Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb base] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , can everyone take on board the idea now , if there are new documents being prepared or we get to a major re-issue . |
| 2 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 3 | ‘ So you return to a cold and empty hotel room instead , ’ Kelly snorted in disgust . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend is right to emphasise the great importance that we attach to a successful GATT round . |
| 5 | It is an interesting curiousity that the nearest thing that we have to a minimum wage was introduced by Winston Churchill that one-time Conservative Prime Minister , in an earlier political guise . |
| 6 | The vital task facing trade unions at the present time is to sell trade unionism — to convince trade union members that they belong to a beneficial , positive and essential organisation . |
| 7 | Critics it that time excluded authors inconvenient for their picture of a general return to tradition : Todd himself has little to say about authors such as B. S. Johnson and Christine Brooke-Rose , mostly on the grounds that they belong to a counter-cultural avant-garde never identified with the mainstream of British writing . |
| 8 | At five they are then pushed into an environment where the language is new , the rules incomprehensible and where , unless it is a predominantly Asian area , they are made to realise that they belong to a special category — Asian . |
| 9 | The majority of the 850 former workers were asked for their opinions after a suggestion that they revert to a festive dinner — the original idea when the tradition was established in 1963 . |
| 10 | ‘ My mum 's brilliant and I go to a lovely young designer called Richard Kinlock , who 's superb . |
| 11 | The fact of the matter is , as far as the erm and I accept to a certain degree what Jack has just said , that the power for schools lies with the Governors , and it lies with the Governors because the Conservative Government has enacted legislation to allow that to happen . |
| 12 | Oh , and I belong to a Young Wives ' group , we meet once a fortnight , and I see people from that quite often . |
| 13 | to , to put reasons why that this does n't mean the it actually means more , and I think to a certain extent there may be justification , some people may have put their name down and meant the whole family |
| 14 | but were Scottish women and I think to a Scottish woman two thousand pounds , I , I mean I know a lot of Scottish women |
| 15 | If I point to a particular item in a room and say " that " , we can say that the demonstrative encodes distance from the origo , whether actual or mental , and the coincidence of indexical and symbolic meaning is only possible when we know what object is being pointed to . |
| 16 | ‘ Go across the drawbridge and you come to a heavy door … |
| 17 | Upstairs , walk past the monks ' cells , until you come to a massive door . |
| 18 | In chronic cases if you change to a complementary remedy you generally start from 0/1 again and work up . |
| 19 | Even if you go to a great party with some friends and it lasts only three hours , so what ? |
| 20 | Remember , if you go to a late-night party , you 'll need to make up those lost hours of sleep — probably at week-ends . |
| 21 | However , the other aspect is that if you go to a medical practice you may have four or five doctors to help you out . |
| 22 | If you travel to a tropical country , write to that country 's tourist office to tell them that you are concerned about the preservation of their forests . |
| 23 | If you 've been self-employed since five minutes after Lucifer 's fall , and can fork out the massive outlay required , you might just find a way to bribe yourself on to the single-ticket waiting list ; if you belong to a small , minor-league organisation , your company will probably club together with several others to rent a cheap and jerry-built booth in one of the minor outbuildings , and argue with its partners over a tiny allocation of entry passes , whose holders will be consigned to overpriced lodgings in distant and inconvenient suburbs . |
| 24 | So that if you say to a primary teacher ‘ Here 's a new toy , here 's a new idea , why not try it ? ’ then they 've got the opportunity to do so without sort of dramatically changing things . |
| 25 | If you move to a new address , you should inform the council in the area you have left and in the area you have moved to , of your change in address . |
| 26 | And if you move to a new house , remember that other people may still have keys to the premises — fit new locks , and use them ! |
| 27 | The new flexi-age retirement provision is unlikely to help you if you move to a new job , since it only applies to employees of 20 years ' standing . |
| 28 | If we subscribe to a truth-conditional semantics , we shall therefore be forced to find a place for such meanings in pragmatic theory . |
| 29 | This procedure may break down if we get to a single pair of edges , but we will see that this can happen only if a pair of corners has also to be exchanged . |
| 30 | If we advance to a single currency and monetary and political union , will we , as Members of Parliament directly answerable to the electorate , have responsibility without authority ? |