Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People did n't try and score points off each other — contributions were acknowledged and applauded , rather than criticized or tested to destruction . |
| 2 | If that were so , no one would ever eat or drink to excess . |
| 3 | Since this tactic came into operation in September 1987 all founding members of the banana trade union movement have been assassinated or subjected to assassination attempts . |
| 4 | British cinema licences have for most of this century prohibited the exhibition of films which are ‘ likely to encourage or incite to crime ’ , which anticipated the deprave-and-corrupt test of 1959 . |
| 5 | In this atmosphere , it was understandable that commercial television should be placed under the close scrutiny of a licensing body , empowered by what is now s4(1) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 to ensure : ( a ) that nothing is included in the programmes which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite to crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling … ( b ) that due impartiality is preserved on the part of persons providing the programmes as respects matters of political or industrial controversy or relating to current public policy . |
| 6 | ‘ Incremental ’ causes transfer of only that data which has been modified or added to LIFESPAN since data of that same type was last transferred . |
| 7 | Incremental — only transfer information which has been modified or added to LIFESPAN since the last transfer for that type |
| 8 | Each weekend begins on Friday evening with supper , followed by an introductory talk , film or video , night prayers and then the freedom to sit and chat or go to bed . |
| 9 | Long before he could goad the aircraft to anywhere near its optimum ceiling , Vologsky would be frozen , evacuated or crushed to death . |
| 10 | If doctors fail to do something the Bill lays down , the could be fined or go to prison for six months . |
| 11 | PRODUCES A WIDE RANGE OF BOTH FUNCTIONAL AND DECORATIVE POTTERY ; INDIVIDUALLY DESIGNED AND FIRED TO STONEWARE TEMPERATURE . |
| 12 | The course , designed and built to competition standard , proved testing for most . |
| 13 | Children raised in a middle-class family in which the parents and grandparents were university-educated are likely to be brought up in an environment in which reading and learning are stressed and going to university is encouraged . |
| 14 | This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings … |
| 15 | Typically he would break his normal routine for several days in order to write and commit to memory his lengthy " answers " to pre-determined questions . |
| 16 | With no waste of time all the equipment was installed and set to work . |
| 17 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
| 18 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 19 | Participation could perhaps be increased if the event is planned beforehand ; for example , it might be an advantage if groups of children who all live in the same area arranged to meet and cycle to school together . |
| 20 | Whilst on their way a blizzard struck and some were trapped and froze to death . |
| 21 | Over great periods of time , the peat is compressed and turned to coal . |
| 22 | The old road to Tomdoun leaves here but is gated and closed to traffic . |
| 23 | Learning that your loved one is having an affair is a body-blow to trust and poison to self-esteem . |
| 24 | After centrifugation , chloroform phases were mixed and evaporated to dryness under nitrogen atmosphere . |
| 25 | To the remaining 100 ml of blood 10 ml of 6% hydroxyethyl starch ( Hespan , Dupont , USA ) was added and left to sediment at room temperature . |
| 26 | His songs were mangled and set to German and English verse , for instance in Heinrich Albert 's Arien where the four-part version of ‘ Du plus doux de ses traits ’ appeared with continuo in 1643 as ‘ Unser Heil ist kommen ’ and in Edward Filmer 's French Court-Aires with their Ditties ( London , 1629 ) . |
| 27 | When Simon stopped and began to bombard him with questions about home , Quinn had a chance to have a look at the youth . |
| 28 | In April a Kuwaiti airliner was hijacked and flown to North East Iran . |
| 29 | If he is caught and comes to trial , your name may be mentioned . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Mutambara tried to escape by jumping from a second-floor window , but he was caught and taken to hospital with unspecified injuries . |