Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Friction led to furious rows and the rows led to Willy demanding that he should be allowed to take a room where he could look after himself .
2 IF so many countries can pledge troops to help relieve the crisis in Somalia , why is Britain 's support limited to two planes ?
3 Secondly , the provision of better educational material for teaching naming to young children .
4 As the Dragon , signifying ‘ the being who excels in intelligence ’ , breathes ‘ fire ’ , the destructive action of snake venom resembles that of the all-devouring fire , and the snake belongs to those beings which are believed to possess to a high degree that magical energy which is indicated by the Sanskrit word ‘ Tajas ’ , meaning heat or fire .
5 The philosophers claimed both the privilege to attend to epistemological questions and the privilege of epistemology to be the sole locus for debate about what was ‘ true ’ knowledge .
6 In our patients , those with proven neural and muscular pathology conformed to these patterns of motor activity .
7 Groups are capable of great creativity , as in language and folksong , and even in the stimulus and support given to individual writers and thinkers .
8 Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising .
9 Todd linked family structure to ideology and politics , and indeed sought to account both for types of regime and for the electoral support given to particular types of party by an area 's dominant family structure .
10 Lothian Region support given to National Festivals & Companies , leading to workshops and visits to schools by major companies
11 It was a period when the newly ( re ) found sense of idealism and hope led to great expectations of the rehabilitative force of prison and its alternatives .
12 Such a concern is explained by the fact that these countries had repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to go to enormous lengths ( in effect taxing imports of capital , encouraging exports of capital and , even in the case of Japan , organizing plans for importing huge stockpiles of raw materials ) in order to prevent an upward movement of their currencies .
13 In chapter 27 , when Jacob steals his blessing , the writer goes to great lengths , as we have indicated already , to evoke our sympathy for Esau , and to help us share his anguish .
14 In Bolton the education authority made special arrangements for clients with a learning difficulty to go to local colleges .
15 ( See generally as to the privilege attaching to medical reports : Worrall v Rich [ 1955 ] 1 QB 296 , and Causton v Mann Egerton ( Johnsons ) Ltd [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 162 . )
16 Although the accident estimate could logically be independent of the actual exemplar of the junction that a subject was shown it is clear that it is in fact strongly related to the risk rating given to particular exemplars .
17 I have said that Mr. Millan is an honourable man — — and I am sure that Mr. Millan wants the money to go to those areas .
18 We must embrace change in the way we do things , to get better value for money to go to more places and cover more stories .
19 Even if there were some unique experience given to all observers in perception , there still remain some major objections to the inductivist assumption concerning observations .
20 There is a real danger that money goes to Voluntary Organisations who are best at filling in forms — that presentation wins out over content .
21 This is reflected , as the University goes to considerable lengths to import sportsmen .
22 As far as the central grant is concerned , it has developed a technique that enables it to cut the money given to some authorities which it considers to be over-spenders by an amount equal to or more than any expenditure increase .
23 The freedom to experiment , to organise classrooms in a way which supported and encouraged children 's learning , and which incidentally ( though not haphazardly ) covered the key areas of the curriculum led to many innovations .
24 The buffer conditions were then modified for enzymatic digestion , nuclease added to all reactions except the control , and the digestions allowed to proceed in a final volume of 25 µl .
25 Moreover , literature relating to nursing ideologies , primary and therapeutic nursing as well as nursing beds is briefly reviewed .
26 Unions in Japan have had a major influence on the way the labour market is structured , but this reflects principally the fact that union membership is in large part confined to regular workers in large firms .
27 Three and four-year-olds have very different play needs to older children .
28 The government and its supporters eventually accepted this but then insisted on a 75 per cent majority applying to regional issues , including the country 's future status as a unitary or a federal state .
29 It does not contain and should not be treated as constituting any representation in connection with any offer or invitation , nor shall it or any part of it form the basis or be relied upon in any way in connection with any contract relating to any securities .
30 Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level .
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