Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The correspondence has even led to romance — the daughter hopes to marry a man who is serving life for shooting his wife.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 32 | The legislature has never had occasion to speak on this matter , and the issue has never come to court . |
| 33 | Deregulation has also extended to business organisation though , as yet , in only a limited way . |
| 34 | North ( 1986 ) , for example , has suggested that widespread cash-cropping of groundnuts in the Sahelian zone has obliquely contributed to desertification because farmers can not afford either to purchase fertilisers to maintain soil-nutrient status or to use a long fallow period . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Undoubtedly there are differences in people 's experiences of support between grandparents and grandchildren , but we have so little up-to-date evidence on this issue that it is difficult to say how far such experiences vary systematically according to gender , ethnicity or social class . |
| 37 | Christopher did not run to pattern . |
| 38 | The boy did not go to school ; there was n't a school on the island , but his mother taught him to read and write and encouraged him to draw and paint pictures , she also recited poetry to him and sang to him when he was little … . ’ |
| 39 | The government is now worried that its industry will suffer from unfair competition if other EEC countries do not have to fork out for the extra equipment necessary to reduce emissions . |
| 40 | And Fand did n't try to counter-attack , only parrying again and again with the shaft of her spear , gripped in her two hands . |
| 41 | Frank did not look to fat — i guess it 's more a question of some people — looking fat — even though they are n't . |
| 42 | A central idea of postmodernism is , therefore , that appearances do not correspond to reality ; reality in the above case being the actual emotions and feelings transmitted and interpreted . |
| 43 | The offence under the Public Meeting Act does not apply to election meetings . |
| 44 | This is relevant when considering the provisions of s 83 ) of the Fire Prevention ( Metropolis ) Act 1774 , by which either party has the right to require insurance monies to be laid out in reinstatement ( if a request is made to the insurance company before the monies are paid to the insured ) as it seems that the Act does not apply to insurance through Lloyds . |
| 45 | What is clear is that the Act does not apply to conversion or intentional torts against goods by virtue of of the Torts ( Interference With Goods ) Act 1977 , s. 11 . |
| 46 | You could , for example , frighten a child into conformity with your wishes by saying that erm , you know , if , if the child does n't go to bed at the right time , the bogie man will come and eat them up , or something . |
| 47 | If the PB is identified as being that the child does not go to bed until very late , the most suitable way of setting a baseline is to note over a week or two the actual time the child does go to bed . |
| 48 | On another occasion , Mr Reynolds had just gone to bed when he had the feeling that there was a fire on the site . |
| 49 | The Council had just agreed to rehouse women who stayed there , and had promised larger , more permanent premises for the Refuge itself . |
| 50 | The proposal does not refer to sponsorship as such , but it does state , in convoluted Euro-language , that ‘ a ban should therefore be imposed on such indirect forms of advertising which while not actually mentioning the tobacco product , use trade marks , emblems , symbols or other distinctive elements associated with tobacco products … |
| 51 | FEELING FIT : Roy has already returned to work Pictures : BILL ROWNTREE |
| 52 | The discharge of sewage from boats has also contributed to eutrophication problems in the region ( which is mainly due to runoff of fertilisers from adjacent arable land ) . |
| 53 | Geroski 's review of empirical studies suggests that the effectiveness of patents in ensuring appropriability is generally quite weak , that imitation lags are short , and imitation costs low compared to innovation costs . |
| 54 | Two styles of pole floats immediately came to hand , the series X and the series S. Both floats had correctly shaped bodies — reversed pear — and at First glance appear quite similar . |
| 55 | The offer 's open only while stocks last so hurry to post off the order form . |
| 56 | There was room for both science and religion since the Bible taught how to go to heaven , not how the heavens go . |
| 57 | Bream shoal together according to size . |
| 58 | STEELFACE KNEW how to get to City Hall . |
| 59 | The possibilities sketched above relate to emergency planning , the search for hazardous sites , and risk assessment . |
| 60 | The difficulty was rationalised by describing the antecedent to the PB as being that Olwyn did not go to bed earlier in the evening . |