Example sentences of "[vb base] to these [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It is possible , however , to classify most British political leaders according to the relative importance they attach to these values .
3 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 .
4 I object to these things actually on principal .
5 Small businesses and lock-up garages cling to these spaces like limpets in a cave .
6 The family and others also cling to these times of false hope .
7 When people listen to these thoughts and avoid or escape , this serves to reduce anxiety .
8 As we listen to these phrases that rolled so easily off the tongue , and which have also rolled on down through history to our own time , we must make a special effort to remember very carefully just who the men were who engineered the Garotter 's Act — what kind of men they were ; what kind of times they lived in ; and what forces helped to shape their upright moral certitude .
9 I got this great group , super song , just listen to these lyrics .
10 Mr Lamont and Mr Major listen to these arguments ; Mrs Thatcher would not touch them .
11 Listen to these words .
12 Later on in the bible , in Hebrews chapter six , in verse six , listen to these words .
13 [ That this House is appalled at the mistreatment and murder of street children in Guatemala ; and calls on President Serrano and the Guatemalan Government to urgently deal with this problem and in particular to support the work of the Casa Alianza and other agencies working to bring education and support to these children . ]
14 The prolonged bouts of repetitive behaviour and deep apathy to stimulation revealed by such studies has led to the conclusion that pigs react to these systems in a manner closely resembling the development of human psychiatric disorders .
15 Strawson is surely right to emphasise the distinction we currently make between what we regard as non-intentional and intentional behaviour , and to remind us that we react to these categories in very different ways .
16 Persistent infections occupy the middle ground between acute life-threatening infections that can overcome the immune and interferon systems , and infections that readily succumb to these defences — albeit after a short burst of disease .
17 All the effects work well , although I think ( as I always seem to these days ) that the distortion sounds , while varied , could be less processed .
18 Regular visits by the Colonel and the Adjutant ensure that the HQ element , which remains in the Buffer Zone for six months , does not lose touch with the two sub-units , which rotate to these duties after three months with the UN .
19 Add to these uncertainties Mr Brady 's new calls for global perspective , and the outlook for monetary policy could hardly be foggier .
20 Add to these lists each day as you get more data .
21 Add to these handicaps serious life changes or stress , such as parental separation , and the setting is complete for the misery , embarrassment , and shame of bed wetting .
22 However , the range of meanings that members of society give to these activities , their purposes for marriage and procreation , are not directly observable .
23 THEY JUMP TO THESE CONCLUSIONS
24 They jump to these conclusions and these conclusions are passed round in the staffroom .
25 ‘ Rules ’ refer to these consistencies of behaviour .
26 Psychologists refer to these statements about one 's own feelings as ‘ I ’ messages .
27 Four other passages in the Old Testament refer to these events , and there are hints in two of them of something more serious than we seem to have here .
28 The instructions for binary arithmetic refer to these accumulators and to the contents of a 32-bit word whose left-hand byte is specified in the instruction .
29 Well when you talk to these blokes in a pool room area service manager , what the hell they give you a price over the counter
30 The following three examples correspond to these views .
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