Example sentences of "to [v-ing] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' .
2 The DOE continues to support a study of the migration of the natural decay-series radionuclides of uranium and thorium in a variety of sedimentary settings in Cornwall and Scotland in order to test our ideas and modelling capabilities with a view to applying them to the geological disposal of radioactive waste .
3 It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum .
4 The good thing about having the machines on the vehicle are that we can give him that electric shock as opposed to taking him to the hospital to have that electric shock .
5 He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship .
6 To counter both the unfavourable home environment , and the difficulty poorer parents have in equalling the sharp elbows of the middle classes , who are well accustomed to taking themselves to the front of the queue , the school starting age for nursery education should be reduced to three .
7 Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust in 1930 to which all the family pictures were transferred with a view to donating them to the nation .
8 ‘ I look forward to putting it to the test . ’
9 The State Department 's reply [ KP 125 ] was : " The Department assumes that the 28,000 Cossacks in question are Soviet Nationals and , if so , no objection is seen to delivering them to the Russian forces in accordance with the terms of the Yalta agreement .
10 Sunderland 's housing committee is to be asked to take over the property with a view to renting it to a would-be tenant who could buy it outright in future under the right-to-buy scheme .
11 It only remains for me to say how much I look forward to welcoming you to the Craigendarroch Country Estate .
12 We greatly look forward to welcoming you to the Craigendarroch Country Estate .
13 TRYING TO TRACE the following aircraft in any condition with a view to restoring them to a minimum of static condition : .
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