Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly because these changes have been seen as shifts in design philosophy to be applied incrementally to new housing areas or to rehabilitated inner city districts , there has been no attempt to apply them to established residential areas . |
| 2 | There should be no attempt to shorten it to newspaper-headline form . |
| 3 | Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital . |
| 4 | Less easy to understand is the apparent willingness of the judiciary to lend themselves to this manoeuvring . |
| 5 | We urgently need a promotional video — one of the most effective tools to communicate with a wide audience — which we can show to groups and visitors within RBG ; send out on loan to groups , schools and other organisations , and use as a vehicle to promote ourselves to potential sponsors and supporters . |
| 6 | Yesterday her husband Alan Atkinson , 47 , called on Darlington Council to move them to another house . |
| 7 | When it is difficult for the family or the child to attach themselves to each other , then at the end of the day the child will leave the family and become attached to the black community . |
| 8 | Although Pepper v. Hart is the initial formulation of the relaxed exclusionary rule , the ambiguities which it contains and the failure to relate it to other aids to statutory construction are perhaps less deserving of a welcome . |
| 9 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 10 | It would be a criminal waste to give it to most women . ’ |
| 11 | Another proof of her social status among the hawkers is her working spot : it is so well located that she if she decides to move she could ‘ sell ’ the right to use it to another vendor . |
| 12 | ‘ Our tail-enders did a good job to get us to 394 . |
| 13 | Associated Tunnelling Co Ltd the Employment Appeals Tribunal ( EAT ) held that the tribunal had correctly concluded that there was an implied term in Mr Jones 's contract of employment to the effect that his employer had the right to transfer him to any site within reasonable daily commuting reach of his home . |
| 14 | Now there there is the scheme by the Department of Transport to upgrade it to dual it u as far to Malton and then beyond subsequently . |
| 15 | I told the spaceship to take us to New Earth , the planet of the Star Council . |
| 16 | It may be that his partner also loves the outdoors but feels a need to limit it to small doses . |
| 17 | A statement issued by over 100 groups and alliances , including the Brazilian Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations , the Pan-African Movement , Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace , is critical of the North 's failure to commit itself to concrete moves on fair trade , debt reduction , poverty alleviation and technology transfer . |
| 18 | Environment and development groups warned that the summit was likely to be a failure , largely due to the North 's refusal to commit itself to firm accords . |
| 19 | When one master tires of a slave , it is a commonplace to sell him to another . ’ |
| 20 | The software needs a lot of work before it 's mature and the current situation puts OSF and DCE vendors in a race to get it to that point before the marketplace grows leery of it . |
| 21 | He continued , ‘ That friend of yours , the Scotsman , Duncan something or other , he was called out during the night to deliver something to 45 Royal Marine Commando . |
| 22 | In the productivity of Lake Vanda phosphorus is a limiting element ( Vincent and Vincent , 1982 ) , because of gravitational losses into the sediment and lack of turbulence to return it to general circulation . |
| 23 | My love , no longer inhibited by his existence , presented itself with all the understanding required to bring us together again — the gentleness , the words , the small gestures that make it possible for one person to reveal himself to another and two people to share life . |
| 24 | Even in this case , some work needs doing to the back of the bevel to bring them to optimum usefulness . |
| 25 | To convert national income into real output per capita , it is necessary to make two adjustments : ( i ) national income must be deflated by an appropriate price index to convert it to real terms ; ( ii ) the figure must then be divided by the population to convert it to per capita terms . |
| 26 | Inefficiency obviously arises because of the necessity to reduce everything to written instructions . |
| 27 | May was the month to see it to best advantage : azaleas spilled cascades of coral and blood-red flowers over the pathways , lilac bushes waved their plump , perfumed arms , interspersed by spiky sentinels of variegated holly , and overhead , leaning in regally protective attitudes , the magnolia trees spread a lustrous canopy of waxen , creamy blooms . |
| 28 | ‘ I know you can do it , ’ Biddy said unrelenting , and called for Nails after school every day on her motor-bike to subject him to another two-hour session on the aptly named Switchback . |
| 29 | Was it right at the end of a distinguished public servant 's long career to reduce him to such misery ? |
| 30 | contribution from local residents that we have achieved — the figure in Scotland is even lower — but , on the contrary , a commitment to raise it to 20 per cent . |