Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If kindness is giving territory to the uniqueness of other people , then it also reflects an assured sense of one 's own identity . |
| 2 | The third way of producing a card is to present artwork to a printer and have it professionally reproduced . |
| 3 | The purpose of this thought experiment is to draw attention to the fact that a number of pragmatic phenomena can be explicated by reference to just these sorts of features : for example , as we shall see , deixis can be thought of as based on the assumption of mutual orientation , presupposition on the assumption of shared knowledge of a domain and its updating , speech acts on the making explicit , for other participants , of one 's interactional goals , conversational implicature on the assumption of interactional co-operation , and so on . |
| 4 | It 's the fourth year running that the Tudor Manor is playing host to a mini opera season in the three hundred seater auditorium set up at the side of the house . |
| 5 | To focus upon the processes of characterization is to draw attention to the definition of act or event , and interaction between potential deviant and enforcement agent . |
| 6 | The loss is causing concern to Moscow doctors , who have warned that without the forest , the city 's air pollution problems will increase . |
| 7 | Thus in [ 12 ] the hearer is given access to the entry for SPRINT . |
| 8 | One of the processes of digestion is to reduce food to a substance which can be absorbed in the bloodstream as sugar . |
| 9 | He believes that Signet has given his firm a competitive advantage — ‘ a major part of our practice is providing advice to all types of businesses and the sophistication of our system helps us to service our clients ’ needs more efficiently ’ . |
| 10 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |
| 11 | Most of non-statutory work is giving advice to people like control , and others , which may not be purely statutory in the sense that is , but the major difference is there 's a time when it 's imposed on when we have to do it . |
| 12 | It is not possible , however , to say simply that whenever one man intentionally causes harm to another that is a tort for , as we have also seen , the mere fact that my motive in performing an otherwise lawful act is to cause damage to another will not of itself make the act tortious . |
| 13 | The purpose of the audit is to add credibility to financial statements for the immediate benefit of the shareholders . |
| 14 | The first is to provide a sampling facility and the second is to draw attention to products which might otherwise be overlooked . |
| 15 | The Old Museum is playing host to Druid Theatre Company this week , which is playing to packed houses with its wonderful production of Merriman 's ‘ The Midnight Court ’ . |
| 16 | The principal objective of the system of supervision with the Appointed Actuary is to give emphasis to the importance of providing fair value for consumers of life assurance products and ensuring their security , rather than to provide protection for the insurance company . |
| 17 | Stockton Council is to improve access to Bowesfield Pond for the disabled and people with pushchairs after the leisure services committee was told large gates were causing problems . |
| 18 | A consequence of the area cost adjustment is to elevate finance to be the supreme consideration . |
| 19 | The girl is looking off-screen to the right , so she has been placed to the left of the frame to give her ‘ looking room ’ . |
| 20 | Coupled with this factual thesis is the full-blooded relativist view that there are only these different views ; that to talk about morality is to make reference to them ; and that there is no fact-of-the-matter ; no independent concept of right and wrong ; of good and bad ; of duty or responsibility . |
| 21 | If there is no luck after a few days or the child is showing antagonism to the potty then the parent should leave the training for a few more weeks . |
| 22 | She points to the teddy bear ( that one ) in the first picture and then points to the empty chair in the second picture ( there ) and assumes that the teacher is paying attention to what she is pointing to in their shared context of situation . |
| 23 | First , in the classroom the teacher is giving recognition to only a part of themselves , and a failing one at that when he concentrates on schoolwork . |
| 24 | The function of the double bassoon is to add weight to the bass . |
| 25 | One of the functions of their facial disc is to transmit sound to the ears . |
| 26 | Puffin marketing is awarding champagne to the booksellers with the 10 best creative ideas to supplement the adverts — local advertising , competitions and so on . |
| 27 | On day 91 the Treasury bill is said to mature — the original purchaser is lending money to the government . |
| 28 | In most cases wood is used in bending and the result of gradual crushing on the compression side of a beam is to transfer load to the tension side . |
| 29 | BSE is creating panic to a certain extent , but BTB used to kill an awful lot of children . |
| 30 | Their aim is to give aid to groups of people who are held to be disadvantaged for any reason — because of ethnic origin , sex , sexual preference , age , unemployment or any kind of disability . |