Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it is a very difficult and time-consuming operation to read through the evaluations and to compare them to the original project document . |
| 2 | From time to time we still had meat , for cattle still had to be slaughtered and there was little transport , because of the fuel shortage , to carry them to the wholesale market . |
| 3 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 4 | Why not , the mandarins decided , invite a few of our foreign friends over to reintroduce them to The True path . |
| 5 | The purpose of this chapter is to examine some possible answers to these questions and to relate them to the clinical situation . |
| 6 | It is understood therefore , that , as part of the pupil 's exploration of aspects of religion and morality , he/she will have access to these five main elements of the Mysteries of the Faith , and the opportunity to relate them to the particular issue/topic being explored . |
| 7 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 8 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 9 | Physical activity and natural light Light exercise and brisk walks taken at your accustomed time by the new local time will help to adjust you to the new time zone and to make you feel ready for sleep at bedtime . |
| 10 | I mean we used to do the annual report because the R C E had to provide something to the General Manager |
| 11 | " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . " |
| 12 | Specially commissioned by The Tea Council , Teapot 2000 has a unique design that allows you to brew it to the exact strength you like , from the first cup to the last . |
| 13 | Because we try to relate it to the real world . |
| 14 | He was very much a social novelist and to appreciate the moral significance of his novels you have to relate it to the actual society that it reflects and often criticises . |
| 15 | The implications for individual managers are that ‘ increasingly it will come to be seen as the individual 's responsibility to maintain , alter or boost his skills , to find the right market for his skills and to sell them to the appropriate buyer ’ . |
| 16 | There 's nothing to inspect and without my words the photographs are useless unless Mitch decided to sell them to the national Press . |
| 17 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 18 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
| 19 | Monie , who guided the Cherry and Whites to four successive league and Wembley doubles , narrowly failed to lead them to the Grand Slam last term after they were beaten by St Helens in the premiership final . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not going to stop the abuse of power , it 's just going to restrict it to the highest level . |
| 21 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 22 | ‘ After all , even if Jefferson has perfected some magic putter which gives Harley an illegal edge on the greens , he will never be allowed to sell it to the ordinary punter , so there 's no point . |
| 23 | Just as its perspective gathers all that is extended to render it to the individual eye , so its means of representation render all that is depicted into the hands of the individual owner-spectator . |
| 24 | To take the initiative yourself , however is often too difficult : your mind may have convinced you that your confusion is so much greater than other people 's , your backlog of work so much longer , your reputation so much lower , that to open yourself to the social confirmation of these frightful facts would be a pointless and self-sacrificing thing to do . |
| 25 | Over here , it 's MCA who have shown themselves more than keen to clutch them to the corporate breast , and have consequently raised the stakes uncomfortably high for a band who readily confess to their ignorance of this caper 's day-by-day dealings . |
| 26 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 27 | The Romans , imitating the Greeks of Asia Minor and , nearer home , the Etruscans , thought a grid should have precise right angles , and so the rectangle of streets sits awkwardly in the bend of the river and one has to tack this way and that to cross it to the medieval cathedral and the Roman bridge . |
| 28 | There continued , then , to be systematic efforts to standardise examination procedure , to apply it to the whole age group , and to make it more equitable . |
| 29 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 30 | In the Preface he described the superstitions of the Irish peasantry and the rigid hold on them of the Roman Catholic priests , who used all means to confine them to the Irish language , lest if they learnt English they might converse with members of the Church of Ireland or attend its services . |