Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The reason for this is quite simply that these aspects of deixis mostly make no difference to truth conditions .
2 Why do you not go to a provincial university meantime , and perhaps win a scholarship to Oxford from there ?
3 Erm he , he then obviously goes on to erm to erm talk about peasant bans and prohibitions erm and for some incredible reason the peasants suddenly take a disliking to gaming , gambling and opium smoking , three things that I could n't think of anything I 'd like to do more , erm
4 I much prefer the attitude to sex in Amsterdam where the whole set-up is less clinically efficient than in Germany .
5 Propulsion occurs on the back-stroke ( when the hairs are erect ) and far less energy is expended in moving the leg forward on the recovery stroke ( when the hairs collapse against the leg and so reduce the resistance to movement ) .
6 Or maybe , rather than a total replay , just award the Cup to England due to Campese 's blatant obstruction on Underwood just as he was about to tackle Horan .
7 Cells thus provide the key to understanding development because their behaviour brings about embryonic development and is controlled by gene activity .
8 Just send the bill to Denis , will you ? ’
9 Just send the bill to Glasgow then
10 ‘ Like move some mouth with Elvis , top your other self , wring the truth out of Crawford , get back your dame and generally put the world to rights .
11 In late 1917 , proclaiming Labour 's new commitment to ‘ the democratic control of industry [ through ] the common ownership of the means of production ’ , Arthur Henderson pledged the Party to ‘ strenuously resist every proposal to hand back to private capitalists the great industries and services that have come under Government control during the war … we do not mean to loosen the popular grip upon them , but on the contrary to strengthen it . ’
12 Yet his ambition gets the better of him in Act 1 Scene 5 where Malcolm is named Prince of Cumberland and he realises he has to stop Malcolm and also decides to kill the king and not leave the kingship to fate .
13 Did you in your time ever send a man to execution ?
14 Sirius All stays 7 nights or more receive an excursion to Mount Etna .
15 Jacob Bright MP , dismissed Acton as probably the most illogical man who ever put a pen to paper .
16 It very seldom goes to court , but when they tell lies that are damaging , I sue them as a matter of principle , and always give every penny to charity .
17 If I ever get a chance to git even , I would n't think twice now .
18 Test methods usually convert the manganese to permanganate , which is estimated by its pink colour , by comparison with standards , or absorptio-metrically .
19 ‘ The Americans always have a tendency to bolt off the blocks , and we had to go with them .
20 For at the same time they still see no alternative to Tayif , and still see Aoun as the one great impediment in its way .
21 Anglers who take this path — usually young , relatively inexperienced anglers who have been drawn into the cultish scene — rarely devote a lifetime to angling , as do most all-round anglers .
22 enthusiastically communicate a vision to people ( vision is seeing the cathedral while you 're mixing the cement )
23 Cable & Wireless Plc also faces a $368m damages suit from its local partners after it withdrew from the project to provide telephone services in the Philippines , Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc president Eduardo Villanueva said : Cables refused to put up its share of a deposit on the $1,480m telephone project on Luzon island ; the local partners also want the government to blacklist the company .
24 ‘ I think I probably owe a lot to Merrill 's previous employer , ’ Luke smiled .
25 And we are coming dangerously near to admitting total defeat if we lamely accept the solution to street violence is for women to forego their liberty and put themselves under virtual night-time house arrest .
26 ( 2 ) If it were available in respect of a claim under the Act of 1978 , would the ex turpi causa defence clearly exclude a claim to contribution by the third defendant in this case ?
27 In today 's preliminary hearings at the High Court a 36-year-old farmer and 25-year-old X-ray technician both claim a right to asylum under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to Refugee Status on the ground that they have a well-founded fear of persecution if they are deported .
28 The monotheistic forms of religion are the higher , for they more clearly and purely bring the God-consciousness to expression , ‘ and all others are related to them as subordinate forms , from which men are destined to pass on to those higher ones ’ .
29 We now give the solution to Problem 3 .
30 ‘ Women often have a tendency to arch their backs which has the effect of making the voice sound more remote , ’ says Meribeth .
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