Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not written much since The Complete History of Wimbledon and that book 's rejection by ten publishers ( he had still not heard from The Applecote Press , Chewton Mendip ) had made him a little nervous of putting pen to paper , but he found that if he emptied his mind of everything and forced his hand to fist a biro and then forced that biro across a sheet of paper , some pretty profound and interesting thoughts resulted . |
| 2 | Although there is evidence to the contrary , another benefit attributed to general practitioners undertaking their own visits is that , through their familiarity with the situation , they are more selective in referring patients to hospital , and hospital costs are therefore reduced . |
| 3 | " Everyone can get involved in bringing churchyards to life . |
| 4 | ‘ American companies have not been good at putting robots to work ’ , says Fred Sitkins , a specialist on robots at Western Michigan University . |
| 5 | It is also generally flexible about giving exemptions to Code requirements where appropriate . |
| 6 | It was the most important of these groupings as it was directly responsible for bringing NIGRA to Derry for the 5 October 1968 march and thus was the catalyst which turned the civil rights movement into a mass campaign . |
| 7 | A national system of appraisal might also encourage the teacher unions to unite in a demand for the establishment of a Teachers ' Council which could be made responsible for regulating entry to teaching and for establishing a code of conduct ( particularly important when teachers are able , in appraisal schemes , to judge their colleagues ) . |
| 8 | In the case , the Dutch local authority terminated its funding to the Dr Sophie Redmond Foundation , which was principally concerned with providing assistance to drug addicts , and transferred the funding along with the building in which the Foundation worked , to the Sigma Foundation . |
| 9 | With the authority of a man used to calling hounds to heel he 'd taken the arm from the dog , wrapped it in a towel and set it on the draining board . |
| 10 | Enzyme immunoassays are commercially available for detecting antibody to hepatitis C virus . |
| 11 | Much of the Midlands has SO&sub2 ; above the 7 parts per billion ( ppb ) average identified by the UN ECE as critical in preventing harm to vegetation . |
| 12 | As a mechanism for weakening the slave trade , British colonial slavery and American slavery , the abstention from slave-grown produce was marginal in giving reality to abolitionist arguments about the ‘ impolicy ’ of the trade and in no way qualified , despite the evidence it provided , the later reflexive ideological commitment of abolitionists to the superior efficiency of free labour . |
| 13 | They may not have become skilled in using aids to vision such as magnifiers or telescopic aids , or the material that they need to read may be finely or densely printed , visually complex , or difficult to decipher . |
| 14 | At about seven months of age the average baby is quite skilled at removing obstacles to prehension ; is well able , for example , to pull a cushion away to reach a rattle behind it . |
| 15 | Coun Young said : ‘ I think it is pretty ludicrous to suggest anyone is getting rich by taking people to hospital ‘ But if people who do this sort of thing are facing the prospect of making a loss they just wo n't bother . |