Example sentences of "[verb] to [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the EC is committed to economic convergence it would be counterproductive if resulting from the operation of the budget , economic divergence was reinforced rather than reduced . |
| 2 | Unless you are very strongly attracted to private practice you would be well advised to prefer one of these careers in salaried employment . |
| 3 | What on earth was happening to that girl she had left behind in London ? |
| 4 | The pain of the individual 's sense of loss is so great that he withdraws from relating to any object he perceives as having authority as a way of masking the pain . |
| 5 | It struck me as I fumblingly dialled the number that it would be better to go out to a kiosk , where I would be more sure of privacy , but having come to this decision I only wanted to hurry , hurry — every minute 's delay seemed dangerous . |
| 6 | Returning to interior decorating he imported French wallpapers and fabrics designed by Poiret and Dufy . |
| 7 | In the case of the YCCC , the video workshop so inspired two of the members ( a husband and wife ) , that on returning to Yellow Creek they went out and bought a video which they have since used with great effect in their campaign . |
| 8 | Returning to this appeal it must , of course , be allowed . |
| 9 | If you experience difficulty in keeping to this timetable you should communicate promptly with Suzanne Pinnington ( on extension number 227 ) at Napier House . |
| 10 | He tried punch bread with sloppy groundbait for small roach , but when he changed to double squatt he added five skimmers and a few small perch . |
| 11 | If anything happens to that man they 'll know he 's alright except for tidy . |
| 12 | It stops INTERRUPTIONS If you take turns in listening to each other you will wait for the other person to finish before you come in . |
| 13 | stuff I was listening to this morning I do n't whether that was one of the things but she 's certainly looking at areas like that . |
| 14 | Listening to this programme it is very hard to see how their relationship works . |
| 15 | If the new rates had applied to that year they would have wiped out the interest and still left £5.67 to pay ! |
| 16 | Listen to that noise I 'm making ! |
| 17 | He asked me to take a seat and listen to some music he would put on . |
| 18 | The quantity n is called the principal quantum number and though it is related to angular momentum it is not identical with it as Bohr had supposed . |
| 19 | To find out whether the presence of toxoplasma-specific antibodies was related to clinical status we classified the patients in three groups ( table ) . |
| 20 | According to ancient custom it would be possible for Sarah as wife to claim the child as her own . |
| 21 | According to one story he started out as a liveryman in England and ran away to sea after stealing his mistress 's jewels . |
| 22 | According to one source I 've spoken to , when this area was constructed a full crescent was exactly what Loraine Crescent was intended to be with no through road into Hammond Drive . |
| 23 | According to one source he was credited with five shot down and seven others damaged . |
| 24 | ‘ According to that guy I just spoke to , ’ said Gregson quietly , ‘ Trevor Magee died six months ago . |
| 25 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 26 | It was also open to the Revenue to apportion the tax among several beneficiaries according to any method they thought fit . |
| 27 | According to classical criminology we mostly behave in a rational manner . |
| 28 | He complained that according to English Law he could not marry a woman , and that thus he was denied the right to marry and found a family . |
| 29 | According to this definition we are living in a particularly ‘ novelistic ’ age . |
| 30 | According to this model we recognize objects by comparing a list of basic elements of the visual image , like lines , edges , and angles , with a list , stored in memory , of the attributes associated with a particular object . |