Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bring each other to perfection . |
| 2 | That is carried to such an extreme that we will recognise dictatorships and ignore the coups which bring some despots to power . |
| 3 | I still commend this report to council as the first real stride along the road we have to take , there 's no choice about that . |
| 4 | It will also perform the secondary functions of distributing traffic with local destinations and provide some relief to traffic congestion in the city centre . |
| 5 | Please send any information to NCVO for circulation to the coalition members for wider dissemination . |
| 6 | And given the general increase in mobility , would even a massive increase in investment in railways make much difference to road traffic ? |
| 7 | ( 2 ) The solicitors agree that exchange shall take place from that moment and holding solicitors confirm that as from that moment : ( a ) they hold the part signed by their client to the order of the other ; and ( b ) undertake that day to post by first-class post or to deliver their signed part of the contract to the other solicitors , together , in the case of the buyer 's solicitor holding both parts , with a bank draft or a solicitor 's clients ' account cheque for the deposit . |
| 8 | Question : When you put that cup to tea to your lips did you think — that 's an award winner ? |
| 9 | There may be , within this bonfire — and until it 's taken apart we will not be able to ascertain this — there may be petroleum cans in there , there may be small L P G cylinders , all of which will go off with a very large explosion and possibly cause some injury to life . |
| 10 | Cut this piece to length and push into the two bends to mark the correct length to cut off the downpipe . |
| 11 | Children walk many miles to school . |
| 12 | Now for all those reasons madame speaker , this these orders er er today are inadequate , too little , too late , we ca n't vote against them , much as the the member who preceded me seemed inclined to vote against them and I wish that he had the g er the guts of 'is cu the courage of his convictions er he should vote against them , er we on this side are far more responsible er than that because to vote against them er might be an indication that we 're as much in frau in favour of fraud as members on the other side of the house , er we 're not in favour of fraud , we welcome any progress to detection of fraud , even progress that we asked for five eight years ago when the relevant legislation was passed . |
| 13 | But before you jet off to soak up sun and sangria , or cruise around the Norfolk Broads give some thought to security . |
| 14 | The fall in population did not , however , mean a general decline in economic activity ; rising wages may have served to increase consumption and give some stimulus to production , and it is worth noting that even the magnate class , which was more likely to suffer from the changed balance of power between land and labour through declining rent rolls and higher payments of wages was still able to invest considerable sums in new building during Richard II 's reign . |
| 15 | This circularity is apparent in the seminal article written by Goody and Watt where they lay down the reasons why they attribute such importance to literacy . |
| 16 | Give those shares to charity |
| 17 | The individual will work less and give more hours to leisure , but this is not what he or she originally wished to do , and his or her satisfaction or welfare is thus reduced . |
| 18 | How could gas companies give any guarantees to gas suppliers , especially on gas volume , if their customers could by-pass them at any time ? |
| 19 | Chital are extremely wary animals that alert each other to danger with a whistling call . |
| 20 | The second half of the project is concerned really with how on earth we get such program to work , such programs are very complicated , they interact in various odd ways , and getting the bugs out , getting the problems out or debugging as the jargon has it , is a really serious problem and we hope to make some advance on the problem of erm developing programs for such distributed multi-processor systems . |
| 21 | ‘ The tendency in modern arable farming to knock out field boundaries and devote fewer fields to grass seems to be largely responsible for the decline in hares , ’ Tapper says . |
| 22 | At first pay little attention to timing , but , as you become familiar with various aspects of your subject , set yourself questions to be answered in a continuous and timed session without reference to any but the permitted aids . |
| 23 | Women pay more attention to detail , but are less democratic ; men relish change and are more competitive and ambitious . |
| 24 | Mr Power says that if the 1980s were the decade of quality , then the 1990s will be the decade in which car makers pay more attention to distribution . |
| 25 | A planning refusal does not of itself confer any right to compensation . |
| 26 | We are not convinced that the Government pay enough attention to quality . |
| 27 | Significantly , neither the summary of Existing Benefits for Members in Practice , set out in Appendix 3 , nor the summary of Recent Achievements , set out in Appendix 5 , make any reference to practice profitability or the legal liability problem . |
| 28 | I just love that guitar to death . |
| 29 | Now I think that approach to health care is fundamentally wrong , because you measure the needs of a patient in one moment and then suggest that the needs of that , that the needs of that patient will continue to be the same in subsequent weeks or subsequent months . |
| 30 | In fact , the Council went on at once to put this principle into practice and agree that admission to communion ( that is to say , in common parlance , partial intercommunion ) may be accepted ‘ in order to promote closer union ’ ( Orientalium Ecclesiarum 26 ) . |