Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Valley Hotel is ideally situated to appeal to the overnight tourist , mid-week and weekend break markets . |
| 2 | The Government 's immediate choice this week was hardly calculated to appeal to the prime minister . |
| 3 | If , whatever a man 's real intention may be , he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would believe that he was assenting to the terms proposed by the other party , and that other party upon that belief enters into a contract with him , the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had intended to agree to the other party 's terms . |
| 4 | Nothing I say hereafter is intended to relate to the second decision . |
| 5 | The CRE 's findings and recommendations are expected to go to the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , for approval and action if its inquiry upholds complaints that the region 's methods may be in breach of race relations and education law for failing to test in a child 's first language . |
| 6 | How could Ezpeleta , a soldier-administrator well on in his seventies and now Captain General in Barcelona , be expected to appeal to the unemployed dockers , artisans , and cotton operatives , called by the French commander l'immense canaille de Barcelone , against an overwhelmingly superior French garrison ? |
| 7 | The Plant committee was expected to report to the Labour Party conference in the autumn , but Mr Kinnock denied that turning it into an official government commission was a delaying tactic . |
| 8 | Most European private placements belong to one of two categories : securities designed to appeal to a small group of investors , and those tailored to suit a particular issuer . |
| 9 | It was to be politically left , but above all popular , and designed to appeal to a big readership . |
| 10 | Yet here she was , on the top floor of the BBC 's Television Centre , being asked to shape a new serial designed to appeal to the one audience bracket of which she had no understanding . |
| 11 | Of course this does n't mean that any woman found drinking it will turn to stone but it is designed to appeal to the real men of the nation . |
| 12 | The agreement involved a delicate balance between concessions to the demands for greater autonomy by much of the French-speaking majority of Quebec and by representatives of the native Indian and Inuit population , and wider constitutional reforms designed to appeal to the western provinces , particularly the creation of an elected Senate where all 10 of the country 's provinces would be equally represented [ see p. 39000 ] . |
| 13 | The exhibitions programme is designed to appeal to the whole spectrum of our visiting public , through a mixture of : |
| 14 | But it will get even worse next year as borrowing is expected to soar to an astonishing £44 billion . |
| 15 | Teachers and other educationalists can not be expected to come to an adequate understanding of recent trends in multicultural and anti-racist education , nor can they develop an independent critical judgement on recent controversies in this area , without some grasp of the deeper structural and ideological issues that underlie the racial dimension in education , politics and the economy . |
| 16 | Noted as relevant to the Clapham accident were the factors that : Working practices were permitted to slip to dangerous standards and quality of supervision was permitted to slip to an equivalent degree ; quality of testing did not meet BR standards ; no proper system of training of installation and testing staff was in use , and there was no vetting of weekend staff to prevent excessive overtime ; and there was failure to communicate both up and down lines of management . |
| 17 | The response of airports and airlines to the Channel Tunnel has been coloured by the impending deregulation of air transport in Europe which is expected to lead to a substantial fall in fares and a rise in business over the next few years . |
| 18 | Discussions with ( Educational Advisor ) are expected to lead to a new support network for LCCIEB centres . |
| 19 | The latter in particular is expected to lead to a significant cut in overall emissions of halons , which are less common than CFCs but more damaging to the ozone layer . |
| 20 | This may be expected to lead to a purposeful action , purposeful inaction or indifference . |
| 21 | Butter and margarine are close substitutes , and so any increase in the price of butter would be expected to lead to an increased demand for margarine as consumers substitute the latter for the relatively more expensive butter . |
| 22 | ‘ And you 've come to listen to the sean nós ? ’ |
| 23 | Finlayson and Weir ( 9 ) , ( 10 ) found that in comprehensive education the academically bright pupil was constrained to conform to the anti-intellectual norm in the hostel community , a very different position from that obtaining in the days of Dr. Farquhar Macintosh , now rector of Royal High School , Edinburgh who remembers his hostel days on the mainland from a Hebridean background where the hostels housed an academic elite of Certificate pupils . |
| 24 | Girls are expected to conform to a stricter morality , by their parents in particular . |
| 25 | Future Soviet ABM deployments are similarly expected to conform to the 1972 treaty and its protocols or any future renegotiations of the agreement . ’ |
| 26 | Just as the civic buildings in Moscow expressed the confident power of the Communist regime , so the new housing blocks were designed to conform to the new ideals of social life . |
| 27 | In both these cases the confusion arises because a term is considered to belong to the same category as the ones that are being demonstrated . |
| 28 | Major 's proposals , based on a paper presented in May by the British Invisible Exports Council , were designed to apply to the medium-term future , after completion of Stage 1 of the Delors plan . |
| 29 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 30 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |