Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are to instruct them not to respond to Moslem provocation . |
| 2 | ASIANS are being asked to recall how they successfully adapted to British life . |
| 3 | In order to find examples of such an antithetical state of affairs they naturally turned to primitive society , as they assumed , like many before and after them , that these societies would offer illustrations of systems as totally different to those they knew as could be found anywhere . |
| 4 | So in 1877 the men at the Middleton Iron Company were given their notice , though they stubbornly clung to short-time employment until 1883 when the plant was shut down completely until 1897 . |
| 5 | They also like to up-end push and pull toys for imaginary mending , and wheels can be spun at different speeds . |
| 6 | A final question which falls to be considered is whether they also apply to national legislation adopted prior to the directive . |
| 7 | Health professionals and social workers all have closely demarcated responsibilities which are impressed on them during training and they often bring to mental health services traditional attitudes and approaches which can act as a brake on the development of new ways of doing things . |
| 8 | Like Melanie they invariably ran to small IQ 's and big bust measurements . ’ |
| 9 | They too pandered to protectionist sentiment — though more cautiously than do Bill Clinton and Mickey Kantor . |
| 10 | They therefore look to social stratification to see how far it meets these functional prerequisites . |