Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 2 | A cross spirituality will ensure that you and I are never tempted to follow fashions and fads in church life which , attractive though they may seem , ignore the cross or push it to one side . |
| 3 | Not once had any man ever made her so mad … or roused her to such passion , a tiny treacherous voice whispered inside her head . |
| 4 | In seeking to be innovative and adventurous , church musicians will need to be careful not to abandon the traditional repertoire or to relegate it to second place . |
| 5 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
| 6 | Alternatively , the exporter could seek a loan against it or negotiate it to another party in settlement of a domestic trade debt . |
| 7 | But these two books do not contain new scientific or technical information or add anything to existing knowledge of the environment and medical consequences of Chernobyl . |
| 8 | by dismissing her or subjecting her to any detriment which results in her dismissal or consists in or involves her demotion . |
| 9 | Such transfers need to be undertaken with care to avoid damaging the fish or subjecting them to sudden temperature changes . |
| 10 | It bases the idea of obligation to law , reasons for acquiescing in or committing oneself to legal process , on the value of the ends which thus become attainable . |
| 11 | You can also , at the touch of a button , double the width and/or length of the pattern , mirror image it or convert it to double jacquard . |
| 12 | Send me letters here still and I shall ask my new friend Mr ( wall-eyed ) Wood ( prop. ) to sit on them or speed them to another valley by pigeon post . |
| 13 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 14 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 15 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 16 | If your employer has the right , for example , to insist that you undertake certain other tasks or to move you to another department , your job will be at risk if you dig in your heels and disobey . |
| 17 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 18 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 19 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 20 | This reasoned and ridiculous plea had no effect at all on Jem , other than to inflame him to further violence . |
| 21 | Philosophy that limits itself to conceptual analysis can discuss the discourses of those who talk about sex and gender , looking for conceptual coherence and the presence or absence of rational argument . |
| 22 | The sorts of premises that lend themselves to this kind of development tend to be your large country house type accommodation , miles from anywhere . |
| 23 | Building on the TV success that rocketed her to overnight fame , she is set to make TWO movies and is launching a promising pop career . |
| 24 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 25 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 26 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 27 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 28 | This process seems to have been handled badly , even if it is not one that lends itself to sensitive treatment . |
| 29 | They took their toys to The Priory Church of England School and sold them to each other to help the starving in Somalia . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , he was making friends of working men and trade unionists , and devoting himself to educational work . |