Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Could this different pathophysiological basis influence the response to oxygen ?
2 This will , in turn , influence the value to the customer and the price he will be willing to pay .
3 This will , in turn , influence the value to the customer and the price he will be willing to pay .
4 This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) .
5 The path turned inland and met the road to Sandweg which cut through arable land , punctuated by low , brooding barns .
6 You leave Livingston by crossing the River Almond and entering Mid Calder which was a significant centre in the past , as this was where the old Ayr road met the Edinburgh to Glasgow Turnpike .
7 ‘ That 's bad ! ’ whispered the dairymen to each other .
8 Ann whispered the question to Harry while the new arrival was being led upstairs by her cousins to see the house .
9 Hitler flags lined all roads , pictures of Hitler decorated all houses , and garlands draped the entrance to every village ; hope and loyalty were prevalent everywhere !
10 Given the most rapid detection possible , the most effective means of transmitting the call to the fire services and their most prompt attendance , it is reasonable to suppose that in the absence of an effective automatic fire extinguishing system or even the benefit of a conventional one , that the fire will have reached a well advanced stage on their arrival .
11 ARGO is controlled by an IBM-PC , and will operate in a wide range of environments , storing data locally on floppy disk or transmitting the values to a collection site via telephone , radio or satellite links .
12 Legal interest centres on a HIV-infected man charged on several counts for wilfully transmitting the virus to his sex partners .
13 His decision to sacrifice the newspaper to MacQuillan rather than sacrifice the estate to the newspaper had not met with universal approval , but he did not let that trouble him .
14 Mr Kinnock must stress the extent to which Labour has really changed .
15 Critics would stress the extent to which the children 's freedom to map out their lives for themselves , to make genuine preferences on the basis of a range of possibilities denied them , had been stifled .
16 She must have taken the letter straight to a photocopy shop after collecting it from the skip and then posted the copy to Zen before returning to the house , calculating that if the copy came to light each of the Milettis would equally be under suspicion .
17 In the case of the Society for Biophysical Medicine , agency staff conducted the transcribing task themselves , and posted the information to the research project .
18 PC Nigel fits the clamp to Bryan 's hired Astra .
19 However local and limited the awareness to which the words testify , I have identified a spontaneous reaction to which , since it is provisionally approved by ‘ Be aware ’ , it is rational to seek means as an end good in itself ; if you disagree , the burden of proof has shifted to you , to make me aware of something overlooked which will redirect my response .
20 We have limited the field to stored-program computers , and we further limit the field to general-purpose computers ; that is , to computers with an instruction set rich enough to perform a wide variety of tasks .
21 Helena Kennedy , a barrister , said the law should be changed in rape cases to compel the defence to ‘ reveal their hand ’ , in relation to any attack made on an alleged victim 's character .
22 Nizan 's ironic , chiding tone must ultimately be understood as a facet of a global strategy to compel the reader to greater self-awareness .
23 When confiding the news to Greeves , he said , ‘ My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it . ’
24 The company , faced with a bad debt of £40,000 , took drastic action to accommodate the blow to cash flow .
25 Those who stress reversal see the process as one that has been led from the top , using the need to accommodate the reforms to Japan 's particular social system in order to legitimate the changes .
26 The main consideration with envelopes is that they should be large enough and strong enough to accommodate the material to be contained within them .
27 This authority would not make changes to the software , but would be responsible for pursuing the SPR to a satisfactory conclusion .
28 However , believing that the reforms do not go far enough , and backed by the National Council for Civil Liberties ( Liberty ) and The Independent , he is still pursuing the campaign to the European courts .
29 You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’
30 She added : You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’
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