Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb pp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 2 | That was if I ever got to the bottom of the steps that make up one of the island 's most spectacular walks . |
| 3 | He himself always adhered to the layering method , as set out in his first publication , the smaller Dictionary of 1724 : ‘ In the Spring prick a great many Holes with an Awl about a Joint that will be in the earth and cover it would a good Mound to peg it down . ’ |
| 4 | During the war parachute silk was produced which later changed to the manufacture of the finest dress fabrics , brocades and bridal gowns . |
| 5 | The attachment to work of many of them is rather marginal — itself intimately related to the fact that frequently their temporary jobs are also part-time jobs [ see Chapter 2 ] . |
| 6 | yeah , that 's the core but it needs fleshing out more and a has agreed that you know it 's if you just stuck to the Editor 's Handbook it 's too narrow and it does need , I mean B A I E in London thus far are being extremely helpful if slightly cautious and I 've to go down and talk to the revamped education committee when the revamped education committee gets around to having a meeting |
| 7 | The accommodation model deals with the adjustments which speakers make with respect to each other in a particular encounter , but it can not explain the " base line " of behaviour which each individual brings to that encounter , i.e. the speaker 's own norm , which is itself somehow related to the community 's norm . |
| 8 | What we then see is that the hierarchy of use and need is itself directly related to the character of the organizing productive relations . |
| 9 | In the first round of the championship , Miss Minoprio had frightened the life out of one , Miss Summerville , who later explained to the press that she had felt as if she were playing " a supernatural being " . |
| 10 | ‘ Have any of you really listened to the language of this play ? |
| 11 | The highly transient nature of the casual labour force in hotels and catering , and the low attachment to work of many casuals — itself often related to the fact that their jobs are very much part-time — mean that the unions ' task will scarcely be an easy one . |
| 12 | Each girl was them carefully suited to the target , tailored to his likes and dislikes . |
| 13 | There are three variants of lotion to enable the stylist to choose one most suited to the client 's hair condition and needs . |
| 14 | A third one merely pointed to the playground |
| 15 | They ignored pressure from the Central Authority to await common agreement on a matter they were surely right in considering as one best left to the judgement of each area according to local conditions . |
| 16 | There may in this adoption of French terms be some covert assumption that postmodernist writing , like cooking — or rather cuisine — is something best left to the French . |
| 17 | The guilty one quickly slumped to the ground and her body jerked in all directions . |
| 18 | Will he and our right hon. and hon. Friends , over the next few weeks , consider whether there is scope for increasing that discount to something more related to the ability to pay of the single person ? |
| 19 | Here the station was setting the tone for a new British self-image , one more related to the power of medieval romance than classical imperial rule . |
| 20 | Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it . |
| 21 | Should you pay more for the rock — especially if there is something else attached to the rock , other than your intended purchase ? |
| 22 | The same adjectives which had applied to everything else applied to the flat . |
| 23 | Just hold onto the idea that certain operators will possess mathematical properties which make them perfectly suited to the role of representing physical observables . |
| 24 | She felt herself mysteriously attached to the whole of creation . |
| 25 | But surprised to find herself materially connected to the universe again . |
| 26 | I then went to the Grosvenor Hotel where they said Frank was , but still could n't find him so returned to the BAAB . |
| 27 | Last week I received three letters from her all addressed to the Commando area in the South of England and forwarded to Normandy . |
| 28 | Most dealers had already written in a premium for the premiership of Pierre Beregovoy , whose stint as finance minister made him well known to the business community . |
| 29 | Everyone then retired to the Clubhouse for some apres golf where this year 's Captain , Dugald Ferguson presented Eddie with both trophies . |
| 30 | Indeed , why was he so drawn to the case ? |