Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the figures given presumably refer to the state of play in 953/1546–7 , the note in the summary that the original salary for teaching was 15 akce and the reference to teaching in the section concerned with the stipulation(s) laid down by the founder sart-i vakif ) suggest that the medrese figured in the original . |
| 2 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 3 | I got so committed to the story down there , and I 've got so many friends among the Muslims , Serbs , Croats , peacekeepers and peacemakers that it would be very hard to let it go . |
| 4 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 5 | Two of them are ‘ common ’ sails , in which slats could be adjusted manually according to the speed and direction of the wind . |
| 6 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
| 7 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 8 | We have seen that the difficulty of obtaining the gratuitous services of suitable persons to act as trustees has necessarily led to the practice of reposing an ever wider range of discretion in those who can only thus be persuaded to act . |
| 9 | All of this activity has meant that aircraft and artefact restoration has necessarily taken to the back-burner , but , to quote one of the volunteers : ‘ no building , no aircraft in the long term ’ . |
| 10 | This has naturally led to the search for ways in which they can be relaxed . |
| 11 | His enthusiasm has obviously appealed to the party faithful . |
| 12 | The colour may be varied perhaps according to the type of tools put out with it ; ‘ natural ’ for pastry cutters and patty tins , for instance . |
| 13 | These identifiers can be changed ; the identifiers need not exist and need only approximate to the range required , as LIFESPAN will start and finish the listing with valid identifiers which are nearest to those specified but which do not exceed the range given by them . |
| 14 | These names need not exist and need only approximate to the range required , as LIFESPAN will start and finish the listing with valid names which are nearest to those specified but which do not exceed the range given by them . |
| 15 | These identifiers need not exist and need only approximate to the range required , as LIFESPAN will start and finish the listing with valid identifiers which are nearest to those specified but which do not exceed the range given by them . |
| 16 | These identifiers can be changed ; the identifiers need not exist and need only approximate to the range required , as LIFESPAN will start and finish the listing with valid identifiers which are nearest to those specified but which do not exceed the range given by them . |
| 17 | These identifiers can be changed ; the identifiers need not exist and need only approximate to the range required , as LIFESPAN will start and finish the listing with valid identifiers which are nearest to those specified but which do not exceed the range given by them . |
| 18 | These names need not exist and need only approximate to the range required , as LIFESPAN will start and finish the listing with valid names which are nearest to those specified but which do not exceed the range given by them . |
| 19 | The tour 's prestige refereeing appointment , the Barbarians game at Twickenham on 25 November , has rightly gone to the world 's best , Clive Norling . |
| 20 | SIR Patrick Mayhew , the new Northern Ireland Secretary , comes from Anglo-Irish Protestant stock in Co Cork , and has long aspired to the testing role he has won . |
| 21 | A similar settlement seems likely at Weston-under-Penyard , where the widespread mass of slag and many furnaces has long pointed to the exploitation of iron from the Forest of Dean . |
| 22 | One has only to listen to the forthrightness of ‘ Surely , He hath borne our griefs ’ or the intricate virtuosic weaving of parts in ‘ And he shall purify ’ or ‘ All we like sheep ’ , to realise that this is a choir or rare quality and precision which should be dragged straight back into the recording studio to commit to posterity its undoubtedly sublime view of Handel 's great choral masterpieces , Solomon and Israel in Egypt , or the earlier but no less demanding Dixit Dominus . |
| 23 | H. raised his special grievance , but his complaint published in the Sunday Express has only added to the completeness of his downfall … |
| 24 | The fate of attempted reforms has only added to the north 's alienation , as Catholic bishops have time and again pulled Dublin 's politicians by the ear — ‘ a question ’ , as the senior archbishop put it earlier this month , ‘ of legislators respecting the moral convictions to which people adhere , and which are influenced by their membership of the church . ’ |
| 25 | The stereotyped view of a homeless person used to be of a drunkard who has slipped into the gutter as a result of a lifetime 's fecklessness and , more recently , the visible evidence of frankly mentally disordered people on city streets , the phenomenon of ‘ Cardboard City ’ and the increasing numbers of people sleeping rough has merely added to the belief that most homeless people are destitute wrecks or foolish youths . |
| 26 | Like a wilting flower the half-span has gently sagged to the ground . |
| 27 | Serious cinema 's attempts to portray sexual passion have generally succeeded best according to the extent they have ignored this temptation : think of Brando , obese , with straggling grey hair and face plastered with pan-stick , howling obscenities as he floors Maria Schneider ; or Dennis Hopper , jumping on Isabella Rossellini like a mad dog with velvet , scissors , and mask . |
| 28 | In this one episode we find interconnections with race , class , colonialism , and ( cultural ) imperialism , and in ironic , domestic , tragically intricate ways : witness Gide finally capitulating to the class , racial , and cultural prejudices of his own culture , as voiced through his mother , who in turn speaks through her servant . |
| 29 | Now it has finally taken to the field and just about touched first base , announcing that OfficePower is from today , generally available worldwide on Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix implementation . |
| 30 | After Danny de Vito showed his skills as a director in Wars of the Roses he used his leverage with the money-men to bankroll a long-cherished project which has finally come to the screen as Hoffa . |