Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the beat ( upwind leg ) the board is not sailed level as on all other points of sailing , but is deliberately heeled to enable the leeward rail to dig in and thus providing more lateral resistance . |
| 2 | This we have called antecedent , a way of seeing causation which calls for the use of the to infinitive to signify the before/after relation between the cause and the effect . |
| 3 | It was a pleasure to me to see the housewifely way in which Mr Wilson set about everything . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal has ruled that she can use an ancient law to sue the Today newspaper for claiming she stole letters belonging to the princess . |
| 5 | FOURTEEN cricketers of considerable first-class experience formed MCC 's team to tour the Leeward Islands for three weeks at the end of February , captained by Nigel Briers and managed by this correspondent . |
| 6 | Dent followed up with a request for Barnet to meet the 11am deadline an hour before the League 's annual meeting at Walsall . |
| 7 | Sociologists have either to accept a thoroughly verificationist approach to both Freud and to many of the founders of sociology , or to be inconsistent and accept a judgement made by psychologists about Freud which is based on logical and philosophical assumptions which , if applied to Max Weber or Èmile Durkheim or Marx , would lead to these thinkers being likewise dismissed as unscientific . |
| 8 | It uses modern technology to provide an extremely cost effective meal and it 's substituted with fresh items every day . |
| 9 | Although ignoring man and control systems , taking many detailed facts from the period of physical geography before systems and beginning with two chapters which are very climatologically inspired , nevertheless the approach was refreshing in that it indicated what could be done to redress the imbalance detected by some physical geographers ( e.g. Brown , 1975 ) and to counter the increasingly fissiparist tendencies of the previous decades . |
| 10 | His penal thinking was an application of his general philosophy that law and government should pursue ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ , which logically led him to espouse a purely reductivist approach to punishment , with no place for retributivism of any description . |
| 11 | Since the infinitive evokes the effect , to represent it as a mere result produced on the patient implies representing it as coming after the operation of producing this effect ( = the making ) , whence the use of to express the before/after relationship between the two events . |
| 12 | And she claims the Fieldcourt School in Quedgeley has only one teacher trained to help the visually handicapped . |
| 13 | One of the objectives of this work was to trace the south-westward extension of the Highland Boundary Fault . |
| 14 | From these data , it is possible to suggest a fivefold classification of the fields . |
| 15 | From the point of view of historians this can only mean that training must be broadened and will need to include a heavily element of information technology ( Greenstein 1993 ; Schürer 1993 ) . |
| 16 | It is eminently reasonable for an individual to choose the treatment that is likely to generate the most QALYs . |
| 17 | We had a long series of various pieces of research , one of which was actually talk to enormous amount of customers through customer and as a consequence of that we 've we decided to form a fairly business to produce a very different pair of stores , different in that they wo n't trade in the traditional way that M F Is gone ah they 'll carry different merchandise , different price lines . |
| 18 | By the time he had developed a strong 40-minute routine , he was invited to do a solo spot on Channel 4 's Friday Night Live . |
| 19 | Comments : High quality auditorium with comfortable seating for over 250 people , with an adjacent tea room which is closed at evenings , and can be used to mount an evening–only exhibition . |
| 20 | May , sporting an Elvis Presley head-piece nodded to Jenny who had decided to don the best selling Scousers wig set comprising curly wig and moustache straight out of the Harry Enfield 's series . |
| 21 | There were echoes here of 1984 , the year in which the main associations of the book world set up a joint committee to run a vigorous campaign to fight the then Thatcher government 's rumoured intention of levying a positive rate of VAT on books and learned journals . |
| 22 | The first was to cut public expenditure as part of a monetarist approach to inflation control , and the second was to reduce the apparently deadweight burden of ( income ) tax upon incentives . |
| 23 | It would be absurd to adopt a rigidly determinist view of what has gone on in the formation of culturally transmitted marriage laws . |
| 24 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 25 | Fiona , 34 , is leaving ITN 's News At Ten to present a 6am breakfast TV show with Michael from January . |
| 26 | On his second attempt , Cadfael made straight for Upton to enquire where their younger shepherd was to be found , and set out stoutly to tramp the further mile to a fold high and dry above the water-meadows . |
| 27 | We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial . |
| 28 | The IRB professes to be the body administering world rugby , but the need for the existence of FIRA points out the IRB 's failure to take a truly world view of the game . |
| 29 | But it is unrealistic to take an excessively puritan position , such that the only disinterested arguments are those which damage the speaker 's well-being , the only good actions those which are done for no reason at all . |
| 30 | This is why when you tack it is important to weight the leeward edge as you turn . |