Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That damn' word brought me back to the harsh reality of my situation : not just the discovery of a traitor or bringing a murderer to book but vengeance for Agnes and , of course , the Herculean task which the Great Killer had assigned me ! |
| 2 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 3 | Anyone who would like to find out more about the appeal or make a pledge to the funds should contact : The Darlington Day Care Centre Appeal , c/o Farmway Ltd , King Street , Darlington . |
| 4 | All employers , except for very small businesses , will be obliged to invest a minimum amount on training their workforce or make a contribution to the local or national training effort . |
| 5 | The same applies if you hold shares or make a loan to a friend or relative . |
| 6 | He had strung out the conversation , after the chief inspector 's departure , or made an attempt to , but without much backing from anyone else , and failing to get any invitation to remain . |
| 7 | If an agency has the power or duty to foster ties with Europe pursuant to 1992 , and has the power to award licences or grants , would a refusal to renew such a licence or award a grant to a firm with anti-European sympathies be an infringement of the principle of legal certainty ? |
| 8 | The Bolsheviks might wish to prove their democratic credentials to the subject peoples , but the Great Powers would inevitably see this as an opportunity to advance their own interests or eliminate a threat to them . |
| 9 | The deadline date was set at October 31st , allowing centres almost two months , after students return for the new session , to clear up all outstanding results for the previous session or to request an extension to the finish date to allow the student to complete the module . |
| 10 | Please help by giving all you can for an emblem during Wings Week or send a donation to : |
| 11 | Please get in touch , or send a donation to : The Green Party , at the address below . |
| 12 | Or send an sae to the Institute of Trichologists , 228 Stockwell Road , London SW9 to find a trichologist near you . |
| 13 | Before long they 'll be wanting to tarmac the path or build a chairlift to the top . |
| 14 | He is certainly not expected to telephone or to write a letter to the proprietor of the machine . |
| 15 | ( FCA ) of having been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 6.03 in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1989 and 12 March 1991 sent business letters relating to its investment business without bearing the legend ‘ Authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to carry on investment business ’ contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.02 and in that the firm at Shipley between 9 September 1988 and 1 October 1989 entered or required its Principal to enter into an association or arrangement with a person which might result in the defendant being constrained or induced to refer or introduce a client to a person who was not an independent intermediary with a view to that person giving investment advice contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.03 and in that the firm at Shipley between 16 March 1986 and 31 October 1989 failed before recommending or effecting for a client a transaction in units in an authorised unit trust or a recognised collective investment scheme , to take reasonable steps to establish that other more advantageous or suitable policies or units were not available contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.11 and in that the firm at Shipley between 1 November 1989 and 16 October 1991 having given advice to a client which was such that when acted upon it resulted in commission being received by the defendant , failed to notify the said client in writing of the amount and terms of such commission as soon as that information was available , contrary to Investment Business Regulation 2.32 was reprimanded , fined £3,000 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 16 | An episode is the smallest complete unit of teaching in a lesson — the teacher 's revising of the previous lesson 's work , or explaining an argument to the class , or coaching an individual child on a problem he is working on ( the SCAN paper gives a fuller discussion ) . |
| 17 | The woman who is fearful of or has an aversion to sex at 30 , unless some remedial circumstance intervenes , will be still more so at 70 . |
| 18 | Moreover , because individuals are likely to be members of more than one interest ( " cross-cutting ties " ) and more than one group ( " overlapping membership " ) this will soften or moderate a commitment to any single interest . |
| 19 | The things in the ‘ outside world ’ which we use to embody or give a shape to our feelings are our metaphors . |
| 20 | Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests . |
| 21 | Whenever the syntax is broken ( for example , if the editor permits a ‘ jump-cut ’ , or allows movement to ‘ cross the line ’ , or allows a camera to ‘ zoom back ’ on objects which are coming closer ) , the viewer is disorientated . |
| 22 | If the shares are those if a listed company this anomalous position can be ended rapidly because , unless the shares are not fully paid , there will not be any restrictions on transferability and the personal representative will either obtain registration of himself or execute a transfer to a purchaser or to the beneficiaries . |
| 23 | The big problem with this latter group is to find some sort of unifying factor that will make sense or give a theme to a miscellany of oddments that are less than distinguished . |
| 24 | so you can type text or add a spreadsheet to a picture , or stick a silly cartoon into a spreadsheet . |
| 25 | In addition , repeated exposure to violence over time can desensitize or dull a child to the effects of aggression and the signs of pain in others . |
| 26 | Despite the fairly low success rates on questions probing the concepts , those questions asking pupils to use a protractor to measure given angles or draw an angle to a specified size yielded quite high success rates for both acute and obtuse angles . |
| 27 | Its unfortunate nineteenth century occupants varied from those guilty of setting fire to one of her Majesty 's ships , embezzling Queen 's stores and ‘ threatening to stab one Lorrazo Cielcovich ’ or breaking a door to the still familiar ‘ drunk and disorderly ’ . |
| 28 | Apart from a general limitation relating to development which ‘ requires or involves the formation , laying out or material widening of a means of access to an existing highway which is a trunk or classified road or creates an obstruction to the view of persons using any highway by vehicular traffic at or near any bend , corner , junction or intersection so as to be likely to cause danger to such persons , particular conditions are also laid down for each of the different classes of development listed . |
| 29 | You have the opportunity in most schemes to make your wishes known by filling in a form or sending a letter to the trustees . |
| 30 | Section 13(1) provides that : To the extent that this Part of this Act prevents the exclusion or restriction of any liability it also prevents — ( a ) making the liability or its enforcement subject to restrictive or onerous conditions ; ( b ) excluding or restricting any right or remedy in respect of the liability , or subjecting a person to any prejudice in consequence of his pursuing any such right or remedy . |