Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our tiny underground Church was too small , so we invited everyone to the main hall of Munster Road School . |
| 2 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 3 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 4 | These were demanded relentlessly by the Russian government and by traders because of their commercial value , but they contributed nothing to the natural economy of the natives . |
| 5 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |
| 6 | I mean we used to do the annual report because the R C E had to provide something to the General Manager |
| 7 | These workers regarded themselves as temporarily relieving their parents of the burden of supporting them and perhaps contributing something to the overall family budget . |
| 8 | The Guild consists of around 140 writers and winning projects have to be environmentally sound as well as contributing something to the local economy . |
| 9 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 10 | But there is always room for more and the Managing Director of the Resource Centre , Sr Anna Doherty would like to hear from any individuals , groups , clubs or organisations interested in organising an event or contributing anything to the general fun of the weekend . |
| 11 | no longer adds anything to the general prohibition set out in article 52 , since the court has held that , as from the end of the transitional period , article 52 is directly applicable . |
| 12 | Using such stereotypes , one can then argue that the occult sciences of the Renaissance could contribute nothing to the new sciences of the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 14 | Its formation may have owed something to the traditional structure of the peasant commune ; its unity and authority were enhanced by the absence of firmly entrenched separate trade unions ; and its electoral procedure was drawn directly from the experience of the Shidlovsky Commission . |
| 15 | This means that the facts unc we are assuming are in principle decidable , an so add nothing to the real power of our system . |
| 16 | More fashionably , this may be expressed in terms of " capital points " which may facilitate mental calculation of the agreed ratio at any given time but otherwise add nothing to the traditional method . |
| 17 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 18 | They are perhaps owe something to the tabloid newspapers and colour supplements , as these have emerged in the post-war years , with their high illustrative content and minimal text . |
| 19 | The question is , does this added complexity and the assumption on which it is based add anything to the overall performance ? |
| 20 | Bring everything to the small salon as soon as you have it ready . |
| 21 | Change was a mass movement ; it owed nothing to the puny efforts of the individual . |
| 22 | City failed to produce one worthwhile shot and owed everything to the extraordinary reflexes of their goalkeeper . |
| 23 | This ‘ conveyor belt ’ view of the oceanic crust , which owed something to the earlier ideas of Holmes , was termed seafloor spreading by Dietz , another American geologist . |
| 24 | He developed a distinctive style which owed something to the German illustrator Wilhelm Busch . |
| 25 | Each of these three processes has contributed something to the changing broadcasting scene . |
| 26 | Leys refers to them both , but only applies one to the Kenyan situation , that of the creation of state posts to absorb the unemployed surplus population formed by changing relations of production . |
| 27 | Team-teaching alongside a knowledgeable and enthusiastic colleague can effectively take one to the next stage . |
| 28 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |
| 29 | The absence of reverence for wine is what endears one to the Italian approach . |
| 30 | I listened to one choral song from Southwark Cathedral , prayers were said for a family whose names would mean nothing to the vast majority of listeners . |