Example sentences of "[to-vb] to the [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him … |
| 2 | The banks were closed on Feb. 1 to adjust to the new measures and long queues formed outside cash points as people tried to withdraw money . |
| 3 | That he opposed Winchelsey earlier only aligned him with popes and realists ; that his appointment to Canterbury involved both the exclusion of a saintly scholar and expedient intervention by the pope was hardly of his doing or proof of his unsuitability ; that he readily undertook to secure taxes from reluctant clergy only looks unprincipled against the background of thirteenth-century prelates who had yet to adjust to the vast needs and new methods of kings everywhere . |
| 4 | They do not determine the activities of teaching and learning , but on the contrary are themselves required to conform to the changing perceptions and experiences of the teacher and learner . |
| 5 | A choreographer working in the classical style is wise to conform to the traditional principles and rules found valuable through years of experience . |
| 6 | Were you allowed to talk to the other girls or anything ? |
| 7 | You have to force yourself not to talk to the visual aids and to synchronize your gestures with your main messages . |
| 8 | There were some mornings , Monday mornings in particular , when it would have been as quick for him to walk to the main gates and then catch an internal minibus to his office block . |
| 9 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 10 | Aug. 16 US and UK citizens in Kuwait are ordered to surrender to the Iraqi authorities as " human shield " policy is launched . |
| 11 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 12 | The protagonist Oliveira refuses to submit to the accepted norms and , instead , surrenders himself to the irrational , seeking to live on a more authentic and vital dimension which appears absurd by conventional standards . |
| 13 | With this in mind , Mr Davey believed that ‘ schools are too important to publishers to leave to the uncertain energies and stock ranges of the local bookshop ’ . |
| 14 | Many bureaux make it policy to apologise to the waiting clients before they have a chance to complain . |
| 15 | Since the start of the Troubles , a number of loyalist trade unionists had tried to create a province-wide organization of unionist workers and by late 1973 the plans of men such as Billy Kelly , a power workers ' shop steward , Billy Hull , ex-Northern Ireland Labour Party , and Hugh Petrie , a precision engineer from Shorts , were sufficiently advanced for them to propose to the loyalist politicians that the province could be brought to a halt by a strike . |
| 16 | The prostaglandins also set off or cut down or stop specific enzyme reactions within the cells , thus allowing the body to react to the environmental stresses and insults and so keep itself intact . |
| 17 | ‘ What we have sought to do ’ , claims Francis speaking for the organisers of the exhibition , ‘ is not to reconstruct time past but to expose to the light things that have run the risk of acquiring the patina of nostalgia and the glamour of neglect . ’ |
| 18 | I used to go to the Botanical Gardens and sit in the sun , or wander round the aviaries admiring the birds of magnificent plumage . |
| 19 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 20 | Charles and James used to go to the national conferences and there meet other like-minded ‘ wets ’ concerned about the right-wing drift to Thatcherism . |
| 21 | October 1944 , it was necessary for the Polish patriots to capitulate to the German forces as the Russian troops failed to make their expected advance and reach Warsaw . |
| 22 | The appearance of agreement under a standard form agreement masks the reality of the weaker party having little freedom in practice in deciding whether to agree to the standard terms or not . |
| 23 | Those days Rose dreaded and fretted through and it was a kind of peace to turn to the two girls and the boy . |
| 24 | Faced with dwindling sales and stiffer competition , all luxury-goods firms need to turn to the boring disciplines that many have dismissed as suitable for widget-makers , but hardly appropriate for a trade where cachet brings in the cash . |
| 25 | Remember to refer to the Therapeutic Charts and information on blending as outlined in Chapter 5 . |
| 26 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 27 | Just George , just to respond to the two points that have just been made . |
| 28 | Organisations need to be adaptive to respond to the changing inputs and therefore the process of management and organisational structuring will need an environmental orientation . |
| 29 | The design and content of the Active MBA at Henley remains flexible in order to respond to the changing needs and aspirations of the members and their organisations , as well as more general developments in managerial thinking . |
| 30 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; ‘ I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |