Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb infin] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It occurs when teaching programmes do not relate to the final assessment of learning . |
| 7 | The first is that sometimes the rules do not relate to the actual language use of native speakers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Women lose this image of attractiveness with ageing , a process that men do not experience to the same degree . |
| 12 | If you receive the ERROR 118 message when checking the program , do not return to the previous stitch pattern . |
| 13 | Our estimates take into account the distribution of P γ ganglion cells , which do not contribute to the retino-cortical projection . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The different methods do not react to the same types of buried feature , and are thus to some extent complementary . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They do not refer to the 130 parishes in the diocese , each of which operates its own finances . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | If one or more assessors do not agree to the proposed changes , the DC will automatically be rejected . |
| 20 | ( Many of these ‘ public service ’ obligations do not apply to the new media ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 21 | However , these new powers do not apply to the public sector . |
| 22 | Do not listen to the tempting voices . |
| 23 | in word processing or desktop publishing this is a store of pre-hyphenated words that do not conform to the usual rules contained in the hyphenation and justification program ( H&J ) . |
| 24 | First , we can present descriptions and interpretations of societies that do not conform to the Western model of humans as essentially aggressive . |
| 25 | However , others appear to be made up in regular jointed sections which do not conform to the natural lines of cleavage . |
| 26 | The other four patients had non-functioning gall bladders before and after treatment but their cystic ducts were patent at percutaneous cholecystolithotomy , and it is assumed that they do not respond to the fatty meal stimulus used to test gall bladder emptying . |
| 27 | More significantly still , these straight roads sometimes do not run to the nearest village but continue for some miles through open country , reaching the villages by means of side-roads . |
| 28 | Fundamentally , the low status of these groups is a consequence of their position in societies whose political systems do not attend to the equal and impartial distribution amongst all citizens of power and advantage . |
| 29 | In peacetime such processes do not occur to the same extent . |
| 30 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |