Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first … is the arrangement for bringing to the Joint Intelligence Organisation 's attention information other than intelligence reports . |
| 2 | Mrs. Michie : I note your ruling about sticking to the new clause , Mr. Deputy Speaker . |
| 3 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 4 | Not so , as last week 's pro-blood sports advertisement in the Daily Telegraph ( talk about preaching to the converted ) amply proved . |
| 5 | The degenerate octamer-TAATGANAT oligonucleotides A and C differ only at position 11 ( see Fig. 4A ) and compete equally well for binding to the labelled ICP4 sequence as the completely homologous TAATGARAT sequence B. The Ad2 degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motif oligonucleotide A , which contains the first four bases of the octamer fused to a perfect TAATGARAT motif , seems to be a stronger competitor than oligonucleotides B and C. In summary , the results displayed in Fig. 4B and C clearly show that the POU domain of pou[c] binds with high affinity to the TAATGARAT and degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motifs and with very low affinity ( only detectable after overexposure of GMSA signals ) to the canonical octamer motif . |
| 6 | If locally at y the second part of eqn ( 6.16 ) is to be satisfied after transforming to the unprimed coordinates we must therefore have . |
| 7 | In addition to bringing down interest rates by another two per cent , he has to establish the right monetary policy after sticking to the wrong one for two years . |
| 8 | Feeling worn out after preaching to the thousands who flocked to hear him , he found renewed stimulation and encouragement for his ministerial labours . |
| 9 | By seven days after returning to the low sulphate diet , breath CH 4 concentrations had increased again and returned almost to control levels by the end of the study . |
| 10 | After returning to the three-storey house in Bravington Road , she said : ‘ It was a brief visit . |
| 11 | It has managed to fall flat on its ‘ face ’ after climbing to the very top of the glass and attaching itself to the underside of the small glass shelf that runs along the top , which , by the way , made it almost impossible to feed . |
| 12 | Perhaps the gearbox to transfer box oil seal is faulty , but when I check the oil levels a few weeks after filling to the correct level a small amount is missing from the main box , a much greater amount from the transfer box and the overdrive is full or near full , ? |
| 13 | He spent the first day in bed , after going to the Chinese takeaway to make sure he did n't starve . |
| 14 | Where did you go after speaking to the little girl ? |
| 15 | After losing to the little Chinese-American again , this time by 6-3 , 6-4 , he admitted that he had changed his mind . |
| 16 | After travelling to the little mining village and speaking to Brown 's mother , ‘ I then set out to find him , having been told that he had gone to the pit with a barrow to fetch some coal . |
| 17 | Another member , after referring to the particular reference in the Financial Secretary 's statement to airline and railway employees , asked whether the same distinction applied to services provided by hotel companies to their employees — that is , to rooms which are freely available for the general public in hotels being offered at a concessionary rate to employees of the hotel group . |
| 18 | If anybody has given up his right to vote , in the misguided intention of not paying his taxes , he will get no sympathy from the public — and more fool he , for listening to the Labour Members of Parliament who urged people not to pay their community charge . |
| 19 | I felt like a train-spotter for writing to the Prime Minister about such trivia . |
| 20 | The firm has also introduced a new front linkage with lift capacities of 3500kg ( 7715lb ) for fitting to the latest 3670 and 3690 tractors as well as the 3680 . |
| 21 | These links are vital as this body is the main vehicle for communicating to the maximum number of students at Napier . |
| 22 | I do n't know whether it 's a case of preaching to the converted , but it 's fun |
| 23 | In 1880 he decided to settle in London permanently , and , also in 1880 , Queen Victoria appointed him teacher of singing to the royal family . |
| 24 | Quiss felt his eyes start to smart in the fume-laden atmosphere , and as he peered through the grey , yellow and brown clouds of rising steam and smoke , thought of suggesting to the seneschal — if he ever found him — that he somehow persuade the scullions powering these airwheels that they should run rather than walk . |
| 25 | could be seen as contrasting opposite ways of reacting to the modern era . |
| 26 | There are two alternative ways of reacting to the stylized facts outlined above . |
| 27 | This should represent a fair indemnity to the Claimant i.e. either the value of the property at the time of the loss , taking into account depreciation/wear and tear and the original purchase price or the cost of repairing to the immediate pre-accident condition . |
| 28 | Because of the difficulty of finding precise equivalents in English , I shall follow the common practice of sticking to the original Russian terms . |
| 29 | In Edinburgh , as in Cardiff , is it not a case of pandering to the nationalistic element in the crowd who , albeit a vociferous minority , chose in former years to whistle and boo when the National Anthem of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was the only anthem to be played ? |
| 30 | And we described what we were going to do on this walk and where we were going to go and both sort of referred to the same composition and there was a prize for the for the one that was judged the best . |