Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To provide a service within the community by providing a safe , secure environment in which the individual 's rights and needs are recognised , by assisting clients to adjust to living in a communal setting and providing support for clients using professional agencies and the resources of the department . |
| 2 | There is nothing left either in womanpower or funds to devote to blowing our own trumpet , so we have been unable to impress you with the extent and importance of our work . |
| 3 | It urged countries to revert to containing the disease at levels that their own general health services , rudimentary though may of them were , could cope with . |
| 4 | Aid agencies are claiming that increasing homelessness in Nottingham is forcing more and more youngsters to turn to begging or even prostitution . |
| 5 | A further point made by the teachers is that opting out will jeopardise efforts to adjust to falling school rolls . |
| 6 | No-one would believe they had a recession on in Japan when they have time and resources to devote to dreaming up and creating things like this : Toshiba Corp has just launched a line of word processors with sound effects — ‘ to introduce an element of fun in the workplace ’ according to Reuter — they bark when you write ‘ dog ’ , moo when you write ‘ cow ’ and make the sound of pouring when you write ‘ beer ’ , and if you recall a text file word-by-word at reading speed , they repeat these and 26 other pre-programmed noises , from sleigh bells to sirens , as the words come up — and it no doubt laughs like a drain when your boss sends it an electronic message telling you you 're fired for being a disruptive influence . |
| 7 | Then at peak hours the water can be allowed to run out through hydro-electric turbines to contribute to meeting that peak demand . |
| 8 | The Cobe evidence will flesh out the skeleton of existing knowledge and allow astronomers to begin to chose between competing cosmological theories . |
| 9 | Not only are peak users paying for the high marginal costs they impose , but also those users who would not mind consuming at a different time ( e.g. households with night storage heaters , who can use electricity at a time when marginal costs are low ) are induced by cheaper prices to switch to consuming at off-peak times . |
| 10 | That is good news for firms with the skills to graduate to supplying entire systems . |
| 11 | The stout man ran into the cottage and phoned for the police and then for other keepers to come to Smiling Meadow . |
| 12 | In popular belief , adults would take years or generations to adapt to spelling change , although in this decade vaster changes have taken place in everything else . |
| 13 | Surrey County Council 's education department appealed to married women to return to teaching to fill the gaps for both part-time and full-time teachers . |
| 14 | A head of department may be too concerned with gaining or keeping the respect of colleagues to admit to having problems . |