Example sentences of "to with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All such topics can be referred to with the help of suitable denoting phrases and used as grammatical subjects in subject/ predicate propositions . |
| 2 | The floating action has as much to with the stiffness of the tail as the flexibility of the tip . |
| 3 | Fairly quickly we were able , as a staff , to define how we could match requests for information and help from parents to with the experience , strengths and interests of staff . |
| 4 | In a daze , I set to with the trowel . |
| 5 | Charleston systematically and meticulously set to with the assistance of one man , Mike Cloxam . |
| 6 | See for yourself what Carr got up to with the sun on his back in an exhibition of his paintings on the continent . |
| 7 | For me it has become almost comically prolonged , because it seems to have very little to with the colour of my hair . |
| 8 | The potential meaning of to with the infinitive can therefore be diagrammed in the following manner : The potential meaning of to as described above fits in with that of the bare infinitive in the following very simple way : the latter evokes that which defines the end-point of the movement denoted by to . |
| 9 | In order to discern the reason for the use of to with the infinitive in passive sentences of the type just mentioned , we must begin therefore by trying to observe the kind of meaning which these sentences express and the type of context in which they are used . |
| 10 | What is more , the use of to with the infinitive seems to betoken , as with prepositional to , a relation involving a spatial entity : a preposition relates an element conceived as a spatial entity ( a substantive or pronoun ) to something else . |
| 11 | At the same time as the non-past is undergoing this shift , the use of to with the infinitive is being extended beyond its concrete directional sense to cover all cases of subsequent potentiality and subsequent actualization , for which the bare infinitive had formerly been adequate : " … the use of the to infinitive in the place of the bare or plain infinitive increased rapidly during the late Old English and early Middle English periods " ( Visser 1966 : 948 ) . |
| 12 | Even if the suggestion that is made is not feasible , it should be listened to with courtesy and responded to with the respect that such an offer demands . |
| 13 | She 'd driven from Newcastle to virtually to with the choke on ! |
| 14 | The relation between stress and strain is then contracted to with the inverse The relations above may conveniently be written in matrix form as with . |
| 15 | The proposals have been agreed to with the co-operation of the police and Middlesbrough Cycling Group . |
| 16 | That 's a very big question , and in fact we 're trying now to with the co-operation of the British Counsel , who act as a recruiting agent for our purposes , erm to conduct a survey , a sort of customer survey , of the kind of acceptance our problem has had . |
| 17 | When they both snuff it — Streep is pushed down the stairs and Hawn shot — the movie 's special effects come into their own as failed plastic surgeon Willis sets to with the spray paint and filler to patch up the damage . |
| 18 | Me and Bill , he 's dead we had an ajax come through to and go on to Ireland , to go back to Dublin , yeah , they 're going back to with the plane . |
| 19 | Peterson already had an agenda of his own drawn up and this was agreed to with the proviso that it included a brief historical summary of research done at Brigham Young University . |
| 20 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |