Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Item 4 of the same Schedule specifies the ‘ place where the property is situated ’ for an appeal where there is a dispute over a valuation , but this statement is only intended to apply to property within the UK — the authorities can not be compelled to travel to Portugal to hear the appeal ! |
| 2 | The flashing tape is supplied in various widths , and only needs cutting to length with an old pair of scissors |
| 3 | The whole character of the game has been changed by a goal which er suddenly has brought to life in a way which we did n't see at all for the first half . |
| 4 | Work on voting behaviour in Great Britain in the 1980s illustrates this , with the class divide much distorted according to power in the market place , which in turn has become increasingly spatially variable : Johnston and Pattie , 1988 , 1990 . ) |
| 5 | This rationalist approach is overtly expressed in Fowler 's statement that ‘ The proper excellence of architecture is that which results from its suitableness to the occasion … and this principle rightly pursued leads to originality without the affection of novelty ; but … the present enlightened epoch in architecture is woefully distinguished as having no character of its own nor any pretensions beyond that of adopting the various styles that have prevailed in all ages and nations without regard to the difference of circumstances upon which they were founded ’ ; while the critic J. C. Loudon [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ one of the few modern architects who belong to the School of Reason and who design buildings on fundamental principles instead of antiquated rules and precedents ’ . |
| 6 | As you know I should very much like to return to work in some secretarial capacity at Yorhaul Limited after my baby 's birth and naturally wish to claim maternity pay , so please take this letter as formal notice of these matters as required under the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 . |
| 7 | Furthermore , I am hypothesising that , on occasions , they collectively develop shared myths to account to themselves how they relate politically to each other in their different roles within the complex organization of a business enterprise and so give meaning to life at work . |
| 8 | But her mum refused to hand over a penny — and Chris 's parents finally decided to go to court for the cash . |
| 9 | ‘ In the circumstances , how could you possibly want to go to bed with someone like me ? ’ |
| 10 | I still imagined returning to work at WTN in London , picking up with Jill as though all these years had not altered anything . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've always preferred to starve to death on one peanut , you mean ? ’ |
| 12 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 13 | She nearly always does go to bed with me , if I shout at her a lot or threaten her or give her enough money . |
| 14 | ‘ Silas is still longing to go to bed with me , so you can wish me luck that I 'll get him there eventually — but in the right circumstances , of course . ’ |
| 15 | Attitudes towards professional development are also differentiated according to length of teaching experience . |
| 16 | It also has to hinder to recognition of what the needs of the people of the city are and I actually cast out , wipe out services and the needs of central administration which is essential to any council and I would hope that not only my own back this amendment . |
| 17 | Some of the other writers in this book , and a number of other researchers are also seen to contribute to knowledge in this area . |
| 18 | that I fear , that sooner or later , we 'll probably have to go to war with Saddam again |
| 19 | Suppose her mother were n't conscious enough to make an Act of Perfect Contrition in the second before she died , well , she 'd probably have to go to purgatory for a bit and burn . |
| 20 | She also had to bow to pressure from colleagues and permit Cabinet discussion of economic strategy in 1982 and to abandon Cabinet discussion in September 1982 of the paper from the Central Policy Review staff about the implications of the rising trend of public expenditure and its proposals for curbing welfare spending ( see above p. 213 ) . |
| 21 | And we 're really having to struggle to sort of make ends meet . |
| 22 | It makes sense that they would really have gone to town on the modifications . ’ |
| 23 | So they really do go to town in finding out your personal existing investments . |
| 24 | All the questions so far have related to hypnotherapy in general — whether or not regression forms part of that treatment . |
| 25 | Secondly , there was no settlement agreed by the parties involved — the Union and the National Coal Board ( NCB ) ; the strikers simply decided to return to work in March 1985 . |
| 26 | These were then classified according to impact on the business and ease of solution . |
| 27 | The bodies of a couple and their 16 year old son were earlier found battered to death at Beckonsfield . |
| 28 | The US Senate foreign relations committee chairman , Claiborne Pell , had warned on Nov. 8 that the President " would be badly advised to go to war without a clear prior expression of congressional support " and should not " establish an offensive capacity in advance of a UN resolution authorizing offensive action " . |
| 29 | Intriguingly enough , the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her . |
| 30 | And I thought it really had been a very good life , a fun life , despite Ellen never having gone to bed with me , and I wondered if my father would even notice my death , then the Maggot whooped with glee , hauled back on the stick , and our plane was screaming up into the wide blue lovely bullet-free sky and the Maggot was laughing and slapping my shoulder . |