Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should , in a cowardly manner , become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour . ’
2 The government also orders , or turns a blind eye to , more violent methods of keeping opponents quiet .
3 It was not possible to raise the necessary capital , or to sell or grant a long lease to developers , where the only marketable title was the life estate of the head of the family .
4 An ‘ episode ’ is the name given to the smallest complete unit of teaching — this could be the teacher 's revision of the previous lesson 's work ( revision episode ) or explaining a particular point to the class ( explanation episode ) or coaching an individual child on a problem he is working on ( coaching episode ) , etc .
5 But the problem remained that the physical basis of Ampère 's equations was implausible ; they provided a model which could be adapted to fit new discoveries , but which did not lead to new predictions or give a convincing explanation to those whose first language was not mathematics-like Faraday .
6 When someone complains that he has a toothache , or attributes a similar condition to another person , what exactly is he saying ?
7 Gloves ( or gauntlets , which also protect your wrists ) should be worn when smoothing mirror edges , or cutting a large mirror to size .
8 Within a period of one month the Commission will decide whether there are any serious doubts as to the merger creating or strengthening a dominant position to the likely detriment of effective competition .
9 The circumstances of a particular case may oblige the partners as a matter of good faith to proceed first by way of warning as to future conduct or to offer a personal hearing to the offending partner , but few general rules can be laid down in this respect .
10 Whether one agrees , disagrees or maintains a neutral attitude to this technique is a matter of personal choice , but how one would respond to a professional call to administer this procedure is a different situation entirely .
11 Or write a loving poem to the wife ( not satirical , naturally ) .
12 The structure of the turbulence is thus changing in a way that produces a faster approach to laminar motion , perhaps because the generation of eruptions ( Section 21.6 ) is suppressed .
13 The dogs followed hard on their heels up the deep-treaded , creaking staircase that made a gradual ascent to the first floor .
14 There was something about this part of France that made a powerful appeal to her imagination and emotions .
15 And that made a big difference to my life .
16 Western countries should be prepared to open themselves far wider to East European countries that make a real move to democracy and free markets : let the shameful visa queues at western embassies disappear , welcome Gastarbeiter from these countries , open up to any exports deserving East Europeans are capable of selling in the West 's competitive markets .
17 We will review the charitable status of independent schools with the intention of ensuring that the benefits of charitable status are only awarded to those institutions that make a genuine contribution to the wider community .
18 Griffith-Boscawen introduced in 1912 a Bill to make improvement grants for rural housing , a proposal that provided a Unionist response to Lloyd George 's Land Campaign .
19 The only viable alternative is to ‘ mimagree ’ otherwise , to mime agreement in such a way as to contest subtly the authority of the language used rather than launching a direct challenge to male discursive authority .
20 Converted markets can offer a different facility that adds a new dimension to urban life .
21 And we were heading towards a sector containing a world that seemed a beneficial place to be , for a while .
22 One day , something happened that added a new idea to the ideas that I already had .
23 views that hold a good life to be readily achievable only in certain well-defined types of social structure , or only in a society that works concertedly for the realization of certain higher human capacities and the suppression of baser ones , or only given certain types of economic relations among men .
24 The first is that Luftwaffe defences became better , too , and that caused a high price to be paid in terms of casualties .
25 ‘ Boggers ’ ( no , I do n't know why , though I suspect it may have something to do with a haircut that bears a passing resemblance to a bogbrush ) may have a couple of incisive seasons left in him at best , but opponents will rarely get a moment 's peace when he combines with Bicknell and Waqar Younis next year .
26 Several wild song thrushes in different parts of Britain — and some blackbirds too — have been heard singing a new song that bears a striking resemblance to the distinctive electronic warble of British Telecom 's ‘ trimphones ’ .
27 It neither assumes a detailed medical knowledge nor adopts a patronising tone to those ‘ who should know better ; ’ the balance struck is admirable .
28 The final sting in the tail , however , is that adding a decent keyboard to your Spectrum is , while adding to its usefulness , going to raise its price to a level where you 'd have got a decent keyboard included in the cost .
29 Rather than turning a blind eye to the polishers and legislating against the scuffers , we should more logically allow no interference … on either side of the ball .
30 Luna 2 are masters of understated melodies , rippled with smooth guitar lines that lend a spooky groove to the jaunty introspection of Wareham 's songwriting .
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