Example sentences of "to [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Not to be aware of the differences of demand and not to pay heed to them would amount to disregarding the purposes and moral cost of adapting to change . |
2 | In order that the hypothetical choice of loans offered to them would have at least some roots in people 's own experience , the size of the loan was in each case matched to the size of loan which people said they would consider taking out in practice . |
3 | A phone call or a letter to them may set your investigations off on a completely new heading and give you further experts whose evidence would be helpful to you . |
4 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
5 | Loyal and moderate as the noble constitutionalists seemed , any concessions to them might open the way to federalism , separatism and even more dangerous tendencies . |
6 | A petition to them might bring assistance for a particular project , but their schools received little attention : salaries were simply noted in the accounts and no one stopped to consider whether £10 which had been generous by the standards of earlier centuries might now be inadequate . |
7 | ‘ Women get turned on in the head first so speaking to them can work wonders . ’ |
8 | They are even optimistic about conflicts between women , on the grounds that paying attention to them can produce gains in feminine self-realization ( e.g. Caplan 1981 , Orbach and Eichenbaum 1987 ) . |
9 | As for the less specific objections to the Prague School , the weight one attaches to them will depend very much on one 's own theoretical position . |
10 | The spread of population , the numbers of visually handicapped pupils in a particular area and the range of educational provision available to them will influence the way in which the advisory service is organised and implemented . |
11 | There is no guarantee whatever that all formal equivalences can be given meaning , and there is no guarantee that such meaning as can be given to them will seem interesting or important from a poetic point of view . |
12 | Access to them will require the approval of a senior lexicographer and will be controlled by the Computer Group . |
13 | Consequently capital owners or allied groups directly tied to them should control the state in industrial society and run it in their own interests . |
14 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
15 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
16 | To them must go our warmest thanks . |
17 | Mozart and his contemporaries , who ( unlike the English ) had no continuous tradition of listening to baroque music , found it sparse in texture in a way that to them must have seemed musically primitive . |
18 | To them must belong the last word . |
19 | Erm the information that I have available to me would suggest therefore that the A nineteen erm when it 's dualled would be a superior and therefore to get a better score erm on on that criterion . |
20 | Making love to me may help you to forget for a while , but it wo n't change the feelings you obviously still have for her , whether you care to admit it or not . ’ |
21 | ‘ When I went to him , I had no idea that what he would say to me might bring him within the sphere of our investigation . ’ |
22 | What happened to me might have broken me — it nearly did break me — but I got through . |
23 | Gradually the places in the year book which are at present unfamiliar to me will acquire a flesh and blood reality . |
24 | Malebranche had argued , moreover , that the argument from the relativity of perception was just as applicable to primary qualities such as extension and motion : what looks small to me will seem large to a mite ; some movements may be too slow for the human eye to detect . |
25 | Perhaps sending them direct to me will save the listserver from getting clogged up with train spotting messages . |
26 | He said to me should add erm you know like being |
27 | writing to me could damage your health . |
28 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
29 | But you should have I mean you should be able to I would have though in a year |
30 | But to go to and to go to I would have thought would have taken similar lengths of time . |