Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MPs who on the whole tend to be rather casual about going to meetings organised for their benefit by pressure groups tend to go to the nuclear forum , because it is always well-structured and organised , and because they can then say to constituents who work in either the nuclear industry or the nuclear supply industry that they have been , and still are , taking an interest in the decisions that affect those particular electors . |
| 2 | At the meeting on the 5 November the BSI Standards Board agreed to recommend to the BSI Main Board , which met on the 28 November , that the new body be permanently established . |
| 3 | Unless those eight masked High Masters were sufficiently confident in their associates to try to journey to the next galaxy and back — in some incredible megaship — to take advantage of time-compression ! |
| 4 | Their senior officer , Lieutenant-Commander Norman Teacher RN , was only thirty years old and one of COPPs ' greatest difficulties in the early days was persuading senior command staffs to listen to the young navigators . |
| 5 | Because several tutors failed to keep to the new time table for applications the Board has decided that they will have to revert to the original dates for the Written Examination entries . |
| 6 | Sobibor was the scene of the biggest prison escape of the Second World War when six hundred Jews rose against their guards to try to escape to the surrounding forest . |
| 7 | Ringing the woman 's number again , she found her in , and more than ready to offer her somewhat trenchant views on the House of Commons and the way that seminal institution seemed to cling to the outmoded notion that women were an inferior breed . |
| 8 | 4 Pulling his left fist back , the defender prepares to strike to the same target area with his right arm . |
| 9 | that a culturally sensitive arts education risks failing to exploit to the full its potential to culturally enrich the lives of its pupils by being , largely , ‘ gender blind ’ ; |
| 10 | The brooch purports to belong to the Dark Ages , but uses a modern cadmium gold solder to hold together the components . |
| 11 | The Order shall be considered a contract made in England and shall be governed in all respects by the law of England and the parties agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts . |
| 12 | My designs aim to appeal to the style-conscious young , whereas yours are strictly for retired country ladies . ’ |
| 13 | Carlie had to go to the foster home because she could n't get along with her stepfather . |
| 14 | He had to think like this because of the nature of his employment , whereby he was often required to make inflated claims for the nature and properties of the products which his clients wished to bring to the daily notice of the populace . |
| 15 | In the absence of some specification which states how long a product should last under normal use without manifesting defects ( whether or not due to normal wear and tear ) , the parties have to resort to the express or implied warranties of merchantable quality , or the express or implied rights of rejection . |
| 16 | Despite that , Jefferies refuses to resort to the usual remedy of a ten-man defence . |
| 17 | The IDA threatened to return to the High Court with a list of names of those defying the injunction . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , some optimists continue to refer to the primary visual area in the rat as ‘ striate ’ cortex . |
| 19 | Crowds were composed of groups of family , friends , or work-mates tending to go to the same part of the ground and recognizing those around them . |
| 20 | But slowly her body began to respond to the powerful but gentle kisses , and she began to lose her apprehension . |
| 21 | Clarkson decided to go to the small claims court . |
| 22 | This arrested the rite of roll and steepness of the dive and the wing started to return to the horizontal ( also aided by the power from the starboard engines and pressure of the elevators ) , I was then able to assume some lateral stability by careful manipulation of the outer engines . |
| 23 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 24 | The tradition whereby legislators tended to defect to the governing party following an election , however , meant that such assessments were liable to frequent change . |
| 25 | The couple agreed to continue going out socially together , and the therapist agreed to write to the local housing department to back up their application for council accommodation . |
| 26 | The agreement involved a delicate balance between concessions to the demands for greater autonomy by much of the French-speaking majority of Quebec and by representatives of the native Indian and Inuit population , and wider constitutional reforms designed to appeal to the western provinces , particularly the creation of an elected Senate where all 10 of the country 's provinces would be equally represented [ see p. 39000 ] . |
| 27 | Amongst all these fugitives seeking to surrender to the British in those first few days were the two groups whose fate is the particular concern of this report . |
| 28 | Moreover , their criticism of the arbitrary nature of the bureaucracy and autocracy seemed to correspond to the widespread dissatisfaction among the provincial nobility . |
| 29 | However , while P.E . 's recent offerings have utilised more varied styles and no small amount of wit in conveying their basic concerns , Professor Griff elects to revert to the dour , bludgeoning style which characterised P.E . 's groundbreaking , some would say epochal , debut album , ‘ Yo , Bum Rush The Show ’ . |
| 30 | For example , if the treaty breaks down and the Soviet Navy wishes to return to the Mediterranean rapidly it would have to bypass potentially hostile chokepoints at both ends of the Mediterranean . |