Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just ten minutes to nine , and Richard walked by on his way up to World 's End to catch a bus to the office . |
| 2 | A male Couch 's spadefoot calls to attract a female to the pond . |
| 3 | This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " . |
| 4 | One such occasion caused Leslie Edwards to write a letter to The Times which was published on 18 September , 1937 . |
| 5 | He is certainly not expected to telephone or to write a letter to the proprietor of the machine . |
| 6 | For a government having to establish a guide to the existing extent of economic inequality and some principles as to when inequality shades to poverty and becomes a policy problem , there is the question of what policy instrument to use . |
| 7 | It is almost as if the modern mind , unable to tolerate cultural restraints , and feeling that discontent in civilization which Freud described long ago , had become so intolerant of the demands of communal existence and civilized behaviour that it saw each and every representative of those restraints as an incitement to revolt rather in the same way that an enraged revolutionary mob , thirsting for the blood of its oppressors , might fall on some unfortunate bystander merely because he happened to bear a resemblance to the head of the secret police . |
| 8 | The difficulty here is often that it is not clear whether the problem is meant to bear a relation to the book-work question or not . |
| 9 | However , after a second round of US-PLO talks in Tunis on March 22 , 1989 , the PLO leadership expressed fears that the USA lacked a specific programme for resolving the Palestinian issue , and was playing for time to secure a halt to the intifada ( " uprising " ) . |
| 10 | The PLO had failed to secure a halt to the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories as a pre-condition to Palestinian participation in any peace conference — a demand also made by pre-conference negotiators Ashrawi and Husseini and repeatedly rejected by Shamir . |
| 11 | Provision is made by s.107(4) of the 1936 Act for any person aggrieved by the refusal of the local authority to grant a consent to the establishment of an offensive trade , by a time limit attached to the consent , or by the refusal to extend such a time limit , but not if the consent is conditional , to appeal by way of complaint to the Magistrates ' court . |
| 12 | It is fairly clear that no one would now seriously seek to impose a return to the regular liturgical use of Latin or the celebration of private masses or decree an actual dissolution of episcopal conferences , but full acceptance of many of them is still far from clear even in Rome . |
| 13 | The Probation Department has four Probation Officers and a Senior Probation Officer to provide a service to the prison . |
| 14 | The principle was confirmed at the Eighth Congress of the International Association of the Arts held in Baghdad in 1976 : ‘ Works by living artists exhibited in or on public buildings , galleries , museums and other public sites and which continue thereby to provide a service to the public should be subject to a continuing form of remuneration to their creator ( comparable to performing rights for theatrical or musical works paid to author and composer ) so long as he or she is alive and the work continues to be a public amenity ’ . |
| 15 | If , for clinical reasons , a GP wishes to refer a patient to a hospital that is not contracted to provide a service to the GP 's district , the GP must be able to do so . ’ |
| 16 | For much of the time , the culture may be unaltered , as well-tried routines are reproduced , but when new problems face the community — after a bad harvest , perhaps — then the collective resources have to be drawn upon to provide a response to the new situation . |
| 17 | A momentum will be found only if a state of tension is created for the participants to provide a dynamic to the action . |
| 18 | But Hebbert was there , guide in hand , picking out the classics on the Left Wall ( he reasoned it had to be a route on the left wall to provide a contrast to the big slab route just completed ) . |
| 19 | It argues that a ‘ national strategic technology acquisition plan ’ is needed to provide a boost to the industry 's own research efforts comparable to what US companies receive from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) , which spends about $ 900 million a year in the field . |
| 20 | My reason for dwelling at some length on this matter of accuracy and acquisition is that the assumption that they are identical is a corner-stone to the whole edifice of a theory recently propounded which claims to provide a solution to the problems of language teaching which have plagued us for so long . |
| 21 | If concessive holists are to provide a solution to the problem of holism rather than a mere rule of thumb , they must justify their claim that holist and individualist explanations are , if not complementary , at least capable of coexistence . |
| 22 | The currently fashionable field of discourse analysis provides some excellent examples , especially if we examine the language teaching materials which attempt to provide a guide to the realities of English conversation . |
| 23 | Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time . |
| 24 | He had been recruited by Alfred Sherman specifically to provide a counterblast to the Treasury advisers , because Whitehall was deemed to be the source of the advice which had let the country down in the past . |
| 25 | Design teams should be allocated a total budget within which they agree to provide a design to the appropriate quality . |
| 26 | As the title indicates , life is presented as being like a game of hopscotch , the object being to find a way to the square of ultimate reality . |
| 27 | An early advocate of national reconciliation , Muawad had taken part in the 20-member ‘ national dialogue committee ’ formed in September 1975 to find a settlement to the civil war , then five months old . |
| 28 | A two-week mission by Paul Dijoud , Director of African Affairs at the French Foreign Affairs Ministry , to find a settlement to the three-month war between the government and the rebels of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) bore fruit with the deployment of a French peacekeeping force , a ceasefire by the rebels and the release by the government of the FRUD representative in the capital , Abbate Ebo Adou , imprisoned since December 1991 [ see p. 38661 ] . |
| 29 | After being defeated by Botvinnik on a number of occasions — notably at the great Avro Tournament of 1938 and at the first post war tournament held to find a successor to the late Alekhine — he finally got his revenge with a triumphal victory over the Soviet champion in the USSR . |
| 30 | There was an air of disquiet , much muttering and whispering as they tried to find a solution to the problem facing them — a greater broad backed bookworm had been spotted . |