Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 2 | They found that five-year-olds and nine-year-olds showed a tendency to respond to How can you tell that ? questions by referring to a cause rather than to evidence , though this tendency was less strong for their nine-year-olds than for their five-year-olds . |
| 3 | Whether ‘ the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate ’ depends on assigning a high probability , which in turn depends on appealing to a well-established generalization . |
| 4 | Consumer public relations depends on using to the full this part of the media and it is generally accepted that any consultant working in this field will have contacts within the appropriate media . |
| 5 | Oxford United say their survival depends on moving to a new ground . |
| 6 | A similar provision exists with regard to the community charge . |
| 7 | SPAR uses a variant of Crain & Steedman 's ( 1985 ) ‘ principle of referential success ’ , which states that a reading that succeeds in referring to an entity already established in the hearer 's model of the domain of discourse is favoured over one that does not . |
| 8 | make test checks on posting to the accounts from records of receipts and payments ; |
| 9 | The text pronounces that so far as the words are concerned no trust is created , but then goes on to give a moral reason for holding one to have been created ; it ends by referring to a similar decision of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 10 | It is , therefore , possible that NCp7 facilitates IN recognition of the DNA ends by binding to the DNA but leaving the ends exposed for IN cleavage and integration . |
| 11 | The same basic policy should be used for all " exceptions " : acknowledge the existence of alternatives , and encourage the habit of checking guesses by referring to the dictionary . |
| 12 | You can remove your name from direct mailing lists by writing to the Mailing Preference Service , Freepost 22 , London W1E 7EZ . |
| 13 | His only friend is the tubercular and crippled Ratso Rizzo , who dreams of getting to the sunshine of Florida one day . |
| 14 | A collie dog I know , who lives with my neighbours , has an old semi-deflated toy football which she never tires of carrying to the feet of any human who will kick it , for her to gallop off , retrieving it and placing it once again near one 's feet . |
| 15 | And that too seems related to the solidarities of kinship and to the training in respect which comes with belonging to a lineage : in a sense , both cadres and ordinary Libyans seemed to share the assumption that loyalties of descent and domesticity were more important than differences of opinion . |
| 16 | Comes from listening to a lot of Country and Western music . ’ |
| 17 | The disagreement between the two sides of the House arises in regard to the effect that that has on students . |
| 18 | Attention is consequently focused primarily on the manner in which a given novel succeeds or fails in conforming to an abstract , archetypal model of the genre , and only lip service is paid to the manner in which politics , ideology and history are mediated in the texts themselves . |
| 19 | It was designed to discover the feelings of fathers and ascertain exactly how much help they really are when it comes to tending to the baby 's needs . |
| 20 | When it comes to moving to a new part of the country , a better standard of living is usually high one everyone 's list . |
| 21 | When viewers have had time to develop their own theories about the scene , they are strongly motivated when it comes to listening to the soundtrack to check whether or not they were right . |
| 22 | You need to ask yourself what is so different when it comes to talking to an audience ? |
| 23 | The presiding ‘ judge ’ begins by referring to the case ( he need not read it out if copies have been made available to the audience ) ; then he says : ‘ I call upon Mr/Miss X ’ ( the leading counsel for the appellant , who sits upon the judge 's left — that is to say , what the judge sees as his left ) . |