Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since a large fraction of the stock market is held by pension funds and insurance companies which will eventually make payments to workers , monopoly profits may indirectly pay income to some relatively poor people . |
| 2 | Overshadowing ( the observation that the associative strength acquired by a target stimulus A is reduced when another event , B , is also present on reinforced trials ) and blocking ( the observation that prior reinforced training with B can effectively eliminate acquisition to A when AB trials are given ) are primary characteristics of conditioning , found in all training procedures and in almost all organisms capable of classical conditioning . |
| 3 | Wessex and Yorkshire are thought possible targets for Compagnie Generale des Eaux and Southern could eventually fall prey to Saur , which owns most of the private water companies in its area . |
| 4 | It is financed by the film industry , and will only grant certificates to movies which it considers are within the limits of public acceptability . |
| 5 | We do obviously make grants to youth clubs and organizations . |
| 6 | Since ‘ compliance ’ is an administrative definition and since production or treatment processes can constantly give rise to changes in water quality , field men must be ever-vigilant in the face of uncertainty . |
| 7 | The section is intended to give the police power to impose conditions on ‘ coercive ’ marches which will not necessarily give rise to disorder ; a National Front march through a predominantly Asian district may well prompt many of the citizens simply to board up their properties and remain indoors . |
| 8 | The FMLN has argued that , no matter what type of medicine one practises , if health knowledge , skills and resources are sold on the market as commodities this will necessarily limit access to health care , fragment and distort the nature of the health process , constrain the relation between health workers and users , and undermine people 's control over their health . |
| 9 | The Archive is able to service any user , unlike some data archives which can only provide services to member institutions or which need to impose charges for data . |
| 10 | They thus need only provide care to quality standards which they set for themselves when first agreeing a contract and they can avoid being drawn into the ‘ high volume/doubtful quality ’ trap . |
| 11 | Therefore , a driver need only accord precedence to pedestrians on the crossing on his side of the road . |
| 12 | Here purists were deliberately challenging official arguments which opposed fresh legislation or greater public discussion on the grounds that this would only draw attention to sex and incite immorality . |
| 13 | Due to the difficulties of achieving fast even concentrations of gas in such large congested volumes , their adverse effect on human beings , and ineffectiveness on rapidly developing deep- seated carbonaceous fires , and halon systems will normally only have application to parts of the ancillary accommodation such as computer suites . |
| 14 | I mean , well if you have n't got gauze in your first aid box , but you could have something like a Mediwipe or you might be able to use , open up your bandage and you can use , you know , several pieces of this , just keep going down the bandage and then you know clean it and get rid of that bit , okay , another clean bit okay , so you can adapt with whatever you 've got in your first aid box , yes , and you wo n't necessarily have scissors to hand so you 'll have to do whatever you 've got and the little Mediwipes are very useful for that , but do n't use one Mediwipe for seventy five grazes , okay , one Mediwipe for one wipe and then discard , okay ? |
| 15 | This did n't necessarily mean hostility to religion as such . |
| 16 | The right of reply privilege does not merely protect responses to criticisms made in Parliament , of course : it is a privilege of general application , arising from the legitimate interest of individuals in protecting their reputations , and it is shared by the media when it facilitates that interest . |
| 17 | Who says you can only add water to Bisto granules ? |
| 18 | You had better get Fisher to plain [ sic ] a very thin teak board the size of the large books for protection , and a common book cover from the work room will do for the protection of the other side , spreading the four parts of the Synopsis over and sealing the whole in brown paper . |
| 19 | We 'd better say goodbye to Shrub . |
| 20 | ECGD does not lend money to companies but does offer a number of schemes to banks to allow them to finance exports at interest rates which are often significantly below prevailing market rates . |
| 21 | On one hand we know that the employees can not make changes to contacts without agreements . |
| 22 | Normally the faculty will not make offers to candidates who have yet to sit their SCE Higher grade examinations . |
| 23 | Although bonuses on a life policy can not be realised until the termination of the policy , life companies will normally lend money to clients against the security of those bonuses , quickly and at very competitive rates of interest . |
| 24 | The licence may be exclusive which means that the software publisher can not grant licences to others in respect of the software ; but , more usually , the licence will be non-exclusive so that the software publisher will be free to grant licences to anyone else he wishes to . |
| 25 | Mr Parkinson told representatives : ‘ Railways can not deliver goods to Britain 's high street shops . |
| 26 | Contractors and skip firms should not deliver skips to customers unless the customer ( whose responsibility it is ) has obtained a permit from the roads department . |
| 27 | And Duff will soon make approaches to Cedric Kushner , the manager of America 's IBF 8st 10lb champion Kennedy McKinney , with a view to challenging for that title . |
| 28 | It has announced its intention not to borrow and therefore will not expose investors to levels of high gearing . |
| 29 | Mosquitoes can not transmit HIV to people ( and the same applies to lice , fleas , ticks and bed bugs ) . |
| 30 | It was widely thought that the acceptance of sound broadcasting would soon weaken opposition to television . |