Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly because these changes have been seen as shifts in design philosophy to be applied incrementally to new housing areas or to rehabilitated inner city districts , there has been no attempt to apply them to established residential areas . |
| 2 | There should be no attempt to shorten it to newspaper-headline form . |
| 3 | And it was a record that came to be seen and recognised by the local electorate , in particular the newly enfranchised women , not least through the efforts of Labour candidates to exploit it to political advantage . |
| 4 | When you are looking for such opportunities , however , beware of allowing visual images to blind you to potential problems . |
| 5 | An enormous number of Polish nobles , therefore , had survived the government 's attempts to relegate them to lesser estates . |
| 6 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 7 | However , it will take several hundred pounds in vet bills to restore him to good health . |
| 8 | Although Pepper v. Hart is the initial formulation of the relaxed exclusionary rule , the ambiguities which it contains and the failure to relate it to other aids to statutory construction are perhaps less deserving of a welcome . |
| 9 | Now there there is the scheme by the Department of Transport to upgrade it to dual it u as far to Malton and then beyond subsequently . |
| 10 | I told the spaceship to take us to New Earth , the planet of the Star Council . |
| 11 | It may be that his partner also loves the outdoors but feels a need to limit it to small doses . |
| 12 | The emergence of current cost accounting and of efforts to apply it to public sector organizations has necessitated taking an explicit view of capital maintenance in their accounts . |
| 13 | Then we received information , black powder and and er other er types of er conversion kits for semi automatic rifles to convert them to automatic rifles , and that kind of thing . |
| 14 | In the productivity of Lake Vanda phosphorus is a limiting element ( Vincent and Vincent , 1982 ) , because of gravitational losses into the sediment and lack of turbulence to return it to general circulation . |
| 15 | Even in this case , some work needs doing to the back of the bevel to bring them to optimum usefulness . |
| 16 | To convert national income into real output per capita , it is necessary to make two adjustments : ( i ) national income must be deflated by an appropriate price index to convert it to real terms ; ( ii ) the figure must then be divided by the population to convert it to per capita terms . |
| 17 | The truth is that it is an exceedingly complex concept ; and nothing but confusion can arise from attempts to reduce it to curt labels and pat slogans . |
| 18 | ‘ Irony ’ is a strategic term that indicates the capacity of poetry to resist or elude our attempts to reduce it to conventional modes of expression . |
| 19 | At the Police Federation 's annual conference , which opened in Blackpool yesterday , they protested strongly against Mr Clarke 's plans to subject them to new disciplinary rules . |
| 20 | There is a tendency when first writing objectives to limit them to simple forms of behaviour , such as the reproduction of facts and the demonstration of skills ; but if we , as teachers , are to offer our students anything more than simple training , we must be able to devise objectives that describe more complex operations . |
| 21 | I 'll have orders to bring you to old Ralf , they 'll believe that . |
| 22 | Whilst the Spirit is ready to help prayerful communicators to guide them to hidden personal needs of which otherwise they would be unaware , he also expects us to take practical steps to discover the needs around us . |
| 23 | Such tales of peasants stealing grain from one area to take elsewhere , or of refusals to supply it to hungry neighbours , were very common throughout all rural areas in 1917–18 . |
| 24 | At times , Michael coached her three times a day in an effort to get her to international standard . |
| 25 | Cos I was out with my first daughter at quarter to eight in the morning to catch the bus to take her to adopted aunty |
| 26 | It contained a mass of papers relevant to the ‘ vision ’ , and sometimes it had been my duty to show it to privileged people , though it was not for general release . |
| 27 | After the courts ' acceptance of the neighbour principle , there was an increasing tendency to apply it to new areas , heralding a major advance in the recovery of damages for economic loss ( e.g. Hedley Byrne & Co . |
| 28 | Multiprotocol is something of a misnomer — currently only TCP/IP and SNA are supported , although there is a promise to extend it to Open Systems Interconnection in the future . |
| 29 | Referring to recent studies indicating that some people are particularly vulnerable to the effects of sleep disruption , the authors of this report suggested that work should be done to identify those doctors who are most at risk , in order to assign them to other duties . |
| 30 | The modern tendency to reduce it to simplistic , stereotyped formulas is an insult to the creativity of God and the integrity of man . |