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 | ‘ I want to Blue Horizons . |
| 5 | Can I say that sub-committees , as I understand it , report to main committees ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some Atlantic bryophytes such as Pleurozua purpurea ( common in many blanket bogs ) descend to low levels in the Western Isles . |
| 9 | I will also devote some time to topic work because of the importance I attach to integrated approaches to learning . |
| 10 | A miscellaneous series of incidents attach to various lengths of term . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | VINCE KRAWCZYK , coach to Scottish women 's champions , Glasgow Powerhouse , has conceded the league title to rivals Team Components Bureau . |
| 18 | Its prime aim was to consolidate its own power , but it also hoped to centralise and unify the nation and attain to Western standards required for a revision of the unequal treaties . |
| 19 | People often object to practising behaviours that they do not usually use on the grounds that it is n't natural . |
| 20 | Lest anyone object to non-British sources , I should add that Dame Mary , in her foreword to the Interim Licensing Authority 's Fourth Report ( 1989 ) , wrote of ‘ known obstetric and paediatric hazards ’ of multiple birth , saying ‘ we are very worried over the 1987 figures ’ associated with IVF and GIFT . |
| 21 | Whilst the situation has improved greatly in the UK , in large measure due to the efforts of the British Library , Aslib , and the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries ( SCONUL ) , there are , regrettably , still some British universities which cling to restrictive practices with regard to the consultation and loan of theses . |
| 22 | Not all sections of the Shetland population cling to traditional measures of social ranking with equal tenacity . |
| 23 | Basically , most dioxins are by-products of burning — both natural and man-made — which cling to other materials given off during combustion . |
| 24 | For that reason , conservatives who reject the idea of change , who cling to past ideas and ideologies , while we may not agree with them , are entitled to be understood and their reluctance to face the pain of change respected . |
| 25 | Crusader castles cling to jagged crests or rise up from barren plains . |
| 26 | Unlike some politicians who cling to mythical notions of a past golden age , no sociologist actually believes that society is , or could be , really like this . |
| 27 | In the first major labour conflict of Menem 's administration , bus drivers began a strike in Buenos Aires on Nov. 7 which spread to other cities on Nov. 8 . |
| 28 | You can overtake if it 's safe to do so and you can regain your nearside without danger or or inconvenience to other vehicles coming the other way . |
| 29 | In some cities there was an additional pilgrim station where special pilgrim trains could be brought directly to the pilgrimage area without having to cause alarm or inconvenience to European residents . |
| 30 | who listen to sad lies |