Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next on the ladder is an offence which carries a maximum of 14 years and is perpetrated where the defendant , in committing a sexual assault , carries , uses or threatens to use a real or imitation weapon or threatens to cause bodily harm to a person other than the complainant or is a party to the offence with any other person . |
| 2 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 3 | A restaurant seating 100 obviously presents a greater risk of food poisoning than does a shop selling only wrapped goods and needs to dedicate commensurate resources to staff training . |
| 4 | Christie , who ran dismally over 200 metres in Rome three days earlier , missed six weeks of pre-season training with a back injury and wants to pay particular attention to his starting technique . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , no one can buy the paper for hard currency , not even the mighty Ministry of Defence , because the only bank for foreign trade operations has declared itself almost bankrupt , and refuses to return hard currency to its owners . |
| 6 | The study of French at Edinburgh University takes as its starting point the student 's achievements in the final year at school and aims to develop linguistic skills to their fullest potential . |
| 7 | For example , Tomei Industrial ( Holdings ) , an electronics company with 95 per cent of its production in China , accelerated expansion plans in Malaysia and Thailand , and hopes to cut China-based output to about 50 per cent of total production . |
| 8 | BRITISH racing remains in the grip of a cold snap that wiped out yesterday 's programme and threatens to cause similar damage to the remainder of the week 's fixtures . |
| 9 | Certainly the tendency of a number of planning studies to equate the vitality of a village with the number of organizations it contains reveals a decidedly middle-class bias and fails to give sufficient weight to the overwhelmingly informal basis of rural working-class association . |
| 10 | The hotel has no private parking space but has arranged concessionary access to a municipal multi-storey car park nearby off Southgate Street . |
| 11 | Gas mask used for Dalek impression by Badlands boy Adam Hillier ( left ) ; the SAS ' Chris Hines copies , but fails to disguise uncanny resemblances to Leo Sayer |