Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 2 | Leave enough free cable to connect to the light fitting |
| 3 | Seeking through German unity to contribute to the unification of Europe and to the building of a peaceful European order in which borders no longer divide and which ensures that all European nations can live together in a spirit of mutual trust , |
| 4 | While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it . |
| 5 | On an application for renewal of registration , the Law Society may require the registered foreign lawyer to provide to the Society evidence satisfactory to the Society that the registered foreign lawyer is complying with any indemnity rules or is exempt from them . |
| 6 | It is brass cheek for the hon. Lady to refer to the Government 's record on river quality and water in general when one remembers that the Labour Government cut investment in water quality by 30 per cent . |
| 7 | Therefore , a system was introduced which enabled regiments to appoint honorary colonels of their own choosing so that they could speak on their behalf and as a last resort have a direct right to apply to the sovereign in order to make representations on behalf of their unit . |
| 8 | But trust a trained engineer to get to the root of the problem at a glance . |
| 9 | It has a magnetic back to stick to the fridge or cabinet and an easy-to-read face . |
| 10 | The second , seven minutes later , came courtesy of a ludicrous back-pass by Ian Stewart , which left Atkinson one on one against the unfortunate David Coles , who picked the wrong night to return to the Aldershot goal after injury . |
| 11 | Whenever we are looking at children 's writing , it 's a high priority to respond to the content , but this can sometimes be difficult ; children themselves often become over-anxious about the surface features of their writing and frightened of making mistakes . |
| 12 | He believes Docherty perceived Morgan as a threat to his power base and a player who had the raw potential to rise to the status that George Best had enjoyed in his early years at Old Trafford . |
| 13 | Dealing with the structure ( 22 ) , the mind will make the constructional connexion which allows the adjectival property to apply to the object phrase by the same process that introduces the verb — the item lexically correlated with an external change of state . |
| 14 | I still had to get the hay down from the top byre to take to the cattle in the bottom byre on my sledge . |
| 15 | It has happened that individuals who have not been contacted by MAS have become aware that the client 's business is being marketed and have telephoned MAS asking to speak to the manager handling the sale . |
| 16 | In books written by vets on the subject of cat ‘ care ’ and cat ‘ health ’ , it is now standard practice to refer to the spaying of females and the castration of males as minor , routine operations . |
| 17 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 18 | A month later Repton produced one of his famous Red Books , heavily laced with pastoral philosophy to appeal to the Upchers . |
| 19 | The tablet uses the serial interface to connect to the BBC Micro and the parallel interface to connect to the Commodore 64 or VIC-20 , the ZX Spectrum and the Dragon . |
| 20 | it was their duty as a cooperative organisation to go to the aid of the N.U.R . |
| 21 | Across the aisle , Mrs Stych expanded her tremendous bosom to shout to the Lord in a wobbly soprano . |
| 22 | Unified grade is used by the civil service to refer to the combination of administrative grades ( previously known as permanent secretary , deputy secretary , under secretary , assistant secretary , senior principal , and principal ) and professional or technical staff with equivalent salaries . |
| 23 | These examples of symbolism help to control and shape the plot and again , Dickens uses this gift of clever symbolic writing to add to the perfection of the novel . |
| 24 | Environment and development ministers of the European Community ( EC ) countries have agreed a joint strategy to present to the Earth Summit . |
| 25 | In view of the approach taken by the courts to this implied term it is probably fair to regard it as imposing on the seller a separate obligation to pass to the buyer a good title to the goods . |
| 26 | If Boris Fedorov , the finance minister , can force the central bank to stick to the credit limits agreed on April 9th , then Russia should comfortably meet the targets attached to the aid package offered in Tokyo . |
| 27 | It also specifies the resources the Secretary of State will make available to the Agency and the arrangements for the Chief Executive to report to the Secretary of State of the Agency 's performance and use of resources . |
| 28 | A PLOT 70 15ft which just accommodates three people at a time hardly seems a typical garden to open to the public . |
| 29 | Erm the tribunal may well say that one of those clauses should be if you lose your driving licence you lose your job , so it 's a fairly dangerous thing to apply to the tribunal to get terms of employment sorted out . |
| 30 | Cuba provides a graphic confirmation of the received wisdom that it is very hard for an under-developed country to proceed to the construction of socialism without first achieving economic independence . |