Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must all sound rather tame to today 's children , but it was a happy time ; a time of predictable routine , which gave us a sense of security . |
| 2 | The venture that did most damage to Jinky 's bank balance was the ‘ Double J Bar ’ in Hamilton , a pub designed to cash in on his name , but destined like so many footballer 's pubs to become a financial nightmare . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , most of the early studies on owl digestion have been carried out on species that do little damage to the bones of their prey . |
| 4 | The distal humerus and proximal tibia and femur are preferentially preserved in the predator assemblages where the greatest breakage overall occurs , while the species that do little damage to the bone cluster near the origin . |
| 5 | Also , his experience of the frequently inept English resistance doubtless caused him to guess that it would eventually weaken to the point where he would be accepted as king . |
| 6 | If you have a message which I may properly convey to her , I will do so . |
| 7 | On 6 March the Copyright Office conducted the second of two hearings to gather testimony for the recommendations it will eventually make to Congress on artists ' re-sale royalties . |
| 8 | Although many parasites can probably attack a variety of related species in the initial development of the relationship , the parasite fine tunes its metabolism as the symbiosis progresses and may eventually adapt to a single species of the host . |
| 9 | Why do all plasterboards secretly want to be a FERMACELL gypsum-fibreboard ? |
| 10 | If Mr. Goldsmith would care to accept the invitation — clearly written in the bottom left-hand corner of our charts — to contact us , I would gladly explain to him in detail how we tackle the very complex task of chart production , and in particular how we go to the most extraordinary lengths to try to meet the highest standards of clarity and accuracy demanded by the wide range of our customers — when flying in UK ( not USA ) airspace . |
| 11 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 12 | The dawg also takes much longer to construct , but would be ideal for a dedicated application on perhaps a PC where memory must be kept to a minimum and the structure would rarely need to be re-built . |
| 13 | If a detector is well-used , the wires and/or terminals will eventually need to be replaced . |
| 14 | A receiving agent will eventually need to be appointed ( either to receive funds if the transaction is raising funds or to pay funds in an offer ) . |
| 15 | Its preparing a white paper like UI 's ‘ Desktop Unix and NT : A Functional Comparison ’ that will presumably seek to bloody its potential rival . |
| 16 | I do rather object to the sort of chap who farts in public and then says ‘ Better out than in . ’ ’ |
| 17 | She is holiday in Gers , a very exclusive part of France , but would much prefer to be going to Tobago . |
| 18 | During the next fortnight , she divided her attentions equally between him and Dunbar , but , she whispered to Harry one evening in the back of the Bentley , she would much prefer to be with him and she was being nice to Pogo only because she did n't want to hurt his feelings . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to stay out here , that 's all , and I would much prefer to be alone . ’ |
| 20 | I mean , in the long run their both , they both give the same outcome , alright , but farmers want to try and avoid that variability of income , alright , so they 'll much prefer to , instead of having , you know , they probably prefer erm , a certain income of forty pounds rather than erm , an equal chance of getting one hundred pounds or zero . |
| 21 | One interesting thing about this fish is the temperature that it can apparently adapt to . |
| 22 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 23 | He had cultivated Marcel Mauss , Durkheim 's nephew , so that he could personally convey to her the importance of understanding the springs of human action . |
| 24 | Alternatively , eustatic changes in non-glacial periods can be produced by changes in the cumulative length of active spreading ridges , which will obviously relate to changes in plate patterns ( Hallam , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | I do so want to be pure in body and mind . |
| 26 | Both the American and British missile programmes owed much to German wartime work on their V-1s and V-2s , which did so much damage to London , Antwerp and Paris during the closing stages of the Second World War . |
| 27 | Apart from quinine for malaria and arsenicals for syphilis and sleeping sickness , chemotherapy was unpromising , usually because the ‘ chemical ’ did as much damage to the patient as to the microbe . |
| 28 | between Catholics and Protestants , did much damage to people and to places in the Pyrenean region , Pau included , and Jeanne d'Albret 's army commander , Montgomery , who recaptured Pau from the troops of King Charles IX , achieved an especially nasty reputation for the reprisals and pillagings he carried out . |
| 29 | I mean , to be quite honest about it , it 's a , it 's an unsatisfactory settlement , from whichever political party that you come from , and it 's about time , perhaps , the conservatives recognised that you ca n't support a national government policy that does as much damage to the people of LIncolnshire as this transport supplementary grant settlement has done . |
| 30 | Do much damage to yours ? |