Example sentences of "and the to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is true to say that the bare infinitive is more frequent in American English — Algeo ( 1988 : 22 ) found that the Brown University Corpus has only 25 per cent usage of to infinitives after help where the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus has 73 per cent — this begs the question nevertheless because both the bare and the to infinitives are used on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 2 | The author of this passage has skilfully exploited the contrast between the bare and the to infinitives . |
| 3 | Thus observe has the meaning of mental inference and the to infinitive denotes the conclusion drawn from what was directly perceived . |
| 4 | Although only two attested examples of this usage have been found in modern English , the contrast between the bare and the to infinitive in these contexts confirms the percept/concept distinction observed above : ( 88 ) The smallest pin could be heard drop . |
| 5 | In ( 145 ) and ( 146 ) , the subject of cause is clearly a condition , and the to infinitive evokes its consequence : the causal agent is not conceived as actually doing anything in either of these sentences but merely as having been the condition giving rise to a new state of affairs . |
| 6 | To be more exact , get itself evokes the efforts required to obtain a certain behaviour from someone or something and the to infinitive expresses the result obtained . |
| 7 | In all the cases analysed , make has shifted to evoke an antecedent cause , and the to infinitive almost always evokes a state as arising at the end of a process of causation ( or of coming-to-be ) . |