Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to making an order for the child 's attendance the court may order any person who is in a position to do so to bring the child to court ( s95(5) ) . |
| 2 | But the establishment of these facts is only one step on the way to a consideration of whether , in all the circumstances , the situation created by the delay is such as to make it an unfair employment of the powers of the court any longer to hold the defendant to account . |
| 3 | The wood should be allowed to air dry slowly to avoid a tendency to surface cracking and distortion , but it kiln dries well with little degrade and is stable in service . |
| 4 | For him it must be said that he went at once to report the death to authority , and then came back to us and again told the same story . |
| 5 | I knew there was only the one slice left , but I 've never been the sort deliberately to starve an animal to death , so in it went . |
| 6 | We sat and watched not the coldness and menace of evil but a pantomime dame who was obviously too stupid and incompetent ever to pose a threat to goodness . |
| 7 | If the occupier has reason to anticipate the presence of a child trespasser he would do well to erect an obstacle to entry that is not in itself dangerous . |
| 8 | Incredibly , it is almost impossible even to return a detective to uniform simply on the grounds that he is n't very good . |
| 9 | We 're out to pass you really , but we we wo n't unless it 's worth it , but erm the emphasis is on trying to find something there to give a mark to sort of thing rather than the other way around . |
| 10 | he wrote in only a few important imitative leads — bars 17–18 , 25–26 , 30–34 and 97–105 — which suggests that the composer had yet to commit the remainder to paper . |