Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission criticized the Federal Aviation Authority ( FAA ) for only reacting to disasters and not doing enough to prevent them . |
| 2 | At the Blackpool Floorcoverings Exhibition , Stoddard Templeton were presented with an annual award for best service to retailers by the National Association of Retail Furnishers . |
| 3 | Jack Millar ( right ) Sales Administration Director , collects the NARF trophy awarded to Stoddard Templeton for best service to retailers . |
| 4 | It is used as a reason either for not dissenting or for not admitting to differences in public . |
| 5 | Instead of merely reacting to differences in the road surface , as a conventional suspension system does , it anticipates bumps and bends . |
| 6 | The much-criticised policy of Harry Hyams , who built Oldham into one of the most profitable property companies , of only letting to tenants of ‘ undoubted ’ covenant has been fully vindicated . |
| 7 | ‘ I had a curious strain of not attending to things which failed to grip my interest . ’ |
| 8 | Either side of the Refuge , time closed in , with meetings , the children to be looked after , books to be read , until she felt light-headed with the sense of not coming to grips with anything , of being forced to spin like a top . |
| 9 | This ‘ technological ’ view of education and teaching also prevents teachers from deliberately gravitating to schools whose ideology they like , and in which they will feel comfortable . |
| 10 | They suggest that clinical psychologists , with an understanding of psychological aspects of disability , may have a role to play in the development of services for older people with disabilities , and in training other health service professionals in how to respond to problems of disability in older people . |
| 11 | After the death of Coleman , one of the main problems was how to widen the scope of instruction at the College , until then restricted to horses , and embrace the diseases of other animal species , particularly cattle and sheep . |
| 12 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 13 | Meredith 's sympathetic understanding did n't register on him at all and , judging by the malevolent turn to his sensually modelled mouth , he was absorbed in mentally tearing to shreds whoever had stood him up . |
| 14 | Officials in Bucharest laugh at such a figure , but ordinary Romanians are so afraid of reprisals for even talking to foreigners that verification is impossible . |
| 15 | A small number are able to manipulate the new situation because they are able to get credit , to establish good terms of trade with middlemen and to generally come to terms with the different conditions . |
| 16 | On not listening to patients |
| 17 | For a penny we used to always go to pictures Saturday afternoon when we was little . |
| 18 | I wanted to be a violinist — that was my real ambition — but I was too anxious to really get to grips with the instrument . |
| 19 | It took a year to really get to grips with the language and then Clare moved from Zagreb to the Inter University Centre in Dubrovnik . |
| 20 | The cost saving in the preventative work , er , fall falls later on in the system , and that might not even accrue back to local government , and that 's the problem and I think if there was some specific erm , government grants that enabled local authorities to really get to grips with the preventative elements and could should that , that reduced overall government spending on the other end , on the impact end , I mean , I think we would be , we would be sort of making very much headway , but there does n't seem to be that specific initiative at this particular stage . |
| 21 | To regularly disseminate to teachers , annotated lists of new titles published which are aimed at children and adolescents |
| 22 | In what she acknowledged was a difficult year for the Scottish party , Mrs McGuire admitted the party had yet to fully come to terms with the election defeat last April . |
| 23 | Deloittes had been negligent when certifying AWA 's 1986 profits and it had also failed to adequately disclose to directors various matters including books and record deficiences , the existence of ‘ hedges upon hedges ’ , the ability of its foreign exchange dealer Andrew Koval to siphon funds , and the fact that he was dealing in sums of up to $400m . |
| 24 | The first type of state is the case where monotonous driving on featureless roads , particularly motorways/highways , has been claimed to lead to the driver falling into a trance-like state in which they may fail to adequately respond to changes in the road environment . |
| 25 | By beginning with the ‘ duty to be publicly accountable ’ the GASB is allowing that financial reporting can be defined in part without explicitly referring to users ' needs . |
| 26 | In particular , the refusal by GPs to treat heroin users and the deep disagreements between psychiatrists about how to respond to users will be highlighted . |
| 27 | In this space write in your own words one thing that you have learnt about how to relate to teachers . |
| 28 | When in January 1645 the French agreed to give the Dutch representatives the coveted title of " Excellency " this at once led to demands from the imperial electors that theirs must be given it also . |
| 29 | n political affairs they found themselves calling upon , or at least coming to terms with , bourgeois liberals of the more moderate sort and , however nominally , their kind of representative institutions . |
| 30 | This simple rule , embodied in the Rights of Way Act , which on its wording at least applies to ways by water as well as land , states that to recognize a way as public one needs only to show that it has been freely and openly used by the public for 20 years . |