Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [noun] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bush accepted the resignation " with reluctance , regret , and a sense of personal loss " , and announced that Sununu would remain as counsellor to the President with Cabinet rank until March 1992 , in order to assist with the transition of responsibilities to his successor . |
| 2 | Nor can we appeal for explanation to the notion of Scaevola as provincial practitioner . |
| 3 | There has been a feeling that they would compromise with Chelsea to the extent of accepting half the £22.85 million valuation . |
| 4 | Firstly the idea that parasites will cooperate with hosts to the extent that their genes pass to the next generation in the same reproductive cells as the genes of the hosts — squeezing through the same bottleneck . |
| 5 | Because viewing distance from the screen does not fall in proportion to the screen dimensions , this resolution becomes acceptable . |
| 6 | Every party should , so far as practicable , apply for any particular direction he may desire on notice to the district judge and the other parties ( Ord 17 , rr 1 – 3 ) . |
| 7 | He would usually appear in answer to the signal within a few minutes , for each sereno has a certain section to patrol . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) The magnetic field in the disk and its coupling to the coronal gas above and below the plane may grow in strength to the point at which it destabilizes the planar flow . |
| 9 | Sincerely though I respect the wish of hon. Members on both sides of the House to ensure that their constituents can benefit from access to the channel tunnel — I have no desire to stand in the way of their efforts to make that wish come true — I urge that the interests of my constituents , who will have to put up with untold misery for an extended eight-year period , should be given closer consideration than BR has given them hitherto . |
| 10 | BUDDING businesses in Middlesbrough can benefit from extensions to the town 's enterprise centre . |
| 11 | Failure to prevent rain entering can result in damage to the structure beneath , and to ceilings and decorations . |
| 12 | The narrow rule states that the manufacturer 's negligence must result in damage to the consumer 's life or property . |
| 13 | Putting a fist , or other object , into the rectum may result in injury to the lining of this area and therefore can increase the risk of HIV transmission . |
| 14 | It was held that a manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 15 | Substantiated complaints may result in applications to the Bar Disciplinary Tribunal , which can disbar the barrister , suspend from practice , order to repay or forgo fees , or order various types of rebuke to be administered . |
| 16 | The seller will normally send by air to the buyer some documents : one will be the bill of lading transferred to the buyer to enable him to collect the goods at their port of destination ; another will be a bill of exchange which the buyer will normally sign and return thereby undertaking to pay for the goods on the date specified on the bill of exchange . |
| 17 | Of course our Rona — ’ Peggy pulled a long face and assumed a refined tone as she went on , ‘ She 'll be sweeping the counter with those eyelashes of hers in that demure virgin-like way , and the poor bods 'll rush like lambs to the slaughter . |
| 18 | With this process of legislation , any changes the ministers may want to make look like concessions to the Opposition . |
| 19 | This rapid shallow breath may occur in response to the adrenalin which causes the heart to speed up . |
| 20 | Lewes contends that , whereas these gynaecophobic tendencies were from the start challenged by women analysts , the same could not occur in relation to the homophobia of the discipline since homosexuals were systematically excluded from it , with the result that ‘ the psychoanalytic discourse on homosexuality has been and still is formulated by non-homosexuals about homosexuals ’ ( The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality , 21 , 237 — 8 ) . |
| 21 | He 'd run in answer to the Light |
| 22 | Pavlov found that if some other stimulus — for example , the ringing of a bell — immediately preceded the food , the dog would salivate in response to the ringing of the bell . |
| 23 | ‘ The Power of the Mask ’ will run from August to the end of October this year and there will be lots of associated events and activities . |
| 24 | This included a diagram of drainage basin transformation from low to high density which related the severe gullying that could occur on slopes to the aggradation along the main valley axis . |
| 25 | We can see by reference to the Salomon case the great advantage of limited liability . |
| 26 | There was an abortive attempt at a ‘ Maureen Lipman says write to me about your washing problems ’ which made me squirm with embarrassment to the extent that I 've blocked out the name of the liquid detergent concerned . |
| 27 | She would react with silence to the Colonel 's inquisitive remarks . |
| 28 | The driver can not react in time to the child running unexpectedly into the street . |
| 29 | The mirror would then rotate in proportion to the strength of the current . |
| 30 | Some of these considerations are sometimes valid , and must be taken into account , but surely they should not excuse us from seeking out such evidence as does exist in relation to the period and style we are performing ? |