Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Processing items as soon as possible after soiling and/or submitting them to preliminary treatment . |
| 2 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 3 | A cross spirituality will ensure that you and I are never tempted to follow fashions and fads in church life which , attractive though they may seem , ignore the cross or push it to one side . |
| 4 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
| 5 | Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance . |
| 6 | Not once had any man ever made her so mad … or roused her to such passion , a tiny treacherous voice whispered inside her head . |
| 7 | In seeking to be innovative and adventurous , church musicians will need to be careful not to abandon the traditional repertoire or to relegate it to second place . |
| 8 | For all its strengths , the game has a few flaws — you ca n't drop objects or give them to another character . |
| 9 | The twists and turns of Goldwyn 's life can become tedious , since he was so often fighting the same battles ; and the extent of his involvement in the industry means that Berg continually digresses to enlarge on some aspect of movie history , or introduces us to other personalities as they appear . |
| 10 | Alternatively , the exporter could seek a loan against it or negotiate it to another party in settlement of a domestic trade debt . |
| 11 | The Race Relations Act 1976 makes it illegal for an LEA or governors to discriminate on the grounds of colour , race , ethnic or national origins or nationality against a pupil — ‘ by excluding him from the establishment or subjecting him to any other detriment ’ ( section 17(c) ( ii ) ) . |
| 12 | by dismissing her or subjecting her to any detriment which results in her dismissal or consists in or involves her demotion . |
| 13 | Such transfers need to be undertaken with care to avoid damaging the fish or subjecting them to sudden temperature changes . |
| 14 | Many people value their group award certificates , such as HNC or HND , highly and wish to display them or present them to prospective employers . |
| 15 | The staff are n't trained counsellors and Mr Higgins admits they 're learning to deal with caller 's emotional problems as they go along , or refer them to other organisations such as the Samaritans . |
| 16 | These are claimed by the purchaser of an industrial building who is using it for his or her own trade or leasing it to another for that person 's trade , at the rate of 4% per annum on cost . |
| 17 | You can also , at the touch of a button , double the width and/or length of the pattern , mirror image it or convert it to double jacquard . |
| 18 | And then , I either leave it like that or turn it to one . |
| 19 | Send me letters here still and I shall ask my new friend Mr ( wall-eyed ) Wood ( prop. ) to sit on them or speed them to another valley by pigeon post . |
| 20 | You can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 21 | Their main advantages are : wood is an excellent insulator ; the windows come in an wide range of standard sizes ( and non-standard ones are easy for a joiner to make up if necessary ) ; they are , generally speaking , the cheapest type of replacement window to buy ; and you can paint or stain them to any colour you want . |
| 22 | In the case of both pomeshchiks and streltsy , their need to support themselves during much of the year placed enormous obstacles in the way of training and disciplining them , or introducing them to new methods of warfare . |
| 23 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 24 | The proprietors are happy to provide dinner with prior notice or to direct you to any of the many pubs and restaurants within a three-mile radius . |
| 25 | If your employer has the right , for example , to insist that you undertake certain other tasks or to move you to another department , your job will be at risk if you dig in your heels and disobey . |
| 26 | The House has not had the opportunity to consider the instruments in detail or subject them to detailed technical examination . |
| 27 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 28 | Consequently , many customers are banning smoking or restricting it to certain areas of the office or canteen , yet it is perfectly feasible to banish the smoke without banning smoking , by installing the latest electrostatic air filters . |
| 29 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 30 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |