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

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1 Moreover , the lack of precision and the subtlety of the overall vision of the city development strategy , as Holford outlined , was not all that easy to articulate either , or to communicate to others with conviction ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 ) .
2 The charity is to write to doctors at North Tees , South Cleveland , Darlington Memorial , Hartlepool and Bishop Auckland General Hospitals asking what they want .
3 SOME of you may remember me appealing for help to form a national organisation to write to prisoners on death row in the Caribbean .
4 The consuming element in Lloyd Webber 's rapture was apparently her ability to soar to F above top C , play Rachmaninov on the piano , and sing in Russian at the same time .
5 The students are the first to come to Bradford as part of exchange agreements with the University of Carleton , Ottowa and Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburg .
6 It is possible to make some observations of the law relating to obscenity and indecency which indicate that , while accepting that one ought to be guided by the rule of law in censorship matters , one would be better advised to come to decisions without reference to this or that piece of obscenity or indecency legislation .
7 But I believe that what you should do with trying to come to estimates of housing provision , is to put together the best technical assumptions that you can , to then sit down and take a long hard look at the figures based on the erm the policies of the County Council as approved by the Secretary of State in previous structure plan approvals , the current government policy .
8 One reason for that is that most of the thousands of people who travel on those wretched trains to come to London to work are either unskilled or semi-skilled , to use the terms of the manufacturing industry .
9 Would you like to come to church with Papa and me ? ’
10 A Peruvian man with drug-resistant tuberculosis was advised to come to Britain for treatment , but warned not to bring any medication in case he was stopped at immigration .
11 They have had to come to terms with computer print-outs , data sheets , the use of electronic equipment , and biological sampling techniques .
12 It could be a rewarding form of teaching to help an uninformed but well-motivated student to come to terms with poetry , but it would involve time and leisure .
13 It was originally designed by space scientists in America to help astronauts to come to terms with weightlessness .
14 Derek Jeffries was bought for Crystal Palace for £100,000 in September 1973 by Manager Malcolm Allison , who h , ad also been his boss at Manchester City , to help boost Palace 's struggling midfield as we sought desperately to come to terms with life after relegation to Division Two .
15 Throughout life , a capacity to play , to symbolize , and to have access to the world of fantasy can assist people to come to terms with life .
16 The troubled conscience , the tortured mind , compelling one to come to terms with life , made one impatient of the mere accumulation of facts .
17 Weaver and his colleagues ( 1985 ) found that residents most able to come to terms with admission were those who had exercised some degree of control or choice in entering residential care .
18 In the sonnets involving the Dark Lady , however , with their tortuous triangular structure , the reader does stand apart , watching the poet 's attempt to come to terms with deception and exclusion :
19 These psychological pathologies are attributed to failure to come to terms with impairment ( Lindowski and Dunn , 1974 ; Shindi , 1983 ) .
20 Now , slowly I began to come to terms with guilt .
21 He wrote to Stead in April 1928 that he felt that for reasons of compensation he required the most ascetic and violent form of discipline , and discussed having to come to terms with celibacy as a Christian .
22 Refusing to come to terms with reality harms us and , incidentally , deceives no one else for long .
23 ‘ Most people , in their hearts , know that Britain has to come to terms with reality .
24 It is never easy to come to terms with death — it brings with it a surfeit of emotions ; disbelief , anger , guilt , resentment and remorse .
25 ‘ How 's the lad ever going to come to terms with death the way you carry on ? ’
26 Here , Joanna , her mother and father John tell Penny Wark of their struggle to come to terms with tragedy .
27 Feelings and emotions are examined in depth , and it is then that pupils can be seen struggling to come to terms with right and wrong .
28 Rewording is a worthwhile exercise because it forces you to come to terms with language .
29 For most students they are centred in the need to come to terms with failure .
30 This afforded the opportunity for him both to become familiar with other music , and to come to grips with concerto movement forms unhampered by the need to create the thematic and harmonic material as well .
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