Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A procedure for transforming to a frame in free fall is described in Section 6.6 . |
| 2 | Judith was well aware of the economics involved in the provision of kosher meat for Cork 's forty or so Jewish families , but it was worth submitting to a lecture on it from her mother if it helped to make her more amenable . |
| 3 | cAMP standards were prepared ranging from 0.1 to 4 pmol ml - 1 and standards and unknowns were competed with 1 2 5 [ I ] succinyl cAMP tyrosine methyl ester ( 4.5×10 4 cpm tube - 1 ) for binding to a fixed concentration of cAMP antiserum in sodium phosphate buffer , pH 6 . |
| 4 | Future development of social work practice in this area seems probable , with a social worker having responsibility for relating to a particular Home and its residents . |
| 5 | The usual reward for keeping to a diet is in-built ; you lose weight ! |
| 6 | Again they must perform an infinite number of circuits to reach either pole , as their paths are loxodromes , from the sailing term for keeping to a constant bearing . |
| 7 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 8 | reasons for applying to a particular institution |
| 9 | reasons for applying to a particular course |
| 10 | For each of these zones it can provide : * population statistics ; * population by ACORN category ; * consumer expenditure potential ; * details of retail competition ; * a postcode index for matching to a postcoded customer file . |
| 11 | On the three-day , residential course held on December 4–6 at Pendle 's training centre in the heart of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales , you 'll learn preparation for returning to a changed work environment : Assertiveness Training , Personal Development plus two basic sales training sessions . |
| 12 | Doctors at King 's College Hospital , London , believe that Aisling Barnett , 35 , who suffered liver failure after reacting to a drug prescribed after the birth of her daughter , would have died yesterday if not for the operation . |
| 13 | Darcy , in second place overnight , took 74 and O'Connor fell from third to 25th after crashing to an embarrassing 80 . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't need to be more famous , ’ he said last week after returning to a charmingly comfortable home converted from farm buildings some 15 miles to the north-west of Newcastle . |
| 15 | OH , SO HAPPY : The Qulis show off Farrah after returning to a massive welcome from neighbours last night |
| 16 | As an Irish prime minister once said after listening to a long debate between his cabinet colleagues : ‘ I understand how it works in practice . |
| 17 | One Sunday , after listening to a sermon in church on the wickedness of Sabbath-breaking , he was playing at tipcat ( a predecessor of cricket ) when he suddenly heard a voice cry , ‘ Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven , or have thy sins and go to Hell ? ’ |
| 18 | He started going to ‘ Aid Spain ’ meetings and after listening to a medical student who had returned from the country he decided to help in the most direct way . |
| 19 | After listening to an eighteenth-century description of their village and its green , one class made a model of the village green as it was about 1790 . |
| 20 | Hegerty , 62 , of Park Street , Ruabon , gave himself up after confessing to a priest , but had since tried to kill himself . |
| 21 | But after speaking to a group of her most trusted advisers , she turned her anger into action . |
| 22 | But in Belfast , quite sharp style-shifting in a formal direction was noted on one occasion when a young man addressed an older male researcher , after speaking to a woman . |
| 23 | Attitudes may well be negative if employees have cause to believe that after moving to a strange area , they may face redundancy . |
| 24 | A comparable process is also found among Scolytid beetles in which , after moving to a new tree , the insects ( of both sexes ) do not fly and their flight-muscles are reduced to functionless ribbons . |
| 25 | Jean had a daughter by her former marriage and , soon after moving to a flat not far from Hamilton Terrace , held a party for her , inviting adults as they as yet knew no children in the area . |
| 26 | After moving to a staffed house the person received much higher levels of assistance from staff as well as higher levels of other contact . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been in that sort of situation before , sitting in a dressing- room after losing to a team you 've been expected to beat . |
| 28 | ‘ If only I could play it again , ’ sighed Nicola , head cupped in both hands , after losing to a bold Higgins birdie on the 19th . |
| 29 | After coming to a stop with the glider facing into wind , holding the tail down is the worst possible thing , and even leaving the nose unattended for a few moments is dangerous . |
| 30 | Jon Booth , 25 , appears in a Kay 's mail order catalogue after responding to an ad for hunky men wanting a taste of the fashion world . |