Example sentences of "[vb base] to a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If parents do not care and praise and listen to a child 's reading , schoolteachers ca n't easily make them literate . |
| 2 | It is questionable , however , whether the provisions actually add to a victim 's opportunity for compensation and it has been argued that the procedure differs little from that required for any civil action except that the funds are preserved . |
| 3 | Even when we defer to a creature 's apparent preference ( for a particular type of food , let us say ) the decision will be dictated by our desire to keep it fit and healthy . |
| 4 | The first two lines of the first stanza are symbolic of the suns ability to give life as they refer to a man 's physical awakening , but here the tone changes . |
| 5 | In the latest edition of his Principles of Family Law , Professor Cretney repeats the argument that the use of the words ‘ male ’ and ‘ female ’ in section 11(c) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ( which repealed and reproduced the provisions of the Nullity Act 1971 ) , suggests that it ‘ may thus be possible to argue that the terms ‘ male ’ and ‘ ‘ female ’ refer to a person 's gender ( that is to say , the sex to which he psychically belongs ) ’ . |
| 6 | I dare say he 's bred you true to a Welshman 's bounden duty , and taught you the sacredness of a blood debt , but I think it was not he who sent you here alone on such an errand . |
| 7 | But the relationship between the ‘ army of administrators at their desks ’ and the eventual supply of a public service to beneficiaries in society , is so complex that it is difficult to disentangle the contributions which different strands make to an individual 's utility function . |
| 8 | As with doctors , there are always nurses whose personal strengths are such that they can openly and lovingly respond to a patient 's pain , grief and distress without needing defences . |
| 9 | Go to a neighbour 's house and call the police . |
| 10 | I am thirteen years old and go to a girls ' school , predominantly working class , at the Elephant and Castle , London . |
| 11 | Did she take it with her when she went to the rubbish skip or dash to a stationer 's and buy it ? |
| 12 | The factors in any situation which contribute to a leader 's effectiveness are : |
| 13 | Whites have retreated to the comfortable suburbs , whence they contribute to a city 's costs but avoid paying its taxes or providing work for its underclass . |
| 14 | Good habits contribute to a horse 's physical and psychological well-being ; whereas bad habits frequently impair the horse 's health or behaviour in some way . |
| 15 | The model assumes that many genes and environmental influences contribute to an individual 's position on an underlying continuous scale of liability but that disease is present only in those who fall above a critical threshold value . |
| 16 | All these questions relate to a captain 's last Test as captain , not necessarily to the last Test in which he played . |
| 17 | It is clearly not Amnesty 's view that damage to a woman 's marriage prospects is the sole or main reason for opposing rape . |