Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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1 | But above all their value to user education is that they act as focal points , so that if practitioners have a problem there is an information centre or clearinghouse to take it to as a first resort . |
2 | Each city , town or village lends itself to a collage in some odd way . |
3 | Is it not possible , for example , that some theory is better , in the sense of being closer to the truth , a better problem solver , a better instrument of prediction or whatever , than a rival , even though no individual or group judges it to be so ? |
4 | Does dew or rain reduce it to a sodden pulpy mass ? |
5 | It was announced on Sept. 12 , 1989 , that the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC , had ended a long-running dispute when it agreed with various Indian groups that skeletal remains would be returned where evidence linked them to specific tribes . |
6 | When an inquisitive fish or crab provokes them to such action , it finds itself struggling in a mesh of filaments while the sea cucumber slowly inches itself away on the tube feet that protrude from its underside . |
7 | Stars of stage , screen & radio welcome you to the ‘ World of Entertainment ’ . |
8 | We had no friends or family to accompany us to the church . |
9 | Asthma , heart conditions , diabetes or epilepsy expose you to special risks , and we do n't recommend you windsurf with any of these conditions . |
10 | Then , on one wonderful day , it became the key to that magic box where infinity welcomed her to the crystal harmony of the spheres . |
11 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
12 | ‘ Still , it 's a good thing that doctor gave 'em to ‘ er . |
13 | As Niki rightly points out , that year proved something to the whole of FI . |
14 | Although history dates it to the Golden Age of Magna Graecia , some of the region 's most glorious monuments date from the time of Byzantium and Norman rule . |
15 | If experience shows them to be wrong , as proved by hard evidence of a growing mountain of unmet need , their only honest course will be to fight for more resources and resign if unsuccessful . |
16 | Quine suggests very plausibly that , even if experience shows something to be wrong with a theory , it can not point a finger at any particular hypothesis . |
17 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
18 | The victory ended a run of three successive defeats , and Shell showed himself to be a relatively undemonstrative head coach prepared to listen to the advice of his assistant coaches and players before calling the big plays . |
19 | And Miss gives it to the student in n it ? |
20 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
21 | The king 's mother and sister took her to their hut and they prepared the finest clothes for her . |
22 | Brah 's review of the debate about the inclusiveness and limitations of the category ‘ black ’ and of the often fractious engagement between feminism and antiracism shows her to be not unsympathetic to this post-structuralist perspective . |
23 | Yeah , having some dinner , well we did n't have any did we , cos mummy took you to the pictures with nanny |
24 | The hills , lakes and coast lend themselves to a variety of outdoor pursuits such as fell walking , mountaineering , pony-trekking , fishing , sailing , canoeing and swimming . |
25 | The King 's Bench Prison was for gentlemen debtors , for ‘ men born to property and a high station in life who by their folly and crime reduced themselves to wretchedness and loaded themselves with disgrace ’ — though James Grant 's description in Pictures of Popular People could not be said to fit poor Benjamin Haydon . |
26 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
27 | This was confirmed on computed tomography and biopsy showed it to be a well differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma . |
28 | This was completed by 10th November , and Hall sent it to Palmerston on the following day . |
29 | Milton 's maintenance of the traditional Renaissance literary values of art , imitation , and exercise allowed him to be appropriated by a culturally elitist agenda indivisibly caught up with an elitist social and political agenda . |
30 | Provided sado-masochism limits itself to practices between consenting partners ( and provided it does not get out of hand ) and affects no one else , it is doubtful whether remedial measures are necessary or justifiable . |