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Example sentences of "to [conj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The first such charts should be done early — at the end of the first day even , and then added to and/or modified day by day as more data is obtained .
2	People have been shown ( 1 ) to prefer proximity to kin ( presumably , the better to help them ) , ( 2 ) to actually help their kin ( presumably in ways likely to enhance their reproductive success ) , and ( 3 ) to produce more children and grandchildren when they live close to and/or are helped by kin .
3	to & fro/impotently/
4	This is based on the radioactive decay of & sup147sm to & sup143nd ( samarium-147 to neodymium-143 ) and is an adaptation of recognised methodologies .
5	Orders should go to & tel .
6	According to & name , there are many areas of aviation technology , ranging from aero-engines to advanced avionic systems , in which Britain is a world leader .
7	" It is settled now with David Simson , Mercht. in Day , That he Continue the packquet to run to & from Tarbet as Usuall .
8	" It is settled now with David Simson , Mercht. in Day , That he Continue the packquet to run to & from Tarbet as Usuall .
9	In the following example , the contents of memory location " mem " plus 5 is first set to & 50 and then printed .
10	On an expanded machine ( one containing at least 128 Kbytes of RAM in slot 1 ) HIMEM is initially set to & c000 .
11	On an unexpanded machine , it is set to & 4000 .
12	Like the normal printable characters ( Space to Delete — & 20 to & 7f ) they may be translated , but they are otherwise sent directly to the printer .
13	Letters seem to be taking sometimes two weeks or more to get here , and I suppose it might be the same at Nanking , but I think the post to & from Shanghai will be quicker .
14	We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago .
15	I think you know , Lincolnshire has done a dam good job for the people in Lincolnshire whether it in roads , whether it be old peoples homes , or whether it be in schools , whether it be in fire stations , police stations , I admit to where one could say across the board , they could compare , that they could compare , they might compare they might live in one area and work in another .
16	Ah well , you see they used to where they used to live opposite .
17	The atmosphere was , however , cordial , if not convivial , and the talk was of what grandchildren were up to or what Dr So-and-so said about this or that particular problem .
18	possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or …
19	In any event the last three novels juxtapose fathers and sons in an effort to gain access to or leverage upon some further thing .
20	I still intend to train as a doctor , because I feel there is no more interesting and worthwhile way to spend my life , but how many other people will be able to or want to in the future ?
21	The news that ‘ for the time being ’ they can only go to or through Czechoslovakia with a visa , left East Germans stunned .
22	First Edition ( AP ) — The World Health Organisation said Bulgaria 's ethnic Turks have not received equal access to or equal use of the public health system
23	Were her average weekly earnings ( see page 20 ) equal to or above the lower earnings limit ?
24	The authors , who have done field-work in Madagascar , apply the theories of Lévy-Bruhl : the pre-logical mentality persists in civilised man , but becomes available only to or through the poet .
25	I think also that aspersions were cast , as asides , on the true soldierly qualities of Sgt York , and hence on all American soldiers , and a three-way fight broke out among the French-Canadian , American and British , to a background drone of German bombers wending their weary way to or from London , or circling in a desultory fashion prior to dumping their bombs with a dull thud on the surrounding countryside .
26	Groups like the NL , the TRL , and the ASU were , in the end , either too loyal to or too dependent upon the Conservative party to break away .
27	As all the performers were either related to or known to the audience each act was greeted with loud and equal applause .
28	They were too nervous and frightened of life to react to or put into words the sounds they heard from the room where their father was sleeping with Rose .
29	With The Smiths it was a question not of desire but of longing — the yearning to belong to or with someone , to belong somewhere .
30	Freed from restrictions about who to lend to or how much to pay to depositors , and freed from the responsibility of supporting their corporate clients through thin times , American and British commercial banks are weaker than at any time in the past 50 years .