Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many flowers appear to bees to be ultraviolet-coloured even though to us they appear to be a quite different colour . |
| 2 | The 15-member House of Chiefs considers draft legislation relating to alterations to the Constitution or to chieftaincy matters , and may make representation to the President on matters affecting the tribes or tribal organizations . |
| 3 | ( iii ) Rules relating to complaints to hospitals , the Family Health Service Authority ( FHSA ) , the General Medical Council ( GMC ) and the Health Service Commissioner . |
| 4 | Resolved , That this House takes note of European Community Documents Nos. 8356/90 , relating to agricultural production methods , 7570/91 , and the Supplementary Explanatory Memorandum submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food on 13th November 1991 , relating to the development and future of the Common Agricultural Policy , and 8886/91 COR 1,8950/91 and 9136/91 , relating to amendments to the legal framework of the Common Agricultural Policy ; and supports the Government 's intention to seek reform of the Common Agricultural Policy which will make Community agriculture more market-orientated and efficient , will put more emphasis on environmental care , will reduce the cost of that Policy and will apply fairly throughout the Community . |
| 5 | She will be preparing to face the future , having come to terms to some extent with the loss of her previous expectations concerning it . |
| 6 | As discussed in Section 1 , any later renegotiation of terms would then be confined to parties to the initial contract . |
| 7 | This underlines the argument that it is poor children whose rearing is most likely to appear to agencies to be unsatisfactory . [ … ] |
| 8 | Each landsurface catena is composed of landsurface units which are identified and defined according to responses to single or groups of contemporary geomorphic ( in 1968 ) and also to pedologic ( in 1977 ) processes . |
| 9 | If you do not listen your responses may be ‘ off beam ’ and you may appear to others to be rather stupid . |
| 10 | Those constructing future policies and principles should strive to make them exemplary in this regard , not least because of the encouragement this will give to schools to be rigorous in their own thinking . |
| 11 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 12 | But if the objective of the advertising for such a brand is , in fact , to talk to newcomers to the market ( and there are always newcomers to any market ) , or to the unconverted , or to disloyal users of other brands , there is , obviously , a very clear , specific case for ads which carry quite a lot of information , presented in a suitably attractive way . |
| 13 | Reference has been made to services to King 's Cross for passengers who will travel from the north and other parts of England and from the continent . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make provisions comparable to those made to haemophiliacs to non-haemophiliacs infected with HIV as a result of national health service blood or tissue transfers . |
| 15 | What Adam does n't see to falls to me . |
| 16 | Whatever the public disclaimers of those in authority , many of the mechanisms set up by the ERA seem to teachers to be specifically designed to reduce themselves as professional people to the status of paid servants , to leave them as little margin for discretion as possible and therefore to reduce ‘ curriculum management ’ to technical trivia : the drawing up of timetables and the efficient disbursement of limited resources . |
| 17 | Their request , therefore is that the NBCW provides a regular input expressing as far as is possible , the concerns and views of women in the Church on topics which seem to women to be most crucial or fundamental . |
| 18 | Many of their propositions seem to critics to be so vague that they are almost tautologous . |
| 19 | The Environment Secretary , Chris Patten has agreed to alterations to the County 's structure plan , but it 's still not clear whether the Authority will have to proceed with a controversial scheme for a gravel pit at Finmere . |
| 20 | Police have appealed to witnesses to the crash which happened at about 2.45pm on Saturday . |
| 21 | Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton . |
| 22 | Contracts are often written in the future tense , presumably on the basis that they refer to acts to be performed in the future . |
| 23 | He spent the 1980s building up his communications group to one of the world 's largest , in everything from printing to newspapers to satellite TV . |
| 24 | John Ambrose should be well known to visitors to recent Woodworker Shows , as he has won rather a lot of medals in the turning competitions . |
| 25 | A tour of Latin American countries by the US Vice-President , Dan Quayle , in January 1990 was reduced to visits to Honduras , Jamaica and Panama following warnings by the governments of Costa Rica , Mexico and Venezuela that the visit could foment anti-US feeling following the December 1989 US invasion of Panama [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 26 | SOUTHERN Electric announce a tariff review that will limit electricity price rises to customers to an average of 2.2 percent . |
| 27 | However , the purchaser should ensure that this only applies to obligations to the extent that they have been disclosed and ensure that it will not be required to perform the obligations if such vicarious performance would be a breach of the relevant contract ( see clause 8.2(b) of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) . |
| 28 | ‘ ( 1 ) This section applies to proceedings to which a legally assisted person is a party and which are finally decided in favour of an unassisted party . |
| 29 | Two periods a week are allocated to Games to Primary 7 and one period from S1 to S6 . |
| 30 | The changes also applied to elections to municipal and county councils so that the electorate was now composed of all ratepayers , excluding recipients of poor relief . |