Example sentences of "to [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his call was refused by Sir Derek Alun-Jones , the chairman , on the grounds that it was likely to form the basis of future litigation , Mr Mackeson-Sandbach said the trustees would be seeking ‘ legal advice on the means open to them to examine this report ’ . |
| 2 | In addition , there is a multiplicity of grants available to them to allow full-time education ; no such grants are available to the whites , poor or otherwise , who have to pay for their education themselves . |
| 3 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 4 | While our sports leaders recognise the contribution they can make to providing a ‘ healthy outlet ’ , they are concerned that , although government looks to them to play this role , it is often not prepared to assist them . |
| 5 | However , when the trial judge came to deal with the case against the second appellant , the trial judge directed the jury that it would be open to them to interpret alleged statements by the second appellant as a confession by him that he was one of a group who assaulted the deceased , and that accordingly he would be responsible for everything done by every other member of the group that he knew was being done or was likely to be done . |
| 6 | In a clear sense , people apparently do not use all the information available to them to interpret these sentences , at least in certain contexts . |
| 7 | This assumes that social worker has the information available to them to make correct decisions . |
| 8 | Our investigation reveals that we 're continuing to ask the armed forces to meet a series of commitments and all the time we 're reducing the resources available to them to meet these commitments . |
| 9 | Woman-centred psychology reminds feminist psychologists of the power of psychological concepts of gender , and acts as a strong inducement to them to challenge these concepts . |
| 10 | This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true . |
| 11 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 12 | I was surprised it had both a sunroof and air conditioning as they seem to me to cancel each other out . |
| 13 | Two pieces of evidence seem to me to cast some doubt on the drawing of direct parallels between LTP and memory . |
| 14 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |
| 15 | Some of these proposals seems to me to make great sense . |
| 16 | Looking at things squarely , I should say that most of the £5 million you have advanced to Ingard will have to be written off — and it does n't seem to me to make much difference to the bank whether this becomes open knowledge now , or in a week or so . |
| 17 | If erm things should start to go wrong and the chap on the floor erm was to make any movement or s sudden movement towards either P C or any other piece of equipment in the room which may cause injury or damage to ourselves or himself , it would be down to me to challenge that man er and allow P C to get back behind er the ballistic shield . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ It makes sense to me to prevent ill health , so that people do n't have to go into hospital in the first place . |
| 19 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 20 | However , Major John Wiseman , M.C. , at first told me categorically ( in a private communication ) that my husband had not been in ‘ A ’ Squadron , but later kindly wrote to me to correct this statement . |
| 21 | The analysis associated with the Name of the Father , castration and the Oedipal seems to me to have less purchase in thinking television than it has had for cinema . |
| 22 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 23 | He seemed to himself to need more leisure to pursue his studies of the New Testament and of Christian thought more profoundly . |
| 24 | There are several other crops which may be of use to you to suit particular conditions . |
| 25 | It did n't occur to you to let sleeping dogs lie , if you 'll forgive the cliché ? ’ |
| 26 | He had always been involved to some extent , but when an old villager came to him and said , ‘ You ca n't let this thing die , your father was a polemaster and we look to you to see this thing does n't stop ’ , he could n't resist the challenge . |
| 27 | If , for instance , no one mentions what the pay will be , it is up to you to ask that question and obtain a satisfactory answer . |
| 28 | Much really depends on the quality of opportunities open to you to refresh old skills , and to introduce new ones on a sensible timescale and with proper supervision and support . |
| 29 | Man works far below his capacity ; some writers have put a figure on the deficiency but it is of little value to you to make quantitative estimates . |
| 30 | If you 're the earner , and she 's looking after the children , it 's usually down to you to make regular payments for the children 's upkeep at least until they reach the age of seventeen — and longer if they 're still in education . |