Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 However , it is not always possible to arrange visits to particular departments on particular days .
2 We may be quite right to ascribe agency to a child for his acts .
3 As mentioned earlier in this chapter , builders should if possible eliminate sub-letting to independent gangs .
4 SSAP9 states that it is frequently not practicable to relate expenditure to specific units of stocks .
5 As a result it has been possible to provide donations to both RAFA and other local charitable causes until a major RAFA project in the area is identified .
6 There , we had been assured , it would be possible to find transport to Cocoyo and the walk in .
7 It is normal to request respondents to advertisements whether they telephone or write , to :
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 He rejects comparisons with American-style ‘ workfare ’ programmes , where the unemployed lose entitlement to state benefits if they refuse community service jobs .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Therefore programme planners should be prepared to provide links to modules in other areas of the catalogue .
14 AMERICA ON-LINE ADDS SUBSCRIBERS TO BBS
15 The software publisher will prefer to grant a licence because he will want to retain the copyright in the software and be free to grant licences to others .
16 The licence may be exclusive which means that the software publisher can not grant licences to others in respect of the software ; but , more usually , the licence will be non-exclusive so that the software publisher will be free to grant licences to anyone else he wishes to .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Regions were free to allocate revenue to districts as they wished .
20 Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis .
21 While it is forbidden to stipulate black or white , male or female , it is perfectly acceptable to restrict work to under 25s or under 30s .
22 As they travelled through territory held by Dutch settlers , nobody was willing to sell food to the ‘ English ’ .
23 After 1902 the duties on British manufactured imports to Germany were on the average about 25 per cent .
24 It is as if he is most careful to avoid reference to ideology because that would imply a determinacy that his analysis would have to confront .
25 When you visit the factory , you will see the different stages of manufacturing , from the mixing of ingredients to the extrusion of the mixture and the lettering in the rock , the preparation of the famous John Bull Fudge and Toffees — made with real cream and butter the old fashioned way to recipes over a 100 years old .
26 It 's important to give the pleasure of old fashioned cruising to all the generations .
27 The company says it is developing an interface that links the Uniface development system with DB2/6000 servers and host databases , providing transparent read/write access to DB2/6000 databases , complete support for all DB2 features , including host and DB2 security , error handling , data integrity and recoverability .
28 The company says it is developing an interface that links the Uniface development system with DB2/6000 servers and host databases , providing transparent read/write access to DB2/6000 databases , complete support for all DB2 features , including host and DB2 security , error handling , data integrity and recoverability .
29 It was accepted from the outset of the study that it would be unrealistic to expect changes to be made overnight , and that a gradual evolution to the desired state would be necessary .
30 Thus , it would be unrealistic to expect officials to be responsive to the market when their traditional activity has been conditioned by the need to follow statutes .
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