Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The teachers bring skills to a community and encourage the development , expression and sharing of others ' skills throughout that community .
2 To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness .
3 In conclusion , as a matter of private law it is not clear to what extent Chinese walls prevent attribution of knowledge and provide protection to a firm against liability to a customer for breach of fiduciary duty .
4 The Government has control over the Parliamentary time-table and can curtail discussion and bring matters to a vote by the use of various procedural devices such as the " closure . "
5 Equally , the temporary employment businesses make reference to a share of their workers subsequently being offered permanent jobs by the organisations with which they have been placed ( FPS , 1983 ) .
6 In contrast , other metaphors make reference to an animacy which seems to threaten by its very absence .
7 Mark out the exact area of the new drive and excavate topsoil to a depth of at least 150mm .
8 When you show disapproval to a dog , reinforce this by ignoring him for a time .
9 A report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature from Earth Resources Research points to a lack of progress in cleaning up nitrogen oxide emissions from heavy lorries as the weak spot in the programme .
10 For this reason , when we heat glass to a temperature well below its melting point the shearing stress is reduced more than the brittle fracture stress and thus we can bend and shape and blow hot ( but not necessarily very hot ) glass quite easily .
11 There is very little discussion about anything in our family — the excuse was that one must n't upset granny , but I think it 's a Glynn thing ; cut discussion to a minimum , especially of unpleasant things , and perhaps they 'll go away . ’
12 You can add new words or phrases and change translations to a form which suits your way of remembering things .
13 In the second half of the session , course leaders sponsor participants to an evening at the pub for the purpose of practising drinking skills and purchasing non-alcoholic drinks .
14 Any assets in respect of which significant allowable losses will arise on disposal to Newco should , before the sale to Newco , be transferred on an intra-group basis within the vendor 's capital gains tax group to a group company with chargeable gains against which to set the losses .
15 In many cases , people owe money to a number of creditors and like Jeff , they do n't think there 'll be a time when they ca n't pay their debts .
16 The death of a member of the armed forces of the Crown as these are defined for purposes of the tax while active service or other service of a warlike nature does no give rise to a transfer of value .
17 The desirability of ‘ tying up ’ a settlement in one parcel sometimes give rise to a problem for the parliamentary agent in drafting the legislation , the question being whether to put in a protective clause at the outset , or to omit it and negotiate a settlement of such a clause for insertion at a later stage .
18 These older cells undergo a second migration and give rise to a variety of cell types quite alien to the site at which they had arrived in their first migration , suggesting that there is a mixed population of cells at each site at the end of migration and the conditions at each site favour the growth and differentiation of specific members of the mixed population ; the others fail to flourish and presumably die .
19 These cells migrate ventrally and are dispersed throughout much of the body where they give rise to a variety of different tissue types , such as melanocytes and elements of the peripheral sensory and autonomic nervous system .
20 The nub of this criticism is that such views give rise to a kind of political paralysis : everything must wait until the revolutionary moment in which the production relations are transformed ; until then labour must play a purely oppositional role , a role which Precludes struggle of a ‘ prefigurative ’ kind .
21 To start with the first problem : How can a relatively simple and compact theory give rise to a universe that is as complex as the one we observe , with all its trivial and unimportant details ?
22 Because the trust is a foreign trust and the original sources of the income are foreign the payments give rise to a Case V , Schedule D source .
23 In particular it will investigate what individual and area characteristics give rise to a person having a high probability of being a victim of crime not just once , but repeatedly .
24 Just as variations in the physical and mineralogical properties of bedrock can influence the mineralogical products of weathering so different lithologies give rise to a range of weathering forms .
25 When employees receive benefits from the trust , these are unarguably acquired by virtue of employment and give rise to a Schedule E income tax charge , unless they are granted options structured so as to avoid a Schedule E charge on grant ( see s135 Taxes Act ) .
26 C.6 The Vendor wishes to control any actions which give rise to a breach of warranty .
27 Together , consumers and producers would come to arrangements which , in their consequences , give rise to a market in broadcasting .
28 Ambiguity remains because most word positions give rise to a number of alternative candidate words .
29 The details of the theory give rise to a number of testable predictions which are the basis of five interrelated experimental studies .
30 Localized zones of compressional and tensional stress are common along strike-slip faults and they give rise to a number of distinctive landforms .
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