Example sentences of "[vb base] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it does seem to me that erm the minute you suggest to a Parish Council who has already complained about illegal encampments on roadsides and laybys that there is a good site in their patch , there is an immediate reaction , and I am thoroughly convinced that this reaction is based on a fear that is actually based on ignorance , and that we have to remember that travellers of any description — and I do n't categorise them like Peter does — travellers of any description are human beings . |
| 2 | But when organizations grow to a level where it is impossible for all the members to know each other , where the division of work between individuals and groups becomes more strict , where communications are restricted by physical and administrative distances and boundaries — in such a situation the need for an idea-handling system arises even in an organization where the cultural and climate conditions support creativity and innovation . |
| 3 | They come from Peruvian and Brazilian rivers and grow to a size of about 2″ |
| 4 | Individual specimens grow to a length of 5cm or more . |
| 5 | The colonies grow to a length of 5 cm . |
| 6 | The stems grow to a height of up to 20ins ( 60cms ) . |
| 7 | The tufts grow to a height of up to 6ins ( 15cms ) and appear bright to dark green . |
| 8 | The plants grow to a height of up to 24ins ( 60cms ) . |
| 9 | These include the different rates of production for speech , and writing , the degree of standardisation in writing as opposed to speech and the absence in writing of intonational features that can only be compensated for by sentence patterns which provide to a degree the emphases more readily available in speech . |
| 10 | In the first place , by 1986 , teachers and other educational staff had seen the purchasing power of their salaries slip to a half or a third of their 1980 value . |
| 11 | But where standards appear to a discharger to impose excessive demands he may exercise a right of appeal to the Secretary of State . |
| 12 | , Joseph ( fl. 1647–1655 ) , sectarian , was briefly prominent as a Ranter between March 1650 and 1651 , although his writings approximate to a Seeker position between 1647 and 1649 . |
| 13 | They were made of diamonds , not gold , but I wore them when I want to a ball and never felt my immortal soul in danger because of that . |
| 14 | Well if you want to a woman as a sexual object . |
| 15 | They want to a market economy , and they want the right to be able to choose what they and their families consume . |
| 16 | Yet if they report to a GP or social worker with complaints about this , they risk being written off as neurotic middle-aged women . |
| 17 | If the velocity of fall of object A is V A , then the frequency v of the light reflected from A undergoes a Doppler shift to a frequency with a similar expression for light reflected from B. These reflected beams interfere at the detector giving beats of frequency in the amplitude . |
| 18 | Descend to a stone footbridge over a stream ( 473 405 ) . |
| 19 | If we turn first to the best-known Tudor textbook , the so-called ‘ Royal Grammar ’ originally produced by Lily and Colet for St Paul 's School , but becoming virtually ubiquitous after a proclamation by Edward VI in 1548 ordering its use in all grammar schools — it was undoubtedly used by Shakespeare — we find that a pronoun is said to be ‘ a parte of speeche , much lyke to a noune , whyche is used in shewyng or rehersyng ’ . |
| 20 | It 's a small stretchy band , normally worn on the wrist , with a single wire of about six feet and a crocodile clip which you attach to a metal part of your office , that is , desk or radiator but not the computer . |
| 21 | But will an obligation of confidence attach to a computer hacker ? |
| 22 | And that is one of the reasons why , in contemporary Britain , the " fringe benefits " which attach to a job , which are paid in kind rather than money , e.g. the use of a company car , are often of greater concern to the recipient than the precise quantity of the money wage . |
| 23 | The glacier ends in a cliff that calves small icebergs that head seaward , grind to a halt when they hit the sand base of the river and dissolve in tears at the indignity of it all . |
| 24 | grind to a halt ! |
| 25 | Better still , slink to a seat , knot your handkerchief |
| 26 | All too often research and staff turnover testify to a failure to use the talents of people already employed in the enterprise . |
| 27 | In a satire of 1710 , Charles Davenant had his character of a Court Whig say to a country squire : " Let us eat out all your Lands and Tenements with Taxes of our devising ; let us have the sole Management of a long protracted War , and gather our wonted Fruits from it " . |
| 28 | It concerns a Ship from another world landing on this planet , and strange creatures get out and say to a petrol pump , dustbin , slot-machine or similar mechanical device , ‘ Take me to your leader . ’ |
| 29 | Supposing you say to a child ‘ What is four times two plus one ? ’ |
| 30 | It is important , however , to give people clear instructions on how you want to receive criticism — for example , say to a friend , ‘ You can criticize what I do , but not who I am . ’ |