Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air France flies direct to Lyons from Heathrow every morning and evening . |
| 2 | Perhaps it owes that to influences from its earlier history . |
| 3 | What relevance has this to law and to medicine ? |
| 4 | Brady — who says Wilkins looks similar to Henson 's famous frog Kermit and Wontkins like a Polish ham with Muppet eyes — claims Jim Henson sold the rights in 1958 . |
| 5 | The keyboard certainly looks similar to Hitchcock 's with its ‘ skunktail ’ sharps and a compass descending chromatically to G♯ . |
| 6 | For r { 24.06 ( Fig. 6.7a ) the return map looks similar to Fig. 6. 5b for r2 r* . |
| 7 | All the programmable units in the rack come with special presets unique to Utopia , and a preset chart helps identify exactly what is going on and how to set the levels . |
| 8 | APPLE ADDS THREE TO PERFORMA LINE |
| 9 | In contrast , female domestic servants led isolated work lives prior to marriage and their marriages usually involved a traditional sexual division of labour ; but they also tended to enjoy a joint role relationship with their husbands in the sense that the husband spent his non-working hours with his wife and children , and they too tended to be successful in limiting the size of their families . |
| 10 | There are now international proposals that banks in major countries should maintain capital reserves equal to 8% of their assets , weighted according to risk . |
| 11 | Flower holds key to Widnes glory |
| 12 | Crucial Paris meeting holds key to future |
| 13 | Jetstream holds key to Prestwick expansion |
| 14 | It all looks beautiful to Bill . |
| 15 | Directly accessing the experience of service users avoids inadvertently confounding measures of process and outcome ; where evaluations have used measures of , for example , individual programme goals achieved it may be that the result owes more to staff activity ( in this case , in setting achievable goals ) than to real differences in client experience ( de Kock et al. , 1988 ; Repp and Barton , 1980 ) . |
| 16 | Jim Wattis , Middlesbrough Council 's football development officer , wants nine to 13-year-olds who wish to take part in the county 's biggest five-a-side event to contact him . |
| 17 | Loch of Stenness lies adjacent to Harray , separated from it by a narrow strip of moorland dominated by the Ring of Brodgar . |
| 18 | Alpha Herculis , or Rasalgethi , lies close to Alpha Ophiuchi , rather divorced from the rest of the constellation . |
| 19 | The globular cluster NGC 4833 lies close to Delta . |
| 20 | It lies close to Canopus , and there are only two stars above the fourth magnitude : Alpha ( 3.3 ) and Beta ( 3.8 ) . |
| 21 | Chi Ophiuchi is an irregular variable with a range of from 4 to 5 ; it lies close to Phi ( 4.3 ) which makes a good comparison star . |
| 22 | Alinova , three lengths second to Kassab at York last time , looks certain to hand out a lesson in the New University Maiden . |
| 23 | This stands close to Euphronios but is hardly his ; perhaps a youthful work of Euthymides , whose masterpieces are on big amphorae ( details , figs. 91–3 ) . |
| 24 | Born in Kent , she now lives close to Sunderland with her T.V. producer husband and their 8 year old daughter . |
| 25 | Geographical interest in river basins stems largely from the fact that a large proportion of the world 's population lives close to rivers , which act as sources of water supply for human consumption and for agricultural and industrial use . |
| 26 | As somebody once said , celibacy lies next to orgasm . |
| 27 | His farm lies next to Burnfoot and he fears approval for further planting there will start a domino effect throughout the valley . |
| 28 | His furniture is a jumble of good and bad ; a magnificent Bokhara carpet lies next to straw mats , and engravings of fashionable society and sacred icons confront one another . |
| 29 | Thus , using decimal numbers causes a steep drop in success rates in all three attainment bands relative to questions with whole numbers only . |
| 30 | E/1omund 's daughter E/1owyn rides into battle and confronts the Nazgul Lord and kills him even though she herself lies near to death for a time afterwards . |