Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used language , the politician 's only weapon , to build a momentum for change sufficient to carry Labour to power on a modernising platform . |
| 2 | She had previously benefitted from a credit and loan scheme , but had been unable to continue due to lack of funds . |
| 3 | Unfortunately our present ante-natal teacher is unable to continue due to work and family commitments , but is more than happy to answer any ante-natal queries via the telephone . |
| 4 | But I honestly ca n't validate getting seriously wrapped up in the story of the song because how on earth can you relate that to notes ? |
| 5 | Scheduled to begin on Aug. 30 , the talks had been delayed due to North Korea 's refusal , at an unofficial contact between foreign ministry officials prior to the talks , to respond to Japan 's repeated call for information about a Japanese woman known as Li Un Hye , who had allegedly been kidnapped by North Korea to tutor the former North Korean agent convicted of the 1987 bombing of a South Korean passenger plane [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 6 | It is also possible to identify land scheduled for development in future years , particularly where the development of an area is delayed due to problems with infrastructure , for example where the release of land is delayed pending improvements to sewers or sewerage disposal facilities . |
| 7 | Occasionally , flights may be delayed due to circumstances beyond our control . |
| 8 | 27 responses as of 31 March — delayed due to distribution difficulties . |
| 9 | Delayed due to staff shortages . |
| 10 | There are many people who suffer due to lack of affordable housing to rent and inability to cope with mortgage repayments . |
| 11 | Marcus became gentler , moved to sit nearer to Patrick , ceased his exertions and , after gazing at Pat for some time , began to caress one of his hands , turning it about in his own hands and pressing it . |
| 12 | Some small instrumented areas have been selected as representative of particular conditions whereas others were experimental , in which change due to logging or other forms of land use change could be monitored either by change in one basin or by comparison of several areas in which changes were taking place to differing degrees . |
| 13 | However , as discussed in Chapter 1 , a clause excluding liability for failure to perform due to circumstances beyond his control ( usually called a " force majeure " clause ) is considered reasonable both commercially , and for the purposes of s 3 of the UCTA . |
| 14 | In a moment I will massage her poor feet which have swollen due to inactivity and the hot weather . |
| 15 | You know , change that to white . |
| 16 | The remaining 90 per cent of cases remained an obstinate mystery until the middle fifties , when it became possible to culture this obscure organism on the yolk-sac of the chicken embryo . |
| 17 | ‘ After literally a few weeks in Bosnia you became used to death . |
| 18 | The resulting Wald statistic rejected the null of weak exogeneity , implying that the reported coefficient on the contemporaneous wealth term is biased due to simultaneity . |
| 19 | Lt. Hancock , who had taken over ‘ B ’ Flight of 185 Squadron after Innes Westmacott was wounded , crash-landed when his engine failed due to fuel starvation ; a fault had prevented his being able to switch over tanks . |
| 20 | As he got nearer to No. 22 he decided that Mrs Brocklebank had been neglecting her duties here as well . |
| 21 | If you were a Parquet lawyer you got used to cases getting nowhere ; but that did n't mean you liked it . |
| 22 | I you we I got used to Wendy 's . |
| 23 | While Britain got used to Wilson , the Americans did n't come to terms with the post-Kennedy era . |
| 24 | He got used to people asking him ‘ and what do you do ? ’ |
| 25 | Gradually she got used to thinking of Angel as Corrie , but it soon became clear that she would never be able to claim her as her own . |
| 26 | As the days passed Creggan got used to Slorne 's silence and grew to like it and he would perch at his stance and think about the land in the South where the two of them came from and try to imagine what it was like . |
| 27 | A report from a consultant pathologist said the cause of Mrs Colbert 's death was blood poisoning due to burns . |
| 28 | The reduction in weight was partly achieved by using 1.5 to 2mm thickness leathers for the uppers , compared with the traditional 3mm . |
| 29 | Princess Coronation Class 46229 ‘ Duchess of Hamilton ’ which was originally hoped to be steamed between Carlisle and Perth later this year , has been withdrawn due to restrictions being imposed on the locomotive by ScotRail engineers . |
| 30 | ( i ) the practising certificate of any member is withdrawn due to non-renewal under Section 14(5) of the Solicitors Act 1974 provided that a new practising certificate is issued within two months of such expiry ; or |