Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
| 2 | The Merlin sleeping bag is rated as one to two season and comes with a well designed zip . |
| 3 | The Romantic enthusiasm for the wilderness co-existed with a more practical attitude in which Nature was seen as something to be explored and catalogued . |
| 4 | It was seen as something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 5 | FAST 's biosociety is seen as something to be achieved within existing relations of production . |
| 6 | A mandatory offer is usually seen as something to be avoided because |
| 7 | Within its shaking beams , there was nothing to be heard and nothing to be felt but the scream and roar of the wind , and the clattering percussion of objects striking the walls and the shutters , and the thunder of water outside , becoming louder and louder under a chattering ground-base of discarded boulders . |
| 8 | ‘ Does n't look like it to me , ’ said Fagg . |
| 9 | Choosing Where to Buy and What to Plant |
| 10 | Returners often express difficulties in knowing where to begin , on which books to buy and which to borrow. , Some course tutors supply their own introductory reading lists , and most specify ‘ musts ’ such as the UKCC Code of Professional Conduct ; but others will arrange an early library session so that you are free to browse and survey what is available locally . |
| 11 | Most people are in their twenties or early thirties when they have children ; the average age of first parenthood seems if anything to be falling . |
| 12 | China 's rush to capitalism is also a rush towards individual liberty : the chance to choose not just fancy clothes and fast cars but how to live , where to live and who to be ruled by . |
| 13 | Would you regard his request to be helped to die as one to be trusted and relied upon ? |
| 14 | Howbeit all these things appeared as nothing to Rodrigo when he thought of the wrong done to his father , the first which had ever been offered to the blood of Layn Calvo . |
| 15 | Wittgenstein , on the other hand , thought of thinking as something to be understood in terms of language ; and of the meaningfulness of a linguistic utterance as something to be understood in terms of a linguistic practice . |
| 16 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 17 | That 's erm would you say that obviously it 's a b it 's very difficult to actually ask cos it to some extent you 'd be generalizing anyway , would you say that people in the flats , do stick together or or do you get some people who isolated and just k just do n't have any flats ? |
| 18 | For rule utilitarianism , in contrast , once a rule is shown to be felicific , it is established as something to be obeyed , unless perhaps in very special cases , and is not to be considered merely as one factor to be weighed against others . |