Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of all this they realised that to complete the measurements on the range of electrodes and to see how they depend on the other experimental conditions would take nearly three years . |
| 2 | They argued that to avoid this it should be placed under trade union control . |
| 3 | They feared that to alienate the Grand Prince , who had a wide measure of control over appointments to the hierarchy , would leave them vulnerable to the intellectual vigour of the ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 4 | They thought that to do things by hand when a machine was available was waste of human resource , and so they put a lot of their energy into products that could be made by batch production . |
| 5 | No move was ever made to introduce flexible or partial retirement which would allow older people to reduce the amount of work they did and to choose for themselves finally when to retire . |
| 6 | The actors made the play very exciting and left everybody astounded and intrigued with the way they performed and to add to this the stage really set the scene with the back drops and props . |
| 7 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 8 | If readers of the Figures wished successfully to grow the delectable assortment presented by Miller , they had but to turn to his Dictionary for all the practical advice gleaned over half a century 's gardening and , if that proved too expensive , then there was the Abridgement or the Kalendar . |