Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people lack one colour pigment , and so lose sensitivity to part of the spectrum , usually red or green . |
| 2 | THE Soviet space station Salyut-7 made its long awaited return to Earth in the early hours ( 0400 GMT ) of Thursday 7 February . |
| 3 | It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart . |
| 4 | His father was told about the accident , and he arrived at the scene quickly enough to accompany Guy to hospital in the ambulance . |
| 5 | This did n't necessarily mean hostility to religion as such . |
| 6 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 7 | Physically he is unusually sturdy and has not fallen prey to illness during his long confinement . |
| 8 | People do not build resistance to tetanus with time or age . |
| 9 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 10 | A walk through the arboretum soon turned thoughts to life as a lumberjill half a century ago . |
| 11 | A general term can not give rise to zeugma in this way : |
| 12 | It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it . |
| 13 | Most of this legislation is of a ‘ regulatory ’ nature and does not give rise to liability in damages . |
| 14 | The principle that an equitable lease does not give rise to privity of estate has several important exceptions . |
| 15 | I would not be so ungallant as to doubt the word of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East today , but given the pressure that Labour Members placed on that Bill , a serious question mark would hang over any Labour Secretary of State who did not give way to pressure regarding the timetabling of a public inquiry procedure and who did not take some time to allow the result to be published or deliberated on . |
| 16 | Unlike the annual Environment White Papers , a sustainable development report need not give space to quality of life issues where there are no long term implications , such as local issues of litter , the nuisance from dogs , noise , etc . |
| 17 | He said he could not serve on that sub-committeee ( consisting of Brian Close , Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott , Tony Woodhouse ) ‘ when I do not see eye to eye with them on any subject ’ . |
| 18 | And if an objective moral standard is thrown over , what is to stop the majority in society — or even a minority in power — from putting away in a mental institution those who do not see eye to eye with them until they are " cured " ? |
| 19 | The portly Breton was standing in the town in yesterday 's parliamentary elections but it would appear that he does not see eye to eye with local activists . |
| 20 | Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love . |
| 21 | Panel beater Gordon Reid ( 32 ) , had just set fire to rubbish in the old oil drum while clearing up at his car body repair garage at Fenton Barns . |
| 22 | If he does , he may just come face to face with himself . |
| 23 | Steam power finally gave way to electricity by the mid-1950s and in 1977 , the mill was completely gutted and re-equipped with modern machinery , much of it made locally by Simon-Barron of Gloucester . |
| 24 | The CB must somehow involve obedience to instruction on the grounds that Chris can not have a tantrum while doing as he is told . |
| 25 | A decade after the end of the first post-war period in Britain ( that is , during the sharp oil price rise mentioned above ) social mobility was characterized both by heightening opportunities of rising socially , as well as increased risks of being caught in a downward spiral — particularly for those of working-class origin , who are among those who most easily fall prey to recruitment into the underclass . |
| 26 | We did not assess travel to work in detail . |
| 27 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |
| 28 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Well , we do n't always see eye to eye about things . |
| 30 | " I do n't always see eye to eye with my father for instance about the way things are done here . " |