Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN TEA was taken at 3.10 on the final afternoon of the first Test , even the more fervent student for the long game could have been forgiven for switching to automatic pilot . |
| 2 | Viewers familiar with Dr Latimer 's assistant in Do n't Wait Up will be forgiven for defecting to another channel . |
| 3 | On Nov. 26 Duane Clarridge , former CIA chief of European operations , was indicted for lying to congressional investigators about the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 4 | Five patients were withdrawn after responding to diuretic treatment alone . |
| 5 | However , they never recovered after crashing to 31-5 as Taylor took an Australian one-day record four catches and used his bowlers impressively in the absence of injured regular captain Allan Border . |
| 6 | So anyway Norm mentioned about going to this one at erm Old Tammy , that one on the Old Road |
| 7 | Cos otherwise it looks like writing to random M Ps . |
| 8 | What I believe you should be concerned with is what the erm persons I represent , bodies I represent , now wish to see happening with regard to these two sites . |
| 9 | The law was substantially modified with regard to two of these matters by the Animals Act 1971 ; but its structure is still in large measure the same and it is convenient to retain the common law headings for the purposes of exposition . |
| 10 | But then the record company comparisons started to appear with regard to new material : ‘ Well , it 's not as good as … ’ |
| 11 | ( 1981 ) reported with regard to spatial performance that deficits occurred only after right sided lesions in familial left handers . |
| 12 | It is recorded , for example , that in spite of his duties as kadi and muderris , he yet managed to copy every day two leaves from the books of the ancients and Mecdi adds in regard to this point that Molla Husrev thus left a number of books in his own hand at his death . |
| 13 | Not content with that dereliction , you have allowed five months to pass without responding to three more recent submissions . |
| 14 | At Key Stages 1 and 2 , these might include someone from the local archaeological unit , the museum or archives or a local historian , especially someone used to speaking to young children . |
| 15 | The point can now be clarified by turning to another illustration , one based on a contemporary debate concerning the changing nature of British politics . |
| 16 | The debate over the middle peasantry can only be resolved by referring to concrete situations . |
| 17 | Problem cases are often resolved by talking to other lawyers inside or outside your firm . |
| 18 | Scrap metal was to be used more efficiently to eke out imported steel and scrap , and the shortage of fuel oils would be resolved by resorting to bituminous slate and lignites which , according to Franco , existed " in fabulous quantities " in Spain . |
| 19 | Do n't think of shouting to 8 million . |
| 20 | I 'm going to give you , as a table one of the features of the plan , I 'm going to ask you as a group , but only one of you needs to write it , to write every single thing you can think of relating to that set feature . |
| 21 | If the latter , is it the case that we are acquainted with the concepts of trumping and revoking through attending to these feelings , and have somehow managed to devise a game with activities which are as perfect an expression of them as , say , Pablo Picasso 's 1937 painting of a Weeping Woman is an expression of grief ? |
| 22 | The bid drew the attention of the Takeover Panel , and Burson-Marsteller , Dowty 's public relations advisers , were censured for suggesting to various newspapers during the bid that Dowty 's profits would rise considerably in the future . |
| 23 | The same change in attitude is seen with regard to male homosexuals . |
| 24 | The same approach is adopted with regard to other statutory provisions affecting the calculation of tax ( eg allowances and reliefs in respect of tax ) . |
| 25 | A similar , although less consistent , regional division can be made with regard to geometric and curvilinear schemes . |
| 26 | The study is concerned with the way in which decisions are made with regard to public spending . |
| 27 | For who could imagine that an early nineteenth-century Zuwayi , involved in a dispute with his brothers , or cousins or remoter kinsmen , would refrain from applying to Turkish authorities if he thought that might help him win ? |
| 28 | The cancer was not eliminated , but its growth ceased , and for many years could be prevented from spreading to distant tissues as long as treatment with hormones continued . |
| 29 | States are prevented from adhering to conventional provisions that operate to their benefit while distancing themselves from any undesired obligations . |
| 30 | Now I must know what you have decided in regard to precise details . |