Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There 's only so much you can do to jazz up articles on the efficacy of heart tapping in achieving full blood drainage .
2 Perhaps I might just take the chance to say that if there is a local group that would like to hospitality to people from developing countries that are at the Institute , we always welcome that sort of opportunity and invitation .
3 At a meeting on Sunday , the 300 strikers indicated they were prepared to agree to management plans to resolve a dispute over lay-offs , but would return to work under protest at part of the package which included a wage freeze for 1993 and a cut in fringe benefits .
4 Did he have to kind of sort of did he look on that as a profession to do beside the farming or did he
5 Colonel Richardson 's pain is only the first pain to make me feel dreadful ( why , oh why , do women take to guilt like ducks to water ? ) and most people wo n't be as nice as he was .
6 Two flowers which do not readily spring to mind as candidates for cutting , but which make excellent displays , are Sisyrinchium striatum and paeonies .
7 So Brunner rejected the possibility of an independent natural theology in which man could attain to knowledge of God through the general revelation in nature ; for the defacing of the image of God in him had made that impossible .
8 Significantly , this is the very language which Urban II had used three years earlier with regard to homage by priests to laymen : the hands , he had declared , in which Christ 's Body was made in the Eucharist were defiled by having been enclosed in the bloody hands of laymen .
9 With regard to access to Art as a subject in the school curriculum , the Head of Department pointed out that he and his colleagues made special provision for some pupils , asking it if was generally known that pupils who opted not to do Art ( i.e. whose option choices precluded Art ) could still do it after school as an additional subject and that we do get some of them through ( verified note of meeting ) .
10 Part of Miller 's next letter , 12 January 1758 , has already been quoted ( p. 80 ) with regard to loss of specimens at sea and this was regrettable as his Hortus siccus contained nearly ten thousand specimens and he wished to make it as complete as possible .
11 Because there are so many English folk now in every community and we do tend to sort of doctor up the language a bit you know when we talk to them .
12 to obtain the above for employees of other institutions whom the Executive Committee may admit to membership from time to time ;
13 They are among 214 families worldwide whose medical history has been analysed to narrow the hunt for the gene , which can lead to cancer among women in their 30s and 40s .
14 The velocity gradient can lead to generation of turbulence in the usual way through the action of inertia forces ( Section 19.3 ) .
15 Mr Gourlay said there was also concern about the transitional arrangements which would lead to disparity of treatment between different companies which had not made long-term commitments for rigs which would qualify for tax relief .
16 They can lead to lack of clarity about who does what , fail the local loyalty test , are less efficient at making decisions .
17 It would lead to lack of competition in local retailing and an increasing reliance on basic ‘ no frills ’ stores , selling only a restricted range of products .
18 For deaf people , this isolation may lead to lack of access to the legal machinery of statementing , which presently conveys at least some protection to those who are struggling with their education .
19 Too heavy a reliance on a particular firm or industry might lead to lack of balance in research output — fundamental research without an immediate pay-off may be pushed out , and there is also a danger that commercial pressures may begin to dictate the courses on offer .
20 Some parents were very worried that more integrated settings would lead to lack of attention for children with special needs .
21 This is simply explained since both bleomycin and DNase I cleave double stranded DNA ; bleomycin cleavage of GT on one strand must therefore lead to protection of AC on the opposite strand .
22 Party control over the army , KGB , state administration , economic management and other public institutions and professional groups that staff them does not lead to unity of interest among them ( Hirszowicz 1976 , p. 270 ) .
23 As we can see , it would lead to curvature of space–time in the absence of all matter and radiation ( ) .
24 If such mutations should occur in the CAG cluster of the N-Oct 3 gene it might easily lead to loss of function by aberrantly expanding the bona fide transcription activation domain , or to loss of DNA-binding if a frame shift is introduced .
25 ‘ It does not lead to loss of respect for human life . ’
26 In the most complicated animals , social life can lead to transmission of skills by copying .
27 Then , in a light haze of vodka in a Toronto hotel room , came the moment that would finally lead to recognition for Nicholson as an actor .
28 ‘ Yes , I do go to bed with Victoria on occasion .
29 It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands .
30 Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't !
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