Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , everything flowed to and from the House of Commons : the civil servants were held responsible to the Commons through their ministers ; the Cabinet was collectively responsible to the Commons ; the monarch only acted on the advice of ministers responsible to the Commons ; and the Lords were always to defer to the legislative views of the Commons . |
| 2 | Erm by saying it 's a priority we 're not saying it 's our only priority , we have a number of priorities and it 's it 's up to us to in debate with the housing corporation er , to come to the best agreements for Harlow . |
| 3 | He had been put under the tutelage of Sergeant Bragg , a great bear of a man , a man whose principles would not allow him to stoop to the self-serving tactics of his superiors . |
| 4 | A failure to conform to the legal requirements in contracting a marriage will render that marriage void . |
| 5 | Just as the civic buildings in Moscow expressed the confident power of the Communist regime , so the new housing blocks were designed to conform to the new ideals of social life . |
| 6 | Within its peer group , the young child , by interacting with others and playing childhood games , learns to conform to the accepted ways of a social group and to appreciate the fact that social life is based on rules . |
| 7 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 8 | To conform to the statutory requirements in respect of the deduction of income tax and national insurance , and the Wages Councils Act 1959 . |
| 9 | Women writers are less likely to identify with the existential plight of the lone male , but even so , a willingness to conform to the narrative conventions of realism is evident in the fiction of a number of writers who are now viewed as innovative . |
| 10 | It nevertheless refuses to conform to the narrative conventions of nineteenth-century realism . |
| 11 | The bones are first modified and altered to conform to the skeletal dimensions of the body , which is then built up from the inside outwards using organic substitute flesh . |
| 12 | Wordsworth 's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh : even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable , and even though Coleridge , like Sir Walter Raleigh before him , spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant , it is clear that Wordsworth 's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness . |
| 13 | He or she learns to listen to the other members of the group describe their " " pictures ' " and this gives a wider perspective on reality than is possible for one individual in isolation . |
| 14 | On 24 September , in the Daily Mirror , ‘ Cassandra ’ urged his readers to listen to the comic capers of the Nazi propagandist . |
| 15 | To listen to the sanctimonious critics in the ‘ serious ’ papers , on TV and , particularly , in Parliament , you would think that the Press is nothing but a quagmire of evil . |
| 16 | But his confession to Merymose had a positive effect too , because permission was granted to the former scribe to talk to the bereaved families within the palace compound . |
| 17 | The children were encouraged to talk to the elderly residents about their own childhoods and life experiences . |
| 18 | However , in such cases one will often not need to progress to the follow-up sessions of therapy which would be needed by those others who are trying to overcome a particular problem . |
| 19 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 20 | In return for their help , individual popes were prepared to accede to the political requests of the early Tudor kings , even at the cost of the loss of their plenitude of power . |
| 21 | Despite several inconsistencies with the account which he had given in his November testimony [ see pp. 39191-92 ] , he steadfastly refused to accede to the growing demands for his resignation . |
| 22 | As the war neared its end , with the imminent prospect of a complete victory for Tito 's forces , all these groups had a common interest to escape and preferably to surrender to the non-Communist allies in Italy or Austria . |
| 23 | Because several tutors failed to keep to the new time table for applications the Board has decided that they will have to revert to the original dates for the Written Examination entries . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , few of them are interested or want to stick to the dietary disciplines for long . |
| 25 | Although this principle was intended to apply to the Nazi-occupied territories of Europe , nationalists throughout the colonial world , particularly in India and Burma , demanded its application to all dependent peoples . |
| 26 | West Germany has so far denied , although with a detectable degree of ambiguity , that any deal was made , preferring to point to the humanitarian reasons for allowing an evacuation of the embassy , and the pressure supposedly exerted on East Germany by the Soviet Union to bring the occupation to a speedy end . |
| 27 | The intrusive authorial voice itself is often used to point to the formal conventions of the novel , and thus to prevent a naive confusion of literature with life . |
| 28 | High oxygen levels permit life to extend to the deepest parts of both Ness and Morar . |
| 29 | Breasts sliced off — ’ he held out a glistening spoonful ; Kitty blenched — ‘ for refusing to submit to the lustful wishes of one Quintian . |
| 30 | Anxious to exploit government embarrassment over the delay in its programme for electricity privatisation , he added : ‘ Energy policy is too critical to the future of this nation to leave to the short-term whims of market forces . |