Example sentences of "[vb base] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adults grow to varying sizes , depending on food available , and lay eggs in late summer . |
| 2 | Our resorts are off the beaten track ; to reach them we fly to offbeat airfields with skimpy facilities , or we take unfashionably long bus drives from better known airports . |
| 3 | It was not a Roman tradition to commemorate youth or physical beauty , so Roman portraits , of the ‘ warts and all ’ school , appear to modern eyes reassuringly true to life and easy to understand . |
| 4 | And what the folks had done , with their quarterly newsletter that they send to both villages , North and South , on the back , they 'd put a form requesting that every household submitted their five favourite hymns . |
| 5 | We apologise to those readers who did not receive the Guardian on Saturday when mechanical problems at our London printing plant affected some later editions .. |
| 6 | There needs to be a long term education of cyclists and I sincerely apologise to those walkers who have had any bad experiences . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to Blue Horizons . |
| 8 | Can I say that sub-committees , as I understand it , report to main committees ? |
| 9 | Older managers who report to younger ones , in particular , may resist the coaching session . |
| 10 | In these circumstances , the RICS will have completely to relinquish control over curricula content to approved universities , polytechnics and colleges — a process which , as we have seen , is already under way . |
| 11 | It is probable , however , particularly in the case of multiple fires , that priorities in the matter of water application and supply to different areas of the storage may alter during the progress of the fire . |
| 12 | So far , the card capacity has been largely limited to a mere 64 kilobytes and supply to third parties is controlled by Sharp which price them at up to £50 each , limiting the potential margin for would-be card publishers . |
| 13 | The temperatures deeper into Jupiter will certainly not fall below 170 K. Thus , although the measured value of 170 K is only at a pressure of 1 bar , the pressure-temperature path on the molecular hydrogen phase-diagram as we descend to higher pressures never crosses the line ending at the critical-point . |
| 14 | Some Atlantic bryophytes such as Pleurozua purpurea ( common in many blanket bogs ) descend to low levels in the Western Isles . |
| 15 | Lightly prune to two levels new stems on bushes and standards once flowering ends , top dress with fertiliser and how . |
| 16 | I will also devote some time to topic work because of the importance I attach to integrated approaches to learning . |
| 17 | Languages therefore differ widely in the way they are equipped to handle various notions and express various aspects of experience , possibly because they differ in the degree of importance or relevance that they attach to such aspects of experience . |
| 18 | A miscellaneous series of incidents attach to various lengths of term . |
| 19 | But even in the case of such an Act , if there are superadded provisions which attach to non-payment consequences other than a bare liability to be sued , there can be no justification for refusing to have regard to those consequences and to consider whether the existence of the provisions creating them has placed the payer under such pressure that the payments have not in truth been voluntary . |
| 20 | The meanings that we attach to these objects are not intrinsic to them but are learned through experience and are influenced by our current goals , values and energy levels . |
| 21 | It is possible , however , to classify most British political leaders according to the relative importance they attach to these values . |
| 22 | For both ways of life and for both sets of values , excluders and includers , the language of ‘ coping ’ and ‘ coming to terms ’ describes the transition between one world and another world ; this much they agree on , even if the values they attach to these worlds are totally opposite . |
| 23 | Thus , not only are there ambiguities in practice in terms of the organisational design of public sector organisations but they do not tell us very much about the power and status that attach to particular departments . |
| 24 | Several studies demonstrate that the kind of help people want , or the priority they attach to particular needs , does not coincide with what they are offered ( Mayer and Timms , 1970 ; Lerner , 1972 ; Merrington and Corden , 1981 ) . |
| 25 | As Lane points out , surveys suggest that a majority of temporary workers actually opt for temporary status by choice , but nevertheless a large proportion are in fact disadvantaged since they lack the benefits which attach to permanent positions . |
| 26 | It follows , therefore , that such prior experience will also have a crucial influence on the subjective experience of ageing , and the values , expectations and meanings that people attach to any changes in their lives . |
| 27 | The research on which this book is based is concerned both with examining the concrete experiences of male and female students , and with the meanings students attach to those experiences . |
| 28 | It tells us something also about the weight with which received connotations attach to long-established traditions : it was probably the pre-modern ( or at least pre-industrial ) , and at the same time the quasi-ritualistic motoric-gestural associations clinging strongly to the high Baroque style which attracted the rock group and their counter cultural followers . |
| 29 | We and our European partners have made clear to the Guatemalan Government the importance that we attach to human rights , and expecially to the rights of street children . |
| 30 | The time-dependent form is shown to be Applying the Laplace transform to both sides gives so that the transformed bulk modulus There is a fuller discussion of these topics in ( MP ) and in references ( Ferry 1980 ) , McCrum , Read & Williams 1967 ) including the representation , due to Gross ( 1953 ) , of the relaxation functions as Laplace integrals . |