Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the illustration contributes nothing to the text , which runs ‘ Edward [ actually Edgar ! ] lightly sprung aside and avoided the cut aimed at him , and then delivered a blow with all his force just in front of the ear , and the man dropped again as if shot . ’ |
| 2 | I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish . |
| 3 | But the location is , as it were , accidental , and contributes nothing to the tension between Circe and Persephone as it has been teased out , in this passage along with others , by Guy Davenport ( see his ‘ Persephone 's Ezra ’ , in New Approaches to Ezra Pound ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |
| 5 | Now , after every Hong Kong citizen with a television set has seen how Peking treats its dissenters , it offers nothing to a public whose mood has become one of restrained panic . |
| 6 | In the different sense of the priest ‘ representing ’ the people to God in worship the role is more that of an intermediary or go-between — a role more akin to that of a Member of Parliament who understands the needs of his constituents and represents them to the Government in Parliament . |
| 7 | As these animals roam around their home ground , any unaccustomed mark alerts them to the passage of a stranger . |
| 8 | " The very thought of it chills me to the bone . " |
| 9 | It points me to the verse numbered twenty-one , and the line is : ‘ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ ’ |
| 10 | Thus the dilemma of the polluting industry is that controlling pollution is expensive , but adds nothing to the value of the goods produced , and is bad business for any firm whose main concern is to maintain profitability in a competitive situation . ’ |
| 11 | But as Cohen suggests , echoing Miller 's point , there are also cases where an individualist account adds nothing to the explanation . |
| 12 | This helps to explain why they do not publish consolidated opening statements : ‘ cost of the services of the organization ’ adds nothing to the fund operating statements ; the measure of performance has no meaning ; and , of course , there are no balances included to be carried forward to the new year which are not included in the balance sheet . |
| 13 | To undertake strategic research , which takes the new ideas coming out of basic research and develops them to the point where the possibility of commercial application can be identified . |
| 14 | At this stage , he was firmly opposed to federation ; ‘ Federation is harmful because it sanctions segregation and alienation , elevates them to a principle , to a law . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ That it is Joan de Warenne rather than the lady Anne who accompanies you to the Tower , must be a close-kept secret , ’ Elizabeth Woodville told him , her mind working rapidly . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) Where the creditor leaves it to the debtor to obtain the signature of a third party surety on documents of guarantee or on documents charging the surety 's principal or important asset , it exposes itself to the possibility of being restrained under applicable equitable doctrines . |
| 17 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
| 18 | An instruction adds one to the modifier field of a specified index register , and jumps to a specified address unless the two fields are equal . |
| 19 | Their certainty owes something to a sense of betrayal . |
| 20 | Their refusal owes something to a distaste for addiction in itself . |
| 21 | Alternatively , a person may place himself in a dangerous position which exposes him to the risk of involvement in the accident in which he is harmed . |
| 22 | The first phase of the research compares the way that expertise is learned in the normal way , with the way that a ‘ knowledge engineer ’ elicits an expert 's knowledge and transfers it to a computer programme . |
| 23 | We do not have to specify what it is we want to any analyst who in turn specifies it to a programmer who then writes a program . |
| 24 | When two businesses are both buying from and selling to one another the outstanding accounts between them can be offset and the net balance paid by whoever owes it to the other . |
| 25 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 26 | If a doctor offers a risky and as yet scientifically unproved treatment the GMC surely owes it to the public either to stop the doctor offering that treatment ( outside scientifically valid trials ) or to stop the doctor practising at all . |
| 27 | The Labour party owes it to the House and the country to tell us freely , frankly and openly where it stands . |
| 28 | But Poulantzas argues that the attribution of the power to manipulate to the ruling class elevates it to the status of a subject — an agent who does things — and thereby reintroduces the idea of collective intensions which cry out for individualist explanation . |
| 29 | If it does catch it , it knocks it to the ground and then grabs its throat in its strong jaws , killing it by suffocation . |
| 30 | For example , if a machine includes a computer program it is then a question of whether the machine , without taking the computer program into account , adds anything to the state of the art . |