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 | 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 . |
| 9 | After returning to the three-storey house in Bravington Road , she said : ‘ It was a brief visit . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 , ? |
| 12 | He spent the first day in bed , after going to the Chinese takeaway to make sure he did n't starve . |
| 13 | Where did you go after speaking to the little girl ? |
| 14 | After losing to the little Chinese-American again , this time by 6-3 , 6-4 , he admitted that he had changed his mind . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I felt like a train-spotter for writing to the Prime Minister about such trivia . |
| 19 | These links are vital as this body is the main vehicle for communicating to the maximum number of students at Napier . |
| 20 | I do n't know whether it 's a case of preaching to the converted , but it 's fun |
| 21 | In 1880 he decided to settle in London permanently , and , also in 1880 , Queen Victoria appointed him teacher of singing to the royal family . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | could be seen as contrasting opposite ways of reacting to the modern era . |
| 24 | There are two alternative ways of reacting to the stylized facts outlined above . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Because of the difficulty of finding precise equivalents in English , I shall follow the common practice of sticking to the original Russian terms . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | Although it is tempting to trace the historical antecedents of subcontracting to the pre-industrial ‘ putting-out ’ system , the crucial impetus came from the very rapid expansion in manufacturing output from the later 1950s . |
| 29 | I am dying to that old life , to that old self and I am following in this new life , and therefore , I am going through this , this symbolic act of being baptized , of dying to the old and being raised a new life in Jesus Christ . |
| 30 | Again , not everyone — and surely not McGeechan — would view with any great enthusiasm the prospect of returning to the previous law and the spectacle of sundry sides , but England especially , so often merely playing for the next scrum . |