Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stockmarket has in effect been closed to new equity issues for three years , and banks will lend only to the safest borrowers . |
| 2 | In the case of single or dominant firm monopolies while it is accepted that these may behave detrimentally to the public interest at large , few democratic governments have had , or are likely to have , the political will to intervene directly in their operation , particularly where their market positions have been legitimately attained , and their activities are not overtly illegal . |
| 3 | Ahlburg 's work is a major botanical revision , but I suspect that Rice and Strangman will appeal more to the general gardener . |
| 4 | It is hoped that the greater environmental control available in the new Tropical House will contribute eventually to the successful breeding of these reptiles . |
| 5 | Since ferric iron is poorly absorbed from the small intestine , that secreted into gastric juice ( ca 0.2 mg/l ) will contribute appreciably to the daily loss of about 1 mg of endogenous iron . |
| 6 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 7 | The majority of economic historians would probably incline more to the latter view now , though the extent to which revisionist case can be taken remains debatable . |
| 8 | " I Charles Gillingham Hamilton M.A. of Stockport in the Borough of Stockport and County of Chester , Clerk , a Clergyman of the Church of England , in priest 's orders and a Graduate of the University of Dublin declare that I will discharge always to the best of my ability the duties of Headmaster of the Stockport Grammar and Free School , and that in case I shall he removed from my Office I will thereupon relinquish all claim to the Office and its future emoluments and I will deliver up possession of the School and my residence to the Trustees and that it shall be lawful for them in the same case without ejectment or other legal process to take possession of my residence and remove myself and my effects therefrom . " |
| 9 | Perhaps we will refer later to the blatant dishonesty — I am sorry , I must watch my language ; let us say something bordering on the dishonest — of the suggestion that we can have a banding system which avoids for ever the problem of revaluation . |
| 10 | For a quiet life , I should now head straight to the welcoming arms and biscuit tin of Ms Topaz , to be lectured on the error of my ways and dispatched to the new homogenised spook pool for retraining . |
| 11 | Even in cases where the husband and wife contribute equally to the family budget , there is no guarantee that both will contribute equally to the day-to-day running of the home and caring for the children . |
| 12 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 13 | However , conversion does not refer exclusively to the initial act of reorientation . |
| 14 | Mediation can refer primarily to the necessary processes of composition , in a specific medium ; as such it indicates the practical relations between social and artistic forms ( see below ) . |
| 15 | Training is available in diatom taxonomy and material preparation , and input from visiting researchers would contribute significantly to the international value of the database . |
| 16 | But in vivo these mutants are all wild-type within experimental error , suggesting that this contact does not contribute significantly to the overall stability of the operator complex . |
| 17 | Although one would probably incline pragmatically to the former interpretation in sentence 3 and to the latter interpretation in sentence 4 , the context could easily override these preferences — most obviously , perhaps , in the case of the president being a woman . |
| 18 | It can leave the Tower if driven out in this way , but it must stay close to the outside walls . |
| 19 | They do not always transfer easily to the public sector . |
| 20 | The three-lane motorway will run close to the existing line of the A74 between the Annan to Eaglesfield Road ( B722 ) in the north and Kirkpatrick Fleming in the south where it will join the section of motorway recently completed between Kirkpatrick Fleming and Gretna . |
| 21 | All attendance allowance beneficiaries aged under 65 and all mobility allowance beneficiaries will transfer automatically to the equivalent level of disability living allowance . |
| 22 | Branches should report regularly to the main charity ( we do receive their minutes and annual reports at Head Office ) and their accounts should form part of the main charity 's accounts . |
| 23 | This will be indicated in the control room by changes in pressures and temperatures which the skilled operator will trace readily to the particular failure . |
| 24 | From it you can look across to the well-occupied slopes on the other side of the wide river valley , where there are numbers of small villages and some fine agricultural land , because these glaciated valleys are celebrated for their fertility . |
| 25 | From the pronounced rocky prow above the clough you can look across to the impressive , deeply-cut Holme Clough , that drains water from Black Hill into a chain of reservoirs . |
| 26 | Follow-through Only now does your weight transfer completely to the left side . |
| 27 | Just five more places are needed and then all fifty youngsters can return to England.In the long term charities hope to set up their own orphanage near Moscow , to give the Russians the love and care they crave.But for the next year at least , the orphans can look forward to the best of British schooling . |
| 28 | With the new cancer service , more children like Alison can look forward to the best treatment available . |
| 29 | The family may look forward to the first visit home , assuming that everything can go on exactly where it left off . |
| 30 | So your students will relate to their coursebook and will eagerly look forward to the next activity ! |