Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pron] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice the proportion of incontinent women aged 60 or over attributed their incontinence to childbirth than women non-sufferers in that age group ( 16% ( 22 ) v 7% ( 52 ) ) thought likely . |
| 2 | The House is expected to submit bills to sustained scrutiny and debate before giving its assent to them ( or not giving its assent to them , but the influence of party usually precludes such an outcome ) . |
| 3 | " Or still keeping our relationship to a " strictly neutral business acquaintance " ? |
| 4 | 10.1 Where an employee has been absent from work as a result of an act of violence the Director of Social Work will give due consideration to referring the employee to the medical adviser either prior to or immediately following their return to work . |
| 5 | George concluded the evening — and successfully reclaimed his right to be seen as a sober enough man — by reciting ‘ The Bashful Wooer ’ from the works of one he announced as ‘ the greatest poet of Cumberland and Westmorland , a man living among us today , our own Robbie Burns — Robert Anderson of Carlisle … ’ |
| 6 | The allocation to L Detachment of specialists taken from Special Service units would greatly increase the scope of the units ' training and thereby augment its value to men who inevitably gain versatility and resourcefulness . |
| 7 | ‘ Given the depressed state of the UK market , it was absolutely essential that we took this painful action to bring down our break-even point and thereby tailor our company to its potential markets . ’ |
| 8 | The research was supported by WACC and carried out by the Centre for Artistic and Cultural Research ( ceneca ) with the aim of encouraging TV networks to carry programmes that would improve the quality of young people 's lives and thereby enhance their contribution to national life . |
| 9 | She decided that the best means to this end was to learn Re 's secret name and thereby transfer his power to herself . |
| 10 | Further , the Leader herself has spent many toiling hours of late calling on the peoples of Eastern Europe to hold elections and thereby demonstrate their attachment to the fundamentals of democracy . |
| 11 | Further , the Leader herself has spent many toiling hours of late calling on the peoples of Eastern Europe to hold elections and thereby demonstrate their attachment to the fundamentals of democracy . |
| 12 | Depends what you mean by ‘ weather ’ , but yes , the countryside of Sussex is constantly suffering the attack of rain and the rain either has to soak into the ground where very often it erm dissolves material and eventually finds its way to rivers so that all rivers are carrying material from inland in solution out to the sea , or if erm you get very heavy rain , then the water actually runs off the surface of the ground , and as it runs off it will carry particulate material out into the rivers and then out to sea . |
| 13 | Lisboa went on to become the leading soccer club of the day and eventually changed its name to Benfica , the club renowned today in world soccer . |
| 14 | And Mrs McMahon , who naturally had n't seen it because had n't she just this minute arrived back from the village and was n't the dress still in its bag , looked up at the three hovering on the stairs as though it were a divine deliverance , mumbled vaguely about a headache coming on , and thankfully abandoned her responsibilities to whoever was willing to take them on . |
| 15 | They noticed that he kept his hands clasped inside the voluminous sleeves of his gown and rarely raised his eyes to the face of the governor or the senator . |
| 16 | He expressed his admiration for the educational efficiency of the Jesuits and politely renounced his allegiance to their church . |
| 17 | But suppose that he proceeds in the general direction from where he assumed by voice came and suddenly found himself face to face with a stranger who looked very similar to myself . |
| 18 | For whilst the Family Practitioners ' Committee had met in early 1983 to discuss the heroin issue , they were primarily concerned with the pressures on doctors and so kept their worries to themselves . |
| 19 | His English texts which almost certainly belong to the last ten years of his life relate to his role as a spiritual counsellor , and they are consistent with what we know of him — their strength lying not in systematic exposition but in his skill with language to illuminate the goals of spiritual life and so awake his readers to their reality . |
| 20 | If you continue to eat the same kind of foods , and only increase your intake to the normal 2,000 mark by eating a little bit more of the same , life and the measuring tape should hold no terrors for you . |
| 21 | We simply asked the ANL not to block the entrances to the park , and only to hand its placards to their own members . |
| 22 | As one top London restaurant chef said , ‘ you have to stick rigidly to the basics of hygiene and constantly motivate your staff to the highest standard . |
| 23 | This simple listing task is tackled with great gusto , and greatly deepens their commitment to their roles . |
| 24 | A study of women writers can easily lose sight of broader literary relations , and inadvertently consign its subjects to a ghetto . |
| 25 | Soviet leaders have given no indication , moreover , that they are prepared to abandon the PDPA and apparently expect its apparatus to be retained in post-settlement Afghanistan even if its role is reduced and its monopoly of power relinquished . |
| 26 | This mineralizes and fertilizes the flood plains below , as it slowly and inexorably finds its way to the sea . |
| 27 | Sam Rollins takes a miniaturized listening device from his shirt pocket and gently attaches its sucker to the phone . |
| 28 | If individuals restrict their share purchases to a limited number of privatised companies , selling soon after purchase , and not extending their purchases to other companies already quoted on the Stock Exchange , then the government 's plan to widen share ownership and extend popular capitalism in any meaningful sense is open to doubt . |
| 29 | These " Whiggish Jacobites " , as they referred to themselves , produced a number of pamphlets in which they argued that William , through various acts of despotism , had broken the contract he had made with the nation in 1689 , and thus forfeited his right to obedience . |
| 30 | ‘ The education you receive here , ’ he said at length , ‘ should equip you to realise your own powers and thus to serve your community to your utmost . |