Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anglican polemicists had promised that they would allow the Dissenters some degree of toleration , if they helped them protect the Church of England from the Catholic onslaught , whilst the bishops in their petition affirmed that they did not act " from any want of due tenderness to Dissenters , in relation to whom they are willing to come to such a temper as shall be thought fit , when the matter shall be considered and settled in Parliament and Convention " . |
| 2 | Ochirbat visited China in May 1990 [ see p. 37454 ] , and co-operation agreements in the educational and legal fields were signed on Nov. 26 and on July 4 , 1991 ; an agreement was signed on June 24 to increase to eight the border crossings between China and Mongolia from the hitherto sole crossing at Erenhot in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia . |
| 3 | It is the key to the attempts of General Babangida , Nigerian head of state in 1989 , to restrict to two the number of parties allowed to fight the proposed 1991 general election — in theory in order to prevent excessive faction fighting based on ethnic groups . |
| 4 | Korda 's shirty reply suggested he was n't willing to listen to such a criticism from an expensive star . |
| 5 | I would have offered to pay his bills , but he was too proud to listen to such a suggestion . |
| 6 | ‘ When I started to listen to all the stuff , I thought I 'd be sick of everything . |
| 7 | It gives counsellees ‘ permission ’ to talk about difficult areas , and indicates that we are willing to listen to all the emotion that they may harbour , but which they felt no-one else wished to know about . |
| 8 | If you plan to move to the US , we strongly encourage you to talk to such an organisation in Scotland . |
| 9 | The difference was even more marked among women , where women working full time were four times more likely to belong to such a scheme than those in part-time work . |
| 10 | The ‘ middle class ’ designation logically implies a three-class model , featuring an upper class , yet as Townsend noted ‘ practically nobody claims to belong to such a class ’ ( 1979 , p. 374 ) . |
| 11 | This kind of mechanically efficient cantilevered design is more suited to the larger dinosaurs and seems to apply to all the heavyweight bipedal species . |
| 12 | He observed that the protesters did not enjoy the rights of common that had been affected , and on this basis he decided to modify the by-laws so that they could continue to apply to all the world except the commoners themselves . |
| 13 | Many people look back on a moment of conversion — though it is not essential to be able to point to such a moment — with awe and wonder . |
| 14 | We must accept that the bogus traveller — that is the best title to give to such a person — is seeking no more than a better life . |
| 15 | Heckling , or seeking temporarily to disrupt the speaker are insufficient to amount to such an offence . |
| 16 | Of its contents he retained only the haziest notion ; and he explained that he would have been reluctant to contribute to such a volume — his Second Thoughts on Humanism , published a year earlier , had consisted of a devastating criticism of the editor — save that it represented a tribute to Irving Babbitt , whom he had always revered as one of his masters and about whom he felt that his early criticism had been misunderstood , not least by Babbitt himself . |
| 17 | She had hoped that Rosie Lane at least , who was usually willing to try anything once , would have accepted the challenge , but she demurred , pleading a headache , and Janice told her , in mysterious tones , as though provided with obscene , private information , that she would be mad to go to such a place , that it was rough there , and wicked beyond all Clara 's pitiful conceptions of wickedness , and that if she went there anything might happen to her . |
| 18 | Rosenstein used to go to all the country villages before me doing fillings and extractions for half-price . ’ |
| 19 | If you do n't want to go to all the trouble of making curtains yourself , Rectella has a huge range of ready-made curtains and operates a made-to-measure service through its nationwide stockists . |
| 20 | ‘ But , Mrs Birkin , I could n't possibly expect you to go to all the trouble — ’ |
| 21 | On both the family and the part-time farm it was difficult often for the husband to set aside time to go to all the training courses he would like to attend . |
| 22 | The board assessed his compensation at a substantially lower figure than he would have been awarded by an industrial tribunal had he been able in law to appeal to such a tribunal . |
| 23 | Nogai 's fighting with T'zin , and we 've been left to see to all the training and armouring , Targoutai and I. ’ |
| 24 | But it is irritating to lose to such a goal . |
| 25 | Both Geoffrey le Baker and Murimuth are clear that this was the crucial issue under discussion in the parliament , and both record that the king refused to agree to such a proposal . |
| 26 | The rest of the time , it 's largely down to Pat to attend to all the kennel duties . |
| 27 | Although intended to demonstrate to all the world what the Industrial Revolution had achieved in England , the Exhibition seemed to the discriminating evidence rather of what it had destroyed . |
| 28 | JC : It really was quite an experience to sing to such an audience ! |
| 29 | We suspect that temporary worker users were more likely to respond to such a survey and that its findings might be an over-estimate [ see Chapter 1 ] . |
| 30 | Alternatively , it might be said that since it is unreasonable of a person to respond to such a threat by unlawful violence , it can be said that the conduct is not ‘ likely ’ to have such a result . |