Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still needs the freedom of a four-year-old , to explore , to laugh suddenly in surprise at the world , to be open , to wander with the secure knowledge of a base to return home to . |
| 2 | Botswana 's Director of Water Affairs confirmed that the contract for phase one of the project has been signed , but said that a decision had yet to be made over whether phase two was " viable " . |
| 3 | A decision has still to be taken on whether to carry out further research on detailed conservation plans and to consult the Tsimshian indians , who hunt and fish in the area . |
| 4 | You may prefer to pay more for a course geared specifically to the needs of health visitors rather than something more general , and may be able to recoup at least part of the costs of attending a course from your local continuing education budget . |
| 5 | The interplay of these forces on governments created a strong political will to embark on a course leading eventually to EMU . |
| 6 | He was shaken , almost physically , by an emotion far stronger than distaste and one of which he was half-ashamed ; it seemed to him both ignoble and in itself hardly more rational than the event itself What he was feeling was a revulsion amounting almost to outrage . |
| 7 | The reader of a description needs therefore to be careful about accepting as a description anything more than is actually visible on the canvas or in the sculpture . |
| 8 | A chairman has yet to be appointed following the resignation of Dick Corden last week . |
| 9 | The axon transmits information by means of electrical impulses , and it is beeause these cause current to flow in the media around the cell that one can monitor the impulses , and hence the information flow , by means of a micro-electrode placed close to it . |
| 10 | A buyer has yet to be announced for Harwich , where SeaCo recently announced proposals for a £200million industrial , leisure and residential development . |
| 11 | Bill Brandt 's black and white photograph of a Coal-searcher going home to Jarrow ( 1937 ) in the North East , depicting an unemployed miner trudging along with a bicycle loaded with a scavenged coal , sums up , with dignity and subtlety , a black depression mood . |
| 12 | From this , a lane goes forward to the last habitation , Dorusduain , with a parking space midway . |
| 13 | A male settles close to a female and identifies himself by vibrating his wings to the rhythm of his love song . |
| 14 | This incorporates a harness anchored securely to the car , and straps encircling the carrycot . |
| 15 | But we know that the gill lamellae in a lamprey develop medially to the supporting skeleton , whereas the gills of a gnathostome develop laterally to the skeleton . |
| 16 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 17 | A signpost pointed ahead to where the road rejoined the Coastal Path . |
| 18 | The designs show houses shaped like school set squares , with one high wall and a roof swooping almost to the ground . |
| 19 | We however consider it the best mode of instruction , as we are perpetually saying , that when ever a horse acts agreeably to the wishes of his rider , it should follow that he receive some indulgence from him . |
| 20 | A marketing department is a relatively new feature for consultancies and usually only the large ones will have a department devoted exclusively to marketing . |
| 21 | a vote given solely to one candidate at an election when the voter has the right to split his vote between two or more candidates ( hence the phrase ‘ to plump for ’ ) . |
| 22 | Not that she had much of a future to look forward to . |
| 23 | Wilson presents these in a chapter devoted entirely to a discussion of the practices of each of the 12 laudesi companies . |
| 24 | Further ( 2 ) it is reasonable for a fire-engine to proceed quickly to a fire , for life and property may be in danger . |
| 25 | Once more a misogyny produced internally to and largely by hetero/sexual difference is projected on to homosexuality . |
| 26 | I would therefore argue that one of the chief tasks of education , perhaps its overriding task , is the education and encouragement of a child 's imagination , so that he may not be a slave to a perception confined solely to the present , a perception that is little more than blindness . |
| 27 | A search has still to be carried out of the file until the particular record required is found . |
| 28 | ‘ I have no intention of meeting her , ’ Jenna began , but he too stood and looked towards the long windows as a car came speedily to the house . |
| 29 | For a child given here to me , |
| 30 | It is no , it is no coincidence that in a question asked today to the Labour Party , we will find that we a year ago when the Tory 's proposals were still being implemented , over eleven hundred people were granted in the right to buy their own Council house . |