Example sentences of "of [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Boniface was consecrated bishop by Pope Gregory II in 722 , it was not to a particular see , but to a very wide commission of preaching to heathens , such as , for instance , the Aquitanian St Amand had had in northern Gaul during the previous century . |
| 2 | The didactic approach of preaching to ‘ learners ’ ( rather than ‘ students ’ ) and of spoonfeeding them with preset values and objectives is gradually being replaced by a much more human approach where students are enabled to question and study , and to add to knowledge themselves as they extract the best from individual learning experiences . |
| 3 | I do n't know whether it 's a case of preaching to the converted , but it 's fun |
| 4 | A lifetime 's habit of apologising to the person who treads on one 's toe is hard to break ; and ( in common with most middle- aged and middle-class women ) I have hardly ever encountered overt hostility from strangers , and never been ‘ chucked out ’ before . |
| 5 | And interestingly , one review by Mawer contains the only mention of the Newbolt Report to be included in the Review during the whole of the inter-war period , and this solely in the context of attributing to the Report responsibility for generating a good deal of subsequent discussion of grammar . |
| 6 | He made the mistake of attributing to the press the importance that they themselves give to newspapers and journalists . |
| 7 | When I grew up , young people had various ways of intimating to each other a desire to become better acquainted , but playing footsie-footsie was not generally one of them . |
| 8 | and it all sort of refers to that part . |
| 9 | It brought a new level of handling to front-wheel drive that 's never been equalled . |
| 10 | Bet if I took his jacket off and put it in that washer it 'd of fallen to bits cos it was that mucky . |
| 11 | In 1880 he decided to settle in London permanently , and , also in 1880 , Queen Victoria appointed him teacher of singing to the royal family . |
| 12 | Pillai was sent as assistant commissioner of the Raipur District of the Central Provinces , where he learned ‘ on the job ’ the art of administering to the needs of half a million people . |
| 13 | In addition to this purely functional role of planning and buying , a good media person has a more creative role , too , of suggesting to the rest of the account group new ways of using a medium , and of bringing to their attention any special opportunities that may exist . |
| 14 | Indeed , one might be wary of suggesting to a customer that an invoice is overdue for fear that he commit hari-kari immediately ( without paying first ) . |
| 15 | Quiss felt his eyes start to smart in the fume-laden atmosphere , and as he peered through the grey , yellow and brown clouds of rising steam and smoke , thought of suggesting to the seneschal — if he ever found him — that he somehow persuade the scullions powering these airwheels that they should run rather than walk . |
| 16 | It could also have the effect of suggesting to girls that activities society regards as ‘ male ’ are pleasurable and rewarding , and therefore encourage them to stay with the male-dominated subjects — science , technology and mathematics throughout secondary schooling . |
| 17 | Experience can also be evoked as the condition for attributing a characteristic behaviour to someone , however , and this explains the possibility of using to even with the operative sense of know . |
| 18 | His past work investigated the notion of the blackboard as a surface upon which to coalesce imagery , making use of the strong tradition of drawing to be found in Columbia . |
| 19 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 20 | TAKING as her text one of Paul Cezanne 's lesser-known dictums that ‘ the same subject , from a different angle , can be the subject for study of the most powerful interest ’ , Eleanor Bowen stretches the art of drawing to its limit . |
| 21 | The parabola has the important property of reflecting to its focus all lines parallel to the x axis . |
| 22 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 23 | This leaves the school in the weak position of reacting to opinion rather than acting as an opinion former . |
| 24 | could be seen as contrasting opposite ways of reacting to the modern era . |
| 25 | We each have our own highly individual ways of reacting to the stresses of life and of maintaining our inner harmony . |
| 26 | All that summer I was ill — they said they thought it was glandular fever — but I know it was my way of reacting to my father 's death . |
| 27 | When a report on its activities last appeared in ACCOUNTANCY as long ago as December 1983 , the committee formed part of the Institute 's Professional Conduct Department , providing it with a means of reacting to complaints of a technical nature without invoking the full panoply of investigatory and disciplinary procedures . |
| 28 | Border has a history of reacting to situations before considering all the consequences . |
| 29 | Detente and the new cold war in the 1970s and the 1980s can be viewed as different ways of reacting to the end of the golden age , the faltering of the Fordist formula for capitalist expansion , and the emergence of new policies of capitalist accumulation in West Germany and Japan , based on new post-Fordist technologies . |
| 30 | To teach , to take the initiative , to impose what shall be attended to , puts the student in the position of reacting to external pressure . |