Example sentences of "[noun] of [prep] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The equations are often studied for different values of in with a and b held constant ; Lorenz 's original paper { 21 } took . |
| 2 | Ring contraction also occurs in the reaction of with with the loss , in this case , of just one SN unit . |
| 3 | The potential meaning of to with the infinitive can therefore be diagrammed in the following manner : The potential meaning of to as described above fits in with that of the bare infinitive in the following very simple way : the latter evokes that which defines the end-point of the movement denoted by to . |
| 4 | In order to discern the reason for the use of to with the infinitive in passive sentences of the type just mentioned , we must begin therefore by trying to observe the kind of meaning which these sentences express and the type of context in which they are used . |
| 5 | What is more , the use of to with the infinitive seems to betoken , as with prepositional to , a relation involving a spatial entity : a preposition relates an element conceived as a spatial entity ( a substantive or pronoun ) to something else . |
| 6 | At the same time as the non-past is undergoing this shift , the use of to with the infinitive is being extended beyond its concrete directional sense to cover all cases of subsequent potentiality and subsequent actualization , for which the bare infinitive had formerly been adequate : " … the use of the to infinitive in the place of the bare or plain infinitive increased rapidly during the late Old English and early Middle English periods " ( Visser 1966 : 948 ) . |