Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SGSA defines such contracts as those " under which one person transfers or agrees to transfer to another person the property in goods " except in pursuance of a contract of sale , a hire purchase contract , and " a contract under which property in goods is transferred in exchange for trading stamps on their redemption " ( see s 1 ) . |
| 2 | Under s1(1) of SGSA 1982 it would seem that an exchange contract comes within its purview since it generally applies to contracts where " one person transfers or agrees to transfer to another the property in goods " . |
| 3 | Whether a translation conforms to the source-text patterns of cohesion or tries to approximate to target-language patterns will depend in the final analysis on the purpose of the translation and the amount of freedom the translator feels entitled to in rechunking information and/or altering signals of relations between chunks . |
| 4 | Will my right hon. Friend note that , in comparison with the Labour party , which has changed its mind many times , the Conservative party has been consistent since the 1960s — a policy that has led to greater union among the peoples of Europe ? |
| 5 | In our judgment it is this feature of the later history that has led to understandable confusion . |
| 6 | It is the realisation of this that has led to sensory methods of assessment being developed . |
| 7 | The historical progression that has led to this can , at the price of great oversimplification , be seen as follows . |
| 8 | Central Council is most grateful for the generous support that has led to this successful outcome . |
| 9 | ‘ Conveniently ’ would be a better word , and would refer , correctly , to the ugly cowardice that has led to this bloody mess . |
| 10 | For all the first-glance goriness that has led to several bans , Jim Rose 's surreal sideshow is too fantastical and funny to be taken seriously , says Craig McLean |
| 11 | Last year , there were 215 such properties ( 1.35 pc of total stock ) , but this year that has fallen to 119 ( 0.75 pc of total stock ) . |
| 12 | All the development aid that has gone to many third world countries comes back twofold and threefold through interest payments on the debt , underpayment for commodities and the over-profitability of multinational corporations . |
| 13 | A major factor that has contributed to this has been the process of acquisition , by which firms get taken over and merged into larger companies . |
| 14 | And the method they have adopted has proved to be the beginning of the slide that has lead to mass dispersals of the kind that happened at Brent . |
| 15 | It is the sort of thing that has happened to most of us . |
| 16 | In fact , much so-called juvenile water is probably either rainwater that has circulated to great depths , or water that was trapped in rocks that have been carried down at subduction zones ( see Inside Science , No. 6 , 23 February 1988 ) . |
| 17 | The Evil One sought totalitarian control by wresting the allegiance of all human beings away from God and fostering the human stubbornness that refuses to submit to any authority . |
| 18 | This epitomises the current debate that exists relating to causal factors : while the issue remains unresolved , most of the available evidence points to human activity as the more important catalyst . |
| 19 | A significant difference in natural connected speech is the way that sounds belonging to one word can cause changes in sounds belonging to neighbouring words . |
| 20 | Indeed , in some cases evidence that seems to point to one of these things may be rejected on the grounds that the phenomenon is impossible . |
| 21 | Where , then , did and do the remainder , the ‘ others ’ fit : — ‘ on the edge ’ ; in some buffer zone between categories ; or in a hybrid form , grappling both to make a space and to find a name : Fibre Art — Who Are you ? ’ talks of this hybrid form as an ‘ undecidable ’ ( Derrida ) , ‘ something that seems to belong to one genre , but overshoots its borders and seems no less at home in another … |
| 22 | Wander down medieval alleys and cross a maze of canals to enjoy this bewitching Italian city that seems to belong to another time . |
| 23 | One one six , that 's , that 's what it was , but we 're actually saying that 's increased to two million in ninety three ninety four . |
| 24 | I 'm just wondering if there that 's related to that scripture that I 've just showed you |
| 25 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 26 | The first freshers ' dinner I went to in Oxford — this is where the the people who 've just come up erm are introduced to college life and so on — erm the amount that 's allocated to each student is two sherries before dinner , three or four glasses of wine , different wines , with dinner and then something or other — port — after dinner . |
| 27 | Well I mean , the , the the irony is , if you look in the Brigade 's statistics chart , the one that 's attached to that one , the aeroplane crash would come under special service calls other so it 's a miscellaneous column , so it 's not even a road accident , it 's some other . |
| 28 | Hewlett-Packard Co is well ahead of the pack in fitting out its Unix machines with the kind of operations management systems that mainframe users expect , but Sun Microsystems Computer Corp is galloping off down the same path and has gone to Legent Corp for an agreement under which Legent will convert Legent 's system management tools to run on Sparcsystems under Solaris Unix . |
| 29 | Although not a Government publication , this book , first published in 1923 , achieved considerable popularity before the Second World War and has run to twelve editions , all revised by the original writer , the most recent being that of 1954 ; in England it was the main vehicle for the principles of Sir Truby King and his Mothercraft Training Society . |
| 30 | Parish Clerk Weekley , that man of power and aerial photographs , is pushing for a further diversion to include free eye-testing for the old , and has written to local doctors advising them of this . |