Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want now to turn to the reforming efforts made by feminists , first in the domain of the lexicon ( and the dictionary , which is the ‘ official record ’ of the lexicon ) and then in the domain of grammar . |
| 2 | Perhaps the almost doubled entrance prices coupled with the knowledge that big international games lie ahead contributed to the poor show . |
| 3 | Such strategies therefore vary considerably according to the economic conditions under which family members operate . |
| 4 | If the position is correct then control automatically passes to the next option . |
| 5 | you know how according to the thick , the .. bull clip last time , you had a lot of cause did n't ya ? |
| 6 | Is he aware that my constituents remain strongly opposed to the proposed overhead power lines and are rightly concerned at their impact on the rural landscape ? |
| 7 | The territorial waters claim also applied to the disputed Tungsha ( Pratas ) and Nansha ( Spratly ) Islands in the South China Sea and the Tiaoyutai Islands north-east of Taiwan . |
| 8 | Liberal Democrats remain steadfastly committed to the original aims of the NHS : to enable everyone to live free of the fear of illness , injury and disability ; to provide health care free at the point of delivery and regardless of ability to pay . |
| 9 | Species that reduce CO 2 with H 2 do so according to the following equation : |
| 10 | If we choose not to attend to the higher-level activity during cycling we simply do not notice our surroundings and may take an incorrect route . |
| 11 | The important point in the above definition is the assertion that things which differ in some common qualities do nevertheless belong to the larger class . |
| 12 | This type of inefficiency arises because workers and management are often ill-equipped or lacking in motivation and so do not perform to the best of their abilities . |
| 13 | Thus a description of R. & R. Clark 's works in 1896 commented that " for straightforward setting , ordinary stonework , simple imposition and first proof-reading , the women are found to be fully qualified , though of course they do not attain to the all-round excellence of first-class men " , |
| 14 | Firbas ' notions of context-dependence/independence are therefore purely linguistic and do not extend to the psychological aspect of communication as Halliday 's notions do . |
| 15 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 16 | It occurs when teaching programmes do not relate to the final assessment of learning . |
| 17 | The first is that sometimes the rules do not relate to the actual language use of native speakers . |
| 18 | Could I say that the actual issues that go to the House of Lords do not relate to the earlier events to which the right hon. Gentleman has referred . |
| 19 | Later causes of decline are clearly different , and do not relate to the same age-groups or causes of death , and there are better data to argue over . |
| 20 | 2 ) In the relationship of " hole " to " block " two touching faces indicate a through hole , if the faces do not relate to the same end of the hole . |
| 21 | Women lose this image of attractiveness with ageing , a process that men do not experience to the same degree . |
| 22 | If you receive the ERROR 118 message when checking the program , do not return to the previous stitch pattern . |
| 23 | Our estimates take into account the distribution of P γ ganglion cells , which do not contribute to the retino-cortical projection . |
| 24 | Digestion of the starch into its component glucose units takes place at the luminal surface of the gut epithelial cells , but these glucose units are immediately absorbed by the sodium ion/glucose cotransporter so that they do not contribute to the osmotic activity in the gut lumen . |
| 25 | The different methods do not react to the same types of buried feature , and are thus to some extent complementary . |
| 26 | This is desirable in itself , though I do not warm to the feminist MacCarthyism which subjects texts to a close , hostile interrogation in a search for sexist attitudes . |
| 27 | They do not refer to the 130 parishes in the diocese , each of which operates its own finances . |
| 28 | If one or more assessors do not agree to the proposed changes , the DC will automatically be rejected ( once all the votes have been cast ) . |
| 29 | If one or more assessors do not agree to the proposed changes , the DC will automatically be rejected . |
| 30 | ( Many of these ‘ public service ’ obligations do not apply to the new media ( see Chapter 10 ) . |