Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 2 provides a possible scheme for staging living embryos , although the criteria used may have to be refined or modified according to the nature of the experiment . |
| 2 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 3 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what support he gives or plans to give to the design museum . |
| 4 | All they can do is set trend targets and reward or penalize according to the degree to which they are met . |
| 5 | Points are awarded or deducted according to the impact of the crime on the victim , for example , and whether the offender is genuinely remorseful . |
| 6 | And when you are , you hide yourself in your office or get glued to the video . |
| 7 | Many , it has emerged , will be uninsured or under-insured adding to the misery already suffered . |
| 8 | Furthermore , all the professionals at Ashdown are able-bodied ( including the researchers ) and no representative from a local group of disabled people has been consulted or invited to contribute to the school development programme in any capacity . |
| 9 | Hard cash will be the measure of whether Climb for the World develops into an annual jamboree or gets consigned to the drawer marked ‘ heroic failure . ’ |
| 10 | By following the ‘ golden rule ’ of black and white photography — to expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights — negative contrast can be lowered or raised according to the subject 's original tonal contrast . |
| 11 | Whether or not those controlling the company consented or purported to consent to the abstraction of the company 's property by the accused , he will have appropriated the property of the company . |
| 12 | ( c ) Law of Property Act 1925 , s62 By the Law of Property Act 1925 , s62 a lease of land will include all liberties , privileges , easements , rights , and advantages whatsoever appertaining or reputed to appertain to the land or any part thereof at the date of the lease , demised , occupied , or enjoyed with or reputed or known as part or parcel of or appertenant to the land or any part thereof . |
| 13 | By the Law of Property Act 1925 , s62 , a lease of land with buildings thereon will include all outhouses , cellars , areas , courtyards , sewers , drains , ways , passages and other rights appertaining or reputed to appertain to the property or at the time of the conveyance occupied or enjoyed therewith . |
| 14 | A mechanical wound to the cotyledon ( lines 4–6 ) led to a systemic accumulation of pin activity and levels of this activity were identical whether the cotyledon was excised five minutes after wounding or left attached to the plant for 48 hours . |
| 15 | Steady-state levels of pin 2 mRNA were identical whether the cotyledon was excised 5min after wounding ( Fig. 3 D ) or left attached to the plant for 4 hours ( Fig. 3 E ) and are comparable to those observed in other studies of wound-inducible pin mRNA levels . |
| 16 | Equivalent and high levels of pin activity and pin transcripts were found in the systemically responding leaf 1 , whether the wounded cotyledon was excised rapidly or left attached to the plant . |
| 17 | The processor contains circuitry to request the next instruction from the store , and to receive , decode , and execute it ; the latter may require further read or write accesses to the store , or interaction with a transput unit . |
| 18 | Unit Trusts are open-ended , which means that their size can grow or diminish according to the demand for units . |
| 19 | It can either be marked on each item or shown on a ticket or notice referring to the item and in close proximity to it . |
| 20 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 21 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 22 | Later that evening Heathcliff 's servant Joseph arrived and asked to speak to the master . |
| 23 | On returning to the ward somewhat shaken myself I made the patient as comfortable as I could and asked to speak to the ward sister , who was fortunately very experienced and prepared to believe what I told her . |
| 24 | All biological life thus adapted its metabolism to the level of solar warmth , and became adjusted to the strength of solar radiation prevailing at the time . |
| 25 | As machines were introduced to record activity , these support data were printed out onto paper , were signed , dated and cross referenced by the scientist and became attached to the book 's pages . |
| 26 | Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament . |
| 27 | They could remember a world which they had known and recognized compared to the fragmentation of their work and lives that they were now experiencing . |
| 28 | City life , even in the environs of Kensington Palace , is a trial to the Prince ; he feels suffocated by London and longs to escape to the country and be at one with nature . |
| 29 | Split rings enough to position along each vertical row of tape , and spaced according to the size of the finished pleat ( e.g. , every 20cm ( 8in ) for a 10cm ( 4in ) pleat ) . |
| 30 | The butterfly of the gospel has broken out of its chrysalis at Jerusalem and has flown to the centre of the civilised world . |