Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 2 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 3 | Japan , too , had joined the conflict on the Allied side on 23 August 1914 and had swiftly helped herself to German possessions in the east , including the Carolina group of islands on 7 October and Kiauchau on 7 November . |
| 4 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 5 | And then : oh , please , if there have to be more lies , at least let me only tell them to other people , not to myself any more . |
| 6 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 7 | Through the centuries it has changed at intervals by learning from errors and misfortunes , constantly adapting itself to new situations . |
| 8 | Cricket , an old and complex game , naturally lends itself to statistical analysis . |
| 9 | Because the terrain so lends itself to visual spectacle , the grand prix races draw crowds from Vienna , Salzburg and Innsbruck like no other . |
| 10 | In any case Marxism was broad enough to lend itself to different educational interpretations . |
| 11 | Later , she could hardly remember what the issues were that had so roused them to mutual abuse . |
| 12 | In the Nicaraguan setting all motivations became elemental , and their very primitiveness — together with their drama — perhaps commended them to dramatic and imperfectly democratic Americans . |
| 13 | Given the need for an extensive approach within the limitations noted above , and given that the first stage of the fieldwork demonstrated that heroin users generally confine themselves to specific networks , it was decided to use a ‘ network analysis ’ approach using the technique of snowball sampling , or chain referral ( Fraser and Hawkins 1984 , p. 82 ) . |
| 14 | He struggled to match the already competent Dave Fielding , but was soon applying himself to pecuniary areas . |
| 15 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 16 | Within such studies there is a tendency also to concentrate on those ‘ academic ’ components of the curriculum which more easily lend themselves to didactic modes of exposition and question-and-answer teaching . |
| 17 | Is he aware that the Institute of Housing has recently reported that it does not believe that competitive tendering in housing management is a sensible option , saying that it does ’ not easily lend itself to competitive tendering ’ ? |
| 18 | Many of these areas lie too wet in winter for arable farming , and thus lend themselves to bought-in herds of cattle for summer fattening . |
| 19 | Architectural historians have already raided it to good effect , notably Mark Girouard for his book on the sixteenth-century architect Robert Smythson and Jill Lever , the curator of the collection , for the book she wrote with Margaret Richardson , The Art of the Architect . |
| 20 | Whilst such an attitude to life is clearly desirable for hunters depending on highly unreliable food resources which would soon reduce them to chronic anxiety if they were to take a less prodigal view of things , it is evidently less suitable for seasonal hunters who must store food if they are to avoid starvation . |
| 21 | Secretary reports that he has already put it to good use . |
| 22 | But in largely confining itself to observable phenomena . |
| 23 | And if you give her , just stick her to small amounts for the next couple of days |
| 24 | A vomitoxin can be absorbed through the skin , causing a soldier to remove his mask to vomit and thus exposing him to other toxic agents , through his respiratory system . |
| 25 | Still , I could n't help responding , at least in spirit , to the orgy of general joy as we docked at Lisbon ; and even John stiffly lent himself to various aromatic embraces . |
| 26 | Up to now I 've always resigned myself to rented accommodation , but it 's just not the same is it . |
| 27 | Even if he is working in a field with other workers the sense of isolation can remain , for the noise and the increased pace of work hardly lend themselves to easy conversation between workmates . |
| 28 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 29 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 30 | ‘ People are always comparing us to Bogshed ’ , slurs Carl in the band van after the third encore and the obligatory dressing room conversation with two fully grown men with Baldrick haircuts , plastic carrier bags , tatty combat jackets , thick lensed NHS glasses and lots and lots of badges . |