Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun pl] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Continual clashes of this type should alert parents to the fact that this approach is not useful with their child . |
| 6 | But many degrees were still wary of a specific residential care qualification which they claimed would tie workers to the job . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Lawyers For Business ’ will help solicitors target new clients and will alert businesses to the range of legal services they can receive . ’ |
| 9 | Pupils with less severe hearing impairments may also need modifications to the requirements , but of a less far-reaching nature . |
| 10 | It remains to be seen whether the Revenue will seek amendments to the legislation in next year 's Finance Bill . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The context of the particular medium , and the atmosphere it can create , can affect responses to the advertising . |
| 13 | We can usually make visits to the set and take our own pictures . |
| 14 | To this end , the semantic net must itself convey a meaningful model of the world or must somehow present patterns to the user that are easily understood . |
| 15 | He declined to give any official view on the situation except to say : ‘ Any Marxist must say it 's a good thing that nobody has been hurt and we should give thanks to the police . ’ |
| 16 | In fact , the text can only give bones to the story . |
| 17 | The fact that his life is totally unrecorded until 866 need not suggest that Ermentrude 's own influence was limited , but shows that a royal marriage did not necessarily bring honours to the bride 's close kinsmen . |
| 18 | ANYONE wishing to support the Cystic Fibrosis Trust can send donations to the Trust at Alexandra House , 5 Blyth Road , Bromley , Kent BR1 3RS . |
| 19 | The supervisor will give directions to the parents ( or persons exercising parental responsibility ) , but should take steps to ascertain and , so far as is reasonably practicable , take into account , the wishes and feelings of the child ( as appropriate , having regard to the child 's age and understanding ) and parents . |
| 20 | From that moment Tess found she could whistle tunes to the birds just as Mrs d'Urberville wanted . |
| 21 | Hairshafts are totally dead , so cutting them ca n't send messages to the hair roots . |
| 22 | Former pupils and staff who wish to make a donation towards a gift for Mr Tovey should send contributions to The Rectory , Inveresk Road , Tilston , before July 20 . |
| 23 | In both Britain and Spain the minister has statutory powers to approve budgets , plans and investment programmes , annual reports and accounts , overall price increases , and rail closures ; to set the level of state support for the railways ; and to make or confirm appointments to the board , including the chairman . |
| 24 | Wood and Gipps ( 1982 ) pose an interesting dilemma for decision-makers allocating resources : do they give resources to the schools with poor results , thus penalising the good ones ( from which the good schools may learn the best way to get resources ) , or do they reward the good schools and let the poor ones suffer ? |
| 25 | The formula rewards authorities with large numbers of local independent providers and does not allocate resources to the authorities from which residents using that independently run care originated . |
| 26 | Few areas have been subjected to uninterrupted denudation since then , but , as the earlier Tertiary climates were very different from the present ones , any surviving landforms could present difficulties to the investigator . |
| 27 | To simplify the handling of sacks of corn , facilities such as loading ramps , waggon bays and internal or external hoists that could lift sacks to the top of the mill for storage were installed . |
| 28 | the ‘ internal market ’ , under which GPs could send patients to the health districts with the shortest waiting lists , with the money for their treatment travelling with them . |
| 29 | The front-runner for reform remains the adoption of the ‘ internal market ’ , under which GP 's could send patients to the health districts with the shortest waiting lists , with the money for their treatment travelling with them . |
| 30 | Er I 'd refer members to the report that the International Labour Organisation brought out a week before Christmas . |