Example sentences of "[vb base] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or do the institutions of retirement , the social norms of limited activity and poverty , and expectations of ill-health and disability suggest to ageing people that they are expected to do so ? |
| 2 | Adults grow to varying sizes , depending on food available , and lay eggs in late summer . |
| 3 | It is not surprising really , for carp are beautiful fish , they grow to large size , fight very hard , and are not too difficult to catch . |
| 4 | Rainout occurs when material is incorporated into cloud water droplets or ice crystals which eventually grow to sufficient size to overcome gravity and fall to the ground . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Practice is in turn constrained by how material relations appear to human consciousness , including their contradictions . |
| 8 | Print your answers on a postcard and send to Final Analysis Video Contest ( Daily Mirror ) , Parkes Print , 86 East Avenue , Hayes , Middx. , UB3 2HR by October 9 . |
| 9 | Complete the coupon , cut out and send to Good Housekeeping , PO Box 50 , FREEPOST , Bromley , Kent BR2 9TT . |
| 10 | On the one hand you 've got everything , accounting-wise , you need to run a large company now , and on the other , the bits that make what you send to other people look professional are coming ‘ real soon now ’ in a later release . |
| 11 | Write the key letters — in ink — in the spaces on the entry coupon and send to IDEAL HOME/TINTAWN COMPETITION , , to arrive no later than 30 April 1991 . |
| 12 | Send to Ideal Home Lace Lady Bed Linen IH35 , Box 50 , Harlow , Essex CM17 0DZ . |
| 13 | Send to Ideal Home Table Linen Offer , . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to Blue Horizons . |
| 15 | They are spiritually awake and they sometimes put us to shame because they seem to make strides so fast that we have a job to keep up with them , they want to do this , they want to do that , they get baptized they want to auxiliary pioneer and before you know where the , where you are they 're in the regular pioneer ranks , and that 's lovely to see is n't it ? |
| 16 | The two directors of the company David Phillpot and Barry Fitzgerald remain with the business as executive controllers , and they both report to general manager Peter Lloyd . |
| 17 | Both men report to chief executive . |
| 18 | Can I say that sub-committees , as I understand it , report to main committees ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The news that developing economies , whose costs are low , are bigger than previously thought will cause some Americans and Europeans to fear still more the threat they pose to local output and jobs , and to demand higher trade barriers to check the intrusion of these nouveaux riches . |
| 21 | They are , in effect , triggered off by very specific and local forms of social relationship and the threats they pose to everyday life . |
| 22 | Hanson ( 1980 ) , Koskela and Viren ( 1980 ) and Lawrence ( 1983 ) are all attempts to apply something like the Lucas ( 1973 ) test to different data sets . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Some Atlantic bryophytes such as Pleurozua purpurea ( common in many blanket bogs ) descend to low levels in the Western Isles . |
| 25 | On such occasions , there is a process of mutual education and stimulation which can at times descend to mere manipulation of the delegates by the leadership and can also rise to a high level of discourse about the basic problems confronting the nation . |
| 26 | Turn right along road for 300 yds , then left down tree-lined track and descend to derelict farm buildings . |
| 27 | I will also devote some time to topic work because of the importance I attach to integrated approaches to learning . |
| 28 | A miscellaneous series of incidents attach to various lengths of term . |
| 29 | Is my hon. and learned Friend aware of the importance that the Baltic states attach to financial autonomy ? |
| 30 | 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 . |