Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the conviction of Khmer Rouge members that they are the only people who can save Cambodia , few observers believe their commitment to multi-partyism would last for long . |
| 2 | His reduction to insanity would have been unthinkable before the events of this most peculiar of missions . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the symptoms of even full-blown affective psychosis and schizophrenia overlap considerably , suggesting that they simply represent different ways in which a common tendency to insanity can manifest itself . |
| 4 | The reduction of the concept of communication to comprehensible input , in association with the absence of any clear definition of what is meant by comprehensible or any criteria for knowing whether language has been comprehended or not , means that almost any approach to teaching can claim to have the blessing of the theory . |
| 5 | Again , while the idea that officials exercising delegated authority should be directly accountable to Parliament may seem logical , it ignores the political reality of government domination which has traditionally characterized executive/legislative relationships in Britain . |
| 6 | Pupils exposed to this type of participatory , exploratory approach to literature can acquire a firm foundation from which to proceed to more formal literary responses , should they subsequently choose to do so . |
| 7 | And anyone who doubts whether the method can safely be transferred to literature should consult one of Amis 's best novels , Ending up . |
| 8 | The attempt by the Court of Appeal to prevent Touvier from coming to trial may succeed but the verdict has led to an alarming rhetorical question posed in Le Monde : ‘ Should not these crimes be judged , not in the name of a single people but of the whole of humanity … and should it not be in Strasbourg , under European jurisdiction and not in Paris or Lyon that they be judged ? ’ |
| 9 | His reference to faith may explain how it is that he is able to conceive of the notion of absolute Truth which he calls God . |
| 10 | The challenges to faith will go on and must go on being answered . |
| 11 | Obviously , if the contract goods are unascertained , an attempt to exclude all undertakings as to description would destroy the certainty of subject matter in the contract . |
| 12 | A leader who believes that their subordinates are lazy , lacking in ambition , self-centred and resistant to change will adopt an autocratic style of leadership . |
| 13 | If the ‘ problem of attitude ’ is not primarily located in the individual , but in the society , then no amount of individual effort at ‘ adjustment ’ to impairment can solve it . |
| 14 | Additional standards relating to disinfection may apply to high risk areas . |
| 15 | The propensity children have for imposing meaning distinctions of their own in their adherence to Contrast may delay their discovery of the absence of a difference between an adult form and a child innovation . |
| 16 | If the former is the case , then a reduced vegetation cover due to mismanagement may lead , by affecting albedo and soil moisture , to reduced convective processes and therefore less rainfall ; thus self-perpetuating drought becomes the norm . |
| 17 | Novel approaches to funding will include photographs taken of products , company flags or banners , on top of Mount Everest for ‘ a price to be negotiated , probably in the hundreds of pounds ’ . |
| 18 | If rainfall is delayed until late autumn many larvae liberated on to pasture will become arrested following ingestion and so increase the chance of Type II disease . |
| 19 | Readers wanting a definitive account of routes to chaos should turn to , e.g. , Refs. [ 88 , 134 , 340 , 378 ] . |
| 20 | How quickly the deficit falls without resort to recession will tell us how effective the revolution has been in transforming Britain 's producers . |
| 21 | State subsidies to agriculture would have to be abandoned . |
| 22 | Such a graded response according to exposure can strengthen inferences of causality . |
| 23 | Few people watching the tearful , scruffily-dressed woman burst through the court doors to freedom would have recognised her as a countess . |
| 24 | Few people watching the tearful , scruffily dressed woman burst through the court doors to freedom would have recognised her as a countess . |
| 25 | A government committed to freedom should reconsider . |
| 26 | Commitment by organisations to partnership must come from the top , from managing directors and head teachers for example . |
| 27 | It was hardly surprising that many of the humbler converts to Protestantism should interpret this doctrine as egalitarian in a wider social and political sense . |
| 28 | There seems to the writer little doubt that unemployment due to automation will grow steadily over the next few decades , perhaps centuries , and in the end it is likely to reach a very high figure , say ninety per cent of the labour force , unless radical changes are made in the present pattern of working . |
| 29 | The personal and life experiences which all practitioners bring to practice can enrich nursing , midwifery and health visiting teams and , in turn , the care they give . |
| 30 | No single characterisation or particular formulation of the rule enjoining judicial obedience to statute can supply answers in advance … |