Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My son is immensely proud of them , and offers the following advice to gardeners worried about their technique : ‘ Growing pretty flowers is easy if you fill your wellies full of muddy stuff and squish it down a lot . ’ |
| 2 | The example illustrates the legal obstacles to parties to a treaty characterising as international waterways , areas that are not under their exclusive jurisdiction and control , rather than just making contractual commitments with respect to them . |
| 3 | Sir , — Your correspondent , R W Christopher in the October issue ( see p 7 ) , highlights the lamentable spread to Companies House of the sort of bureaucratic nonsense emanating from Brussels . |
| 4 | The wording of the section contains no express limitation to documents which can be said to be part of a process of reconstituting the company 's state of knowledge . |
| 5 | The judgment adds a new dimension to interpretations of Section 10 of the Contempt of Court Act , 1981 , which says journalists can only be required to reveal their sources if it is necessary ‘ in the interests of justice ’ , or for ‘ the prevention of crime ’ . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , the most evocative waterways lie to the south of the city centre where morning mist over the water adds a wonderful dimension to views around the Porta Ticinese . |
| 7 | Milpitas , California-based Adaptec Inc says it has no immediate response to reports that competitor Distributed Processing Technology Inc , Maitland , Florida has slashed prices on its AT amd EISA disk controller boards : fear of a price war put Adaptec 's share price under pressure last week ; the company told Reuter ‘ Competitive pressure has always been there and we 'll respond as we always have ’ to it ; Adaptec 's manufacturing organisation could cut costs and pass the benefits onto its customers ; Distributed Processing is discounting its AT adaptors to $285 from $655 . |
| 8 | The group still has a genuine commitment to fanzines . |
| 9 | ‘ Louise has a future thanks to efforts such as Ian Botham 's to fund research . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ York Castle Museum has a great appeal to visitors from both sides of the Atlantic , ’ said Dr Andy Hodges , director of the York Castle Museum . |
| 11 | I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Aldridge-Brownhills ( Mr. Shepherd ) has a longstanding opposition to guillotines , but he will recall that many hon. Members on both sides of the House have proposed that we should adopt a procedure under which there is an automatic timetable motion in respect of all Bills . |
| 12 | The Sun Way range ( 21 , 25 , 27 , 28 ) has a special appeal to newcomers to sailing . |
| 13 | Robert Jackson , the employment minister , has a ready reply to criticisms of TEC funding . |
| 14 | Lempel Ziv Welch algorithm ( LZW ) : this uses a larger coding space than necessary for the symbols to be transmitted , and allocates the extra codes to sequences of symbols which occur in the message . |
| 15 | Furthermore , in his continued discussion of the problem in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego he likens the manic state to festivals such as the Roman Saturnalia , ‘ which owe their cheerful character to the release which they bring ’ . |
| 16 | One lawyer says the aggregate loss to Americans from tobashi runs into hundreds of millions of dollars . |
| 17 | The recent flood of cheery indicators is so good that it almost certainly condemns the beaming government to setbacks over the coming months , and to talk of a double-dip recession . |
| 18 | Feminists have paid particular attention to the way in which an ideology which assigns a primary role to women as mothers informs medical control of reproduction . |
| 19 | Malinvaud assigns a special role to prices and incomes policies to effect a differential adjustment of W in relation to P , but how such a policy would operate in the absence of quite massive and probably unacceptable levels of state interference both in wage bargaining and in the pricing decisions of firms remains a disconcertingly moot point . |
| 20 | It also represents a major challenge to educationalists : not only should children be taught to use information technology , a subject that has emerged suddenly from nowhere with no teaching tradition , but all disciplines could profit from incorporating this new technology into their teaching practice . |
| 21 | Mike , born in 1938 , did his national service in the RAF ; after early retirement from a teaching career he devotes himself full-time to his lifelong interest in the organisational and OOB aspects of almost all periods of military and naval history , and offers a paid service to researchers in his field of interest . |
| 22 | Each firmlet offers a single offering to customers , an offering which has a unique set of potential customers and competitors . |
| 23 | My survey departs from sociological tradition and takes a new approach to women 's domestic situation by looking at housework as a job and seeing it as work , analogous to any other kind of work in modern society . |
| 24 | Ricardo takes a finished biro to bits with tired fascination . |
| 25 | In the world of the infant and parent , the referential function of language often takes a subordinate role to others . |
| 26 | Drawing software takes a mathematical approach to lines and shapes , and deals with objects rather than individual pixels . |
| 27 | The ice forms a mechanical barrier to roots , limiting the penetration of shrubs and restricting the growth , form and stability of trees . |
| 28 | Northern College ( Aberdeen Campus ) offers an additional service to teachers in the Western Isles , Orkney and Shetland . |
| 29 | This however is not due to a desire to rock'n'roll but represents an instinctive response to signals interpreted by their mind configuration as a call to food , sex or perhaps just good arachnid company . |
| 30 | On the one hand , it accords no special status to police findings or to the police file . |