Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also something of a reassurance to conservative waverers frightened of political radicalism ; the Council was committed to evangelization of the Christian gospel . |
| 2 | We know that there is a limit to what Britain can achieve alone and we are committed to building in the wider world the sort of society we strive for at home , founded on mutual cooperation , political liberty and shared prosperity . |
| 3 | and Popplewell J. ) on 20 March 1992 issuing a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum on the motion of the applicant , David Thomas Alves , who , on 16 August 1990 , had been committed to custody by the Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate sitting at Bow Street to await extradition to Sweden at the request of the Government of Sweden in respect of a number of charges relating to the smuggling of cannabis into Sweden in 1984 and 1986 . |
| 4 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |
| 5 | On the half hour John Drake 's diving header took Coyle 's crisp volley off the line with Collins beaten and Mark Donnelly had a shot scrambled to safety from the resultant corner . |
| 6 | Rat-1 fibroblasts that constitutively express a chimaeric protein , comprising a full-length c-Myc polypeptide fused to part of the human oestrogen receptor ( Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells ) , show demonstrable c-Myc activity only in the presence of β- oestradiol . |
| 7 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 8 | Many feminists who are Christians are surely attracted to Christianity through the compelling nature of the person who was Jesus of Nazareth and the power of his message , which resonates with their own beliefs and values . |
| 9 | In the course of this book , we shall appeal to evidence in the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic literature which offers insights into the way in which discourse , produced in describable contexts for recognisable purposes , is processed and comprehended . |
| 10 | Large pieces of timber take some considerable time to come to equilibrium with the surrounding humidity and , because the English weather changes so often , there was generally no time to build up dangerous differences in swelling strains so that we had comparatively little trouble from this cause , so long as the aircraft were in this country . |
| 11 | Remember that you will act as host on the day , but you and your guest are welcome to come to tea with the other guests . |
| 12 | Ian Evans first came to the Palace in September 1974 as The Eagles sought to adjust to life in the 3rd Division , after plummeting straight through Division Two in 1973–74 , and he quickly established himself as a favourite among the fans at Selhurst Park with his wholehearted displays at the centre of our defence . |
| 13 | Your own four-record set devoted to music of the Second Viennese School was , I know , one of your most cherished projects . |
| 14 | One of the breed of Northern working class actors who rose to fame in the British cinema of the early Sixties , he has moved smoothly between film ( Annie , Shoot the Moon and Miller 's Crossing of late ) , both commercial and subsidised theatre , and even television ( in Kingsley Amis ' The Green Man ) . |
| 15 | I report to H.Q at the appointed time . |
| 16 | It is unhistorical to assume that children in the last century responded to death in the same way as children today ; children 's attitudes are largely conditioned by those of adults , and in our day the usual adult attitude is to evade the subject of death , to treat it as ‘ morbid ’ and , so far as possible , to exclude it from the home . |
| 17 | Either will do , but the present confusion has only added to uncertainty in the financial markets . |
| 18 | The West German Finance and Economics Ministers , Theo Waigel and Helmut Haussmann , also visited Moscow , on Aug. 24-25 , to discuss matters relating to assistance for the Soviet economy and German-Soviet economic and technological co-operation . |
| 19 | The expression ‘ particulars of any such departure , the reasons for it and its effect ’ is also used in paragraph 15 of Schedule 4 and paragraph 22 of Schedule 9 ( both relating to departure from the specified statutory accounting principles ) and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4A ( use of inconsistent accounting rules for an undertaking included in group accounts ) . |
| 20 | Also interested in personal anecdotes relating to aviation in the aforementioned county . |
| 21 | This principle is at the very heart of all the recommendations relating to drama within the English curriculum that are put forward in this chapter . |
| 22 | However , at the time of writing , a new Children Bill is making its way through the legislative process , and will , once enacted , form the basic legislation relating to childcare in the 1990s . |
| 23 | The UK challenged the validity of the Directive in the European Court , but the Court ruled that majority voting was acceptable in this case since the Treaty gives precedence to provisions of a specific nature ( in this case , articles on the Common Agricultural Policy ) over general provisions relating to establishment of the Common Market ( Article 100 ) . |
| 24 | In recent years unification grammars have come to prominence in the computational linguistics community . |
| 25 | And if I dare say it , she has come to glory as the earthly manifestation of a holy trinity with Nicholas Ryan , father , producer , and his wife Roma , Holy Spirit and lyricist . |
| 26 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 27 | No evidence of huge deposits has come to light despite the Swiss authorities recent willingness to assist foreign governments in pursuit of funds embezzled by fallen dictators . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | To my knowledge , no new facts have come to light since the original decision . ’ |
| 30 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |