Example sentences of "[verb] to their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence they were ‘ extracted ’ from their culture and failed to communicate to their own people . |
| 2 | With a new Government assuming office , AI urges members to write to their new MPs appealing for the speedy removal of the death penalty bringing the UK into line with international progress towards abolition . |
| 3 | The Royal College of Nursing in Oxford is asking its members to write to their local MPs and state their case for a pay award . |
| 4 | Now as a national organizer all the branches in your area if they had any complaints or anything that they wanted attending to used to write to their national organizer and I used to visit and deal with their complaints . |
| 5 | Perhaps its remoteness has been its saving grace , coupled with the fact that by the nineteenth century the Pinney family who had built it deemed it too small and dim to live in and moved to their other house of Racedown , a mile up the road . |
| 6 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 7 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
| 8 | Yet some provisional leaders and rank and file members are committed to their Roman catholic religious belief and practice . |
| 9 | For it was in the western part of Charlemagne 's Empire that a particular combination of conditions — persisting Roman administrative and legal practices , well-organised provincial churches with longstanding traditions of conciliar meetings and the issuing of legislation , elites long-christianised and committed to their local churches , the written word in a language not too far removed from the spoken vernacular — favoured a particularly strong corporate awareness and activity on the part of churchmen within a group of provinces . |
| 10 | It is not even as though the Government have adhered to their own reasons for refusing to act on this in the past . |
| 11 | This means that salad crops are excellent subjects for catch cropping in space that will later be taken up as the autumn and winter crops grow to their mature sizes . |
| 12 | The texts themselves are inspirational , but Beyer 's lettering style for this commission , which treated each letter as a piece of incised sculpture in its own right , greatly adds to their declamatory power . |
| 13 | During their suffering the rabbits often become flyblown and this adds to their distressing appearance . |
| 14 | A new side-opening device releases the pressure in the pack , so they expand gently on opening to their usual size , making they easy to remove . |
| 15 | At the moment , the train is static in more senses than one , as fifty City office-workers try simultaneously to detach their ninety-per-cent nylon polyamide jackets , which have statically fused to their hundred-per-cent nylon polyamide shirts , resulting in a display of electrostatics that I 'm sure would surprise even Mr Van de Graaff himself . |
| 16 | If television companies have no legal obligation to acknowledge recorded music adequately , could one at least appeal to their collective conscience by mounting a modest campaign ? |
| 17 | On the other hand , you might appeal to their finer feelings , their sense of duty and responsibility . |
| 18 | We want companies and workforces to come to their own arrangements . |
| 19 | They are young people from each area who speak in the local language about important development issues , facilitate discussions and encourage villagers to come to their own conclusions through a series of interactive exercises . |
| 20 | People 'll have to come to their own conclusions . |
| 21 | And it must help pupils to come to their own commitments as they live their lives in a world of confusing , diverse and often conflicting values and beliefs . |
| 22 | TYNE AND WEAR : A party of North-East firefighters fly to the Ukraine this week to visit a museum in Kiev dedicated to their foreign counterparts who were killed or injured in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 23 | A party of North-East firefighters fly to the Ukraine this week to visit a museum in Kiev dedicated to their foreign counterparts who were killed or injured in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 24 | In order to give businesses time to adjust to their new rate liability , the change in the amount of rates to be paid by a business will be phased in probably over 5 years . |
| 25 | Patients must be allowed to come to terms , they must grieve and mourn for their lost limbs , lost abilities or lost looks and be helped to adjust to their lost body-image . |
| 26 | Several have established research programmes or ‘ task forces ’ charged with explaining to their Academic Boards the costs and benefits of such a move . |
| 27 | Mark Wright , John Barnes , Ian Rush and David Burrows were all missing as Liverpool crashed to their second defeat in four days . |
| 28 | DARLINGTON 'S hopes of remaining in the Third Division were dealt a severe blow in London last night when they crashed to their eleventh away defeat of the season . |
| 29 | And what 's more , how Leeds could have done with the Frenchman as they crashed to their fourth defeat in five games . |
| 30 | The unemployment figures rose to their highest level for four years . |