Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people feel restricted in their choices or limited to their present station in life , because their birthcharts declare that they are unlikely to better themselves . |
| 2 | Kevin McCloud , whose background is in history of art and theatrical set designing , presents 40 individual roomsets in a variety of styles to copy or adapt to your own home . |
| 3 | Was I respecting the life within me , or pandering to my own healthy terror or going through what Alice went through ? |
| 4 | Instead of rushing to a telephone box less than 40 yards away or walking to her nearby home , Joanna trudged to the leisure centre . |
| 5 | If a small child is asked to group a set of objects he may gather together items according to their colour ( for example , all brown objects ) or according to their normal use ( for example , all cutlery ) . |
| 6 | More revisionist radical elite theorists have an alternative concept , ‘ technocracy ’ , to describe administrative elites who operate primarily in their own interests , or according to their own professional norms , rather than being beholden to outside elites . |
| 7 | For a party , a layer cake can be iced and decorated to fit the occasion , or according to your political persuasion . |
| 8 | None of them had been the kind of people who could have imagined devotion to a pet animal or according to it funerary rites . |
| 9 | Whenever one organism promotes the fitness of another at its own expense and without reciprocal benefit to itself or benefit to its own genes present in the recipient it has perforce performed an act of induced altruism . |
| 10 | To have heard Rachmaninov play hisown or any other Russian music or to listen to his orchestral works is to realise he was a passionate musician , loving his art and giving his all to express the joys and sorrows , the tender and brutal moods and all the emotions to which man is subject . |
| 11 | One family would gather on Sunday evening round the harmonium ; another would go to their grandfather 's village shop , boys and uncles each with a fiddle or cello , to sing or dance to their own tunes — ‘ we really enjoyed that ; ’ while a Yorkshire millowner 's family used to ask all their kin for weekly musical parties , taking turns to host these ‘ dreadful performances . ’ |
| 12 | Fly home , or transfer to your chosen Lakes and Mountains resort . |
| 13 | After breakfast , leave for Munich airport for your flight home ; or transfer to your chosen Lakes & Mountains resort . |
| 14 | But retiring is more often a one-sided affair , with a wife still perhaps in part-time employment or used to her own routine during her husband 's working hours . |
| 15 | Interest on Meridian Savings can be added to your savings or credited to your Current Account . |
| 16 | Many businesses print or refer to their standard terms of trading on their invoices which are normally sent out after the contract has been performed — for instance by delivery of goods . |
| 17 | In item 5 , benefit is payable if the Policyholder is unable to engage in or attend to his DISCLOSED profession or occupation . |
| 18 | But while as host her father can make a speech or toast to his new son-in-law , it would be a bit immodest for him to sing the praises of his own daughter , so often a friend of the family is chosen to make a speech and toast to both bride and groom , particularly if the father is going to speak later . |
| 19 | Write or talk to your local supermarket manager to encourage the store to stock a wider range of organic produce and to reduce the pesticides used by their suppliers . |
| 20 | When no valid secrets really exist , mysteries are invented or contrived to which privileged initiates are admitted … . |
| 21 | Where left to their own devices as to choice of subject , and bearing in mind the possibility of their being illiterate , they took subjects that were pagan in origin such as The Green Man which is a growth and fertility symbol . |
| 22 | When my membership come up for renewal in November I would be happy to add £5 to it , or agree to anything similar which is adopted … |
| 23 | If you have any problems or complaints , please ring or write to your local Customer Care Unit . |
| 24 | Now , if the children have grown up and the wife wishes to embark on a career , or return to her former one , or if an elderly relative needs to receive full-time care , the roles may need to be redefined . |
| 25 | The frequency of occurrence of the OR returned to its original level . |
| 26 | The patient 's interest consists of his right to self-determination — his right to live his own life how he wishes , even if it will damage his health or lead to his premature death . |
| 27 | It was made of a fine gossamer fabric that clung to her smooth , flawless skin . |
| 28 | She surveyed his long-limbed body with an attempt at cool detachment , her gaze flickering over the dark denims that moulded his strong thighs , and the jade sweater that clung to his hard male chest . |
| 29 | Souness was still grumbling about the decisions that went against his team — the penalty that gave Coventry their first goal , the free-kick that led to their second , an offside flag that never came for the third and the sending off of Jamie Redknapp . |
| 30 | It could quite easily have been the job connection that led to her life-long friendship with comedian , Jimmy Tarbuck . |