Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the eighteenth century the older and rougher leathers had largely given way to finer products , often polished and patterned in a variety of ways , e.g. calf could be ‘ sprinkled ’ ( speckled by acid in a regular pattern ) , ‘ mottled ’ ( having an irregular all-over pattern , also produced by acid ) or ‘ diced ’ ( having a pattern of diamond squares ) . |
| 2 | Trips have already taken place to Edinburgh Castle , Luss on Loch Lomond and up the Clyde Valley . |
| 3 | ‘ Where members entering into IVAs have simply fallen victim to the recession , there are no instances of the Committee pulling the rug from under them , ’ he said . |
| 4 | A plethora of pressure groups and popular movements grew up to give vent to such feelings , including the British Empire Union and the National Citizens Union . |
| 5 | While such phrases do not do justice to its many insights — to which I will return in Chapter 8 — there are nevertheless some serious weaknesses in the approach . |
| 6 | It may be that those parents do not consider colour to be important , but such a blind attitude towards the role of group differences in the society is unwise . |
| 7 | Now that sheep-stealing , forming trade unions and various other minor offences do not merit transportation to the colonies , a similar pardon may be granted to those who had been deemed worthy of such punishment in a different age . |
| 8 | He would , however allow some 570 Austrian , Finnish , Portuguese , Swedish and Swiss nationals to leave because those countries had not sent forces to the Gulf . |
| 9 | The Imperial Russian tradition of grand display pieces has painlessly given birth to Grigorovich 's epics — grand , without doubt , but lumpen compared with Balanchine 's irreverent classicism or MacMillan 's exploratory dance-dramas . |
| 10 | Other workers have also found steroids to be of benefit in fibrotic overlap syndromes , and cyclophosphamide has been used with success to suppress fibrosis affecting the thyroid , face and orbit . |
| 11 | Italy 's other big state-owned banks have also lent money to the bust group . |
| 12 | Rivers only roll along to brighten up the landscape , and cattle graze only to give life to his drawings . |
| 13 | Predictably , most of the new gentry committees did indeed reveal hostility to emancipation , but they also revealed two other things . |
| 14 | It was held that the regulations did not give rise to an action for damages . |
| 15 | In effect , large objects moving at hypersonic velocities do not have time to ‘ see ’ the atmosphere before cratering the surface . |
| 16 | Eight per cent finished in October , but at the time of writing many of the October course organisers had still to return questionnaires to [ MS for coding and analysis . |
| 17 | Other recent changes have generally restricted access to unemployment benefit ( Atkinson and Micklewright , 1989 ) and , in particular , they have denied benefit to women who had been eligible to at least some benefit in their own right . |
| 18 | However , cases taken under the European Convention of Human Rights have also afforded protection to individual lifestyles . |
| 19 | Previous studies have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that voters , particularly those who read lowbrow tabloids , tend to believe the news on television but remain sceptical about what they read in the press ( see , for example , Negrine , 1989 , p. 3 ) . |
| 20 | All patients gave fully informed consent to the studies which were approved by the Harrow Health Authority Ethical Committee . |
| 21 | Jahsaxa 's pals had virtually pulled hir to bits . |
| 22 | Police fired into a crowd of demonstrators , killing and injuring a number of bystanders , after left-wing activists had reportedly set fire to a Royal Nepal Airlines fuel depot and smashed street lamps , telephone exchange equipment and vehicles in both Kathmandu and the nearby town of Patan . |
| 23 | The remaining techniques have not given rise to general-purpose instruments but have proved useful in particular experiments . |
| 24 | Deep dish , frozen multi-portions have always presented difficulties to microwave regeneration as all too often edge burning occurs , before the centre is up to corret temperature . |
| 25 | Since the late 1970s feminist sociologists have increasingly drawn attention to gender as a dividing principle too . |
| 26 | Ms Kiernan 's study shows that fewer than half of all single mothers living alone have access to a telephone , and a mere 15% to that essential tool of modern motherhood , a car . |
| 27 | The stars turned out to pay tribute to Fred Scuttle — better known to us as … ? |
| 28 | No claim to absolute authority is made by any encoder , nor ever should be ; the TEI scheme merely allows encoders to ‘ come clean ’ about what they have perceived in a text , to whatever degree of detail seems appropriate . |
| 29 | Eventually the local authority associations agreed a self-denying ordinance and in many authorities councillors do not seek access to records on individuals . |
| 30 | THOSE who yearn for the smiling helpfulness of American skiing , but whose credit limits do not permit access to it , can console themselves with the news that the French resort of Les Arcs is launching a campaign to distinguish itself from competing resorts by encouraging staff to be unfailingly polite . |