Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The partners could then decide to sell it and divide the cash or they could decide to continue to the next stage of association ( called al-nusf , ‘ halves ’ ) . |
| 2 | If , however , an appeal committee comes to the conclusion that efficiency would be prejudiced by complying with the preference , then the appeal committee will have to proceed to the second stage and decide how to exercise its discretion , by weighing up the advantages which would be achieved by complying with the preference as against the prejudice this would cause . |
| 3 | I 'm sure Linfield would rather have got to the first round proper by playing football but at least they 've played it by the rules and good luck to them against Copenhagen . |
| 4 | It is a late-third to mid-fourth century group and none of the vessels need have belonged to the second half of the fourth century . |
| 5 | ‘ My beloved husband died after a lingering illness on 29th April at 18 minutes past 4 o'clock in the morning … if he would have lived to the 25th August , he would have been 63 years old . ’ |
| 6 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 7 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |