Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [noun] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , people want to dim lights or to switch them on and off during long holidays . |
| 2 | In a demanding situation , as thus defined , people inevitably begin to experience overload and to feel under pressure . |
| 3 | Both of these characteristics will be overcome as experience of the new system grows , as colleges meet to share experience and to co-operate in quality assurance and as External Course Assessors provide support and feedback to centres . |
| 4 | Thus the initiatives of the Schools Council were not devices to control content , change teaching style or to formulate a nationally agreed curriculum . |
| 5 | They like to blend colours and to create contrasting areas of interest . |
| 6 | They operate to give advice and to act as a referral agency for the private profession . |
| 7 | It is probably obvious that comparability of unitization and assessment pattern , the frequency with which modules run ( often termly for popular Stage I modules ) , common requirements for students seeking the same qualification ( e.g. all honours students are normally required to complete a project ) , and central provision of course-wide performance data , all operate to facilitate monitoring and to reduce the burden it places upon staff . |
| 8 | In The Mind Field Robert Ornstein , a psychologist , attempts to give a balanced view of the cults , current in the US , that purport to bring self-knowledge and to change their disciples ' consciousness . |
| 9 | This can double as the machine teachers use to preview materials and to find a place on a tape before a lesson . |
| 10 | Advocates of this kind of approach take everyday experiences ( like cooking ) and use them to clarify those words which we use to explain mathematics and to vivify the abstractions which are central to the subject . |
| 11 | Conversely , the Commission is given wide powers to deal with those who fail to notify mergers or to provide the information demanded of them or who implement mergers in contravention of an obligation to suspend . |
| 12 | There are those who wish to mechanise man and to assign pain to the operation of a specific Cartesian mechanism whose job is to detect injury and inevitably provoke the pain response . |
| 13 | In the last reports they were able to compile , in April 1940 , Sopade observers were still noting that ‘ many prefer to keep Hitler than to envisage what could come after a defeat ’ , that fear of chaos and revolution still predominated among the bourgeoisie , but that ‘ there is no doubt that up to now the majority of the people is still convinced of Germany 's victory ’ . |
| 14 | I am in politics because I wish to achieve power and to transform Britain and its economy . ’ |
| 15 | While this is a complex area to tackle and it is by no means fully charted , it is worth looking at with some learners — for instance those who need to conduct business and to attend meetings in English . |
| 16 | After all , it is orders that businesses need to provide jobs and to guarantee employment . |
| 17 | The racing motorist , the concert pianist , the wood-carver , the learner preparing for a driving test — all need to learn techniques and to accomplish them fast . |