Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank You for bringing to this country men who are good listeners , who hear Your instructions and obey . ’ |
| 2 | John Finnis criticizes positivists for attributing to natural law thinking a wholly deductive methodology such that given the fundamental principle as major premise and a statement of fact as minor premise the one right answer pops out auto-matically . |
| 3 | The papers had accused Neethling of issuing poison to members of so-called hit squads for administering to anti-apartheid activists . |
| 4 | Responses in experimental tests , such as reacting to one of a range of flashing lights , have been used to study selective attention . |
| 5 | The bid drew the attention of the Takeover Panel , and Burson-Marsteller , Dowty 's public relations advisers , were censured for suggesting to various newspapers during the bid that Dowty 's profits would rise considerably in the future . |
| 6 | However , British people probably have reasons for reacting to black immigrants in this way . |
| 7 | The best speech synthesisers are capable of producing speech of such high quality that only an expert can distinguish it from a recording of a human being 's speech ; less sophisticated synthesisers are becoming so cheap that they can now be bought for attaching to ordinary micro-computers . |
| 8 | Viewers familiar with Dr Latimer 's assistant in Do n't Wait Up will be forgiven for defecting to another channel . |
| 9 | For example , if you wanted to ’ bag up ’ with barbel a trip to the Severn may be in order , but if you wanted a ten pounder then it 's worth driving to one of the hot southern rivers like the Hampshire Avon , Bristol Avon or Kennet . |
| 10 | They never thought for a moment about reverting to conventional agriculture , although Gareth had come from a research job with ICI . |
| 11 | So you can look at er communication as relating to overall competence and perhaps at a stronger level than that , you could argue that erm communication determines not only the structure but also the strength and the scope of an organisation , okay ? |
| 12 | Of course much of the flow is contractual and employers and employees have had little choice about contributing to such schemes . |
| 13 | We need to find refrigerants that are completely free from chlorine and do not cause other environmental problems such as contributing to global warming . |
| 14 | The personal sector earns in return for contributing to current production ( no pensions are received by individuals in our model ) a gross income of £13,500 million , and of this sum , £3,000 million is paid in income tax to the public sector . |
| 15 | We hear a lot about returning to Victorian values . |
| 16 | Reasons for applying to particular institutions and courses |
| 17 | Is there really a good case for returning to fixed exchange rates after this country 's unhappy experience from 1949 to the early 1970s ? |
| 18 | Jerry Rawlings , chair of the ruling Provisional National Defence Council ( PNDC ) , set out a timetable for returning to civilian rule culminating in the inauguration of a Fourth Republic on Jan. 7 , 1993 . |
| 19 | However , they never recovered after crashing to 31-5 as Taylor took an Australian one-day record four catches and used his bowlers impressively in the absence of injured regular captain Allan Border . |
| 20 | Morley went after appearing to head-butt Gianluca Francesconi in an 11th minute off-the-ball incident , drawn to Italian referee Graziano Cesari 's attention by English linesman Paul Vosper . |
| 21 | tend to change their minds after listening to other people 's points of view |
| 22 | That occurred although Lord Morison , the Court of Session judge who issued the new decree , made it absolutely clear after listening to all the evidence , that he did not consider any of the allegations made by Mr Vafa 's former wife , or her father , to have been well founded or substantiated . |
| 23 | Very refreshing after listening to two terms of this death-of-the-author stuff . ’ |
| 24 | Sitting in Manchester , the judge said after listening to two hours of legal argument from counsel for Blandford , his wife and the Official Solicitor , that he now had no power to rectify his error made on May 17 when he ordered the Marquess to be jailed if he failed to pay the money in two weeks . |
| 25 | After listening to each pair of words decide whether the sound in question is the same or different in the second word as in the first word , and put a tick in the appropriate column , first having ticked off word no. 1 . |
| 26 | after listening to these tapes back . |
| 27 | It is only morons like you who , after listening to some crazed lunatic spouting his thoughts , would follow such thoughts . |
| 28 | After listening to this it 's obvious there 's still hope . |
| 29 | I hope , after listening to this set of examples , I have not replaced one stereotype with another . |
| 30 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |