Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may be quite right to ascribe agency to a child for his acts . |
| 2 | Gide had tried to persuade his mother , as he had persuaded himself , that bringing Athman to Paris was a ‘ moral rescue ’ , a question of the salvation of a boy through adoption . |
| 3 | Paradoxically it is the pressure created by the enormous guilt , and by the doomed attempt to deal with it , that builds tension to the point where it is more likely to explode into real physical abuse . |
| 4 | does that make sense to everybody ? |
| 5 | That 's a very good question , there 's a number of reasons for it happening , erm it might be that the groove , the , the socket bit is very shallow , like a shallow tea cup and the hip , the leg bone does n't stay in it properly , does that make sense to you ? |
| 6 | So it 's only after several days that this will build up in the blood , does that make sense to you , do you realize now why tests is not done until six days ? |
| 7 | Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ? |
| 8 | As mentioned earlier in this chapter , builders should if possible eliminate sub-letting to independent gangs . |
| 9 | More particularly , the Finniston Report in 1980 drew attention to the heavy emphasis on manufacturing in German engineering curricula in contrast with the relatively ‘ academic ’ orientation of British engineering education . |
| 10 | Go to the lavatory when you feel the need , do n't try to ‘ hang on ’ , that causes stress to the bladder and may encourage an attack . |
| 11 | Some of the returns from Taylor 's questionnaire 216 drew attention to these problems , one in particular reporting that another year of full-time work would be required to bring the thesis work up to standard and up to date . |
| 12 | SSAP9 states that it is frequently not practicable to relate expenditure to specific units of stocks . |
| 13 | Each has responsibility to an individual BDC . |
| 14 | There , we had been assured , it would be possible to find transport to Cocoyo and the walk in . |
| 15 | Although it is still popularly assumed that men are more prone to fall prey to the ravages of ‘ burnout ’ due to overwork and unhealthy lifestyle , all the evidence now points to women , especially aged between 35 and 50 , as today 's prime targets of stress . |
| 16 | But in another variety of comic crime fiction you can take as a chief character , as indeed your detective , a person who is to a greater or lesser extent a figure of fun , someone prone to fall victim to more or less ridiculous circumstances . |
| 17 | Some youngsters who sniff have accidents while they are intoxicated and some suffer damage to their health . |
| 18 | He rejects comparisons with American-style ‘ workfare ’ programmes , where the unemployed lose entitlement to state benefits if they refuse community service jobs . |
| 19 | Where this involves opposition to those who run the global system in their own interests it will naturally involve transnational practices in the economic , political and cultural-ideological spheres . |
| 20 | As an adolescent , this made sense to me . ’ |
| 21 | This made sense to Trent . |
| 22 | This lent money to banks , insurance companies , agricultural credit institutions and railroads . |
| 23 | NO PLACE ‘ There are those who argue the Secretary of State was wrong to grant consent to Wilton power station and they say that , because he was wrong consent , should be refused for transmission connections , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It 's one thing to sit in a classroom writing down notes but it 's quite another to come face to face with an armed murderer or a cornered rapist , you mark my words . ’ |
| 25 | Controlling either the monetary base or broad liquidity is difficult given that the Bank of England is always prepared to provide liquidity to the discount houses as lender of last resort . |
| 26 | The CML drew attention to the initiative of the Law Society of Scotland in providing assistance to those firms of accountants responsible for auditing books of Scottish solicitors . |
| 27 | I think that many of his readers would be prepared to bear witness to the sense that somewhere in there among the changing shapes is the usual nonpareil . |
| 28 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 29 | A report by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1985 drew attention to the very poor physical condition of much of the remaining stock in the public sector ( Decaying Britain , Royal Institute of British Architects , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | Mr Coase 's favourite case of externality was an American icon , the wood-burning locomotive — whose sparks , regrettably , were prone to set fire to farmers ' fields . |