Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may also see a relationship between a willingness to accept the authoritative knowledge of a subject and a willingness to defer to authority in general . |
| 2 | Come back dinner time and they were saying well no you see you ca n't just a borrow a car to go to dinner in , yeah that 'll be alright man and I had n't even been in it since Roy bought it back ! |
| 3 | ( Suddenly telling a child to go to bed in the middle of an exciting TV programme is asking for trouble . |
| 4 | I now prefer the analogy of the legal ‘ flak jacket ’ which protects the doctor from claims by the litigious whether he acquires it from his patient who may be a minor over the age of 16 , or a ‘ Gillick competent ’ child under that age or from another person having parental responsibilities which include a right to consent to treatment of the minor . |
| 5 | There was , in many cases , a reluctance to go to lecturers for help ; for example : |
| 6 | Meantime , what better case could there be for staging the Germany game at a time of fixture congestion than the fact that 10,000 youngsters , who watched the tie against Malta free of charge , have paid £1 a head to return to Ibrox on Wednesday . |
| 7 | ‘ Kicked out of Oundle before I had a chance to get to grips with the first line of the Aeneid , if you want to know the truth . |
| 8 | So he invited her sent her a ticket to come to America for a year in nineteen three . |
| 9 | He also supervises a media technician who visits the centre twice a week to respond to requests from overseas for technical advice and consultancy . |
| 10 | ‘ You think I ca n't get a woman to come to bed with me without offering her bribes ? |
| 11 | ‘ This means I miss my connection and then it creates a scatter at Middlesbrough as they try to fit me on to a train to get to Hartlepool in time . |
| 12 | The pool of enriched BL-29 polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) products was used as a probe to hybridize to filters of the cosmid clones that had previously been isolated with YAC clone y178–3 . |
| 13 | In fact , Flaherty thought it was a better idea than invoking the Draoicht Suan until it was explained to him that unless Pumlumon did invoke it , they would all of them be roasting on spits in the Gruagach 's sculleries before the night was out , to which he said that giants had always been partial to roast Gnome and he had always thought it was a mistake to come to Tara in the first place . |
| 14 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
| 15 | It was one hell of a thing to come to terms with . ’ |
| 16 | Maria Luisa had a lot to come to terms with — ’ |
| 17 | They have a lot to come to terms with , ’ he told her desolately . |
| 18 | They had a lot to come to grips with . |
| 19 | Charitably , you might say they represent the struggle of a generation to come to terms with a responsibility and authority they would once have rejected . |
| 20 | Midlife is a time to come to terms with the past so that the future can be faced with no unfinished business to block the way ahead . |
| 21 | Robson kicked four penalties and a conversion to add to tries by Peter Millichip and Ross Webber . |
| 22 | Fear was there , certainly , and also an inability to come to terms with what had happened , but there was something more . |
| 23 | This can also happen when a doctor experiences discomfort in the face of death , or an inability to come to terms with his own helplessness . |
| 24 | Sweeney Agonistes , as much as the later prose of Arnold , is an attempt to come to terms with this situation and to react against it . |
| 25 | Alex giggled deep down in his stomach and his arms and legs met like a soft anemone over her hand in an attempt to come to terms with it . |
| 26 | The first two can be seen as being derived from history , both shared and private , while the third is an attempt to come to terms with and respond to current realities as they are being experienced . |
| 27 | Following her death , which country did Jonathan go to with Terry in an attempt to come to terms with her death , and who did he meet there ? ( 2 points ) . |
| 28 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 29 | It is not an attempt to get to grips with the fundamental problems of this society . |
| 30 | Diana always makes an effort to talk to children at their level |