the need to establish or develop display areas , and a similar number expressed a commitment to associated inservice developments . |
| 2 | ( c ) All children and young persons Local authorities are given a power but not a duty to provide accommodation to a wider group of children and young persons on welfare grounds . |
| 3 | So far we have looked at the view that sex differences affect the way in which the police and the courts act toward offenders , and that this enables women to escape criminalisation to a greater extent than men . |
| 4 | For them , the main explanation of national policy — at least in its centralization phrase — was that it was designed to undermine resistance to the wider political strategies of the Conservative government . |
| 5 | The model used to allocate traffic between competing services is , however , very sensitive to relative prices , so , one would expect increases in Eurotunnel 's costs to give rise to a lower market share and hence to lower revenues . |
| 6 | Schools can make use of video or educational broadcasts , to extend study to the wider world . |
| 7 | The other Frenchmen were retreating up the slope , unwilling to give battle to the greater number of black-uniformed Hussars . |
| 8 | Obviously the decrease in the amount of time spent with the first-born will have an effect but many parents are aware of this and make a great effort to give attention to the older child . |
| 9 | There would be dangers in making the enjoyment of the entitlements of citizenship conditional on the performance of the legal or moral duties of citizenship , especially the ‘ voluntary obligations ’ of service to the community , since these entitlements are , it is suggested , too important to be ‘ bought ’ by community service and forfeit for lack of the required track record of active citizenship ; also , it would be unduly intrusive to place these burdens on citizens who should be entitled to a private life , and many of whom — women with young children or dependent relatives to care for , for example — do not have the time or resources to do service to the wider community . |
| 10 | When she starts to give birth to the older litter , the upheaval of delivery may lead to the younger litter being ejected as well . |
| 11 | They pressed for a particular re-reading of Darwin to add weight to the older evangelical claim that women had a rightful place in regulating sex . |
| 12 | This could be a good way to introduce Medau to a wider public . |
| 13 | The originality of Nizan 's entire literary output resides in this particular assertion since it brings together the two dominant strands that coexist tensely in Nizan 's intellectual and emotional outlook : ( i ) a brooding sense of anguish and desperation stemming from the gross injustices and inequalities in the world , and ( ii ) an explosive , irrepressible determination to enter into the struggle and combat the forces of oppression in order to gain access to a better life . |
| 14 | Manufacturing investment in Europe , to gain access to the cheaper labour and to escape the external tariff after the formation of the EEC in 1958 , grew fastest , rising from $1 billion in 1950 to $14 billion in 1970 . |
| 15 | Educational success provided him with the means of breaching the barrier of his lowly birth and enabled him to gain access to the lower echelons of the petty bourgeoisie as an engineer in the French railway system . |