Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially it adds to measures in various statutes , notably in the Highways Act 1980 — covering England and Wales — and the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 , so that traffic-calming techniques of the sort that I outlined can be constructed by highway and road authorities . |
| 2 | On the other hand , providing a false diagnosis adds to patients ' disability , reinforces maladaptive behaviour , and ensures that what might have been a brief illness becomes refractory to treatment . |
| 3 | The lack of fully operational IPPs , which could have provided a safeguard against inconsistency , adds to workers ' anxiety that Elizabeth and Helen are being let down . |
| 4 | The nut width on the five is 1⅞″ , and the neck widens to 2¾″ at the 24th fret . |
| 5 | One of the main elements which matters to customers is that stock should be available to them when they order it , that it should be delivered at the time they request it and that it should be assembled correctly . |
| 6 | It is worth getting to know and recognize the small black blob-like chrysalis that adheres to stems and leaf stalks because it can very easily be mistaken for caterpillar or similar droppings and knocked away . |
| 7 | You will be held responsible for ensuring that all work adheres to regulations . |
| 8 | Arrested : A distraught Ms Gibson shouts to reporters after being held at the airport |
| 9 | We can imagine the dilemma that an individual might face if , for example , she works in the personnel department of an organisation and has to give redundancy notices to members of the same trade union . |
| 10 | This emphasises to parents that you take continuity seriously and that you encourage and value good working relationships with other schools . |
| 11 | Your mag , like similar productions , panders to guitarists ' obsession with their playing ability and the equipment they use . |
| 12 | Similarly , Fatal Attraction has to endings , although this is denied by UIP . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not sure exactly how much relevance that has to visitors , ’ he said . |
| 14 | He is married to Ingrid ( nee Schneider ) , has to children , Anja , aged 15 , and Peer Henrik , aged 10 , and lives in a lovely house built in the grounds of the Medau Schule . |
| 15 | Bugging to the hatter , cabbage to the tailor , blue-pigeon flying to the plumbers and glaziers , chippings to shipwrights , sweepings to porters , red sail docking to navy yard workers , flints and thrums to weavers , vails to servants , privileges to west country clothiers , bontages to Scottish agricultural workers , scrapings and naxers to coopers , wastages to framework knitters , in all these the eighteenth-century labourer appropriated a part of his product or a part of the material of his labour . |
| 16 | What about a Bryan Robson player that drops to bits as soon as you touch the fucker ? : - ) |
| 17 | An 8-ohm extension cabinet can be added to both versions , when the total load drops to 4-ohms , unleashing the unit 's full 350-watt capacity . |
| 18 | I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs . |
| 19 | What is the role of Nat Sec when HQ writes to Churches in our nations or to supporters ? |
| 20 | Ropes tied to ears and rings to hands |
| 21 | After the register , the evening prayer , the curtsies and bows to teachers , and the let-out bell , Dot ran with the others across the playground , through the iron gate , towards the jangling sounds . |
| 22 | GIVEN THEIR previous , borrowed moniker , it 's hardly surprising that Captain America 's chosen brand of guitar fury bows to bands both ancient and new . |
| 23 | Milk board looks to options |
| 24 | It certainly sees urban concentrations as resulting from industrialisation and capitalism : but it rapidly places these considerations to one side and looks to interactions between people as the prime explanation . |
| 25 | Cockburn looks to changes within the managerial structures of local government and relates them to changes in the methods of management adopted in the private sector . |
| 26 | If one looks to sources other than the canonical scriptures , Thomas 's role assumes larger proportions . |
| 27 | ICL PERSONAL SYSTEMS LOOKS TO RESELLERS FOR NEW US PUSH |
| 28 | Some might be worrying about their dancing and how it looks to onlookers , others might be worried about their partner 's nervous shuffling from foot to foot — what will people be thinking ? |
| 29 | The ordinary man in the street looks to farmers to combine production of food with care of the countryside . |
| 30 | The condition is conveniently expressed by where Taking the square root of both sides of equation ( 9.50 ) , the quadratic equation is obtained which has roots or , since only positive pulsatances have physical meaning Substituting for k from equation ( 9.48 ) , these pulsatances are and imposing condition ( 9.51 ) establishes that the pulsatance range corresponding to is In this range of pulsatance , the attenuation constant is zero , but from equation ( 9.15 ) there is a phase shift per section given by In the range which corresponds to pulsatances satisfying and , where and are the critical pulsatances defined in condition ( 9.52 ) , the phase shift is but there is attenuation characterised by an attenuation constant α where Perhaps surprisingly , condition ( 9.52 ) yields the simple relationship |