Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Bass & Co had to fork out £20,000 per tenant their enthusiasm for leases would swiftly fade . |
| 2 | Invalid LIFESPAN user name or password supplied to PI . |
| 3 | Did anyone notice that the president of the Object Management Group wrote an open letter urging people out there to ask Microsoft Corp to have Object Linking & Embedding adhere to Object Group standards ? |
| 4 | Descending a narrow gully that is path or waterfall according to season , you would ultimately attach your rooftop to four bare walls . |
| 5 | Piece of card or fabric cut to size |
| 6 | The back of the recess can then be mirrored to enlarge the sense of space or covered with art or fabric according to taste . |
| 7 | Its taint reaches out to family life , where religion turns to rivalry , brotherly love becomes murder , and justice degenerates into blood-lust ( Genesis 4 ) . |
| 8 | Land drainage and the development of transport and farm machinery hastened this process , and it became ‘ uneconomic ’ for every small farm or village to aspire to self-sufficiency . |
| 9 | Reference can be made to standards usually set by the agency ‘ in cases of this kind ’ , or attention drawn to practice in past cases . |
| 10 | These three laws or principles relate to Creation , Preservation or Sustenance , and Dissolution or Destruction , which repeat themselves in a cycle and apply to all existing phenomena . |
| 11 | Elections to all the Republic Assemblies were held in 1990 : in April and early May in Slovenia and Croatia ( where the communists were defeated — see p. 37381 ) ; in November and December in Serbia and Montenegro ( where the Socialist Party — renamed communists — gained majorities ) , and in Macedonia and Bosnia-Hercegovina ( where nationalists came to power — see pp. 37923-24 ) . |
| 12 | Even with Smith & Nephew moving to oxygen bleaching for Lil-lets , and Tambrand 's denial that they use chlorine bleaching ( though Tampax do contain rayon , produced using chlorine ) , there are still problems with tampons and sanitary towels . |
| 13 | The use of water based chemicals , sanitisers or detergents leads to softening and expansion of the wood and the result is deep premature cracking . |
| 14 | Where illness leads to loss of sight , speech or hearing it diminishes an individual 's ability to make use of counselling assistance . |
| 15 | There are bikes everywhere in Holland 's sixth biggest city , and you do n't have to be young trendy or lycra clad to cycle . |
| 16 | For example , supporting a sector of national industry may increase the costs of the goods or services provided to industry as a whole ; or the use of state enterprises to control inflation may increase the state 's fiscal problems because of the need for higher subsidies . |
| 17 | This was especially true when young people were compared to up-graded existing employees , those recruited from other firms or women returning to work . |
| 18 | He stressed the scheme was experimental and said the council would review it as necessary if problems or complaints came to light . |
| 19 | In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters . |
| 20 | There is a growing belief that payment by results schemes or reward linked to achievement of goals is an unleashing factor and it certainly appears at the present time to be working that way . |
| 21 | By laying their eggs in small strips or bundles attached to vegetation , spadefoots ensure that each individual egg is , as far as possible , surrounded by water and thus receives the maximum supply of available oxygen . |
| 22 | His wife Kathy , who organised the walk , admits that Ian goes to hell and back on the walks . |
| 23 | But the " bottom line " is that excesses lead to illness . |
| 24 | I am aware — and so are local social workers — of at least one large housing estate in a provincial town where incest is thought to be the norm rather than the exception even today ; and such is the difficulty of its location and proof that cases coming to light are probably only the tip of an iceberg . |
| 25 | It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) . |
| 26 | All were controlled for long periods with endoscopic treatment altough it is possible that obstruction contributed to death in one patient . |
| 27 | If we were to express the interrelation of identity and participation in classical Hindu terminology we might say that while knowledge , jñāna , leads to action , karma , it is equally true that action leads to knowledge . |
| 28 | Thus it is not possible to say that drivers attend to information differently for different road types . |
| 29 | More than 60% of AT&T 's $36 billion of sales comes from telephone calls , the remainder from sales of telephone equipment — the big computer-like switches that work telephone exchanges , and the smaller ones , called PABXs , that offices use to route calls internally . |
| 30 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |