Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company must be able to communicate to potential customers the way in which its product would satisfy their needs , and provide competitive value . |
| 2 | The insurer was ordered to write to 20,000 policyholders earlier this year , telling them they may have been sold the wrong products . |
| 3 | We 're just going to write to local councils arbitrarily and and see what comes up . |
| 4 | She is also a great letter-writer , a hangover no doubt from years at boarding school , where she had to write to both parents every week . |
| 5 | The CNAA has also found itself drawn into the dispute between Huddersfield Polytechnic and its local authority , Kirklees Metropolitan Council , where , in 1980 , it felt itself obliged to write to both parties : to the council stressing the need to provide more funds and to the polytechnic strongly advising it temporarily to drop its intention of introducing new courses . |
| 6 | Also in the wake of the 1918 Franchise Bill , the Party formed a Women 's Section under Dr Marion Phillips and appointed regional organizers to attract to newly-enfranchised women . |
| 7 | However , the response of governments is likely to be more and more dogmatic , and be driven by considerations of ‘ security ’ ; there will be little willingness by those in power to defer to differing views even when these are held by a majority . |
| 8 | ‘ The fact remains ’ , she wrote , ‘ that differences in status exist , and as long as they exist it is practically impossible , since the lives of children can not be separated from those of their parents , to secure to all children a uniform standard of living ’ ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 233 ) . |
| 9 | It almost goes without saying that the camera lifter does not have to soar to great heights , and it will perforce have to fly in a steady breeze of 10 knots or more . |
| 10 | The five privy counsellors chosen to assist — the former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer , Lord ( Anthony ) Barber ; the one-time Labour Cabinet minister , Lord ( Harold ) Lever ; Sir Patrick Nairne , the delightful former permanent secretary and master of St Catherine 's Oxford ; James Callaghan 's home secretary , Merlyn Rees ; and the industrialist and Conservative politician , Lord ( Harold ) Watkinson were unlikely to come to radical conclusions . |
| 11 | Because of the weakness of data it is difficult to come to definite conclusions . |
| 12 | All this information is related to molecular structure , but it is rarely possible to come to definite conclusions about the constitution , shape , size or conformation of a sample purely from its PE spectrum . |
| 13 | Here he elaborates on an argument sketched out a few years earlier , that the label ‘ postmodern ’ denoted the quality of being ‘ free to come to new terms with both realism and anti-realism , linearity and non-linearity , continuity and discontinuity ’ . |
| 14 | We had to pay transport costs for her to come to recording sessions |
| 15 | Because it was easy to launch them , a great diversity of colonies sprang up and usually they were neither compelled by any external danger nor persuaded by any liking for their neighbours to come to closer terms with one another . |
| 16 | Some of the warnings in Roger Bullock 's chapter about faulty use of information are demonstrated in the points made by Martin Knapp about the use of cost information to come to flawed conclusions . |
| 17 | But I am sure that we should get on better if we were to come to some terms with them " . |
| 18 | 10–12 After consideration it was unanimously agreed that the Session see no cause to come to any findings upon the report meantime . |
| 19 | Although warming has been detected over the last few decades , scientists claim that not enough is known about the natural temperature variations of the region to be able to come to any conclusions . |
| 20 | Even though the subject matter may be such that it is difficult to come to rapid conclusions by , say , an objective test , the question should still be asked so that the teacher can explain to himself in all honesty what he is about . |
| 21 | Every week we would have to adjust to new teachers ; it made us adaptable but did n't do much for our education . |
| 22 | Meantime Wentworth members try to adjust to new faces and new ideas . |
| 23 | Such an alliance , with France 's age-old enemy , showed de Gaulle 's ability to adjust to new realities , and strengthened France 's hand in Europe and the Western alliance . |
| 24 | Japanese adaptability and dynamism soon ended such doubts ; and this ability to adjust to new demands and enter the modern world was before long visible on the diplomatic level . |
| 25 | It reacted to the crime , and its attempts to suppress it succeeded only in forcing cattle stealers to adjust to administrative policies . |
| 26 | In their view the economy has the capacity to adjust to technological changes and maintain full employment , though some government action may be needed in order to aid the adjustment process . |
| 27 | This should not be interpreted as an attempt to violate the contract , but rather the desire of the Japanese to allow both sides the ability to adjust to unforeseen circumstances . |
| 28 | Labour has failed to adjust to those changes because our traditional preoccupation with the delivery of public services means we have identified more with the producers than consumers . |
| 29 | Through their attendance at specialist classes children learn to cope outside their own classrooms and to adjust to different teachers with differing expectations . |
| 30 | Changing to a vegetarian diet is a big step as the body needs to adjust to different foods and sources of protein and you need to cope with new methods of cooking and shopping . |