Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK we have become so obsessed with dowries and transfer payments that we are unable to look comprehensively at the needs of users , let alone ask their views , and community care encourages this approach to service delivery . |
| 2 | Colin Tudge tackles some attitudes to science |
| 3 | FRAUD , according to William Broad and Nicholas Wade , ‘ offers another route to understanding science … |
| 4 | Many writers on democracy believe that the experience of democracy in ancient Greece has little relevance to democracy in the modern world . |
| 5 | But it needs some encouragement to port to Unix and substitute it for the server , rather than OS/2 . |
| 6 | She has this allergy to cow 's milk and what have you . |
| 7 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |
| 8 | This religion of the people has some similarity to Calvin 's theology of the city of God on earth , though in a more modern and less rigorous setting than the one which Calvin tried to realize in his lifetime in the city of Geneva : |
| 9 | In outline , Atrakhasis ( known from copies made about 1600 BC ) has some similarity to parts of Genesis 2–8 . |
| 10 | Ambrose 's ( 1974 ) typology has some similarities to Pahl 's model because it also was specifically designed to analyse rural housing . |
| 11 | Mykines has some similarities to Foula in Shetland : they are both the farthest westerly island of the group , largely cliff-bound and lacking a good , all-weather landing-place . |
| 12 | Bregenz has another claim to fame : during July and August it is the home of the celebrated Bregenz Festival , where opera becomes aquatic . |
| 13 | ( Cabo Virgenes is part of the Argentine Republic , and there are two lighthouses at Cabo Espiritu Santo on Tierra del Fuego , one belonging to Argentina , the other to Chile , the frontier in between ; their duplication causes much confusion to seamen . ) |
| 14 | It is a route which has much appeal to vendors but tends to be detested by purchasers who dislike the control placed on their ability to negotiate directly with the vendors . |
| 15 | As drainage exposes these sulphides to oxygen , they oxidize , producing sulphuric acid and ferrous sulphate , which flows towards the drains . |
| 16 | The All the Year Round Christmas Number for 1865 , ‘ Mugby Junction ’ ( CS 19 ) , which includes the ghost story of ‘ The Signalman ’ , has for its setting a great railway junction in the Midlands ( Rugby ) , and CD 's journalism contains many references to railways , e.g. ‘ A Flight ’ ( RP ) , which vividly evokes the journey from London to Paris by train and boat . |
| 17 | THE MARS bar has many claims to fame but perhaps the strangest is its use as a guide to the economy , particularly the cost of living . |
| 18 | The tensions associated with starting school could begin to be dissolved long before that anxiously awaited first day , a day which often causes more anguish to parents than it does to their children . |
| 19 | This all assists the job of detection , even though the officer has more terrain to police . |
| 20 | Brophy however insisted that if test-tube fusion holds up it would have such a major impact on society that ‘ Sometimes one has more responsibility to society than to the scientific community . ’ |
| 21 | Winterbottom , who normally prefers to let his contributions on the field do the talking for him , said yesterday : ‘ The Quins get stick from everyone , little of which has any relation to fact . |
| 22 | It is also used for model glider towlines for these reasons , and in particular , nylon monofilament has enough elasticity to catapult a model glider to greater height than the line length when launched with a strong tension . |
| 23 | The physical care of frail old people necessarily involves much attention to food and to toileting . |
| 24 | As a result , Sranan bears little resemblance to English : its grammar and phonology have more in common with the African languages of the original slave population than with English , and its vocabulary , though largely English in origin , has undergone alterations which make it sound very unlike English : Sranan kondre na wan asi-tere ; wan dey a way so , a trawan a way so . |
| 25 | It bears little resemblance to bikes popular in the West , which was ruefully noted by the Shanghai Bicycle Factory recently . |
| 26 | A new sintered glass product which bears little similarity to Siporax is Biohome which is reviewed on our What 's New pages this month . |
| 27 | This is a definition which , while perhaps satisfying the intellectual appetites of a few myopic geophysicists , and considerably more satisfying than that of the Pentagon , still bears little relation to reality . |
| 28 | Hence from using a dictionary one could determine that hot dog bears little relation to canines . |
| 29 | The disqualification stage in this bears some resemblance to denunciation , which we found to be of limited value as a justification of punishment . |
| 30 | And as you are well aware , the Bible limits this celebration to marriage . |