Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique can be employed with normal subjects , as well as with commissurotomised patients , although the presence of intact mid-line commissures in normals means that visual information presumably does not remain lateralised to one hemisphere as it does in split-brain patients . |
| 2 | Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four |
| 3 | She is expected to obey her husband without question and must never appear unveiled to any man to whom she is not related . |
| 4 | And the ma market will become targeted to particular sectors and particular groups . |
| 5 | In a joint programme organised by Edinburgh District Council and Lothian Regional Council , older people living in Edinburgh will have the opportunity to say what improvements they would like made to local services . |
| 6 | Adhesion is not defined in the Vienna Convention but is accepted as a way in which a third party can become bound to certain parts of a treaty , but not its entirety . |
| 7 | Every haulier , wittingly or otherwise , will become involved to some extent in Customs 88 procedures . |
| 8 | Catholic priests came to the Acadians from New France , and tried to make sure that the Acadians would not become reconciled to British rule . |
| 9 | We understand how deeply people can become attached to sacred objects . |
| 10 | It was not an answer he would have given to many people , but he looked on Edna as an equal . |
| 11 | It may have been enacted beforehand by the witnesses , so that they testify to what they have actually witnessed ; alternatively , the organiser of the mock trial may simply have given to each witness a statement of his evidence , which he is expected to remember . |
| 12 | A huge £50 million has been raised for charity since the race started in 1981 and runners can pat themselves on the back for all the financial help they have given to worthy causes . |
| 13 | Then he wondered if he was capable of putting what he must have heard to some use . |
| 14 | Do n't put it in a plastic bag in the fridge and save it for visitors ; before you know where you are it 'll have swollen to three times its size and smell like a chemical factory . |
| 15 | However comprehensive the pre-planning of such a situation , it could be anticipated that preliminary reconnaissance , the dispositioning of appliances , the gaining of access by the very limited facilities which such premises can offer and the initiation of a co-ordinated attack of conventional equipment would take even longer and that a fire may have developed to unmanageable proportions by the time such an attack could be mounted . |
| 16 | By 2000 the arable land in use per head will have fallen to 0.25 hectares from 0.37 hectares in 1975 ; in Africa it will almost have halved from 0.64 to 0.39 hectares . |
| 17 | But Sweden has also promised that in 20 years its emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) , the main greenhouse gas , will have dropped to 1986 levels . |
| 18 | Such stroppiness would have amounted to commercial suicide after ten months of silence . |
| 19 | It was forecast that by the close of 1991 the revenue from sales worldwide of CD-ROM hardware and software would have amounted to some $3.2 billion of which the title component would be $2.3 billion , a proportion which would steadily increase . |
| 20 | 7.6.6.1 the Term will absolutely cease but without prejudice to any rights or remedies that may have accrued to either party against the other including ( without prejudice to the generality of the above ) any right that the Tenant might have against the Landlord for a breach of the Landlord 's covenants set out in clauses 7.6.1 and 7.6.2 |
| 21 | At first instance , the judge held that the accommodation had to be appropriate and that no reasonable authority could have come to that conclusion in this case . |
| 22 | Whether he would have come to that conclusion if the building was betting-shop is an interesting thought , but we ‘ ve been delighted to go along with his judgement . |
| 23 | If they had agreed with British Airways , I could understand that they might have left the issue alone , but they might have come to different conclusions and taken different action . |
| 24 | I do not think that if the council , on making an inspection , had found the gate newly padlocked , they could have come to any conclusion other than that [ the defendant ] was intending to exclude everyone , including themselves , from the land . " … |
| 25 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 26 | He may have come to this decision in 1531 or 1532 and then proceeded cautiously because of the fear of opposition both at home and abroad . |
| 27 | We would have hoped that the county and district councils would have so organized their selection processes that they could have come to this examination in public fully prepared to argue the merits of geographical location . |
| 28 | The sociologists of knowledge … may well have come to erroneous conclusions ; but they have at least attempted in some measure , to solve the philosophical problem that results from the existence of competitive social-world [ theoretical ] systems . |
| 29 | PS John Pemberton was a right-back in his days at Palace though he may have moved to central defence . |
| 30 | Moreover , one might predict further that had royalty in 1940 continued with the rich pageants of peacetime ( as the Prince Regent had done during the Napoleonic wars ) , the indifference might have turned to explicit criticism . |