Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one can take the 20-minute boat trip or fly to the airstrip without police permits which are hard to obtain . |
| 2 | The cover now being granted is far wider in that the exclusion relates only to damage caused by application of any tool or process to the part in the course of maintenance . |
| 3 | Some people who sleep alone read , do a crossword , or listen to the radio for a while . |
| 4 | Does not their coming into this relation modify or add to the character of either of them ? |
| 5 | Paddy End Vein was the first to be cut in these levels and its course can easily be seen in the cliff or scar to the west of Levers Water where ancient mining has left a conspicuous cleft known as Simon 's Nick . |
| 6 | You 'll anchor among the ruins of ancient cities , on the quaysides of small market towns , in beautiful empty sandy bays , or tie to the quay of some tiny restaurant . |
| 7 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 8 | The easiest way is to employ a local customs agent or go to the airport with the airway bill number and reclaim the parcel from the Iberian cargo office , located west of the main passenger terminal . |
| 9 | Customers can register their organisation names or apply to the Registry for a unique set of IPX addresses — or both . |
| 10 | As Richard Flathman disapprovingly remarked , ‘ There has been a remarkable coalescence of opinion around the proposition that authority and authority relations involve some species of ‘ surrender of judgment ’ on the part of those who accept submit or subscribe to the authority of persons or a set of rules and offices . |
| 11 | If the title is registered , telephone or write to the mortgagee for the title number and bespeak copy entries and filed plan . |
| 12 | If you wish to apply for a mortgage under our Professionals ' Mortgage Service , please call at any Midland branch or write to the address at the back of this leaflet , and ask for a copy of our Home Buyers ' Pack , including Midland 's Guide to Home Buying . |
| 13 | If you require any further information about our High Interest Deposit Bonds , or any of our other Meridian products , please call at any of our branches , or write to the address at the back of this leaflet . |
| 14 | If you would like to know more , please contact the Alumni Office , on 021 414 6878 , or write to the address on page 3 . |
| 15 | Gon na write to the University Conference Office , erm and talk to the head of Sue 's school or write to the head of Sue 's school . |
| 16 | For copies of Energy Efficiency Office leaflets phone 01-691 9000 or write to the Department of Energy , Energy Efficiency Office , Blackhorse Road , London SE99 6TU . |
| 17 | Whether you live in Northamptonshire or come to the area as a visitor , for business or leisure , the expertise of the County 's Tourist Guides will help you get to know this varied County better , and even help you find out more about the areas you thought you knew . |
| 18 | Take two-thirds of the red fondant — about 450g ( 1lb ) — and roll it out thinly on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to the size of the paper rectangle . |
| 19 | The demolition of a building does not of itself constitute development , though , of course , it may form part of a building operation , or lead to the making of a material change in the use of the land upon which it stood . |
| 20 | The head of the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , Helmut Ricke , urged the government and opposition to strike a deal in crucial talks next week on the privatisation of the state-owned concern , Reuter reports from Bonn : the talks between the government and the Social Democratic opposition are due to resume May 14 : politicians on both sides of the debate , which resumed last month , agree a decision must be reached before the Bundestag 's summer recess on July 3 or there wo n't be enough time in the legislative calendar to pass the bill before next year 's parliamentary elections ; TeleKom finance director Joachim Kroeske complained to the Wall Street Jorunal that ‘ We have an organisation more like a bureaucracy than a real company — we have civil servants with lifetime employment , high pensions and salaries that correspond to the length of service and how many children they have . ’ |
| 21 | Again , the ‘ normal ’ situation in the sciences is not a sure guide , as none of you needs to be reminded , when the brain and mind are the subjects of investigation , given the peculiar features that attach to the notion of consciousness and to its close relations , thought , feeling , privacy and so on . |
| 22 | Illustrations that spread to the edge of the paper without margins are referred to as ‘ bled off ’ . |
| 23 | I do not share the view that theory and practice in education are opposites — the ideal situation is one in which good practice informs theory and good theory provides new insights into practice — but I certainly think that the ability of academic writers to communicate clearly , in ways that speak to the experience of practitioners , is vital . |
| 24 | The imagery of the death of human beings is helped by numerous run on lines that add to the lamentation of the words . |
| 25 | Its feathers are ruffled , as those of a genuinely sick bird would be , and this ruffling often exposes bright patches of plumage that add to the conspicuousness of the display . |
| 26 | It works at a warm temperature and vigorously turns the sugars in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide , producing at the same time ripe fruity aromas that add to the pleasure of ale drinking . |
| 27 | If one adds that delay to the average of about three months before the first visit is made , one is talking about a possible delay of one year and three months before the application starts to receive the attention that is required before it can proceed . |
| 28 | The parser was trained by taking a database of manually parsed sentences and extracting statistics that refer to the likelihood of a non-terminal parse being obtained from a set of constituents ( e.g. what are the possible set of constituents that can form an adjectival phrase and how likely are they to do so ) . |
| 29 | By far the most wide-ranging changes will undoubtedly occur as a result of the new Education Reform Act , and in particular those sections that refer to the establishment of the National Curriculum , together with its statutory requirements on assessment and testing . |
| 30 | Although Le Roy Ladurie 's approach is less haphazard , he too switches back and forth between structural explanations that assume the rationality of individual agents , and those that appeal to the psychology of the unconscious . |