Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [det] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The media has added another dimension to racism by accusing Africans of importing AIDS . |
| 2 | However , the all too familiar constraint of funding has prevented much progress to date . |
| 3 | We have privatised British Gas and the electricity industry in a way that has opened these markets to competition . |
| 4 | A party leader who hopes to reach 10 Downing Street has to devote much time to party management , and policies and appointments have to be made with an eye on the reactions of party factions . |
| 5 | By spreading total daily consumption more evenly , society reduces peak demand and has to devote less resources to building power stations whose number is determined by peak usage . |
| 6 | Secondly , the strategy has identified that access to outpatient and non-urgent casualty services run by public hospitals also seems to be declining for public patients . |
| 7 | In the past , Ottawa has taken such owners to court in an attempt to maintain regulatory control over what TV programmes Canadians would be allowed to see . |
| 8 | Since those days — when he starred as the original Ribena Kid at the age of eight — Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo has taken that motto to heart and gone from strength to strength . |
| 9 | However , in two important respects the Misrepresentation Act 1967 has removed some bars to rescission so that s1 provides that , whether or not the representation has become a term of the contract , or that the contract has been fully performed , the right to the rescission remedy is not lost . |
| 10 | In reviewing patterns of survival in lower income families , the chapter has drawn its evidence from an established research tradition which has paid little attention to gender . |
| 11 | As the ineffectiveness of curative medicine is increasingly exposed ( and costs soar ) Western medicine has paid more attention to prevention , but again within a narrowly individualistic framework . |
| 12 | A composer is haunted by certain themes , subjects or moods , and he must look around for the stories or dramatic vehicles he needs to bring these themes to life as musical theatre . |
| 13 | How would you apply the principles of horizontal and vertical equity in deciding how much to tax two people , each capable of doing the same work , but one of whom chooses to devote more time to sun-bathing and therefore has a lower income ? |
| 14 | The group — which intends to donate all proceeds to Cancer Research , the MacMillan Nurses and the Special Baby Care Unit — is looking for sponsors , and are more than willing to wear sweatshirts with logos on them . |
| 15 | They are drawn in a pictorial style which not only does away with the need to use abstract symbols , but seems to bring each incident to life in a most convincing way , especially when studied alongside the text ( see two examples form the book accompanying this article ) . |
| 16 | Field describes the increase in the number of junior doctors as temporary but fails to offer any mechanism to phase out these posts in the absence of appreciable expansion in the number of consultants . |