Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to communicate to a certain extent through gestures and facial expressions , and he could put together short sentences . |
| 2 | Liz Scott-Gibson , who is now director of sign language services for the BDA , subsequently went to Kensington Palace to teach the Princess ; and on a later visit , to a school in Durham , Diana surprised everyone by being able to communicate to the deaf people she met without an interpreter . |
| 3 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 4 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 5 | His spiritualist interest began in late teens , and colours much of the work — notably an interesting poetic story about how he made a promise with a friend that whichever of them was first to the ‘ other side ’ would attempt to communicate to the other — and how it happened . |
| 6 | Erm next I propose as a , er , resolution four which is a special resolution and s set out in the notice of the meeting and is to modify to a limited extent , the obligations relating to the allotment of shares for cash contained in section eighty nine of the Companies Act . |
| 7 | The distinctive nature of the ends is reinforced by the fact that the occupants are often physically con fined to the particular area for the whole of the football match . |
| 8 | ANY SERENITY MOONCHILDREN wanting to write to a real cosmic far-out gal , get scribbling ! |
| 9 | ‘ He 'd like to write to a young lady of fifteen plus , over 5ft , not fussy about looks but please send photo . ’ |
| 10 | WANTED : FEMALES OVER 16 any size , any shape to write to a bored 19-year-old male who 's fed up with being single for most of the year . |
| 11 | 280 , the defendants , owners of a newspaper , carried an advertisement in each issue informing readers who wanted financial advice to write to a given address . |
| 12 | The presbytery also instructed their clerk to write to the Prime Minister , John Major , the Secretary of State for Scotland , Ian Lang , the local Member of Parliament , Jim Wallace , and the Member of the European Parliament , Winnie Ewing , asking for the law concerning child abuse to be reviewed as a matter of urgency . |
| 13 | I do n't know who well I do n't know whether you ought to write to the chief constable and explain the situation , all the |
| 14 | It does no harm to write to the nearest local residents and businesses , but generally this is a long shot . |
| 15 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 16 | They are invited to write to the Principal Librarian to arrange a postal loan service . |
| 17 | ‘ We need to let our members know that this is happening so that they can check out their own individual situation and we need to write to the regional council to find the basis for banding of agricultural housing here , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work . |
| 19 | AMNESTY urges all members to write to the Malawian embassy in London to secure her release ( see details , page 6 ) . |
| 20 | The 1985 Report on Social Attitudes found that the most highly valued method of taking personal action against an unjust law being considered was to write to the local MP and , although the importance of contacting the media for this purpose has increased , the 1986 report found ‘ a widespread and growing self confidence on the part of the electorate to try to bring influence to bear on Parliament ’ . |
| 21 | The couple agreed to continue going out socially together , and the therapist agreed to write to the local housing department to back up their application for council accommodation . |
| 22 | It need not take much effort to write to the local paper , or phone a councillor , with a complaint , and the effects will impact upon management . |
| 23 | I have been saying he is an absolute ‘ bag o shite ’ since day one ( I was so mystified by the signing I was moved to write to the local rag — and they printed it ! ! ) . |
| 24 | As Stewart Young says above please feel free to write to the Editorial Team . |
| 25 | Linkworth did not want his wife to write to the old lady . |
| 26 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 27 | He ventured to the Blighted Isle in search of his father 's armour . |
| 28 | In R v Sunderland JC , ex pG [ 1988 ] 2 FLR 40 , a case decided under the old law , the Court of Appeal held that the guardian ad litem 's report should not be disclosed to an independent social worker instructed by a parent unless it could be shown that the evidence of the independent social worker would assist the court . |
| 29 | These can be referred to by letters ( ie A-Z ) in the information memorandum and disclosed to the preferred bidder at a later stage . |
| 30 | Bleached bodies lie beached in the full heat , revealing sights that should never be disclosed to the closest lover let alone half of Teesside . |