Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF THE Queen wants to restore credibility to the royals she should back a ban on blood sports . |
| 2 | The effective teacher needs to give thought to the abilities pupils will require in order to be successful historians themselves . |
| 3 | The head needs to give priority to the close analysis of practice , exploring the different kinds of learning going on in classrooms , reflecting it back to staff , assessing , estimating , reflecting and asking others to do the same . |
| 4 | Berkeley 's making of ideas into things needs to do justice to the thought that we all ( including God , for Berkeley ) perceive the same things . |
| 5 | When she starts to give birth to the older litter , the upheaval of delivery may lead to the younger litter being ejected as well . |
| 6 | Besides questioning the policy of planning new roads , houses and offices , the CPRE wants to draw attention to the knock-on affects of that building . |
| 7 | " If you can find someone who needs to send cargo to the Aru Islands , " the Keraing announced , " then we can get the boat and a crew ready for you in a month , which is the last possible time for heading eastwards ! " |
| 8 | Wants to live life to the full . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 10 | The ludicrous situation currently exists that , if a National Park does reject a fish farm application , it has to pay compensation to the farmer . |
| 11 | Any consideration of the North East has to pay attention to the severe reverses of the depression and their consequences for industrial organization , particularly in terms of a continuing delocalization of industrial control through amalgamation in heavy engineering . |
| 12 | For example , the British Cabinet has to pay attention to the process of getting its proposed legislation through both houses of Parliament ; this means considering the views and anxieties of its supporters in both houses . |
| 13 | Monday 's hero is Friday 's forgotten man … but Glenn Hoddle still wants to say goodbye to the fans … |
| 14 | He resolutely refuses to give way to the temptation to blame the local inhabitants for their problems . |
| 15 | Intertel Communications Inc , currently legally a Canadian company , says from its Teleport Denver Inc base in Colorado that it plans to swear allegiance to the flag and become a naturalised American : it will reincorporate in the US to meet a condition set by the Federal Communications Commission , which gave plenty of ammunition to the Europeans that say that the US market is not as open as Uncle Sam likes to think , by insisting that only American companies could hold earth satellite station common carrier licences — there is no comparable restriction on US companies applying for licences in the UK . |
| 16 | National level plans to bring change to the countryside have varied across the region and changed in emphasis . |
| 17 | Though his eyes are mainly on the lucrative US Seniors Tour , Jacklin also plans to lend support to the more recently established European Seniors circuit . |
| 18 | The larva moults to give rise to the four-legged nymph , which , after five more days , becomes the adult mite . |
| 19 | Whereas using the device in the former genre displays acting skill advantageously , its use in the latter is not only more expensive and difficult but tends to draw attention to the technical device rather too obviously . |
| 20 | As black , and white working-class lesbians have pointed out , it tends to reduce lesbianism to the dominant white , middle-class politics and culture of lesbianism . |
| 21 | Fama and MacBeth also found that the intercept ( ) was significantly different from the risk free rate for the entire period and for the first of the sub-periods , which tends to lend support to the zero-beta version of the CAPM rather than the risk-free rate variant . |
| 22 | The former Mayor of Thornaby and Stockton has been chairman of the planning committee for 16 years and was founder-director of the Northern Development Company , which aims to attract investment to the area . |
| 23 | A new blockbuster aims to give voice to the rage of wives abandoned in favour of more youthful versions . |
| 24 | Today most states have subsidy and funding structures for the promotion of national art and culture , but tradition appears to run counter to the reality of the EC Treaty . |
| 25 | Officially launched in January , it aims to facilitate access to the council 's community services . |
| 26 | And , since he seems to attach importance to the language-game of giving orders and obeying them , let us begin there . |
| 27 | He is founder-director of the Northern Regional Development Company , which aims to bring businesss to the area . |
| 28 | The use of white wallpaper mounted on dark backing paper gives good contrast and helps to draw attention to the material displayed . |
| 29 | Treasury Economic Secretary Anthony Nelson made this statement in response to a Parliamentary Question , adding that the Inland Revenue hopes to give effect to the changes shortly . |
| 30 | This type of so-called magic realism assumes major importance in the fiction of Asturias , Carpentier and Arguedas , where it serves to give expression to the magical-religious thought and mythical world-view of the Indian and Negro peoples of Latin America . |