Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [verb] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do these results indicate you should be doing to minister to the situation ? |
| 2 | Mr. Roth contended that it is inconceivable that a party who has been held to be merely negligent should be required to contribute to the damages payable by a party who has been found guilty of fraud . |
| 3 | This overlap has raised some difficulty about the extent to which a client should be expected to contribute to the cost of the services received . |
| 4 | Before fusing with a tumour cell , an antibody-producing cell ( one known as a B cell ) must be stimulated to react to the substance its antibodies will recognise . |
| 5 | The guests must be persuaded to return to the restaurant , where it is imperative they be served with a more than satisfactory meal and be completely pacified . |
| 6 | Mr Stapleton added that he thought ‘ the ASB might be trying to run to the perfect OFR a little too quickly ’ . |
| 7 | Having seen how it is possible to tell a story within a particular sequence , let's take a step back to consider how this might be made to relate to the story of a whole day on the sands . |
| 8 | The employee 's claim was , however , effectively refused in the British Steel case because such benefits as might be expected to flow to the employer from refinements to the patented product had not ( yet ) materialised . |
| 9 | Measures directly towards the amelioration of these conditions might be expected to contribute to the prevention of attempted suicide , although other factors — such as the availability of drugs , cultural attitudes , and the level of services available — might have a more immediate effect . |
| 10 | I 'll play the odd game for the Harlequins Gentlemen for some exercise and also in charity events , but that is all ’ — PAUL ACKFORD ( former England lock ) on rumours that he might be persuaded to return to the international scene . |
| 11 | All might preserve some religious truth and meaning , but none could be allowed to make any absolute claims , though each would be acceptable to the extent — but only to the extent — that it conformed or could be made to conform to the standard of natural religion , conceived of as a set of beliefs or principles which could stand very well on their own feet . |
| 12 | By and large , however , they argued that the behaviour of the electorate was shaped less by their stance to particular policy issues and more by generalised attitudes and beliefs about the party 's " image " , and they specifically pointed out " how little the mass of voters could be said to respond to the policy alternatives at Westminster in judging the claims of the rival parties " . |
| 13 | The old adage ‘ The mind is willing but the flesh is weak , ’ could be said to apply to the M.C.R. and its attitude towards sport . |
| 14 | Farm workers , too , could be persuaded to defer to the locally powerful if the latter were prepared to act in what the farm worker believed to be a legitimate manner . |
| 15 | The same kind of representational language could be used to refer to the working of a television set or indeed a thermostat . |
| 16 | They may be asked to react to the implications of the forecast and the means to be employed by the enterprise to achieve it . |
| 17 | True religion may be said to add to the spiritual a conscious relationship to the Source of the spiritual . |
| 18 | In hospitality , new modules may be written to add to the existing specification . |
| 19 | If the child has already been removed from home under an emergency protection order it may be construed to refer to the period immediately before the emergency order was sought ( see D ( a Minor ) v Berkshire County Council [ 1987 ] 1 All ER 120 , a case decided under the old law on a similar point of interpretation ) . |
| 20 | The worry for regular viewers to the series which has been running for 19 years , is that the ethos of the programme may be changed to pander to the larger English audience . |
| 21 | Members in categories 3 and 4 will be required to keep their own records which they may be required to submit to the Institute . |
| 22 | If proceedings have been issued you may be required to contribute to the Defendants ' legal costs , but this will usually be limited to the same amount that you contributed to the Legal Aid Board in respect of your own legal costs . |
| 23 | Similar considerations would , it appears to me , be applicable to any claim that the third party should contribute to any exemplary damages which the third defendant may be ordered to pay to the plaintiffs , for exemplary damages would never be recoverable by the plaintiffs direct from the third party . |
| 24 | As far as this representative model is concerned procedural entitlements are viewed in purely instrumental terms , according to the contribution they may be expected to make to the accuracy of the underlying substantive policy judgments , and since no one has a right to a particular policy outcome , no one has aright either to any particular form of decision-making process . |
| 25 | It also describes how access to transferred information may be restricted to conform to the standard LIFESPAN security rules . |
| 26 | The transition period after leaving institutional care has also been documented as a critical time , when young people may be forced to return to the unhappy home situation from which they had been removed years earlier . |
| 27 | As these funds are tied up in Treasury Bills , commercial bills and other assets , the houses may be forced to turn to the lender of last resort — the Bank of England . |
| 28 | Often , the vomiting of good may be thought to point to the presence of a simple , partial mechanical obstruction to gastric emptying . |
| 29 | In cases of " innocent publication " , where the defendant has not intended to criticise the plaintiff ( either because the defendant did not realise that the words would be understood to refer to the plaintiff or the defendant is unaware of special circumstances which make them defamatory ) liability may be avoided by making an " offer of amends " under s4 of the 1952 Defamation Act . |
| 30 | If the authorities intervened in the gilt-edged market to support prices , they would be tending to add to the liquidity of the banking system . |