Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Peculiar symptoms , also called ‘ Strange , Rare and Peculiar symptoms ’ , fall outside this method of evaluation because they may be very debilitating or make little difference to the patient 's ability to function . |
| 2 | Upon delivery of the original bill to SeaDocs , the shipper was to receive a code or test key equivalent to the personal identification numbers ( PIN ) provided by banks for use with automated teller machines . |
| 3 | In consequence , newspapers have to adopt other roles ; they can become more entertaining and popular , or provide in-depth information to a select few . |
| 4 | Services that do work to plans tend to be those employing professionally qualified staff , who act as advisers or consultants with regard to pedagogical methods and policy , or provide direct help to youngsters . |
| 5 | Per Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. ( i ) In cases of doubt as to the effect of a purported refusal of treatment , where failure to treat threatens the patient 's life or to cause irreparable damage to his health , doctors and health authorities should not hesitate to apply to the courts for assistance ( post , pp. 798G — 799A , H ) . |
| 6 | Khan was in Washington for talks with United States officials during which he repeated undertakings not to explode a nuclear weapon or transfer nuclear technology to other countries . |
| 7 | ‘ Will you be staying around for a while , or going straight back to bonny Scotland ? ’ |
| 8 | Medical science may not be able to specifically pinpoint the cause of the disease or link negligent conduct to its appearance . |
| 9 | Briefly : the addition of a red jerboa or desert jumping mouse to the white-disc-in-red-square vehicle sign of the Mobile Division Egypt dates back to 1939/40 . |
| 10 | Fourteen per cent of adults aged 16 and over — about 6 million altogether — were found to be looking after or providing regular help to someone who was sick , elderly or disabled . |
| 11 | ‘ Discursive consciousness ’ , by contrast , refers to ‘ what actors are able to say , or to give verbal expression to , about social conditions , including especially the conditions of their own action ’ . |
| 12 | However one views these initiatives ( whether they stem from local or central government ) they are covertly political — to ensure that schools broadly reflect parental wishes ( for parents , being instinctively conservative in matters educational , provide the most effective brake on radical local initiative ) or to give public credibility to the educational programme of a particular local authority ( ‘ We , the elected councillors , have discussed this with parents and … ’ ) |
| 13 | This means owning the necessary equipment or having free access to it . |
| 14 | Native speakers do not read or pay equal attention to everything within a discourse . |
| 15 | There is also the question of whether it is better to treat on-site or to transport contaminated soil to a specialist plant . |
| 16 | In cases of doubt as to the effect of a purported refusal of treatment , where failure to treat threatens the patient 's life or threatens irreparable damage to his health , doctors and health authorities should not hesitate to apply to the courts for assistance . |
| 17 | New EC regulations requiring all premises producing , growing or processing organic food to be registered and inspected by an organisation such as The Soil Association or the UK Register of Organic Foods add up to too much red tape for many small businesses . |
| 18 | Vague objectives might include maintaining a market share or keeping up with technology or offering good value to the customer . |
| 19 | Consider their versatility ; their ability to blend happily with traditional surroundings or to lend extra character to a prestige project , with rich colours that brighten the most sombre scene — colours that mellow with time . |
| 20 | This blurring of disciplinary frontiers is further encouraged when those few social anthropologists who can count , or have convenient access to mathematical aids , follow sociologists in succumbing to the lure of statistics and the computer . |
| 21 | There are impressions that bring immediate satisfaction to the senses , for example those that have charm , brilliance or simple musical rhythms . |
| 22 | The national awards will offer two categories : the first will recognise management initiatives that bring environmental benefits to Britain , while the second award will be for the export of appropriate technologies that bring environmental benefit to developing countries . |
| 23 | One that made perfect sense to Ron and made perfect sense to me . |
| 24 | He argues that all other forms of therapy are simply tranquillizers , helping people to adapt rather than change , or else to find an addiction like meditation or relaxation that offers temporary relief to which we will always need to return . |
| 25 | Football thrives on scandal , it is a highly competitive game that offers untold wealth to the most talented players , sudden and often tragic decline in the lives of those whose youth or skills desert them , and the extremes of pain and passion to those who follow the game . |
| 26 | Given that the subjects were trained not to raise the negative flap at all , we may say that the difference between associates established to the two stimuli was greater in the case in which the more extensive motor response was required — that is , in the condition that produced superior transfer to a test discrimination involving the same stimuli . |
| 27 | Lapsley and Prowle ( 1978 ) carried out comprehensive surveys that lent considerable weight to the reforms suggested in the working group 's report . |
| 28 | As we will see later in this chapter , there is evidence that relating new information to earlier information is an important aspect of language comprehension . |
| 29 | Third , ‘ theories that attach moral significance to difference ’ : these approaches regard inequality as morally important , whenever in a person 's life it occurs . |
| 30 | There has been much recent work by psychologists and linguists on these early stages of acquisition that has direct relevance to pragmatics , but is not reviewed in this book ( see e.g. Ervin-Tripp & Mitchell-Kernan , 1977 ; Snow & Ferguson , 1977 Ochs & Schieffelin , 1979 ; and the critical account of such work in M. Atkinson , 1982 ) . |