Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] [noun sg] 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 | FRAUD , according to William Broad and Nicholas Wade , ‘ offers another route to understanding science … |
| 3 | Many writers on democracy believe that the experience of democracy in ancient Greece has little relevance to democracy in the modern world . |
| 4 | But it needs some encouragement to port to Unix and substitute it for the server , rather than OS/2 . |
| 5 | She has this allergy to cow 's milk and what have you . |
| 6 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | In outline , Atrakhasis ( known from copies made about 1600 BC ) has some similarity to parts of Genesis 2–8 . |
| 9 | Bregenz has another claim to fame : during July and August it is the home of the celebrated Bregenz Festival , where opera becomes aquatic . |
| 10 | ( 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 . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This all assists the job of detection , even though the officer has more terrain to police . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The physical care of frail old people necessarily involves much attention to food and to toileting . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It bears little resemblance to bikes popular in the West , which was ruefully noted by the Shanghai Bicycle Factory recently . |
| 20 | A new sintered glass product which bears little similarity to Siporax is Biohome which is reviewed on our What 's New pages this month . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Hence from using a dictionary one could determine that hot dog bears little relation to canines . |
| 23 | The disqualification stage in this bears some resemblance to denunciation , which we found to be of limited value as a justification of punishment . |
| 24 | And as you are well aware , the Bible limits this celebration to marriage . |
| 25 | Attributes for it er firmly rooted in a Celtic past that frankly bears more relation to Wales and Scotland than it does er to the past er in Devon . |
| 26 | It will be interesting to see if nature 's solution to this problem bears any resemblance to man 's . |
| 27 | It says any proposal to decommission the hospital will first have to go out to public consultation . |
| 28 | Serum pepsinogen I shows little response to eating . |
| 29 | The interaction is mediated by the domain 1 GFCC'C sheet , specifically the CC' and FG loops , and as such shows some similarity to antibody V domain and CD8 dimerization , but there are also substantial differences . |
| 30 | During the creation of a doctoral thesis and preparation of papers for seminars , I had to face the conscious problem of writing about a system which I know prefers silence and links such reticence to ideas of ‘ respect ’ , ‘ order ’ , and ‘ discipline ’ in an all-encompassing paternalism . |