Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raid took 10 weeks to plan after complaints to local beat officers . |
| 2 | Teachers of this persuasion wished to accept for admission to higher education , and to English studies , only those students possessing a sufficiently high level of " qualitative literacy " and sufficiently hard-working and disciplined as well as competitively motivated to " benefit " from university education . |
| 3 | The sight later of these hundreds of flaring candles , from across the river , as the light faded on a grey evening , was as near as I was able to come in Lourdes to any sense of holiness , so oppressive otherwise is the sense of the business of holiness . |
| 4 | An interesting example of task-centred work in an old people 's home showed ways which could be helpful to residential workers , or health care teams in hospital , to work on adjustment to residential life , or the hospital care the client might experience ( Dierking et al . , |
| 5 | By the end of the 32/33 season , the club was well placed to progress from friendlies to Junior League soccer . |
| 6 | The Central Electricity Generating Board ( now privatized and split into two companies ) is funding a large-scale , 2-year project to assess links to childhood cancer , while another recently announced study aims to look at links to sudden infant death . |
| 7 | Schnitke 's language seems to lunge from outburst to tranquil apology for his own excesses — simple , melodic threads he untangles from demonic cackle and sheer noise . |
| 8 | ( 1 ) It shall be competent for any of the following persons to object in relation to any application to a licensing board for the grant ( including the provisional grant ) renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , namely : |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Where a competent objector desires to object in relation to any application , he shall , not later than seven days before the meeting of the licensing board at which the application is to be considered : ( a ) lodge with the clerk of the board a written notice of objection which be signed by the objector or his agent and shall specify the grounds of his objection and ( b ) intimate his objection to the applicant in the manner provided by subsection ( 3 ) below , and an objection shall not be entertained by the licensing board unless it is proved or admitted that such objection was intimated to the applicant as aforesaid . |
| 10 | You will be given a task book to complete in order to qualify for advancement to able rate . |
| 11 | While the use of the New Town device is now being discontinued , British governments continue to experiment with approaches to urban renewal which bypass existing agencies . |
| 12 | The rigid view of the sexual division of labour previously contained within the system is being diluted , to be replaced by a scheme which assumes that women will both want and need to switch from home to paid work and back again , particularly as the special demands of dependants such as children and the elderly — for whom the system still assumes women are primarily responsible — come and go . |
| 13 | At the same time the prohibitions-based approach does seem a useful one to adopt in relation to explicit collusion and specific non-co-operative practices . |
| 14 | In a sense , if cultural products are regarded as a code which must be interpreted , this code has become increasingly difficult to decipher without access to some key . |
| 15 | While being called matapang is taken as a compliment among Tagalog-speaking lowlanders , it describes fierce or dangerous men , ready to fight without regard to personal danger , rather than those willing to risk themselves for others . |
| 16 | The general SVQ in arts and social sciences at level III has been specially designed to allow for progression to higher education . |
| 17 | Rates on domestic property are essentially a regressive tax : the value of the house or other property occupied by a taxpayer tends to decline in relation to increased income . |
| 18 | Somewhat later , Mary Whateley , following Pope 's style very closely , suggests that it is not necessary for women to respond in kind to misogynistic satire : |
| 19 | I do agree with Mr. Findlay that the public should be prepared to pay for access to private land . |
| 20 | No matter how one acts , desires have to depend upon resources to some extent ; actual possessions are partly the criterion of those aspired to . |
| 21 | The response is a naive one ; but perhaps what Gandhi wanted to convey in answer to this question was that his faith in the principle of non-violence and truth had not been shattered by the use of the atom bomb . |
| 22 | They particularly liked the way it was designed to rotate in response to different wind directions . |
| 23 | The Student Services Department administers the Access Fund which is available to students normally resident in the United Kingdom to assist in access to higher education and continuation of studies . |
| 24 | The Student Services Department administers the Access Fund which is available to students normally resident in the United Kingdom to assist in access to higher education and continuation of studies . |
| 25 | I would like to think on Saturdays To Craven Cottage I will always go . |
| 26 | However , official figures suggest that more girls have tended to stay at school to secondary level than boys , both in the homelands and in DET areas . |
| 27 | In addition , although LC persist in epidermis for extended periods , LC are induced to migrate from skin to regional lymph nodes after antigen exposure . |
| 28 | He was like a chameleon , she thought with wry admiration , able to adapt at will to any situation . |
| 29 | So Zuwaya said it was indecent for a father and his sons to listen together to women drumming at circumcisions , or to go to weddings together — even to speak about weddings to each other . |
| 30 | She had no wish to intrude on Helen 's friendship with her neighbour and , unless Edward had something to tell of interest to veterinary work , she resolved to leave as soon as possible . |