Example sentences of "[to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instance here is of Stavrogin pretending to the provincial governor that he has a secret to communicate to him , and , when the unsuspecting old man ‘ hastily and trustfully ’ inclines his head , seizing his ear in his teeth and holding on to it , biting hard . |
| 2 | The company must be able to communicate to potential customers the way in which its product would satisfy their needs , and provide competitive value . |
| 3 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 4 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 5 | Liz Scott-Gibson , who is now director of sign language services for the BDA , subsequently went to Kensington Palace to teach the Princess ; and on a later visit , to a school in Durham , Diana surprised everyone by being able to communicate to the deaf people she met without an interpreter . |
| 6 | The maturing of British cinema between 1939 and 1945 is often seen as a particular response to the conditions of wartime , when filmmakers were called upon to communicate to audiences an idea of ‘ what we are fighting for . ’ |
| 7 | I am happy to communicate to people , through how I dress , that I 'm a Muslim and proud of it , and that living in the West has done nothing to alter my feelings . ’ |
| 8 | Dramatic playing , therefore , is continually in a state of tension between personal expression and finding the public means of presenting oneself , using language and gesture , in order to communicate to the others taking part . |
| 9 | To distinguish this from the actor 's concern to communicate to non-participants , we have used the term ‘ presentation ’ . |
| 10 | Without the republicans the Labour left would have remained abstract propagandists ; without the Labour left , the republicans would have been less able to communicate to people in Derry and beyond . |
| 11 | He managed to communicate to a certain extent through gestures and facial expressions , and he could put together short sentences . |
| 12 | The King held it good to accomplish her desire ; and forthwith ordered letters to be drawn up to Rodrigo of Bivar , wherein he enjoined and commanded him that he should come incontinently to Valencia , for he had much to communicate to him , upon an affair which was greatly to God 's service , and his own welfare and great honour . |
| 13 | His spiritualist interest began in late teens , and colours much of the work — notably an interesting poetic story about how he made a promise with a friend that whichever of them was first to the ‘ other side ’ would attempt to communicate to the other — and how it happened . |
| 14 | If uniforms distinguish the different grades of nursing and domestic staff , then this is useful information for the nurse to communicate to the patient . |
| 15 | The objective helps you to communicate to others what you want to achieve . |
| 16 | That is why the police have to secure the free passage of the highway , to assist industrial pickets to enjoy the right to communicate to workers , to protect public speakers who may arouse indignation or worse , and so on . |
| 17 | As a consequence they were ‘ extracted ’ from their culture and failed to communicate to their own people . |
| 18 | Even our Lord experienced the frustration of trying to communicate to those who did not have ears to hear ( Luke 10:16 ; Matt. |
| 19 | 4.2.2.1 each Party hereby undertakes to each of the others fully and promptly to communicate to each of the other Parties all such technical information relating to background and results as such other may reasonably require to carry out its respective part of the Project or to which such other Part is entitled pursuant to Clause hereof |
| 20 | Doyle twitched and flexed his fingers , trying to communicate to Bodie in the only way possible . |
| 21 | One of the motivations for children to Speak is that they have ideas which they wish to communicate to other people ( Bloom 1973 ) . |
| 22 | The demands of this kind of social experience are perhaps most acute when the infant wishes to communicate to the adult about the object — for example , if the child wishes to draw the adult 's attention to an object or request an object from the adult . |
| 23 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 24 | We are convinced that the best way for works of art to communicate to the public is for those works to have the most beautiful and natural context in which to be shown . |
| 25 | This secondary elaboration of the original dream will use poetic language and ritual performance to communicate to others the original dream . |
| 26 | Only you can look for associations , explanations and seek amplification of what it was your unconscious mind was trying to communicate to you while you slept — and dreamed . |
| 27 | Assuming now that I was aware of one or two facts of which you , my dear , could not be , assuming that I had something of importance to communicate to Michel , would you still stick to your stubborn refusal ? ’ |
| 28 | That is , they regard a novel as the creation of a particular human being , who has a particular vision of the world , which he tries to communicate to his or her readers by employing the codes of narrative and language in a particular way , and is responsible for the novel 's success or failure in this regard , and deserves praise or blame accordingly . |
| 29 | All film , video and television production is an example of the use of tools other than language to communicate to an audience . |
| 30 | Moreover , the lack of precision and the subtlety of the overall vision of the city development strategy , as Holford outlined , was not all that easy to articulate either , or to communicate to others with conviction ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 ) . |