Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NB The new licence will give you the opportunity to consent to donating any organs you may wish for transplant purposes in the event of your death . |
| 2 | Lack of direction led to meandering aims at the World Bank during the 1980s . |
| 3 | There is no provision in the rules as there was in the 1952 Rules for searches for prior petitions in county courts to see if the debt has been paid , but the Practice Direction refers to carrying out these searches and the certificates to be endorsed on the petition of their result . |
| 4 | This part refers to killing but interpretation of it differs . |
| 5 | If indeed the sentence referred to has disappeared during the preparation of the final draft , its content is still explicit in the report . |
| 6 | In Spain , linear state subsidies for building led to meandering lines ( Carr 1982 : 266 ) with the result that today , railway routes are often appreciably longer than the competing road route . |
| 7 | It at the beginning of the second sentence refers to coming downstairs ( and not to his head , of course ) , and then the next it refers to another way . |
| 8 | Most of the provisions of the Housing Act 1988 relating to private sector renting apply equally to housing associations , but the most important change relating to housing associations came not in the Act but by ministerial decision . |
| 9 | With legislative elections due to be held the following year , de Gaulle knew that he might soon have to face a hostile majority committed to clawing back power from the president . |
| 10 | James I 's reign saw the publication of an extensive literature devoted to illustrating that the pope was the Antichristian ‘ Beast ’ referred to in the Book of the Apocalypse . |
| 11 | Another problem is the terminology relating to gauged string sets ; what may be an XL or ‘ extra light ’ gauge for one manufacturer is an XXL or ( more confusingly ) a UL ‘ ultra light ’ set for another . |
| 12 | The rule refers to permitting reference to ‘ parliamentary materials ’ and here to contextual ‘ Parliamentary material ’ . |
| 13 | I can not remember to what extent organ donation was common in 1967 , but the Latey Committee expressly recommended that only 18-year-olds and older should be authorised by statute to consent to giving blood : see paragraphs 485–489 . |
| 14 | Questions like these in the consultant 's mind led to fanning a small positive spark in seemingly totally negative behaviour , and this made a difference to Mr E both in relation to his colleagues in the group , and as Dave 's teacher to whom a way out of a vicious circle of perpetual defeat could in this way be illustrated , again without explicitly referring to the analogy of the situation . |
| 15 | Sensing refers to receiving the information . |
| 16 | It sanctioned the sexualization of women by men , making them ‘ a thing , an instrument devoted to appeasing the sexual passion of the man ’ . |
| 17 | He suggests that there should be a television programme devoted to unmasking criminals such as those who violently attack frail elderly women . |
| 18 | If , in that final act of patronage permitted to departing opposition party leaders , Neil Kinnock could be persuaded to put forward for peerage the names of the Labour Party general secretary , Larry Whitty , and its director of organisation , Joyce Gould , he might mark the end of his leadership by making some minor compensation for the mess he has left behind him . |
| 19 | Yet more clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent we are in effect committed to accepting that this something , at any given time , can be rightfully claimed to belong to one , and only one , out of each pair of mutually exclusive classed in any universe of discourse in which this existent features as a topic . |
| 20 | [ After a 1985 survey of corporate intelligence-gathering activity in 25 Fortune-500 companies ] All the companies surveyed have an individual , a group within a department , or a full department devoted to gathering competitor intelligence … . |
| 21 | As with model answers to mathematical problems , one can then see how close the agent came to finding the right alternative by the right route . |
| 22 | In a significant number of other cases , the user was arrested for either possession of illegal drugs or a crime related to financing the habit . |
| 23 | Consett and Seaham produced plenty of entertainment in their game , while the closest any side came to scoring in Ferryhill 's clash with Tow Law was David Thompson 's shot which Ferryhill player manager Kevin Simpson cleared off the line . |
| 24 | Our clothes also needed to cope with different activities , ranging from birdwatching to cliff walks and from windy boat trips to dining out in local restaurants . |
| 25 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 26 | The research turned to describing the collaborative learning environment which teachers sought to foster . |
| 27 | They are in such demand that we have the phenomenon of an industry geared to satisfying a craving for new varieties every year . |
| 28 | The Chancellor will need little reminding of the importance the industry attaches to negotiating satisfactory arrangements for excise duty ‘ harmonisation ’ . |
| 29 | Flaubert went to the house of Kuchuk Hanem , a famous Cairene courtesan reduced to eking out a living in this provincial backwater . |
| 30 | The survey has changed from being an instrument devoted to demonstrating the need for a welfare state into a central feature of its maintenance and administration . |