Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir David Wilson , in his annual address to the Legislative Council in October 1989 announced that the government was to embark upon a £10,000 million development project to build a new airport , to expand its container port facilities and to construct extensive transport links to connect them to the urban and industrial areas . |
| 2 | However it is a very difficult and time-consuming operation to read through the evaluations and to compare them to the original project document . |
| 3 | From time to time we still had meat , for cattle still had to be slaughtered and there was little transport , because of the fuel shortage , to carry them to the wholesale market . |
| 4 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 5 | Why not , the mandarins decided , invite a few of our foreign friends over to reintroduce them to The True path . |
| 6 | We have yet to integrate them one with another , and we have yet to relate them to the practical demands of learning and teaching foreign languages . |
| 7 | The task of sociology is to develop tools and modes of understanding these different patterns and responses and to relate them to the broad strands of historical change . |
| 8 | The purpose of this chapter is to examine some possible answers to these questions and to relate them to the clinical situation . |
| 9 | It is understood therefore , that , as part of the pupil 's exploration of aspects of religion and morality , he/she will have access to these five main elements of the Mysteries of the Faith , and the opportunity to relate them to the particular issue/topic being explored . |
| 10 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 11 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 12 | Physical activity and natural light Light exercise and brisk walks taken at your accustomed time by the new local time will help to adjust you to the new time zone and to make you feel ready for sleep at bedtime . |
| 13 | I mean we used to do the annual report because the R C E had to provide something to the General Manager |
| 14 | " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . " |
| 15 | When Archbishop Bradwardine preached before Edward III after English victories at Crécy and Neville 's Cross in 1346 he claimed that God granted victory to whomever he willed , and he had willed to grant it to the virtuous . |
| 16 | Specially commissioned by The Tea Council , Teapot 2000 has a unique design that allows you to brew it to the exact strength you like , from the first cup to the last . |
| 17 | Historians will seek to understand the late twentieth century in order to relate it to the collective identities and experiences of their own period . |
| 18 | His story had been absorbing and very revealing ; it was difficult to relate it to the other , more menacing side of him . |
| 19 | Because we try to relate it to the real world . |
| 20 | He was very much a social novelist and to appreciate the moral significance of his novels you have to relate it to the actual society that it reflects and often criticises . |
| 21 | What she is saying is that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who can let life go by without trying to relate themselves to the big issues . |
| 22 | The implications for individual managers are that ‘ increasingly it will come to be seen as the individual 's responsibility to maintain , alter or boost his skills , to find the right market for his skills and to sell them to the appropriate buyer ’ . |
| 23 | There 's nothing to inspect and without my words the photographs are useless unless Mitch decided to sell them to the national Press . |
| 24 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 25 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
| 26 | I turned to my nearest fellow browser , intending to ask her politely but firmly to lead me to the nearest padded cell , but it came out wrong . |
| 27 | Monie , who guided the Cherry and Whites to four successive league and Wembley doubles , narrowly failed to lead them to the Grand Slam last term after they were beaten by St Helens in the premiership final . |
| 28 | His willingness to prostitute himself to the worst instincts of the electorate makes Neil Kinnock look like a beacon of moral and political rectitude . |
| 29 | In fact there was precious little to rely on in the unconscious unless the product was good enough to sell itself to the conscious senses , in which case the unconscious appeal was superfluous . |
| 30 | If he wants anybody to lead him to the so-called English plotters , it 's the very best possible way to go about it . |