Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My son has just passed his exams to go to St Francis Xavier . |
| 2 | The Commission is multi-disciplinary and it exists to provide independent medical opinions to consent to treatment ; to keep the powers of detention under review ; to prepare a Code of Practice ; and to visit and interview detained patients and investigate individual complaints . |
| 3 | We should pay the coaches to go to tournaments and watch and perhaps they could put over to the kids how hard they have to work ’ |
| 4 | The general , whose appointment as prime minister a year ago is disputed by a rival Muslim government in west Beirut , did not want Christian deputies to go to Taif in the first place . |
| 5 | It 's ( more or less ) official : Ken Olsen was pushed into resigning by the board : the Wall Street Journal hears of a meeting with employees at which Olsen discussed how he was unable to make the necessary organisational changes at DEC , in particular failing to get engineering groups to report to marketing , and then said ‘ that 's why I was fired ’ . |
| 6 | US satellites to go to China . |
| 7 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 8 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 9 | Under Chilean law a 15-year deadline for such cases to go to court would expire on Sept. 21 . |
| 10 | That was until the day of his funeral , when his fancy woman , Alice Mulcahy , through gin-inspired sorrow , told her that they had been making plans to go to America . |
| 11 | However , my reason for not attempting to make plans to go to Georgia had nothing much to do with the appointment under discussion . |
| 12 | But you 've all got your reasons to come to Abbey Life , and you 've all objectives , but objectives are personal , and should be personal . |
| 13 | Like Mr Marshall I urge all members who share our views to write to Desmond Wright without delay . |
| 14 | Christian orthodoxies , he was making dogged attempts to come to terms with his sado-masochistic tendencies . |
| 15 | Furthermore , he made real attempts to come to terms with the Emperor , and it seemed likely that the papal imperial conflict would now be resolved . |
| 16 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 17 | I 've made a few attempts to try to potty train her without any success . |
| 18 | Travelling with Jackson when he left the USA was perhaps the most awesome of all black boxers to come to England . |
| 19 | This is expected to be the first of many similar cases to come to light as local councils draw up registers of contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 20 | The Count can call upon his knights to come to arms and fight as part of his army . |
| 21 | We see this in the increasing influence of the new Ecology Movement , in the power of the Gaia theory , in the efforts of established religions to come to terms with their part in dealing with these issues ; and much more humbly , but much more universally , we see it in the increased attention that so many of us are now paying to the ways we celebrate the beauty and diversity of life on Earth . |
| 22 | In the townships within white-designated urban areas , opportunities to go to school are greater , at least at primary level . |
| 23 | He spoke out as the development services committee was asked by Leech Homes to agree to changes in the types of houses to be built on land in Bankhead Street , Seaham . |
| 24 | However , although he was not a graduate — let alone a doctor — his library , his sermons and his correspondence bear witness to his literacy , his reading and his biblical knowledge ; his liberality with licences for study while he was bishop of Worcester , his concerned letters to the masters of Cambridge University while he was archbishop , his interest in Merton College , Oxford , and his encouragement of the Benedictines to go to Oxford all demonstrate the value which he placed on learning . |
| 25 | But when the orangs — who became known as the Taiwan Ten — reached Indonesia , the main Indonesian negotiator , Sutisna Wartaputra , director general of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation ( PHPA ) , changed his mind and refused permission for the animals to go to Tanjung Puting . |
| 26 | Their vows were received by the General Moderator of the Congregation , Sr. Ellen Gielty , who was herself one of the first three Notre Dame missionaries to go to Nigeria in 1963 . |
| 27 | He told his audience : ‘ It is a particular pleasure to be here , because I have tried very hard during the last eight or nine months to come to Stratford whenever I can . |
| 28 | That challenge is likely to take months to come to court . |
| 29 | They believe that any newcomer would take months to come to grips with what has gone wrong at Ferranti and would as a consequence be worse placed to negotiate a rescue for the group . |
| 30 | Some mediums were found to be fraudulent but there seemed to be genuine phenomena underlying the whole business ; and it seemed to be the job of earnest doubters to come to grips with it despite its general slipperiness . |