Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) said earlier — I apologise for referring to him when he is not in his place — there are 7 million single-person households in this country . |
| 2 | Peterborough PPC : We can see where you 're coming from , and indeed , some companies have already done what you suggest with regard to demonstration versions of their software . |
| 3 | Erm what social services erm policy say with regard to there 's a certain amount of money available t say for if people came to family . |
| 4 | In this it resembled the British constitution itself , which , as apo-logists delight in explaining to foreigners , is nowhere embodied in a single document having the force of law . |
| 5 | They speak of longing to be beautiful or of restrictions on what they can wear or how they can look , and of media images of young women and how this affects them . |
| 6 | It is now settled law that railway companies do not warrant the absolute safety of passengers : all they undertake with regard to passengers is a duty to carry with due and reasonable care , and their liability is for negligence arising from a breach of that duty . |
| 7 | I paused before replying to her , because if you pause before replying to people it gives them the foolish idea that you 've actually listened to what they 've said , and I said of course darling . |
| 8 | Notice that although listen to corresponds to two different lexical units in the visual mode , it is not ambiguous ; the word forms taste , smell and feel , on the other hand , are ambiguous in parallel ways , their senses standing in a relationship parallel to that which holds between hear and listen to . |
| 9 | They also act by binding to class II MHC molecules and stimulating large numbers of T cells through their V elements . |
| 10 | Others relax by listening to popular music on the local Armed Forces Radio station : Schoendoerffer makes an amusingly wicked use of Nancy Sinatra 's These Boots Are Made For Walking . |
| 11 | Beware of resorting to a visual aid because it seems to look impressive . |
| 12 | She comments also on the ambiguous fascination these theorists exhibit with regard to their own practice : ‘ it is all a beautiful , theoretical game , that they themselves do n't perhaps really believe in , but indulge in it as one indulges in a passion , overwhelming at the time then looked at with mild amusement , a passion for beautiful systems ’ ( 614 ) . |
| 13 | For example , employees know where they stand with regard to compensation for moving at company request ; a clear policy aids employee relations . |
| 14 | ‘ Now we know where we stand with regard to each other . |
| 15 | This is why , with baits that differ in size , weight , and where on the bottom they lie in regard to cleanliness , we have to use various permutations of length of bite indication , that is to say , the amount of free line we allow it to take before striking . |
| 16 | These external pressures have worked through to the universities , and it may be argued that the current problems universities face in regard to research funding in the earth sciences are the result of the rapid , uncontrolled increases in the 1970's . |
| 17 | The aim of this research is to examine the strategies which prisoners and their families adopt in coming to terms with custody and its various social consequences . |
| 18 | The baddies trundle back and forth like an expectant father and resurrect on returning to a screen , and you 've got this pathetic energy bar thingie which encourages you to ignore them anyway ! |
| 19 | He is recorded as having said that no way would the Winslades get back their rightful estate save by going to law , ‘ … which by poverty they shall never be able to do ’ . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , problems still remain with regard to delivery and it seems that in the case of an individual delivery will still be necessary as the old law still applies , with the result that a document will be treated as delivered when it is clear that it was intended by one of the parties that he was to be bound by the terms of the document . |
| 21 | That you know through going to church ? |
| 22 | ‘ But they will have no experience of running pubs and I know from talking to the local bench that licensing magistrates are concerned at the standard of new licensees . ’ |
| 23 | When viruses succeed in binding to cell membrane receptors they still have to enter the cell and break up into separated proteins and genetic material before they can replicate . |
| 24 | Shifting funds to primary care under the existing system will create some new opportunities , but only if general practitioners succeed in relating to a new managed system . |
| 25 | Even if parents succeed in coming to terms with letting their children go , their best efforts are likely to be undermined by the ‘ dirty washing ’ gambit , or proprietorial claims to ‘ my room ’ which the child will not relinquish . |
| 26 | Unwind before going to bed — TV , radio , crossword , light reading , taking the dog for a walk , listening to music , etc. can all help . |
| 27 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 28 | Well talk about getting to the climax ! |
| 29 | Not so , as last week 's pro-blood sports advertisement in the Daily Telegraph ( talk about preaching to the converted ) amply proved . |
| 30 | What I talk about relates to the global image of what Good News means , ’ Mr McKay said . |