Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [vb base] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If doctors fail to do something the Bill lays down , the could be fined or go to prison for six months . |
| 2 | With no waste of time all the equipment was installed and set to work . |
| 3 | The report admitted : ‘ There are problems associated with this since it is difficult to ensure that feral pigeons only are taken since some birds may be ringed and belong to pigeon fanciers . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps you believe that I too have ridden that carousel to excess ? ’ |
| 5 | If forms of life exist whose chemistry is based on silicon rather than carbon , or ammonia rather than water , if creatures are discovered that boil to death at — 100 degrees centigrade , if a form of life is found that is not based on chemistry at all but on electronic reverberating circuits , will there still be any general principle that is true of all life ? |
| 6 | This was very well attended and a committee , with himself as chairman ( a post he held for the next thirty-six years ) , was elected and set to work . |