Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 2 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 3 | If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third . |
| 4 | This makes them rather like Health Maintenance Organisations ( HMOs ) in the United States , which receive a fixed annual sum of money to provide health care for enrolled patients ; the system subjects them to the same financial incentives and may lead to the same adverse effects . |
| 5 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |
| 6 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 7 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 8 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 9 | no longer adds anything to the general prohibition set out in article 52 , since the court has held that , as from the end of the transitional period , article 52 is directly applicable . |
| 10 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 11 | The protagonist Oliveira refuses to submit to the accepted norms and , instead , surrenders himself to the irrational , seeking to live on a more authentic and vital dimension which appears absurd by conventional standards . |
| 12 | While John the Divine describes himself to the seven churches in Asia as your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom ’ ( Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 13 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the Offline System . |
| 14 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the offline system . |
| 15 | Teachers retain control of registration — keeping the important element of one-to-one contact — and perform it in the usual time , but instead of noting absences on paper , they feed the information directly onto a portable electronic register which then passes it to the central computer . |
| 16 | The first person puts the banana on their feet and passes it to the next . |
| 17 | The landlord collects the charge on the basis of the number of days a person has been resident and passes it to the local authority . |
| 18 | The second person carries the stakes and hands them to the third , unpointed ends first , who then pushes them into the ground and fastens the top line to the net with a half-hitch . |
| 19 | This leads me to the last determinant of transmission teaching I want to explore here : that of teacher isolation . |
| 20 | That leads me to the last question , ground ( 7 ) . |
| 21 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 22 | And that , logically , leads me to the obvious conclusion — that I love you , and that we must be married as soon as possible . |
| 23 | The Centre is a joint venture between the Livingston Development Corp , a government-funded body set up in 1962 to develop new towns — this organisation provides Centre users with in-house advice on marketing and introduces them to the local information technology and software community ; Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd , a local enterprise company that provides training , commercial validation of business plans and advice on possible avenues to funding , such as venture capital ; and the Scottish Enterprise Software Group , which offers technical and product evaluation . |
| 24 | McDunn introduces me to the other officers . |
| 25 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 26 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |
| 27 | But that , that is a Y equals something X to the tenth , so it 's it 's not going to have a gradient that requires Y equals something to the tenth . |
| 28 | Sleep suggestions are made to encourage the subject to sever the critical awareness that normally links him to the external environment ; ‘ reality testing ’ has to be set aside . |
| 29 | Crilly hugs my brother back warmly and introduces him to the languid one . |
| 30 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |