Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] [conj] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first three sentences , be obviously has its " activity " sense and one gets the impression of continuous efforts of the subject in order to make himself behave in a calculating manner , to make his followers act in an orderly way or to keep someone quiet . |
| 2 | C3.93b Marcheini Windfarm Proposal : To receive an oral report and to agree what approach should be taken with regard to the latest proposal . |
| 3 | He started telling me that I was an emotional cretin and to improve I 'd have to pay them a load of money to get into their reading room — at £10 an hour . |
| 4 | As I da da , as Dave says as an overall percentage or to do it as we always do as a , as a termly figure . |
| 5 | It is far tougher to dive at the legs of an oncoming player than to haul them down by the neck or straight-arm tackle them as they run past you . |
| 6 | ‘ What an amazing man and to have him in your team is a real bonus , ’ he said . |
| 7 | In Rosa Luxemburg 's view this forced nations either to be assimilated into an existing empire or to create their own empire . |
| 8 | The main ones are : ( i ) where the plaintiff seeks to , or is forced to , found his claim on an illegal contract or to plead its illegality in order to support his claim . |
| 9 | The ruling that there should be no prosecutions destroyed the hope that such court proceedings might uncover enough information to stir a public demand for a wider and more thorough inquiry into the background to the conspiracy to murder an innocent man and to frame him with stolen goods . |
| 10 | In all cases it is of the essence to specify the work to be done in an unambiguous form and to make it quite clear which party is responsible for which elements . |
| 11 | My personal belief is that sadism may have one or both of two components : a need to dominate — to put another person into an inferior position and to assert oneself by inflicting pain — or a need to destroy arising from some inner hatred of self and/or others in general . |
| 12 | If you decide to join the union you are encouraged to play an active part and to ensure your views are represented . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that his previous attempts to draw the western democracies away from the Soviet Union had borne no fruit , Franco wrote to Churchill on 18 October 1944 to propose an anti-Bolshevik alliance and to state his belief that Spain should take part in any post-war peace conference . |
| 14 | Then in the nineteenth century some of the more adventurous men seized the new opportunities to make wealth in an urban environment or to tear themselves away from their ancestral roots to start life anew thousands of miles away . |