Example sentences of "for the [adj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | " An increase is long overdue and would assist materially when the care for the deaf has to be presented at the top level , " is a lament from the BDDA 's annual report for the year 1954 . |
| 2 | But to deliver this programme successfully will require an invigoration of left politics , where hope for the dispossessed spreads to a sure-founded belief amongst the electorate that there is , after all , a worthwhile life after Thatcherism . |
| 3 | Even the few examples we have seen illustrate how species with biparental care tend to be monogamous , species in which only the female looks after the young tend to be polygynous , and species in which only the males care for the young tend to be polyandrous . |
| 4 | Frightening a woman by looking into her bedsit at eleven at night causing her to fear violence was held to be immediate despite the fact that the victim could have escaped in the time it would have taken for the accused to get to her : Smith v Chief Superintendent , Woking Police Station ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 234 ( DC ) . |
| 5 | The ‘ spoil-sport ’ is not the same as the false player , the cheat ; for the latter pretends to be playing the game and , on the face of it , still acknowledges the magic circle . |
| 6 | Support for the latter appears to be ebbing , with the Green alliance the likely recipient of much of the protest vote . |
| 7 | The statement says that where a member 's opinion is sought on the application of accounting standards or principles to specific circumstances or transactions of an entity of which he is not the auditor , he should ensure that he has access to all relevant information , he should contact the auditor to provide an opportunity for the latter to bring to his attention any relevant facts and , given his client 's permission , he should provide a copy of his opinion to the auditor . |
| 8 | This makes it impossible for the poor to move to that neighbourhood . |
| 9 | A government statement said : ‘ Malta has acceded to a request for the two suspects to be tried in Malta , provided that all parties to the dispute are in agreement and consistent with Malta 's obligations under the UN Charter . ’ |
| 10 | If this is not possible , your parent might be willing to consider going for a temporary period into one of the short-term homes for the elderly known to the National Council for the Single Woman and her Dependants , or into a home for the elderly run by the social services department of the local authority , while you are away . |
| 11 | Plans are already being made for the 1997 match to be staged in Europe and Schofield expects to announce the name of the successful country , though not the venue , at the PGA Championship in May . |
| 12 | Plans are already being made for the 1997 match to be staged in Europe and Schofield expects to announce the name of the successful country , though not the venue , at the PGA Championship in May . |
| 13 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 14 | We have to give thanks for the magnificent giving to the Camphill Project . |