Example sentences of "[adv] to [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These arguments as to public reaction and " trouble " for the social worker apply only to what may be seen as more considerable reforms — the relaxation of strict sexual control in most residential institutions , a greater measure of sexual tolerance for the mentally handicapped , plainer recognition of the sexual needs and problems of earlier adolescence ( even pre-adolescence ) and so on . |
| 2 | If you do not want to actually volunteer for a specific charity but would like to offer your services generally to whoever may need them , then phone the Volunteer Co-ordinator , who will match you up with all sorts of jobs . |
| 3 | If Saddam is overthrown — when Saddam is overthrown — everyone close to him will go too , and it 's unlikely to be a gentle business . |
| 4 | In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party . |
| 5 | If the ‘ kinship ’ school may be located within the broader framework of a power or class analysis of society , the ‘ society-as-parent ’ supporters might be defined as belonging more to what might be termed a ‘ personal . |
| 6 | Listen to the words of Abraham to the rich man who died ‘ between us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from hence to you can not ; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence . ’ |
| 7 | We come now to what might be called COSLA 's auntie problem . |
| 8 | I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . |
| 9 | There seemed no limit now to what could go wrong ; panic welled up in her at the least excuse . |
| 10 | Beyond this point he would observe something very strange : the area of the spherical surface would decrease , until when he had travelled twice as far to he would find that it had shrunk to nothing . |
| 11 | It applies equally to what would once have been obtaining by false pretences , if , as is here the case , the requirements of section 1(1) are also satisfied . |
| 12 | Branson protested loudly to whoever would listen : the Virgin fare was a ‘ realistic ’ one , which reflected his airline 's lower overheads . |
| 13 | Every composer has his own ideals , and what sounds well to one may be anathema to another . |
| 14 | There are other areas , particularly to I 'd accept to either to the south or to the north east where a new settlement could more easily be integrated into the existing landscape framework . |
| 15 | I ) plot closest to what may be described as a minimum value maturity-depth trend . |
| 16 | If we come down there , if we come down there , if we come down there to she 'd want you to . |
| 17 | My speech is therefore directed principally to what will no doubt be the two main areas of interest to the House : that is to say , the benefits uprating generally and the voluminous regulations that provide or pave the way for the introduction of disability living allowance and disability working allowance in April 1992 , to the advantage of tens of thousands of disabled people . |
| 18 | The exercise of decomposing the system models will aid this process , progressively bringing the systems ideas closer to what can be observed in practice ; imaginative use of unsophisticated computer software can also help , particularly where the level of detail makes manual analysis impracticable ; simple matrices similar to those employed to good effect in many of the studies described in this book can also be of benefit ; not forgetting , of course , the significant value of discussing ideas with experienced staff from the organisation being studied . |
| 19 | At the time of speaking Jake is looking forward to what should be a rapturous Belfast homecoming — but why no Dublin date ? |
| 20 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 21 | I can not commit myself or anyone else to what may happen in future . |
| 22 | Let us suppose that , when invited to judge actions or persons , I appeal only to what is , never to what ought to be . |