Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In three years ' time we might have still been in very good shape but we must take steps to protect the UK as a manufacturing base . ’ |
| 2 | But I hope that the Court of Appeal will soon have occasion to consider the Manchester Corporation case . |
| 3 | We must not allow Ipswich to widen the Lennie Lawrence Blackburn are virtually home and dry for the championship , but the challenge of Ipswich could leave Boro chasing a play-off spot . |
| 4 | The outbreak of the Korean War and , even more , the intervention of Chinese armies would allow France to persuade the US that Vietnam really was part of one allied operation . |
| 5 | The Detroit News reported on Monday that continuing disputes with other top brass helped persuade York to accept the IBM offer . |
| 6 | More than any other lens system , the pair should help cosmologists to evaluate the Hubble constant ( giving the rate at which the Universe is growing ) by directly tracing the geometry of space over vast distances . |