Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that impeccable sense of timing which so distinguishes all Trotskyites , Mr Blackburn wants to jump ship to a party that self-professedly regards the Conservatives as insufficiently vigorous in its pursuit of a free-market economy . |
| 2 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion . |
| 3 | If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion . |
| 4 | It is a condition that , at the time of insurance becoming effective , the insured person has not booked his/her holiday contrary to medical advice nor is aware of any circumstances which could reasonably be expected to give rise to a claim . |
| 5 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 6 | One accident the HSE highlights as a plain lack of common sense involved a child who was left in the cab of a tractor while the operator dismounted to add bedding to a pig pen . |
| 7 | After the object ( a toy car ) had been put at B , the boxes were locked ; with the result that most of the infants went straight to B , could not get in , and returned to A and tried to gain entry to a box which they could see ( whatever ‘ see ’ means here exactly ) was empty . |
| 8 | Like most artists , I hope to give shape to a reality that often seems wilfully chaotic . |
| 9 | The performance , broadcast on Radio 3 , was by Ernst Kovacic with the BBC Philharmonic , conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk , and seemed to do justice to a score so full of beautiful music that it will need several hearings before one begins to identify all its jewels . |
| 10 | This is seen to give rise to a culture of teaching as teachers collectively evolve sets of attitudes and responses to their tasks , the content of what they teach and the relationships they have with their colleagues . |
| 11 | The architect was instructed to keep ornamentation to a minimum , but the Victorian 's notion of minimal detail would be considerable elaboration to any other age . |
| 12 | In fact he was subjected to a very stiff , puritanical and doctrinal regime , only mitigated by the fact that he was educated by a long sequence of tutors , and seemed to have access to a lot of books . |
| 13 | When we offer advice , seek support for our ideas or seek to gain commitment to a course of action we are attempting to persuade . |
| 14 | And finally , that at Worley on the twenty fifth of July nineteen eighty eighty , you being the driver of a motor car you failed to afford precedence to a foot passenger on the carriageway within the limits of uncontrolled zebra crossing on King Street that 's an offence under the pedestrian crossing regulations and the road traffic regulation act of ninety eighty four to that do you plead guilty or not |
| 15 | Here the dissatisfactions of the twenties seem to give way to a realization that life is not a rehearsal ; careers are for real . |
| 16 | advisory capacity : a committee is frequently used to offer advice to a decision-maker , ; |
| 17 | Consider who is going to have access to a terminal . |
| 18 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 19 | An identifier which must be supplied to gain access to a module if the user does not have the necessary privileges . |
| 20 | To attempt such a separation tends to lend colour to a distinction often drawn within the curriculum at school or within the range of subjects studied in higher education between the useful and the useless . |
| 21 | Talking too much has the additional disadvantage that you may end up revealing more than you intended , especially if you do not want to draw attention to a lack of relevant expertise , or a past unhappy work experience . |
| 22 | Secondly , on the broader ground that the legislature could not have intended to give power to a court of summary jurisdiction to control nuisances from such works . |
| 23 | to pass ahead of the foremost part of a stationary vehicle on the same side of the crossing as the approaching vehicle , the stationary vehicle having stopped to accord precedence to a foot passenger |
| 24 | ‘ to pass ahead of the foremost part of a stationary vehicle on the same side of the crossing as the approaching vehicle , the stationary vehicle having stopped to accord precedence to a foot passenger ’ This phrase is the alternative offence to point number 6 and means that the offending vehicle or part of it must pass a stationary vehicle as opposed to a moving motor vehicle in point 6 . |
| 25 | If Mr Spicer 's dismissal for drunkenness last Christmas was a charade ; if he is still in fact in your employment though not as a chauffeur ; if your American mistress telephoned Mr Fairfax-Vane and lured him here ; if I should happen to fall victim to a break-in apparently arranged by Mr Fairfax-Vane in order to lay his hands on my Tunbridge Ware but actually carried out by Mr Spicer in order to bring about my death ; if my demise should leave you in possession of your father 's letters and free to publish them … |
| 26 | The user has attempted to grant approval to a package before the approval listings have been prepared . |
| 27 | Nearby , nicked from a book of Sunday School Bible tales , an incongruously pink-skinned Ruth kneels to swear devotion to a snub-nosed , Anglo-Saxon Naomi . |
| 28 | In the end they will have to give way to a Government who will not work in that way . |
| 29 | It may mean that a neonatal intensive care unit , after careful reflection , rather than emotional appeals and ‘ shroud-waving ’ , may have to give way to a number of other services , relating , for example , to the mentally ill , all of which can be financed for the cost of one such unit , which , in combination , will facilitate a measure of improvement in the patients ' conditions and their integration into society . |
| 30 | Major Sam Drennan , senior flying instructor in the UK , assured local residents that although 74 helicopters sounded a lot it was the maximum figure and flying was restricted to keep disturbance to a minimum . |