Example sentences of "[vb -s] to the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First seen at the Swan in Stratford last year , the show now transfers to the Barbican 's main stage , with Jonathan Hyde , David Bradley and Joanne Pearce repeating their fine performances as the unholy trinity of con artists . |
| 2 | Suggesting something which he or she can do — some action — adds to the child 's sense of mastery . |
| 3 | Although the photograph on the cover of the current guidebook certainly adds to the route 's appeal , it does n't explain it . |
| 4 | Size is quickly adjusted with compression straps and full-length zipped gussets , although this system all adds to the sack 's 2.4kg . |
| 5 | This can largely be avoided by careful handling , and many connoisseurs believe that a slight structural asymmetry adds to the rug 's overall character . |
| 6 | A cumbersome bureaucracy has grown up at Lloyd 's that panders to the market 's parochial interests rather than to its wider good . |
| 7 | Although procedurally they are selected by the appointments secretary at Downing Street , in practice the Queen is asked for her informal approval before a nomination is made : the prime minister 's private secretary writes to the Queen 's private secretary saying ‘ the |
| 8 | This one has a pre-programmed sequence , which corresponds to the owner 's individual code . |
| 9 | This creates bimodality of the logical control factor at lower values of creativity and corresponds to the engineer 's imagination . |
| 10 | Sail size , like board size , corresponds to the sailor 's weight . |
| 11 | However , since the reason corresponds to the agent 's intention to achieve the result , intentional explanations include a reference to the result of the action . |
| 12 | ‘ The spring , the head , the fountain of your blood/Is stopped ’ , he says to the king 's sons , but as Shakespeare soon makes clear , the lifeblood of the whole state has been dammed and perverted . |
| 13 | Daily trips to the Island 's many sandy bays with hotel 's caique/island schooner and a variety of water sports . |
| 14 | Albuquerque , New Mexico-based Basis Inc will demonstrate BDxProgression/4 , its revamped third generation application development environment for client-server environments : BDxProgression/4 software enhancements include a new set of data dictionaries , file system extensions and communication links into relational databases such as Oracle , Sybase and Informix ; it also provides migration links to the company 's proprietary language tool , BDx/4l and supports Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix and AIX . |
| 15 | Right erm I would just like to mention that it does n't say here that the A P C have set up er a separate er lobby group erm on which I have the honour to be a member with Patrick er to try and influence the MPs because one of the things which er is coming out and it 's it 's actually shown in paragraph three point three A at the bottom , the questioning whether the demand should be necessarily met or whether in fact , and this links to the government 's present erm reluctance to direct airlines to work from current unused capacity for example at , at erm at Luton and I think that there may well be some pressure put that er we should try and change that . |
| 16 | It also provides migration links to the firm 's fourth generation language tool , BDx/4 . |
| 17 | Through an interface with a Hewlett-Packard supervisory computer , the measurement system will be connected to the Honeywell TDC3000 distributed control system with additional communications links to the terminal 's computerised hydrocarbon accounting and tanker management systems . |
| 18 | The apostles of Jesus were not merely witnesses to the Lord 's resurrection ( clearly an unrepeatable function in the historical sense ) , but also a source of decision-making or pastoral jurisdiction in the early communities . |
| 19 | The path that leads to the world 's highest mountain is full of adventures … full of famous stories … but there 's been nothing so grand and gallant as the expedition being planned by Macintyre of Milton Keynes … who cater and care for the mentally disabled … |
| 20 | This leads to the applicant 's second ground for supporting the judgment under appeal , namely that whatever the words of the Act may mean , they must be understood as qualified by a tacit exception , preserving the ancient right of silence in its particular manifestation of the immunity from being asked questions after charge , previously embodied in the Judges ' Rules and carried forward into paragraph 16.5 of Code C. |
| 21 | ‘ If that gal gets to the keeper 's cottage he 'll phone the police an' we 'll be for it . ’ |
| 22 | It is said to work by blocking the metering pulses that charge calls to the customer 's account . |
| 23 | In the Old Testament , Job alludes to the moon 's power over the human soul and there is another reference in Gen. i. 16 which refers to the moon as the lesser of the two great lights of heaven . |
| 24 | If by post , the buyer 's conveyancer posts or delivers to the seller 's conveyancer the part of the contract signed by the buyer , together with a cheque for the deposit . |
| 25 | This appeal does not emanate from the rational and utilitarian purposes parents may satisfy through reading : rather , the child responds to the parents ' emotional absorption in reading . |
| 26 | Soviet design philosophy also rises to the system 's innate strengths : an economy which finds quantity as cheap as quality is expensive ( hence long production lines and low unit costs ) and a procurement system effective at bringing together operators , designers and technologists . |
| 27 | During the winter months , the crypt is flooded by an ancient well and water rises to the statue 's knees |
| 28 | The same applies to the Committee 's use of the term " reality " which , when placed in significant opposition to " convention " , refers back to the same selective cultural parameters . |
| 29 | An even more important sense of the term ‘ mass ’ applies to the choreographer 's handling of his cast . |
| 30 | Erm the same provision applies to the children 's pension . |