Example sentences of "[verb] to the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 2 | I do n't know who well I do n't know whether you ought to write to the chief constable and explain the situation , all the |
| 3 | The 1985 Report on Social Attitudes found that the most highly valued method of taking personal action against an unjust law being considered was to write to the local MP and , although the importance of contacting the media for this purpose has increased , the 1986 report found ‘ a widespread and growing self confidence on the part of the electorate to try to bring influence to bear on Parliament ’ . |
| 4 | In 1977 , he moved to the Canadian Colour and Print operation , Blythe Matthey , and was active in the Canadian Ceramic society for many years as the pottery and whitwares secretary and chairman and also membership chairman . |
| 5 | Theodora moved to the front hall and opened the door . |
| 6 | After forceful driving by the male , eggs are laid in , or moved to the brooding tunnels or cave and protected carefully mainly by the male , sometimes apparently actually sitting on the eggs . |
| 7 | But few of their efforts in the field of development were blessed with success , and this contributed to the erroneous impression that nothing was attempted . |
| 8 | I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that our record is the best in the European Community . |
| 9 | Barbra Gilmor — Barbara Gilmour of Gilmore in its modem spelling — was the daughter of an Ayrshire farmer who , like many of his calling , was committed to the Solemn League and Covenant ( See chapter 21 ) . |
| 10 | This was published and printed from tiny offices in the centre of Dar es Salaam by R.B. Thaker , an Asian printer and stationer who had become committed to the nationalist cause and assisted TANU with its printing work on a number of occasions . |
| 11 | The Government remain committed to the Anglo-Irish Agreement unless and until agreement can be reached on new and more broadly satisfactory arrangements . |
| 12 | He is deeply committed to the Labour movement and proud of his trade union and working class background — and was once described as the ‘ rottweiler of the Shadow Cabinet ’ for his attacks on Government transport policy . |
| 13 | This problem is also conveyed in the considerable rift that has opened up between those sections which are ideologically committed to the Labour Party and those which are indifferent if not actively opposed to it . |
| 14 | We are committed to the highest safety and environmental standards and put great store by the contractual arrangements in place for the return of wastes . |
| 15 | The description Nizan offers of a fascist-motivated plot against the teaching profession in France , with its resonances of policing , spying , informing , and so on , was as much coloured by Nizan 's personal experience as a philosophy teacher in Bourg-en-Bresse in 1932–3 , as it was informed by the experiences of the other cited teachers committed to the anti-fascist struggle and inevitably embroiled in professional persecution and legal prosecution . |
| 16 | A good headteacher ( and chair of governors ) in this conception is a person ( usually a man ) who is not only committed to the above ideals but can also see ways of circumventing any constraints upon this style placed by ‘ outside interference ’ such as the advice of the LEA and/or the teacher unions/staff representatives . |
| 17 | But the Labour party was emotionally more committed to the plain principle that the workers should have access to the good things which in the past could be bought for money — health , security , places in grammar schools . |
| 18 | He was a comparative stranger to the London men , hardly committed to the same extent as local leaders such as Ben Tillett , John Burns , Tom Mann and Tom Walsh , his own union 's delegate . |
| 19 | He was so committed to the free market that he once said 12-year-olds should be allowed to have credit cards — if they had the money . |
| 20 | Government adhered to the prevailing orthodoxy that balanced budgets were necessary and desirable and that deficit financing was neither . |
| 21 | C adds to the 1017 entry that the exiled ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , which could imply that the original was written before this happened ; but it should be noted that the final sentence of the same annal , on Cnut 's marriage to Emma before 1 August , comes after the notice of Eadric of Mercia 's execution , which Florence of Worcester says happened at Christmas ; if so , the sentence on the marriage looks like a relatively late addition . |
| 22 | That it might be centrally implicated , however , adds to the overall impression that the stimulus to efficiency that that the market undoubtedly , though variably , creates , is achieved at a high price , and might be achievable with fewer side-effects by other means . |
| 23 | A tail adds to the bird-like configuration and , to effect the double ram feature , Ted introduced two additional layers of ripstop nylon at the centre section . |
| 24 | Similarly , the title of mayor or lord mayor where retained adds to the social status but not to the legal position of the person holding the chair of the council . |
| 25 | Of course , they 'd immediately jump to the wrong conclusion and think I was talking about a girlfriend , and I 'd get some almighty teasing , but the joke was on them ! |
| 26 | With the FTSE staging a modest recovery to be 6.5 down at 3032.1 having been 16.5 off immediately dealing began , City analysts believe the 100-index will fall to the 3000 level if the weakness on the New York stock market continues . |
| 27 | Protesters and their organisations may fall to the covert scrutiny or surveillance of the police through Special Branch ( and M15 ) . |
| 28 | Classic ritual of the disappointing album : buy it at the Megastore ; go for coffee as a way of prolonging the moment of consumption , rip off the cellophane , remove the card inlay ( taking care not to tear it on the little perspex teeth ) and scan the lyrics ( Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa/My pony boy ’ — shit ! ) ; tube home ( further lyric-skimming ) ; feed it to the CD player , skip to the second track while still halfway through the first , sample that , move on , hop and jump to the end and start wondering about forthcoming birthdays — then back to the beginning in the hope that maybe it is , as we used to say , a grower . |
| 29 | About 5,000 colonists have already moved into the 300,000-hectare Arara reserve , and thousands more are being attracted to the new town and sawmill . |
| 30 | I think if you saw what David did afterwards , he was obviously attracted to the one-man show that Tony Newley was doing at the time like , ‘ Stop The World ’ and things like that , and the lyrics appealed to him . |