Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would say to the people of the Yorkshire Dales that the problem has not gone away , and this time should be used to write to British Rail and British Steel , and to call upon local authorities to get together to retain this line and to stop heavy lorries disrupting in the Dales . |
| 2 | I 'M 17 , a little bit sad , female student from Prague ( Czechoslovakia ) - I would like to write to any male or female , aged 17-20 . |
| 3 | you 'll be , you 'll be sent instructions on what , who to write to and it 's a matter of sorting those out and erm sending out letters to group members like asking them to write to this person or that person , so that 's not too bad , . |
| 4 | I mean it 's okay to come to this studio and , in Edinburgh and walk up a busy street and see people going into pubs and being drunk ! |
| 5 | Miss were you able to come to any view as to whether the call was genuine , from what you heard ? |
| 6 | Meantime Wentworth members try to adjust to new faces and new ideas . |
| 7 | Japanese adaptability and dynamism soon ended such doubts ; and this ability to adjust to new demands and enter the modern world was before long visible on the diplomatic level . |
| 8 | In their view the economy has the capacity to adjust to technological changes and maintain full employment , though some government action may be needed in order to aid the adjustment process . |
| 9 | Labour has failed to adjust to those changes because our traditional preoccupation with the delivery of public services means we have identified more with the producers than consumers . |
| 10 | Changing to a vegetarian diet is a big step as the body needs to adjust to different foods and sources of protein and you need to cope with new methods of cooking and shopping . |
| 11 | I was trying hard to adjust to this fact but finding it difficult . |
| 12 | There will be reorganisations within business units to adjust to operational demands and to maximise our success . |
| 13 | The assessment panels have contributed to the development of the general idea that , within reasonable constraints and parameters , schools should be sufficiently flexible to adjust to defined needs and problems rather than impose rigid , homogeneous solutions to particular and individual problems . |
| 14 | The personal computer storage market is evolving so fast that Conner Peripherals Inc , San Jose is having to adjust to changed circumstances and warns that as a result , first quarter profit will be down on that for the fourth quarter , on higher sales . |
| 15 | After Victoria 's accession Lehzen , never skilled in personal relationships , failed to adjust to changed circumstances and her charge 's coming of age . |
| 16 | At a 1 : 1 000 000 scale each overlay consists of 200 Mb of data , a figure that is expected to increase to 500 Mb when the digitization programme is completed in 1989 . |
| 17 | The milk creates a more balanced bacterial environment in the gut , and children of six or seven who were breastfed as babies are less likely to succumb to urinary infections than their bottlefed brothers and sisters . |
| 18 | Other writers have emphasized the narrow social strata from which judges are drawn and have questioned the degree to which they are able to relate to ordinary people and to stand up against the powerful and the rich . |
| 19 | The code contrast here seems to relate to such things as the distinction between talk about action and talk as action , the degree of speaker involvement in , or distance from , a message , whether a statement reflects personal opinion or knowledge , whether it refers to specific instances or has the authority of a generally known fact . |
| 20 | Many of these children do not have skills to relate to black people and they will experience rejection by white society ( Ladner , 1978 ) . |
| 21 | Noted as relevant to the Clapham accident were the factors that : Working practices were permitted to slip to dangerous standards and quality of supervision was permitted to slip to an equivalent degree ; quality of testing did not meet BR standards ; no proper system of training of installation and testing staff was in use , and there was no vetting of weekend staff to prevent excessive overtime ; and there was failure to communicate both up and down lines of management . |
| 22 | From the early years following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations , experience showed that the net income derived from grant-aid , coupled with the District 's policy of setting its student fees at the lowest possible level to encourage enrolments , failed to lead to financial self-sufficiency and the District 's financial difficulties , although eased initially , were not eradicated . |
| 23 | The rise in sea level caused by global warming , for instance , is likely to lead to many deaths and to large changes in population , as a result of flooding . |
| 24 | It is a laborious process , likely to lead to embarrassing blunders if badly done . |
| 25 | Although the long-term aim of the ‘ Blue Skies ’ project is to lead to new horizons and drum up major new business for BP outside its present main activities , the nature of the research was not specified — only that it should be based in universities and similar institutions at home or abroad . |
| 26 | The report is not intended to lead to new regulations but to establish an agenda for HSE work . |
| 27 | It resulted in the erm extra requirement for security which does happen to which Mr has referred and I I think it 's it 's very very important to realise that if that three party cooperation can be achieved as it should be , bearing in mind what Simon says that we are going to have to do this , with horrendous problems in the youth and community project in the future and we would be failing completely in our duty , not just to the people of Highfields , but to the people of this whole county if we simply allowed politics , as has been done in the past , to lead to entrenched positions and the idea of simply saying to the director , we are in a mess therefore will you please deal with it all is I think wildly irresponsible and I 'm very very surprised indeed that erm that point should be put . |
| 28 | Given the present state of understanding regarding the causes and appropriate forms of intervention for children with language difficulties , this kind of short-cut is likely to lead to inadequate assessment and ineffective treatment . |
| 29 | This labelling of some learners and teachers as ‘ unsatisfactory ’ is likely to lead to poor motivation and disengagement from the proper tasks of learning and teaching . |
| 30 | In their existing forms , reforms looked likely to lead to social unrest and further disturbances . |