Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [conj] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They frequently write laboratory reports that give all the facts about an experiment or test but then come to an abrupt halt . |
| 2 | Many non-owners are happy to go to their local riding school for their weekly lesson or hack and never aspire to anything greater . |
| 3 | When an acute outbreak has occurred the sheep should be treated with one of the benzimidazoles , levamisole or ivermectin and immediately moved to pasture not recently grazed by sheep . |
| 4 | As is so often the case in Paisley 's career , the crucial step was taken by someone other than Paisley and then offered to Paisley as an opportunity the possibilities of which he could appreciate . |
| 5 | But the story is essentially the same : England 's long aristocratic hangover ( the idea of an English ancien régime , outlandish to Whiggish historians , has been taken up on the right by Jonathan Clark and others in interpretations that contest but also defer to Anderson 's own ) ; its early industrialisation ; a weak-kneed bourgeoisie ; an inward working-class addicted to ‘ Labourism ’ ; the distraction of empire ; the more recent hollow heroics of ‘ Ukania ’ ; and the failure to develop a progressive intellectual culture grounded in a radical sociology . |
| 6 | In addition , the fact that women are less mobile than men and more confined to the home means that they are less likely to be exposed to situations which lack effective informal social controls . |
| 7 | This would mean that follow-on credit transactions which individually amounted to less than £30 but together amounted to more would become regulated agreements , under the Consumer Credit Act . |
| 8 | Sarah enjoys swimming and badminton and also admits to enjoying school . |
| 9 | His detailed and systematic accumulation of electoral information provided him with an unsurpassed knowledge of constituencies and candidates and greatly contributed to the efficient Conservative organization which triumphed in 1841 . |
| 10 | X X Y , now the B's should in fact be Y's It 's what comes of talking about it in A's and B's and then changing to X and Y's . |
| 11 | Persistent infections occupy the middle ground between acute life-threatening infections that can overcome the immune and interferon systems , and infections that readily succumb to these defences — albeit after a short burst of disease . |
| 12 | The propositions that this book addresses are that research is an important ingredient in the formation and implementation of effective policies and good practice in child care ; and that those who work in the child care services can not only incorporate research into their general experience , knowledge and skill but also contribute to it through their own careful observation and recording . |
| 13 | Like the populists , the pious Protestants were profoundly opposed to Irish nationalism and republicanism and hence tended to be aggressive in defence of the Union with Britain . |
| 14 | Perhaps , after all , anguish died with time , and life became a simple matter of bills and procreation and sometimes going to parties . |
| 15 | The 18-year-old Newcastle midfielder broke bones in his neck and back but today returns to Keegan 's table-topping team at home to Cambridge . |
| 16 | From Shrewsbury School Hillary in 1937 went up to Trinity College , Oxford , starting to read philosophy , politics , and economics and then moving to modern history . |
| 17 | Moving to a new area may not only result in lower rent and rates but also lead to reduced transport and travelling costs and perhaps lower labour costs . |
| 18 | It was thought desirable to hedge it about with safeguards that would prevent the representatives from arrogating to themselves the powers and authority that properly belonged to the people . |
| 19 | Aspdin set up a partnership in 1824 with a neighbour as ‘ patent Portland cement manufacturers ’ , operating from Leeds and Wakefield and later expanded to an agency at Liverpool . |
| 20 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that such weaknesses impede proper continuity and progression and so lead to underachievement . |
| 22 | She sends my mother presents and letters and once confessed to me she wished she was a lesbian . |
| 23 | It will haul a special train over the S & C Settle and Carlisle and then retire to the National Railway Museum in York . |
| 24 | Despite this cosmopolitan background he never forgot his humble origins in Ragusa , and proudly affirmed his Slav language and culture when mistakenly referred to as an Italian . |
| 25 | Satan shows authority when bringing order among his people and power when indirectly compared to Etna . |
| 26 | Economists and others who have considered the human capital notion over the years can be divided into two groups : those who have argued that human beings increase national wealth ; and those who went a step further to argue that improving the quality of human beings through health , education and other services increases their productivity as labourers and hence adds to the national wealth . |
| 27 | In spite of his gift to the sport , Keller was anxious not to abuse his status as President and never went to a rowing event unless invited . |
| 28 | The South India Railway was to be built as far as Ramaswaram and then connected to Ceylon by embankments and bridges . |
| 29 | Two caucasian Oxford residents with HLA-B53 but not exposed to malaria were tested as controls and neither responded to any peptide . |