Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am saying we must not supplant Anglican worship for a free-wheeling non-conformist style which owes more to Spring Harvest than the A.S.B . |
| 2 | If any question arises as to this , the defence is entitled , and is under a duty , to invite the trial judge to exercise the discretionary power given to him by section 17 of the Evidence Act , which corresponds exactly to section 5 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1865 ( 28 & 29 Vict. c. 18 ) and provides : |
| 3 | It may appear curiously anachronistic to include a chapter on " hearing children read " in a book which looks forward to language and learning in an age of computers and mechanisation . |
| 4 | The brightest stars are Alpha ( 4.4 ) and the orange Gamma ( 4.5 ) , which lies closest to Epsilon Columbæ . |
| 5 | Take the first turn left onto Sweden Bridge Lane and branch off this road onto Belle Vue Lane which leads eventually to Nook End Farm ( 0.5 miles ) . |
| 6 | The straight line represents the equilibrium relation between V and T. Let us consider a polymer or specific volume V2 at temperature T2 , which cools fast to temperature T3 . |
| 7 | Another property , concatenation , arises when we can add measures together : a feature which attaches only to ratio scales . |
| 8 | He shares the rain , though , which comes evenhandedly to city and inhabitants , a psychological force like the heat it dispels . |
| 9 | On US television , it may be the crime series subgenre which comes closest to naturalist verisimilitude , and certainly the eighties generation of Hill Street Blues and Cagney and Lacey ( 1981–8 ) seemed to resemble more closely what people believe to be true than the more apparently formulaic structures of Kojak ( 1973–7 ) , Starksy and Hutch ( 1975–80 ) and Charlie 's Angels ( 1976–81 ) or the more obviously cinematic forms of Dragnet ( 1951–8 ) . |
| 10 | One case which comes close to misrepresentation is English Columbia 's recording of the Introduction and Allegro by Ravel , recorded in late 1923 , which was alleged to be ‘ conducted ’ by the composer . |
| 11 | As chair of the Land and Building Working Party which reports directly to Planning and Resources Committee , Professor Costall is aware that the profile of the University buildings needs to be raised . |
| 12 | ( Warner Home Video , PG , £10.99 ) Whore Theresa Russell is Liz , the Los Angeles hooker who speaks straight to camera about her life and hard times in Ken ( no relation ) Russell 's low-budget sleaze vehicle . |
| 13 | Many people experience blue skies and green meadows , but not everyone responds alike to clue and green . |
| 14 | One turns here to child guidance and the role of the educational psychologist . |
| 15 | Everything falls neatly to hand , and all switches and indicators are clearly marked . |
| 16 | In ‘ Shake , Rattle and Roll ’ , even if it is interpreted as totally devoid of the non-formulaic ( far-fetched , once one listens carefully to performance nuances ) , the collectivizing repetitions can take on a positive cultural significance , in the context of use by young working-class dancers . |
| 17 | Everybody responds differently to weight training and you must experiment to find the number of reps between 8 and 12 which will promote maximum growth best . |
| 18 | It refers only to university graduates , whom some employers may assume ( partly on the basis of A level grades ) to be more ‘ able ’ than polytechnic or college ones , and for whom therefore the ‘ screening for ability ’ function of a degree for general graduate employment may be relatively more important ( Gordon 1983 ) . |
| 19 | A term in a lease does not negative this rule unless it refers specifically to VAT or to s42 of the Act ( VAT Act 1983 , s42(1A) ) . |
| 20 | On the one hand he turns almost to abstraction , ‘ a vast menace of despair ’ , as also to an image of the un-existence of evil , a ‘ huge shadow ’ which Gandalf tries to send back to ‘ nothingness ’ . |
| 21 | But the cruellest experiences the victim 's pain however great as less than his own enhancement of power however small , so that the suffering of a victim who is being crippled for life may be deliberately empathized by the torturer , but as less than his own titillation , which he may have forgotten by the time he goes home to lunch . |
| 22 | It flies regularly to South Georgia and back for a mail drop to your garrison there . |
| 23 | The arrival of new information is more likely to affect spot and futures prices in the same way ( so reducing basis risk ) if it arrives closer to delivery instead of further away . |
| 24 | This prescription he calls the ‘ pentagon road ’ ; it leads inevitably to buckminsterfullerene . |
| 25 | In this chapter I shall give reasons for rejecting this approach , or if not for rejecting it then for supposing that the questions it raises can never be answered and so that it leads directly to scepticism . |
| 26 | The latter , although a mainly psychic state ( albeit drug induced ) , can be mistaken for non-responsiveness because of the patient 's agitation and apparent suffering ; it responds rapidly to reduction in opioid dosage . |
| 27 | If this applies to circumstantial difficulties ( it can be quite surprising to observe the ways in which sexual problems can be displaced on to financial problems , for instance , or those of child control ) it applies doubly to relationship problems . |
| 28 | His text is singularly free from psychobabble , refreshingly unpatronizing , and — unlike most other historians of sexuality — he seeks neither to bludgeon nor to manipulate his readers . |
| 29 | With articulated limbs and facial expressions which even allow the effigy to weep tears and gnash its teeth , it springs fully to life before the hypnotized community , dragging the priest behind it , speaking recognizably in the voices of the recently as well as more distantly departed . |
| 30 | Additionally , in many areas it runs parallel to power cabling . |