Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [to-vb] [pron] at " in BNC.

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1	It is much better to have one review and to have it at the beginning of the Parliament , and that is exactly what we shall do .
2	On present thinking , it would be more logical to treat it as revision and to do it at the later stage .
3	The strategy is to sell the plug compatibles for less than the price of the equivalent IBM machine but to make them at least as powerful , or to provide more for the same money .
4	Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that .
5	It is quite possible to keep a lone specimen but to see them at their best a group is preferable .
6	In the next paragraph as to special aptitude Mr went on quote , there is an outstanding ability to make others feel that she is especially interested in their welfare and to put them at their ease .
7	The proposal is to mine the lignite and to burn it at a mine-mouth power station , probably near the Crumlin deposit .
8	He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight .
9	Like some of your more illustrious colleagues ( Ron Atkinson , Graham Taylor , etc. ) , you have a tendency to say a lot but to say nothing at the same time .
10	So — strictly speaking — it is not correct to say that it ‘ happened ’ in the seventeenth century and to leave it at that .
11	I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children .

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