Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun pl] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of it came an imperative on women , as well as men , not to be swayed by traditional culture and educational choice into seeing only obstacles to advancement . |
| 2 | That woman is many English children 's first encounter with death , lying there knees to chin , folded , flaking , tendons taut . |
| 3 | The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections . |
| 4 | Other writers , such as Seebohm Rowntree , were much less guarded , putting forward solutions to family poverty and circulating new ideas about how they could be reconciled with the economic needs of industry . |
| 5 | Now that he had only hunters to school and exercise and Mrs Geary ( who loved the lads ) to feed him well , no question about his weight , life was kind and easier ; but he was the last to admit it and showed sympathy to nobody , least of all to Nicandra . |