Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly there must be an efficient method of getting the information displayed on the screen onto the paper and the PostScript page description language met that requirement to a tee . |
| 2 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |
| 3 | Harold Wilson 's words are remembered today , 25 years after he led Labour back to power , from 13 wilderness years . |
| 4 | As the war proceeded , Iraq attempted to do the same to Iran 's terminals and bring Iranian exports to a halt . |
| 5 | Where the English language does make specific references to the female , it often has derogatory implications . |
| 6 | He made outstanding contributions to all branches of children 's surgery but his lifelong interest was the aetiology of malformations . |
| 7 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 8 | Clearly , managers with good information about the firm will want to transmit that information to the market , while managers with bad information might want to conceal it and might also be tempted to transmit false ‘ good ’ information to the market . |
| 9 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 10 | Many UK libraries provide a subject index linking alphabetically arranged descriptive headings to classification codes . |
| 11 | According to a spokesman , " the orders regarding the opening of fire were clarified and broadened to enable Israeli soldiers to properly react in cases of danger to life " . |
| 12 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 13 | Although the centre of gravity in Tudor and Stuart England stayed in the more open Midlands and East Anglia , the fringe counties produced strong variations to the general stability and prosperity of these two centuries . |
| 14 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
| 15 | And , if you treat this toxin with something like formaldehyde or ethanol , you end up by inactivating it 's toxic properties and you end up with what , what we call a toxoid , something that retains immunological properties , it 's able to stimulate specific immunity to the toxin but it does n't have any of the toxic effects and we end up with this toxoid vaccine against diphtheria . |
| 16 | 10.7.7.2 such Party supplies technical information to the agent or contractor on suitable conditions of confidentiality . |
| 17 | I will make that feedback to Jenny so that she 's clear , I think that 's a good way to handle it . |
| 18 | In his own interests the licence-holder , when structural alterations have been completed in compliance with an order , should intimate that fact to the clerk to the licensing board . |
| 19 | Brian Pearse FCIB , Deputy Chairman , responded and made strong reference to the need for a return to high standards of banking education . |
| 20 | Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria . |
| 21 | It is precisely in order to make sounder legal and moral judgments , and to evaluate their cost , that we bring economic analysis to a problem like insider trading . ’ |
| 22 | We have facts about a charitable trust using ACE schemes to actually do my members ' jobs , do my members ' jobs in the home help service , do my members ' jobs in the social services — driving people about when they are not insured ; they do n't have PSV and as far as they 're concerned , ‘ so what ? ’ |
| 23 | Furthermore , the shareholders as the principal were entitled to issue specific instructions to the directors which as agents they were obliged to implement . |
| 24 | A motion declaring its moves to implement economic reform to be " unsatisfactory " was passed by 134 votes to 19 , with five abstentions . |
| 25 | Inevitably the League began to acquire the characteristics of a political party rejecting the " self-denying ordinance " which prevented the Fabians from submitting political resolutions to the Party . |
| 26 | What is more , he learned from them , and applied that learning to his creative benefit . |
| 27 | The Transport Act 1968 applied that exclusion to road transport services provided by the newly created STG . |
| 28 | But like many other nations we have been deeply concerned by the violence in the Baltics , and we have communicated that concern to the Soviet leadership . |
| 29 | If he is a friend , he has not communicated that fact to any member of the inspectorate . |
| 30 | My postbag is the proof that a season 's secrecy — until Lamb forced some overdue action — has exposed professional cricket to the public as a game prepared to condone or cover-up cheating . |