Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [noun pl] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I received representations from both parties on [ Date ] and expect to receive replies to the representations on [ Date ] . |
| 2 | NGOs appear to present challenges to the authority of government agencies . |
| 3 | Families may have to share lavatories with other families or it may be inconveniently placed and so parents find that it is too much bother to take children to the lavatory and continue to let them soil . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I just want to introduce others to the pleasures of writing and sharing that writing with others . ’ |
| 5 | They hope to find clues to the structure of the highly complicated social organisation which hints at a hierarchy with ‘ leaders ’ and ‘ subordinates ’ . |
| 6 | The result is that although prosecutors may direct investigations , they tend to leave matters to the police . |
| 7 | The townspeople decide to write letters to the giant asking him to leave , reasoning that talking to him directly would be too dangerous . |
| 8 | Other materials continue to present challenges to the scientist , including many of organic origin such as tars , waxes and oils . |
| 9 | Government information films try to alert motorists to the perils of fog . |
| 10 | For example , if we try to assign characters to the vibration of H 2 O in which bond O-H a stretches , we can see ( Fig. 5.18 ) that X v is + 1 for elements E and σ yz ; but for C 2 and σ xz the arrow representing the motion is neither left unmoved nor simply reversed , but ends up where a similar arrow relating to a stretching motion of the O-H b bond would have been . |
| 11 | Thus , when the discount houses offer to sell bills to the Bank , the latter is in a strong position to influence rates of interest in the bill market by refusing to buy at the rates quoted . |
| 12 | Despite many protestations to the contrary , its arguments fail to offer solutions to the problems of empirical research . |
| 13 | As teachers , we need to sensitize students to the interplay of discourse type and the choice between referring expressions , repetition , and elegant repetition . |
| 14 | Further to this , Levin claims that Debord ‘ does not disparage pleasure ’ and yet argues elsewhere in the essay that his films deliberately refuse to make concessions to the viewer . |