Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is quite simply that these aspects of deixis mostly make no difference to truth conditions . |
| 2 | Erm he , he then obviously goes on to erm to erm talk about peasant bans and prohibitions erm and for some incredible reason the peasants suddenly take a disliking to gaming , gambling and opium smoking , three things that I could n't think of anything I 'd like to do more , erm |
| 3 | I much prefer the attitude to sex in Amsterdam where the whole set-up is less clinically efficient than in Germany . |
| 4 | Propulsion occurs on the back-stroke ( when the hairs are erect ) and far less energy is expended in moving the leg forward on the recovery stroke ( when the hairs collapse against the leg and so reduce the resistance to movement ) . |
| 5 | Cells thus provide the key to understanding development because their behaviour brings about embryonic development and is controlled by gene activity . |
| 6 | In late 1917 , proclaiming Labour 's new commitment to ‘ the democratic control of industry [ through ] the common ownership of the means of production ’ , Arthur Henderson pledged the Party to ‘ strenuously resist every proposal to hand back to private capitalists the great industries and services that have come under Government control during the war … we do not mean to loosen the popular grip upon them , but on the contrary to strengthen it . ’ |
| 7 | Did you in your time ever send a man to execution ? |
| 8 | Jacob Bright MP , dismissed Acton as probably the most illogical man who ever put a pen to paper . |
| 9 | It very seldom goes to court , but when they tell lies that are damaging , I sue them as a matter of principle , and always give every penny to charity . |
| 10 | If I ever get a chance to git even , I would n't think twice now . |
| 11 | Test methods usually convert the manganese to permanganate , which is estimated by its pink colour , by comparison with standards , or absorptio-metrically . |
| 12 | ‘ The Americans always have a tendency to bolt off the blocks , and we had to go with them . |
| 13 | Anglers who take this path — usually young , relatively inexperienced anglers who have been drawn into the cultish scene — rarely devote a lifetime to angling , as do most all-round anglers . |
| 14 | Cable & Wireless Plc also faces a $368m damages suit from its local partners after it withdrew from the project to provide telephone services in the Philippines , Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc president Eduardo Villanueva said : Cables refused to put up its share of a deposit on the $1,480m telephone project on Luzon island ; the local partners also want the government to blacklist the company . |
| 15 | And we are coming dangerously near to admitting total defeat if we lamely accept the solution to street violence is for women to forego their liberty and put themselves under virtual night-time house arrest . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) If it were available in respect of a claim under the Act of 1978 , would the ex turpi causa defence clearly exclude a claim to contribution by the third defendant in this case ? |
| 17 | In today 's preliminary hearings at the High Court a 36-year-old farmer and 25-year-old X-ray technician both claim a right to asylum under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to Refugee Status on the ground that they have a well-founded fear of persecution if they are deported . |
| 18 | The monotheistic forms of religion are the higher , for they more clearly and purely bring the God-consciousness to expression , ‘ and all others are related to them as subordinate forms , from which men are destined to pass on to those higher ones ’ . |
| 19 | We now give the solution to Problem 3 . |
| 20 | ‘ Women often have a tendency to arch their backs which has the effect of making the voice sound more remote , ’ says Meribeth . |
| 21 | And most single people and er most young people in particular , fall outside that definition and that means that they really have no access to council housing of any kind and er they also find it very hard to get into the private rented sector , because of er the fact that 's it 's er , the rents are so high , and , and therefore they are at the mercy of erm basically the well , well loosely what one could describe as the bad landlords , the sharks , who will er exploit their situation . |
| 22 | Slowly curl the barbell to shoulder height , and then lower it slowly to the starting position . |
| 23 | Barbell curl — slowly curl the barbell to shoulder height , then lower it to the starting position |
| 24 | Here lay the spur to innovation , as can be seen in the Norman and Flemish accounting systems , which combined the techniques of survey and inquest with the new arithmetic to protect and increase the revenues available to the duke of Normandy and the count of Flanders . |
| 25 | If the outlet is directly over the pipe , simply cut the pipe to length and push it over the outlet connection . |
| 26 | The seller can , if he so wishes , simply keep the bill to maturity and present it for payment ( as in 6 . ) . |
| 27 | After trying various neurotransmitters the group found that serotonin could potentiate the cell 's response — ie enhance the response to stimulation . |
| 28 | Competition for agency jobs is so severe that you may find it easier to obtain an interview with the media itself — a TV contractor or newspaper and then make the transition to agency work a little later in your career . |
| 29 | Nigel decided to leave things a few weeks then issue an invitation to dinner . |
| 30 | Analysts of manufacturing decline almost unanimously pinpoint the rise to prominence of ROI calculations as the immediate cause of the sharp decline in expenditure on new process technologies , facilities and research and development . |