Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on to refer to legislation in 1980 in West Germany and in 1982 in Italy whereby post-operative transsexuals are deemed to belong to their chosen sex and have the rights and duties of that sex . |
| 2 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 3 | Whilst learning to take the rough and the smooth of rugby fortunes with a philosophic air , Townsend has already reacted to criticism with refinements to his play that have been a factor in his selection for Australia : ‘ I tend to pay heed more to criticism than to praise . |
| 4 | Local autonomy has also led to variety in the way in which the education system is organised within each LEA . |
| 5 | Its best known relative is the chamois , a native of the European Alps which has also adapted to life at high altitudes on precipitous mountain cliffs . |
| 6 | The rare Himalayan tahr — a distant relative of the mountain goat — has also adapted to life in harsh mountainous conditions . |
| 7 | Since 1990 she has really began to surface with work which is not for the faint hearted . |
| 8 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 9 | Information that has now come to light about the political gulags and the Gestapo tactics of the secret police has certainly done much to underline the totalitarian essences of even the ‘ soft ’ regimes . |
| 10 | It needs time to recoup its investment in Pentium , and still has plenty left to milk in the 80486 . |
| 11 | I think that 's very important and I think it 's , there 's er actually , I have to say er I detect in 's letter because I am quite sure that a year ago she would have questioned the parish council 's existence , and indeed she 's being , erm , to my perception , highly critical of er the fact that the parish council has even dared to sort of taste the oxygen outside their own homes . |
| 12 | A preliminary version of ‘ La Danse ’ , a mural painting executed in 1933 by Henri Matisse for the home of Dr Barnes at Merion near Philadelphia ( see p.7 ) has recently come to light in the possessions of the youngest son , art dealer Pierre Matisse . |
| 13 | ‘ Put on the clothes you put on to go to church on Sunday . |
| 14 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
| 15 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 16 | Yesterday , however , his deadly spell was merely a generous layer of icing on the cake with Leicestershire looking already doomed to failure at 86 for five . |
| 17 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 18 | She 'd never resorted to violence in her life , but suddenly the thought of landing a punch square on that granite jaw was enormously appealing . |
| 19 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 20 | erm in general we must remember that Iran was erm stating very clearly that it was exporting it 's revolution and there were statements which came out from the Iraqui from the Irani revolutionary committee that they were against the Arab states at the time and that they were very committed towards liberating Israel through Baghdad and such statements was coming , so obviously erm the Arabs had to stick together according to charter of the league of Arab states , which everybody was a member of , and Iraq being subjected to war it was natural for the Arabs to give Iraq support . |
| 21 | The offer 's open only while stocks last so hurry to post off the order form . |
| 22 | The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people . |
| 23 | We have become so used to thinking of Günter Wand as a conductor who specialises exclusively in the late 18th and 19th Century symphonic repertoire that it comes as something of a shock to find him performing a wide variety of works of more contemporary lineage . |
| 24 | And she got herself ready for bed and you know just went to bed by herself . |
| 25 | Your poor visitors had come miles , had to wait to be taken from the prison gate to the gym , and then had to queue up waiting to hand in a bunch of flowers or something trivial , and then it all had to be signed for , then the screws came over to your table and you had to sign for it . |
| 26 | They said Nicola had been found brutally stabbed to death in her office although neither newspaper disclosed that the murder weapon was a pair of scissors . |
| 27 | The close agreement between the teams ' assessment diagnoses and those made by formal psychiatric review is reassuring , in that the multidisciplinary approach to initial assessment seems not to lead to misdiagnosis of patients . |
| 28 | The PCCh and the MIR on Jan. 27 , 1990 , undertook not to resort to violence during the term of office of the Aylwin administration . |
| 29 | This will operate under the name of Focus Sales Group , and will distribute titles from publishers of black writing , men 's and women 's issues , psychology , personal development , recovery and new thought — publishers like Shambhala itself , Chiron , Parallax and Siga ( all three having recently transferred to Airlift from other distributors ) , Beacon , Hazelden , Writers & Readers , Parabola and Spring Publications , among others . |
| 30 | While many Alfonsists became increasingly attracted to fascism after 1931 , openly fascist organizations made little headway in Spain before 1936 . |