Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make a simple plan of the area and trace or copy shapes of paving to the same scale . |
| 2 | Only the chemicals and pharmaceutical industry have so far shown any signs of responding to the competitive advantage created by the devaluation of sterling last September . |
| 3 | It was yet another of the advantages of belonging to the working class , like always knowing someone who would send her son round to unblock the sink , lay a carpet , get the cat down from the tree , lend you a van for the evening or sell you trainers and tracksuits cheap . |
| 4 | The cost of obtaining actuarial valuations for purposes of adjusting to the applicable UK accounting standard is considered to be out of proportion to the benefits to be gained . |
| 5 | Although it is tempting to trace the historical antecedents of subcontracting to the pre-industrial ‘ putting-out ’ system , the crucial impetus came from the very rapid expansion in manufacturing output from the later 1950s . |
| 6 | could be seen as contrasting opposite ways of reacting to the modern era . |
| 7 | There are two alternative ways of reacting to the stylized facts outlined above . |
| 8 | However , as Fillmore ( 1975 ) notes , these have two kinds of referent : they can either refer to the entire span itself , as in ( 56 ) , or to a point within the relevant span , as in ( 57 ) : ( 56 ) Tomorrow is Wednesday ( 57 ) Dennis hit Murphy with a baseball bat yesterday Note that the deictic words yesterday , today and tomorrow pre-empt the calendrical or absolute ways of referring to the relevant days . |
| 9 | In prose writing , the discrepancy between identity of meaning and identity of sense is well exemplified in the device of so-called elegant variation : we have already noted , for instance p107 ) , Henry James 's use of non-synonymous expressions : " the poor young man " , " this personage " , etc , as ways of referring to the same person . |
| 10 | ‘ You should know by your age , Lachlan , there 's more ways of getting to the other side of a mountain than by chewing through it . |
| 11 | And as family members we have seen and felt at close hand some of the most intense pains and also pleasures of later life : on the one hand , bereavement and loss , but on the other , the continued mastery of old skills , the creation of new pursuits and interests , the discovery of new friends and of new ways of contributing to the wider community . |
| 12 | Eventually , alternative ways of relating to the social fund were put forward and Council agreed on a policy of ‘ impartial advocacy ’ . |
| 13 | They were drastically reduced in 1985–86 because of overtime cuts forced upon the police by the local police authority as one of the ways of responding to the budgetary impact of rate capping . |
| 14 | Despite last-minute manoeuvring by both sides , no compromise could be found between the mayor 's reported willingness to plead guilty to one or more of the 11 misdemeanour charges in return for a non-custodial sentence , and the US Attorney 's Office 's insistence that any plea bargain should include at least one of the three felony charges of lying to the grand jury . |
| 15 | The government parties , while stating that the reasons for the protests were " understandable " , condemned the fact that they had been carried out , accusing the organizers of belonging to the extreme left and of using the political prisoner issue to further their own aims . |