Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun sg] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with such opportunities as the Bill presents to get cases into the Crown court , where the offence involves only damage to vehicles or property — the vast bulk of cases — it is the value of the damage to property , as set out in clause 2 , that is the criterion , not the extent of the nuisance and danger , although that is the real problem with which we need to get to grips . |
| 2 | Fish build up resistance to nitrates as nitrates build-up in your tank . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , it squarely embodies an assumption that causal laws are correlations , thus ruling out reference to structures and structural forces to explain the correlations . |
| 4 | ‘ Lovers give not thought to actions and words , joy and sorrow , past and future . |
| 5 | first world war , sort of , really , opened up education to women and , and really more than anything . |
| 6 | ( Perhaps there are analogies here with occupations which open up membership to women and subsequently decline in status and pay . ) |
| 7 | Certain types of bacteria , by genetic mutation , can build up resistance to disinfectants that act in the latter way to the extent that they can become totally immune to normal concentrations even utilising the disinfectant as a food source . |
| 8 | They also agreed that the EC should step up aid to projects to improve social and economic conditions for victims of apartheid . |
| 9 | For all the talk , dishing out control to individuals has its limits . |
| 10 | At the grand age of 74 , Mr Schmidt has appointed himself Germany 's agony-aunt and scold , dishing out advice to politicians left and right . |
| 11 | At the Russell-Cairns unit in Oxford psychologists can pass on advice to schools to help youngsters like Chris . |
| 12 | If the Department of Health are prepared to shell out money to keepers of a vermin-infested tenement then the officials are to blame . |
| 13 | He explains male Yanomamo violence as individual competition motivated less by considerations of material well-being than by ‘ reproductive striving ’ ( 1983 : 86 ) , i.e. , men compete over access to women and the subsequent offspring . |
| 14 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
| 15 | Sotheby 's lent Bond 15m pounds to buy ‘ Irises ’ : Australian entrepreneur hopes to pay off debt to auctioneers by selling important Manet painting |
| 16 | In the latter — the steppe and woodlands inhabited by Tatars , Altaians , Kirgiz , Buryats and Mongols — the Russians had to wage war against formidable enemies who were not only capable of putting up resistance to incursions into their territories , but also able to obtain support from the larger communities of Turkic-Mongol peoples to whom they were related . |
| 17 | The present rating system gives neither accountability to residents nor effective control over local authority spending to Government . ’ |
| 18 | But , whatever type of regime is decided upon , locking up 12- to 15-year-olds on the scale likely to result from the Government 's present proposals is an excessive reaction . |
| 19 | And we have increased the level of savings that is disregarded in working out entitlement to benefits for pensioners . |