Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland 's tackling at the weekend was akin to a holding operation ; not surprising really as only rarely in the domestic sevens circuit do you see the shuddering finality which the Samoans , Fijians and Canadians bring to their defensive chopping . |
| 2 | Each needs to find time to discover what exactly such issues as intellectualism , world consciousness , political awareness and moral values mean to their professional lives . |
| 3 | Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland have their own HMIs , whose chief inspectors report to their respective education departments . |
| 4 | Polar communities of plants and animals testify to their own hardiness and adaptability , but also to positive advantages of polar living that ecologists from warmer climates tend to forget . |
| 5 | Much will depend on how the parties react to his own proposals , foreshadowed in an important speech in Liverpool last month and to be discussed with Dick Spring tomorrow . |
| 6 | Royalists look to their exiled King Michael in Switzerland . |
| 7 | As an NPT signatory , North Korea continues to violate flagrantly the IAEA safeguards by repeatedly denying inspectors access to its nuclear facilities . |
| 8 | Especially when eyes drift to her wedding-ringless finger . |
| 9 | And my enormous thanks go to my own Table , Chester seventy six , very very true friends indeed and the same for the whole of my own area , Area thirty six Wirral and the Marches , where nothing has been too much trouble and they are here today as you 've just seen in some considerable strength . |
| 10 | The closer refugees remain to their own countries , the easier it is to organise their return when conditions allow . |
| 11 | And if more companies apply to their local authority for grant cash it could sway the Government 's decision to award the City Challenge money . |
| 12 | If all goes well , the results may help these exiles return to their native land . |
| 13 | As individual cities look to their own government the mercantile Burgomeisters gain in power . |
| 14 | But they were glad of the tyres on one stretch where four-wheeled vehicles had left tracks unconducive to their three wheels , leaving them travelling ‘ broadside but in control , ’ he insisted . |
| 15 | Part of the reason why Roman catholics go to their own schools is because they believe they are obliged to do so . |
| 16 | Also the seats return to their previous position when pulled back . |
| 17 | His thinking over many years lead to his innovative Lotus 78 , the car that pioneered F1 's ground effect era , and his creative energy over the past 10 years has been instrumental in galvanising Lotus , once a car maker with a fragile future , into an engineering consultancy of huge standing worldwide . |
| 18 | Also me feelings go to my english friends today — i watched some 30 mins of highlights on TV and you were not ex. lucky — Ronald Koeman ( correct spelling , guys ! ) should clearly have been sent off . |
| 19 | The protection of our environment world-wide is also a major focus for our expertise , and waste management consultancy is just one of the services for which our customers turn to our Environmental Safety Centre . |
| 20 | These males stick to their old habits , arriving at Folly Bridge at about 8 am and sleeping for one or two hours . |
| 21 | Hospital administration can refuse patients access to their own money and this can cause immense damage to the patients ' dignity and self esteem . |
| 22 | Careful firing and technical advancements have meant that the two Hunslets perform to their maximum efficiencies and in recognition , a homemade headboard is sometimes sneaked on to the smoke box bracked by proud volunteers . |
| 23 | While the subordination of time and space to narrative causality is shared with many literary forms , and while many twentieth-century literary and artistic forms adapt to their own purposes the principles of montage and the manipulation of time and space learned from cinema , the cut as a fundamental figure of the rhetoric and the immediate experience of narrative — field/reverse-field where the slash represents a cut , or the conventional point-of-view structure of look/object/look — gives cinema a generic specificity . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're hiding from me , ’ he accused gently , watching the cool silky strands cling to his long fingers . |
| 25 | The patination of the wood and the delightful patchwork of sheet-iron repairs testify to its many years of service . |
| 26 | For ordinary people in undernourished Bucharest to regard the trinkets of capitalism as the symbols of liberty as well as the rewards of prosperity is understandable , but to have the wealth of twenty-three million Romanians to squander at one 's will and to choose to watch Kojak or to sit on the sort of lumpish gilt furniture that Western department stores export to their Arab allies would not have suited Caligula . |
| 27 | ( It should be mentioned that the use of certain creatures in the treatment of mentally disturbed patients bears witness to their therapeutic effectiveness . |
| 28 | for delivering it from one part of his premises to another part of his premises , or for delivering it from his premises to the premises of , or between parts of premises of , another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles or removing it from the premises of another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles direct to his own premises ; |
| 29 | How do these codes and values relate to our specific set of concerns with work and employment ? |
| 30 | As the Doctor , Susan , Ian and Barbara emerge and enter the clearing the other three cameras shift to their second shooting spots . |