Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a ( faxed ) letter to his old Bradford primary , he tells the pupils : ‘ It seems to me fax will spread everywhere , as it is such a useful instrument and a wonderful way to communicate with each other . ’ |
| 2 | However , it remains to be seen whether in their place will arise a significant number of women who have married , divorced and not remarried and to whom society would wish to ascribe similar roles . |
| 3 | In the olden days , with no contraception to speak of , there were probably masses of women , especially the poor ones , to whom child-bearing must have been a penance which they were forced to endure because there was no way out . |
| 4 | When she was pronounced to be the image of my father , I suspected that something belonging to my father must have got inside my mother to the place where the baby was being carried . |
| 5 | ‘ The congenitally odd-jeaned person to my left will take my place , ’ I mumbled , waving one hand in his direction before letting my head resume its communion with Hamish and Tone 's lounge carpet . |
| 6 | Those opposed to my view would argue that knowledge of the gene will allow us to identify which lifestyles are dangerous for such a person . |
| 7 | It was thus permissible , as an aid to identifying the legislative intention behind s 72(4) , to consider the anomalies that the absence of any limitation to its scope would produce , the antecedent legislation and the manner in which other types of small distributions were dealt within CGTA 1979 . |
| 8 | Insects which may contribute to its survival will see it one way , man sees it in another , a seed-seeking bird will perceive it in another . |
| 9 | A reference to its dictionary would help it realise that it is unlikely a word would begin with the character ‘ 5″ , but , in all probability should read ‘ Singing ’ . |
| 10 | A coalition consisting only of Labour and a party to its left would have immense trouble foisting the trauma of withdrawal on Israel . |
| 11 | If one took analogies seriously and from such a definition … of ‘ so-called primitive capitalist accumulation ’ , then literally the whole of capitalism , right up to its death would end up in the ‘ pre-history ’ of capitalism : for capitalism obtains surplus profits from ‘ third persons ’ throughout its entire existence ; there is and will be no such stage in the life of capitalism when profits were not to come its way on the basis of exploitation of third persons . |
| 12 | And foolish Daphne to her cost shall find |
| 13 | The Court decided that , although as a general rule dismissing a pregnant woman for a reason arising from or related to her pregnancy will result in direct discrimination under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 , this is not an inevitable consequence . |
| 14 | Now researchers think that the sudden drop in oestrogen-type hormones after she gives birth to her baby may spark off rheumatoid arthritis |
| 15 | A year later , when Lorne and I reached Celebes to make our first film , the star-gazing Toraja priests were no more certain as to when , or even if , this climactic coup-de-grace to their culture would occur . |
| 16 | Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture . |
| 17 | And third , their likeness to their twin can confuse possible suitors : which one does he want ? |
| 18 | However , it remains to be seen how completely the principle of antibiosis , or chemical warfare between species , has been exploited , and whether the capacity of microbes to adapt to their environment will outstrip the capacity of man to find means of destroying not only those which are his enemies but also those which are his friends and which he unwittingly eliminates by the overzealous distribution of his new agents . |
| 19 | A de-clawed cat is a maimed cat and anyone considering having the operation done to their pet should think again . |
| 20 | It can be argued that these offences may be no less traumatic for the victim than ‘ conventional ’ rape , and therefore that any attempt to classify sexual offences by reference to their seriousness should place these forms of sexual assault in the highest category . |
| 21 | In addition , for those men aged 60–64 after November 1981 , a simple change in the official label attached to their status would have resulted in an increase in their income by one-fifth . |
| 22 | I presume a committee here will decide and sit as to which land shall have dag , drag hunting and the er the land the tenant will have no rights in that at all and if you 're thinking you can control horses that are taking part in a drag hunt any more than you can control horses taking part in a fox hunt , you 've got to have another think . |
| 23 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 24 | The old vision of the centrality of the railways was replaced by a set of counterfactual conditionals , estimations of the extent to which development could have taken place without the railway . |
| 25 | Mr Summerchild , however , was evidently feeling his way towards a quite different sense — the idea of some kind of grading system for our experience , of some variable level of satisfactoriness to which life might attain , and which , as he implied , might be enhanced by various practical means . |
| 26 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 27 | However , we can say that even historic cost accounting , in times of rising prices , does provide some indication of the extent to which capital might have been eroded or maintained , which as we have suggested earlier is potentially useful information . |
| 28 | This kind of thing has an important influence on the degree to which congestion can arise . |
| 29 | term used to describe the degree to which paper will show print through . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the figures do illuminate the extent to which employment can provide a frame of reference for thinking about what to teach . |