Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do n't jump to conclusions . |
| 2 | ‘ I knew you 'd jump to conclusions , ’ Kitty said . |
| 3 | DO N'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS . |
| 4 | Sometimes they sound feminine , as in ‘ Myrtifolia Aurea ’ , but do n't jump to conclusions because this particular cultivar is male . |
| 5 | The trouble with talking about yourself the way Stuart is doing is that it makes people jump to conclusions . |
| 6 | The inductivist insists that we should not jump to conclusions . |
| 7 | However , being a good inductivist , he did not jump to conclusions . |
| 8 | " We do n't jump to conclusions . " |
| 9 | And the next time you buy something from a shop and find there 's something wrong with it do n't just jump to conclusions that you 've been deliberately cheated . |
| 10 | Posterity will jump to conclusions : that is its nature . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , one should n't jump to conclusions but I ca n't help linking Alfred 's death with Matt 's . |
| 12 | The hon. Lady should not jump to conclusions . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't jump to conclusions , Travis . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , Durkin is not such a bad chap , ’ Carew said and immediately thought , Why do I always jump to Durkin 's defence whenever he 's criticised ? |
| 15 | The first-time 1.5p dividend should jump to 5p at the full-year stage . |
| 16 | Most of his current responsibilities will fall to HP vice president Wim Roelandts , general manager of the Networked Systems Group . |
| 17 | Eventually it doubtless would fall to Nour . |
| 18 | Other areas ( or " dominoes " ) in South-East Asia would fall to communism , thereby adding to the credibility of the claims of communists that history was on their side . |
| 19 | The deposit currently earns £710 per annum after deduction of 25 p.c. tax , but , if Labour wins , the post-tax return would fall to £473 per annum if subject to the new top rate . |
| 20 | If the market rate of interest now rises to 10 per cent , the price of the bond will fall to £50 , because £50 invested in any income-earning asset will now yield £5 . |
| 21 | The task of appointing a new Prime Minister would fall to Cossiga 's successor as President . |
| 22 | But it undoubtedly does fall to N C V O and rightly so , to take the responsibility of representing the interests of the sector on a range of general issues . |
| 23 | Mr Waigel hopes that public-sector deficits ( including those of state and local governments ) will fall to 1% of GDP in 1997 from 5% this year . |
| 24 | Employment of German workers would fall to A , with AC of migrant workers from the UK . |
| 25 | For this , those feminists , such as Finch and Groves ( 1983 ) , who espoused the cause of their older sisters , can take some credit , particularly in the challenge they threw down to those who assumed without question that such roles would naturally fall to women on their own . |
| 26 | Subtitled How The World Will Change In The Depression Of The 1990s , its central hypothesis is that we are headed for a major depression , that deflation will return , that property prices will collapse by two-thirds , that Islam will pour into the power vacuum left by communism , that taxes will soar , that many major corporations will cease to exist , that anyone wealthy enough will flee big cities and away from the gangs controlling them , that countries like India , Canada , South Africa and Israel will fall to bits , that there will be plagues of locusts and frogs and that firstborn sons ought to head for the hills while they 've got the chance . |
| 27 | ‘ I know it was awfully cheap : it 'll probably fall to bits , it ca n't really be cashmere . |
| 28 | However , if it 's something you 're not very confident and sure about , quite often the presence of other people makes you fall to bits . |
| 29 | But the curtains , it says please do n't touch , if you touch them they 'd fall to bits , they 're that old . |
| 30 | Employment in the UK would fall to D , with DF of migrant workers . |