Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] to [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They duly disposed of India in the semi-final , only to lose to Australia in a game they should have won . |
| 2 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |
| 3 | Weeping became a self-humiliation , an acknowledgement of one 's unworthiness before the god , used only to appeal to Yahweh in the hope of influencing His decisions . |
| 4 | By this time Steven was old enough to come to terms with the divorce , but Matthew still found it difficult . |
| 5 | She went on to talk to children in the refuge creche and to ask the helpers if they managed to leave work problems behind when they returned home in the evening — ‘ otherwise , it must get so depressing for you . ’ |
| 6 | so , I know , I never ended up where I said I was going either cos erm I met this Rus Russian lady and her sister was with her as well and we were er , she advised me not to go to Russia for the time being because it will be over , she said there 's gon na be a lot of blood shed |
| 7 | But since any arrangement would need the consent of Louis VII to be valid , he had somehow to come to terms with the French King — despite Toulouse , despite Auvergne , despite Becket . |
| 8 | Baldwin and both women agreed in court not to talk to newspapers about the case . |
| 9 | The PCCh and the MIR on Jan. 27 , 1990 , undertook not to resort to violence during the term of office of the Aylwin administration . |
| 10 | TRANSPORT Secretary Malcolm Rifkind visits Darlington tonight to speak to members of the town 's Conservative Association . |
| 11 | The Routine Business Committee was set up to attend to matters of a routine nature , or those which have already been approved in principle by the Board or the Executive Committee and require further detailed work to carry them into effect . |
| 12 | Small powers seek also to come to terms with a particular great power either to guarantee themselves against the overwhelming strength of another great power or in order to prevent the great power in question from asserting its strength more directly and imperiously over them … |
| 13 | ‘ The man who can win the allegiance of the Teddy Boys ’ , remarked Mr Andrew Fountaine who was later to come to prominence within the leadership of the National Front , ‘ can rule this country . ’ |
| 14 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 15 | They were now to withdraw to corridors with a width of 3 km , along ( i ) the 315-km road , rail and oil pipeline running through central Mozambique to the port of Beira ; and ( ii ) the 540-km railway along the Limpopo river from the Zimbabwean border to Mozambique 's capital , Maputo . |
| 16 | She was looking forward to getting a flat of her own and was about to go to court in an attempt to regain custody of her daughter . |
| 17 | On the other hand an ambassador might refuse a present because he thought it insultingly small , because his mission had been unsuccessful , or because it seemed that the monarch he represented was about to go to war with the one whose court he was leaving . |
| 18 | Fielding notes how some constables subsume these negotiating skills under the category of ‘ talk ’ , which gives meaning to their complaint that many younger policemen seem no longer to know how to talk to members of the public ( 1988b : 60 ; also see Holdaway 1983 : 90 ; Southgate 1982 : 11–12 ) . |
| 19 | He was due to meet de Gaulle on the 15th at Rambouillet in an attempt to soften the General 's opposition to Britain 's entry into the EEC ; and then to fly to Nassau on the 18th to meet President Kennedy for wide-ranging talks , including East-West relations , the backwash of the Cuban missile crisis , improvement of India 's defences against China , the Congo Civil War , and , most important of all , the proposed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty . |
| 20 | That is , how to convey to members of the public that their request or complaint is taken seriously even though it is impossible to act upon it . |
| 21 | Fenella was trying to decide how to explain to Caspar about the captured Nuadu . |
| 22 | Intensive pre-operative teaching and preparation will help prepare Mr Reynolds for the process of learning how to adapt to life with a stoma . |
| 23 | Townsend pointed out that few new users are available yet to comment to inspectors on the reforms . |
| 24 | He has yet to come to terms with the fact that a popular front of the mind or body means a Labour leader in Number 10 . |
| 25 | The locals field one former Test player , Madan Lal , and although Maninder Singh — last seen being swept to oblivion by Gooch in the Bombay World Cup semi-final — was practising at the England net yesterday , he has yet to come to terms with an attack of the yips . |
| 26 | The definition of a component within its own local space , with discrete attachments to other spaces , is seen firstly to conform to observations of the real world . |
| 27 | A skilled library user knows when to turn to periodicals for the latest information , how to use abstracting services , how to find his way through bibliographies , and how to make best use of atlases and tables and collections of maps . |
| 28 | Well , there is the fact that it is connected to sensory endings that are designed specifically to respond to vibrations in the air . |