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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And that , logically , leads me to the obvious conclusion — that I love you , and that we must be married as soon as possible . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | McDunn introduces me to the other officers . |
| 15 | 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 ) ; |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Crilly hugs my brother back warmly and introduces him to the languid one . |
| 18 | The Dear Report on Handsworth captures this image and links it to the social condition of young blacks : |
| 19 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 20 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 21 | He ingratiates himself to the hapless couple , putting them completely at ease . |
| 22 | In the case of surveys there will always be some form of pilot survey before the researcher commits himself to the main fieldwork itself , and the more planning there is done beforehand , the less wasted time there will be in the fieldwork proper , and the easier will be the next stage , which is the analysis of the data collected . |
| 23 | Continue west to Lillooet , where a breath-taking train ride through stunning mountainland delivers you to the world-renowned Whistler Resort . |
| 24 | A right-turn up Rue des Bouchers gets you to the stately Galeries Saint-Hubert , a nineteenth-century glass-roofed arcade lined with marble-fronted shops . |
| 25 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 26 | A short bus or taxi ride from the city centre takes you to the Botanical Gardens which , until 1936 , were the Quinta do Bom Successo residence of the Reid family . |
| 27 | A fifteen minute bus ride takes you to the buzzing resort of Magalluf with its lively nightclubs , bars and discos , and Palma Nova , with its shops , bars and restaurants , is even nearer . |
| 28 | This splendid Sovereign tour takes you to the historic areas of Upper Egypt and the treasures of the Nile Valley . |
| 29 | It takes one to the high , isolated polar desert at the height of the summer season . |
| 30 | So that which makes man vulnerable to the force of the leaping devil , also opens him to the effortless strength of the leaping God which is known through the experience of inadequacy . |