Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head also needs to reward those who are on the right lines through drawing attention to successes , prominently displaying thank you letters on the staff room notice board , using time to convince , cheer , direct , push and urge . |
| 2 | The ascertainment of the nearest approximation of cost gives rise to two problems : ( a ) The selection of an appropriate method for relating costs to stocks ( such as job costing , batch costing , process costing , standard costing ) . |
| 3 | WE 'VE had leaves on the line , snow , iced-up points and now BR in the South East has come up with a new one for explaining delays to trains : Heavy morning dew . |
| 4 | Some doubts about ascribing identity to meanings |
| 5 | They attack the status quo by pointing out that the reasons given for denying rights to children are bad reasons , and then explicitly or implicitly deny them duties for no reason at all . |
| 6 | Uses for the foam or suggested ones , are for keeping bank vaults safe and for applying pesticides to crops without polluting the air , I do not see it catching on . |
| 7 | Most of these schemes are designed to improve employee motivation at the same time , either through relating pay to profits or encouraging the acquisition of shares by employees . |
| 8 | But inexperienced deputy Ian Ironside definitely keeps his place for the trip to Southampton after helping Boro to wins over Manchester City and Leeds United . |
| 9 | Although it might be objected that Skocpol 's analysis courts the danger of falling into another version of functionalism , since it postulates some inherent functions of the state , it has the benefit of drawing attention to processes within the state and the specific logic which guides them . |
| 10 | This strategy of imputing impurity to women who challenged medical hegemony had its effects . |
| 11 | Given their basic categorial " frame of reference " , the central issue for most of them becomes one of defining the criteria of significant ascriptions of experiences — which in practice invariably reduces to the problem of defining the general truth-conditions of ascribing experiences to others . |
| 12 | Nevertheless serious misgivings may persist about the wisdom of ascribing identity to meanings . |
| 13 | I think it 's particularly useful as a way of gaining entry to ideas about childhood — what children are for , why to have them — that are n't written about in the official records , that is , in the textbooks of child analysis and child psychology , and in sociological descriptions of childhood . |
| 14 | And Walker ( 1978 ) has argued that although all rural dwellers are burdened by the extra costs of gaining access to services , doing without them , or consuming inadequate services , that these costs bear disproportionately on the rural poor . |
| 15 | Not that it is impossible , but practical considerations of gaining access to situations and the confidence of the people involved in any reasonable length of time mean that one will probably study the situation from one side or the other . |
| 16 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 17 | They would n't dream of causing offence to Muslims . ’ |
| 18 | Fifty seven year old Mr Culley admitted seven charges of causing suffering to animals . |
| 19 | He talks of assigning responsibility to children , holding them responsible , requiring them to take responsibility and these are natural ways of speaking . |
| 20 | If it is not possible to find a relationship of this sort , some other method of assigning addresses to keys has to be found . |
| 21 | But behind the apparently straightforward process of assigning numbers to variants of a variable in such a way as to reflect , reasonably faithfully , their phonetic and social relationships with each other lies a great deal of linguistic , sociological and mathematical abstraction . |
| 22 | Though the policy of according preference to foreigners has been retained , its application has changed dramatically . |
| 23 | You must tell us immediately if the Police give formal notice to you of withdrawing response to signals/calls made by your intruder alarm . |
| 24 | Sources said they were accused of paying kickbacks to politicians to obtain public contracts . |
| 25 | Nowadays , about a decade after publication of Children 's Minds , developmentalists write about children with a far better understanding of the importance of paying heed to children 's abilities in everyday contexts as well as experimental ones . |
| 26 | Since the use of unit trusts as a way of paying bonuses to employees came to an end , vouchers have been attracting attention . |
| 27 | What are the best ways of fixing mirrors to walls ? |
| 28 | In counselling , indeed in any of the ‘ talking ’ therapies , tears play an important part , first of all in the release of tension , and later as a way of directing attention to areas which are ‘ tender ’ and might repay exploration . |
| 29 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 30 | The new law increases fines for shopworkers found guilty of selling cigarettes to children to £2,500 and tightens up the previous legislation in a number of other ways . |