Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth . |
| 2 | The alternative candidate for the honour of being the liberal theory of contracts insists that obligations should only arise in order to discourage and compensate harm to the interests of others . |
| 3 | For example a couple of weeks ago there was a thing on tit for tat and this week there 's a fascinating thing on snakes and female sexuality which erm illustrates er some of the points I 'll be , I 'll , I 'll be making and although as Sue rightly says erm , most of the articles in Nature are rather technical and difficult to understand if you 're not a specialist they do make concessions to the rest of us by publishing very often erm summaries er in the first part of the journal erm and there is one on this and er I can recommend that . |
| 4 | By the autumn , however , the Russians , through their ambassador in Istanbul , Andrei Italinskii , began to threaten the sultan that if he did not make concessions to the Serbs they would intervene to enforce the disputed Article VIII of the Treaty of Bucharest ( see above , p. 81 ) . |
| 5 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 6 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 7 | He did not seek re-election to the Parliament of 1685 and supported the Revolution of 1688 , subscribing money to the new regime . |
| 8 | He stated that he would not stand for re-election as majority whip in the Senate , nor would he seek re-election to the Senate when his current term expired in 1992 . |
| 9 | Knowing our past does not automatically yield solutions to the problems of the present : but without a knowledge of the past it would be impossible even to contemplate addressing these problems . |
| 10 | In such regions the temperatures could have been low enough to permit certain volatiles to condense yielding volatile-rich bodies which could survive passage to the Earth . |
| 11 | Not only did the occupiers introduce gin to the island , which remains one of the locals ' most popular drinks , but in 1813 cricket was recorded as having been first played in Menorca by the surgeon of HMS Scipo — a match which received the patronage of Admiral Lord St Vincent , the Commander in Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet . |
| 12 | Continual clashes of this type should alert parents to the fact that this approach is not useful with their child . |
| 13 | So we 've we 've put in erm an amendment to that one to make it include reference to the M Sixty Two relief road . |
| 14 | But many degrees were still wary of a specific residential care qualification which they claimed would tie workers to the job . |
| 15 | Because this approach highlights the link between morbidity and mortality , it can direct attention to the improvement of the most crucial areas of the health services more than other approaches . |
| 16 | Anybody trying to bring about a major transformation in a science must direct attention to the facts as he sees them : to a herbalist in the tradition of Culpeper it was an important fact that a particular herb was collected under a waxing or a waning moon ; for one of Liebig 's pupils analysing it this was not a relevant fact at all . |
| 17 | This may be rather a purist definition , but it does direct attention to the role of key settlements within the wider settlement system . |
| 18 | Hawthorn and blackthorn are the most frequently occurring species but you can recognise pointers to the antiquity of the hedgerows you encounter on the ‘ indicator ’ species — hazel , field maple , Midland hawthorn and spindle . |
| 19 | ‘ Lawyers For Business ’ will help solicitors target new clients and will alert businesses to the range of legal services they can receive . ’ |
| 20 | Durham County Council says the two-stage scheme will provide a carriageway bypassing the village of Middleton St George and will include access to the airport via a new bridge over the Darlington/Saltburn railway line . |
| 21 | Pupils with less severe hearing impairments may also need modifications to the requirements , but of a less far-reaching nature . |
| 22 | It remains to be seen whether the Revenue will seek amendments to the legislation in next year 's Finance Bill . |
| 23 | You do n't need access to the files . |
| 24 | The congestion metering system will ultimately include information to the driver on the expected journey time and costs as he approaches the city . |
| 25 | After the last show , or earlier if they were n't working , Arthur would often fall prey to the bite of melancholy , with such sharp dread of all endings that he would greatly fear going to sleep , as if nothing would be left to him unless he kept watch on it . |
| 26 | These will include assertions to the effect that the sun is situated at some specified position in the sky with respect to an observer on earth , and that raindrops are falling from a cloud situated in some specified region relative to the observer . |
| 27 | Without close supervision the suggested cuts , in particular , would fall victim to the machinations of interest groups and the pork barrel orientations of members of Congress . |
| 28 | So how can we ensure that we do n't fall victim to the cheque cheats ? |
| 29 | And , before she could fall victim to the tears of rage that threatened her , she stumbled past the startled girl towards the lift . |
| 30 | So far as the whole personality does not fall victim to the pressures either of the external environment or what one might call the internal environment of its own parts — in the form of various lusts and obsessions — it achieves its only conceivable goal , that of prosperous possession , in the fullest manner , of its own nature . |