Example sentences of "[det] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there is no doubt that fascist organisations like the National Front have attempted to recruit members from the ranks of football hooligans , there is little to connect them with violence in the game ( Popplewell , 1986:59 ) . |
| 2 | Many people make do with a cup of coffee which , although it may taste good , does little to support you until lunchtime . |
| 3 | The ergonomist has to believe that work is a good thing and that to conduct it efficiently is always better than to conduct it inefficiently . |
| 4 | Yeah , but you got ta be down here early enough for that to see him . |
| 5 | I 'm gon na put , pay that to see you . |
| 6 | He came off that to meet you . ’ |
| 7 | Rain said she would tell him presently , which did little to pacify him , and she went on in English to Maurin : ‘ Joseph ca n't operate here without you , can he ? |
| 8 | You can move them anyway you want to Sean , it 's up to you to do that to work them . |
| 9 | The defence recognises that market makers play an important role within the securities market and that to provide them with no immunity would be to make that market less liquid . |
| 10 | The road ran through seemingly interminable pine forests with little to encourage us to stop and explore , and we covered over 1300 kilometres in thirty hours . |
| 11 | But in terms of the Maxol Northern Ireland championship he had little to worry him . |
| 12 | Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper . |
| 13 | God is here , and that to bless us |
| 14 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll want to analyse this to confirm it , ’ he continued , carefully using a pen to roll one of the small carvings off the edge of the table and into the canister . |
| 16 | But as anyone who has sat on an equal opportunities working party will tell you , it is one thing to formulate policies and quite another to implement them . |
| 17 | She was beginning to realise that whatever Lydia felt for Beuno was different in kind from what she had felt for Finn , and this had eased her incipient unhappiness , for while it is one thing not to win the beloved it is another to see him swept off by somebody else , and far , far worse . |
| 18 | This leads some to claim it for immediately after the return , but it can as well be immediately before the flight , and in any case it dates the change securely to the time around 480 . |
| 19 | If we 're gon na do a deal then we , we , we have some to drive it through but what I 'm saying is that I think that if you have this meeting I , which is what February the second ? |
| 20 | But it is just as likely that she will allow one male after another to mount her until her whole circle of admirers has been accommodated . |
| 21 | This rarity — for a woman to have so much power and influence — caused some to compare her to Elizabeth . |
| 22 | The actresses , of course , were frequently loaned gowns by the house free of charge for the publicity that would be gained when they were pictured wearing them , and there were those among the society women who considered themselves above coming to the couture , ordering instead from the videos that nowadays replaced the weeks of shows of the old days — and staying away all the more determinedly as the great Paris houses vied with one another to tempt them to lend their presence to the occasion . |
| 23 | It is one thing to trust a middle-management appointment to an executive search consultant within a small firm ; it is quite another to trust him or her to find a new group chief executive . |
| 24 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 25 | His style of writing caused some to accuse him of rationalism . |
| 26 | You got fluoride in this , in this to clean you teeth ? |
| 27 | He had done this to annoy her ; that was the truth of the matter . |
| 28 | This formal writing-up took nearly twenty years : it is one thing to collect data , and another to evaluate it and make it into public knowledge . |
| 29 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 30 | Back To The Future star Michael J Fox cut the price of his house in Bel Air by half to sell it for £1.3 million . |