Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 9in ( 230mm ) boundary wall , which has cracked due to settlement , is to be replaced . |
| 2 | A stake in the business , which has come near to bankruptcy , is put up for sale . |
| 3 | They are great colonisers of damaged reefs , whether the damaged reefs , whether the damage has occurred due to tourism , with attendant pollution , from shipping traffic or sedimentation . |
| 4 | We guarantee to meet claims from readers made in accordance with the above procedure as soon as possible after the advertiser has become subject to bankruptcy proceedings , or has gone into liquidation , up to a limit of £16,000 per annum for any one advertiser so affected , and up to £48,000 in respect of all advertisers . |
| 5 | We guarantee to meet claims from readers made in accordance with the above procedure as soon as possible after the advertiser has become subject to bankruptcy proceedings , or has gone into liquidation , up to a limit of £16,000 per annum for any one advertiser so affected , and up to £48,000 in respect of all advertisers . |
| 6 | The idea has become axiomatic to politics , so much so that people are hardly conscious of it any longer . |
| 7 | Its coat colour and pigmented skin are valued in hot climates where it has proved resistant to eye cancer and also , to some extent , to ticks . |
| 8 | So much has changed in the life of the farm worker , especially the nature of his work ; yet so much , as we shall see , has remained resistant to change . |
| 9 | Pask , who 's a laboratory technician from Horwich in greater manchester , denies murdering Doctor Howe but has pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibilty . |
| 10 | Her father , William Kwavalskie , who 's from Shurdington in Gloucestershire , denies murder but has pleaded guilty to manslaughter . |
| 11 | Sams has pleaded guilty to kidnapping Stephanie , unlawfully imprisoning her and demanding a £175,000 ransom . |
| 12 | ‘ For centuries he has lived close to calamity : drought and flood threaten his crops and beasts ; diseases , infertility and death afflict his wife and children ; ghosts disturb his peace . |
| 13 | Since everything seemed out of my reach I was reduced to making friends with the pigeons who were everywhere , and whose gentle murmurings I 'd grown accustomed to hearing . |
| 14 | There was uproar in Israel over the massacres , Begin coming near to defeat in the Knesset . |
| 15 | ( b ) There is no fact or matter concerning the proposed business or affairs of the Company nor any fact or matter relating to the financial forecasts which is or may be material for disclosure to any intending subscriber for shares in the Company which has not been disclosed to the Investors and any such fact or matter arising prior to Completion of this agreement will forthwith be disclosed to the Investors . |
| 16 | Since I last put indelible to vellum , three projects have woven their way through my life , interconnecting and overlapping . |
| 17 | Because of the problems we could have had due to heat stroke I elected to walk with the group carry 50 litres of water . |
| 18 | It does n't really take getting used to Led Zeppelin does it ? |
| 19 | WELL I 'M AFRAID YOU 'LL HAVE TO GET USED TO IT ! |
| 20 | He chose to remain close to Marxism , but my impression is that he was shifting his ground … |
| 21 | You 're in a competitive situation , and you 've got to either learn the salesmanship or else start getting used to failure . ’ |
| 22 | However , " culture " and art " were inherently undemocratic since they stood for processes of feeling , understanding , and evaluation that were considered to have become lost to majority cultures and literacies . |
| 23 | The term that was first suggested by one of his followers in South Africa was sadāgraha , which literally means holding firm to reality or truth firmness , i. e. firmness in a good cause or in the cause of truth . |
| 24 | In the early 1940s and 1950s , the belief was widely held that a combination of government intervention — in the form of town planning , housing and health programmes , and the provision of social security — and permanent male full employment , together with an increase in real wages , would reduce suffering due to poverty to manageable proportions . |
| 25 | Towards the end of the eighteenth century both pewter and pure tin — natural or silvered — were also being used , though the nobility appear to have remained loyal to brass , it being more convenient for the engraver to work , especially if one 's coat-of-arms was to appear on it . |
| 26 | He also advised her that there would be a delay of some months before she was admitted and strongly advised her to reduce her weight by 10 kg and to try hard to stop smoking prior to admission . |
| 27 | During those early years of the colony 's existence we received very few of the homeless children who had grown accustomed to street wandering . |
| 28 | During the last three years I 've become accustomed to refinement . ’ |
| 29 | One of Linskog 's patients had a lymphatic tumour which had become resistant to radiotherapy ; situated in the jaw , it was making eating and breathing difficult . |
| 30 | Over the years , Dauntless had become used to loneliness , but he suspected that for Cleo it was a new condition which she was having trouble getting used to . |