Example sentences of "[conj] to [noun] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we can say that to date privatized companies in these categories , when measured against all other companies , have not displayed any dramatic improvement since privatization . |
| 2 | But Gale expects that to change.A key benefit for Hong Kong Telecom is that it already has a major Chinese investor in the shape of the Peking-owned China International Trust & Investment Corp , which bought a 20% stake in 1990 . |
| 3 | Many linguists in recent years have questioned the early assumptions of the discipline with regard to literacy and their work now serves to undermine rather than to support those arguments regarding literacy that I have referred to as the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 4 | The aim of your colleagues in the research department , or production , or sales , is to satisfy the written and unwritten codes of behaviour for their own functions rather than to sacrifice some part of the perfection in order to achieve some more profit for the enterprise as a whole . |
| 5 | All towns , if one wishes to understand landscapes rather than to gain inner pleasure from beauty , have much to offer , despite Professor Hoskins ' strictures . |
| 6 | In contrast , the contributors to this book , whilst differing between themselves in many respects , share both a critical refutation of the manner in which the inner city has commonly been taken as unproblematic and a belief in the need to use the vocabulary of popular debates to propose alternative conceptualisations of urban crisis and to subject current policy to critical examination . |
| 7 | One way to overcome this problem is to equip all dissecting microscopes with heated stages set to 36 = 1 C , and to pre-equilibrate all media at 37 C. |
| 8 | He wanted to prove to himself and to others this sort of crime could be successfully committed . |
| 9 | Office equipment and vehicles are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation , which is provided so as to write-off those assets over their estimated useful lives , ranging from four to 15 years . |
| 10 | It depends , however , … entirely on the attitude which we as conquerors adopt towards the conquered , whether we stop the free circulation in the body politic by our institutions or so organise the dependent races as to leave open opportunities for a proper exercise of the social ambitious instinct [ defined previously as the desire to exercise power over others for their own good ] on the part of the individual native leaders so endowed . |
| 11 | Factional hostility was so great in 1921 as to produce full-scale conflict between the Irkutsk faction and its opponents ; Russian forces intervened to support the Irkutsk group and hundreds of Koreans were killed or wounded . |
| 12 | This was part of Fender 's problem , of course , and the 30″ scale length strings were so unusual at the time as to cause major headaches in manufacture . |