Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 2 provides a possible scheme for staging living embryos , although the criteria used may have to be refined or modified according to the nature of the experiment . |
| 2 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 3 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what support he gives or plans to give to the design museum . |
| 4 | All they can do is set trend targets and reward or penalize according to the degree to which they are met . |
| 5 | Points are awarded or deducted according to the impact of the crime on the victim , for example , and whether the offender is genuinely remorseful . |
| 6 | And when you are , you hide yourself in your office or get glued to the video . |
| 7 | Many , it has emerged , will be uninsured or under-insured adding to the misery already suffered . |
| 8 | Furthermore , all the professionals at Ashdown are able-bodied ( including the researchers ) and no representative from a local group of disabled people has been consulted or invited to contribute to the school development programme in any capacity . |
| 9 | Hard cash will be the measure of whether Climb for the World develops into an annual jamboree or gets consigned to the drawer marked ‘ heroic failure . ’ |
| 10 | By following the ‘ golden rule ’ of black and white photography — to expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights — negative contrast can be lowered or raised according to the subject 's original tonal contrast . |
| 11 | Whether or not those controlling the company consented or purported to consent to the abstraction of the company 's property by the accused , he will have appropriated the property of the company . |
| 12 | ( c ) Law of Property Act 1925 , s62 By the Law of Property Act 1925 , s62 a lease of land will include all liberties , privileges , easements , rights , and advantages whatsoever appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land or any part thereof at the date of the lease , demised , occupied , or enjoyed with or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appertenant to the land or any part thereof . |
| 13 | By the Law of Property Act 1925 , s62 , a lease of land with buildings thereon will include all outhouses , cellars , areas , courtyards , sewers , drains , ways , passages and other rights appertaining or reputed to appertain to the property or at the time of the conveyance occupied or enjoyed therewith . |
| 14 | A mechanical wound to the cotyledon ( lines 4–6 ) led to a systemic accumulation of pin activity and levels of this activity were identical whether the cotyledon was excised five minutes after wounding or left attached to the plant for 48 hours . |
| 15 | Steady-state levels of pin 2 mRNA were identical whether the cotyledon was excised 5min after wounding ( Fig. 3 D ) or left attached to the plant for 4 hours ( Fig. 3 E ) and are comparable to those observed in other studies of wound-inducible pin mRNA levels . |
| 16 | Equivalent and high levels of pin activity and pin transcripts were found in the systemically responding leaf 1 , whether the wounded cotyledon was excised rapidly or left attached to the plant . |
| 17 | The processor contains circuitry to request the next instruction from the store , and to receive , decode , and execute it ; the latter may require further read or write accesses to the store , or interaction with a transput unit . |
| 18 | Unit Trusts are open-ended , which means that their size can grow or diminish according to the demand for units . |
| 19 | It can either be marked on each item or shown on a ticket or notice referring to the item and in close proximity to it . |
| 20 | The management of patients who mutilate themselves while in a disturbed state will include treatment of the disorder that has led to the disturbance and will invariably have to be initiated in the psychiatric inpatient setting . |
| 21 | It is this emphasis on controlling the money supply that has led to the title ‘ monetarist ’ . |
| 22 | Is it not an appalling indictment of 13 years of this Government 's economic policy that yesterday one of Her Majesty 's coroners described the shortage of beds in one of Britain 's principal hospitals — a shortage that has led to the death of a pensioner from Southwark — as appalling due to a 2 per cent . |
| 23 | After a few minutes , use a slotted spoon to remove the beige scum that has risen to the surface . |
| 24 | In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word . |
| 25 | From clogged skies to choked motorways , from Clapham Junction to the Marchioness , Mr Prescott has been Labour 's voice of protest on an issue that has moved to the heart of the ‘ quality of life ’ agenda increasingly dominating the political agenda . |
| 26 | Any feature of the interior of the aircraft that has contributed to the injury or death of the occupants is recorded and the manufacturers and airworthiness authorities informed . |
| 27 | Another aspect of government policy that has contributed to the growth of homelessness has been the combined effect of reduced entitlement to housing benefit and higher rents . |
| 28 | This is a most useful provision that has come to the assistance of many tenants over the years . |
| 29 | ‘ We need a company that has come to the end of its natural life . |
| 30 | A kitchen timer that rings to indicate to the child when they have managed to sit for a specific length of time can be linked to the reward chart . |