Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was controversy in the second-century churches whether a Christian could be a magistrate or bear public authority , activities which might require apparently compromising with idolatry or condemning criminals to execution . |
| 2 | Patients aged 18 or over are deemed legally responsible for their own actions , and it is often with great reluctance that they will agree to see a doctor and possibly begin treatment or undergo admission to hospital . |
| 3 | Countries which forbid or restrict access to contraception : CHAD , EQUATORIAL GUINEA , GABON , GREECE , IRELAND , MALAWI , MALTA , LIBYA , KAMPUCHEA , SAUDI ARABIA |
| 4 | Temporary jobs lasting more than a week can be considered in terms of whether they open or reopen rights to Unemployment Benefit . |
| 5 | The nodes or links point to text blocks , but the semantic net can be seen without necessarily seeing the text blocks . |
| 6 | Total disablement from engaging in or giving attention to profession or occupation as specified on the policy schedule . |
| 7 | If the Policyholder has a valid claim under item 5 — Total Disablement from engaging in or giving attention to profession or occupation — any medical expenses necessarily incurred in connection with the disablement are covered up to 15% of the total amount of the weekly benefit paid during the period of a claim e.g. if a total of $1,000 in weekly benefit had been paid , medical expenses up to $150 would be covered . |
| 8 | Any company that has plans for international marketing must build up or have access to marketing information about a large number of different countries . |
| 9 | There are two methods of fixing Gyproc cove to dry , sound and rigid backgrounds : either use Gyproc cove adhesive , or nail or screw fix to timber grounds or plugs . |
| 10 | Also useful is regular exercise , taking adequate daily calcium and not smoking or drinking alcohol to excess . |
| 11 | Later on , when we distributed publicity or went door to door visiting , we never failed to draw at least one family to come and see this new thing which had come to pass . |
| 12 | The wardrobe is designed to fit from wall or end panel to wall , and from floor o ceiling ( though in high rooms , you might want to finish short of the ceiling ) . |
| 13 | During the middle ages the most important records were at least in some degree legal instruments : whether they transferred land , appointed men to office , warranted expenditure , acquitted revenue officers of their charge , or summoned litigants to court , they conveyed some kind of legally valid authority . |
| 14 | You probably ca n't do much about the rain , but you can work out contingency plans such as having helpers to park participants ' cars or arranging minibuses to shuttle between the centre and the car park . |
| 15 | More exotically , they can be used for voice conferencing or to gain access to mainframe computers . |
| 16 | ‘ Irrespective of its ability either to discourage certain forms of behaviour , or to bring offenders to justice , the law should delineate and prohibit behaviour which is socially abhorrent . |
| 17 | Moreover , Schell et al. ( 1989 ) point out that it is now possible to engineer plants , by introducing B. thuringiensis genes encoded for toxin production , that develop resistance to tobacco hornworm ( Manduca sexta ) and the large white butterfly ( Pieris brassicae ) . |
| 18 | It was the logic of their medium ( the camera filmed what it saw ) and the need for stories that led producers to film aspects of their times but in the movies themselves the supremacy of fiction relegated society to a background . |
| 19 | It is called fear — massive , overwhelming , paralytic fear that turns legs to jelly , hands to castanets , and hearts to pumping turbines . |
| 20 | I 've just mentioned the taunt that drives Sonya to prostitution . |
| 21 | Anything that involves hand to eye co-ordination , Andy 's your boy ’ . ’ |
| 22 | You mean she 's actually washed the hand that lay palm to palm with Rainbow 's as they danced ? |
| 23 | It is not certain , therefore , whether the rule in Quenerduaine v. Cole would apply , though on the whole I think it would , because I do not think that a court would speculate on the reasons that moved B to telegraph rather than write . |
| 24 | He has made comedies , but seems quite without the vision that elevates humour to satire . |
| 25 | Customers with 30 or more 3270 terminals that want access to Unix are the targets . |
| 26 | The character of the whole place is best assessed by walking down from the castle rather than climbing east to west . |
| 27 | In collisions at relatively low energies of PETRA ( the electron-positron accelerator at DESY ) the quark and anti-quark produce two streams of particles that appear back to back in apparatus surrounding the collision point . |
| 28 | So confident is BMW of its fuel efficiency and smoothness that fifth gear is now direct drive instead of an overdrive , an interesting move that adds flexibility to performance when pressing on , and the ability to trickle along and pull away in high gear with a minimum of protest . |
| 29 | There would therefore be an additive effect on the passive water absorption that occurs secondary to solute absorption . |
| 30 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |