Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] to [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strictly speaking , marriage does not contribute directly to population change , but , because of its association with the legitimacy of births in most countries , marriage rates have been of some interest . |
| 2 | ‘ If the lenders wo n't contribute voluntarily to money advice funding , it may be that a compulsory levy on lenders , to augment funding by central and local government and others , is now the answer . |
| 3 | A temporary deviation might occur because export and import volumes could react slowly to exchange rate movements , but these lags were thought unlikely to be excessively long , especially if capital account transactions anticipated the process . |
| 4 | The sensor will react instantaneously to body heat and bring on a light outside your home whenever anyone approaches . |
| 5 | Can we move then to item number seven , the financial statement of the payments ? |
| 6 | Though after a moment of considering her question , seemed to think that there was no harm in revealing , ‘ I believe the dog does not take well to city life — he is up at the house . ’ |
| 7 | Not only our skeletal muscles but the heart muscle also tends to degenerate if we do not get sufficient exercise , and this can lead eventually to heart failure . |
| 8 | TFIIF can bind directly to RNA polymerase II ( 22,24,25 ) and suppresses nonspecific binding of RNA polymerase II to DNA ( 24,28,29 ) . |
| 9 | In early retirement older workers have a socially acceptable alternative to the stigma of unemployment , that is not available to younger people ( Bruche and Casey 1982 : 112 ) ; but first they must get close to pension age . |
| 10 | Expanding output would add more to consumer benefit than it would to production costs or the opportunity cost of the resources used . |
| 11 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 12 | With firewood declining , these people will turn more to cow dung , and become more dependent on landowners . |