Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you make a point of try to listen to the world , |
| 2 | I suppose it will be said that it is the height of romanticism to cling to the idea that universities can remain largely publicly funded and that students will not inevitably have to pay fees . |
| 3 | Many of the trade union leaders wanted of course to go to the front , but the whole process of organising our production … forbade their release . |
| 4 | Loss of opportunity to respond to the unexpected can be dealt with only by striving to eliminate it . |
| 5 | By challenging the right of Parliament to agree to the social chapter against the wishes of the Government and proposing that the treaty will be ratified without the decisions of Parliament , it has underlined the very reasons why there is a need for referendums on the crucial constitutional questions that face us . |
| 6 | When we use a term like ‘ light-speed ’ we are , therefore , really using it as a kind of shorthand to refer to the velocity of any form of electromagnetic radiation . |
| 7 | ( ii ) After about 30 min chop the tubules very finely with scissors in a glass Petri dish tilted slightly , allowing large pieces of tubule to settle to the bottom . |
| 8 | ‘ What d'yer want , a bit of 'elp to get to the lav ? |
| 9 | She filled a jug with water from the pail , found rag , a tankard and another crust of bread to add to the food in her pocket . |
| 10 | They did n't really need it , of course , since it was a lovely warm summer 's day , but the twins clearly thought it a great adventure , busily insisting on helping Ross by scampering about the bay in search of small pieces of wood to add to the bonfire . |
| 11 | My son had to stop off of work to see to the t two children . |
| 12 | Those days Rose dreaded and fretted through and it was a kind of peace to turn to the two girls and the boy . |
| 13 | He survived the perils of infancy to live to the ripe old age of 74 , but sadly he inherited none of his father 's musical talent . |
| 14 | Er the most interesting case erm , I remember was a chap who erm having completed his course erm joined the R A F and erm he was missing at Dieppe when they had the rather abortive attempt at landing at Dieppe during the war and er , but he was never erm posted as as erm having died and erm it was years afterwards , it was in the nineteen fifties in fact before we could get the Department of Education to agree to the loan being written off because erm obviously he was , by that time he had to be assumed as |
| 15 | We are convinced that the best way for works of art to communicate to the public is for those works to have the most beautiful and natural context in which to be shown . |
| 16 | Sometimes groups of women would leave the village and climb the surrounding hillsides , cutting bundles of grass to feed to the cattle in the winter . |
| 17 | She had a lot of love to give to the right man . |
| 18 | Surely arrangements should have been made to allow the Secretary of State to report to the House on the outcome of the consultations and on the advice of his expert , Mr. Roy Stoner of Southampton university , about the objections voiced during the consultation period . |
| 19 | Would it not be right for the Secretary of State to come to the House to say what steps are being taken to try to ensure that the sort of dishonesty and crookery that went on at MGN is not being repeated elsewhere ? |
| 20 | That is not my direct responsibility , but I will ask my colleague the Under-Secretary of State to reply to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 21 | Characteristically he uses the imagery of song to point to the highest kind of contemplative experience of God : The Form unfolds a process of definition which comes full circle back to its beginning so that that can be understood in a new way : the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time . |
| 22 | Gavin Drewry 's analysis of the grant and refusal of leave to appeal to the House of Lords in 1971 demonstrated that leave was routinely refused in cases where the second appeal raised issues of review , that leave was granted in cases involving issues of supervision , and that there was a mixture of refusals and grants in cases falling in the grey area of reconsideration of authority without critical re-appraisal of the cases ( Drewry , 1973 ) . |
| 23 | The discretionary nature of the grant of leave to appeal to the House of Lords avoids any suggestion that there might be abuse of such an approach . |
| 24 | The sufferer attempts to gain control by changing his or her pictures of reality to conform to the pictures of perception of how life should be . |
| 25 | Ernest Gellner and Alastair MacIntyre have both argued for the need for a judgement to be made about the degree of internal coherence and rationality in belief systems , before the sociologist can know what type of explanation to apply to the beliefs he is studying . |
| 26 | If so , it had been one more error of judgment to add to the bleak arithmetic of failure since he had taken up his new job . |
| 27 | ‘ You drink too much of that , ’ she said , straightening , and allowing the fine drifts of material to swish to the floor . |
| 28 | 1 Entertain only if you have a good reason for doing so and only if you have something of value to impart to the guest . |
| 29 | The case is now strong enough for the weight of interest to shift to the other dimension of interpretation . |
| 30 | I had allowed plenty of time to return to the Commons to vote , but the train was one and a half hours late . |