Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 2 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 3 | Reports of ‘ untoward occurrences ’ — anything from an allegation of assault to a staff member having a cold — were not going directly to Mr Thomson , who was legally bound to report them to social services within 24 hours . |
| 4 | The doors are tough and durable , and they require almost no maintenance , a quick wash down being all that is required to restore them to pristine condition . , , . |
| 5 | There are problems with designating these as new phyla , not least that nobody can define a phylum objectively , and my own view is that , marvellous though these animals are , we should still try to relate them to other organisms ( fossil and living ) . |
| 6 | To illustrate this point , I have given an example of a pattern for a knitted rectangle here in all three types of pattern notation , so that you will be able to relate them to each other . |
| 7 | In terms of Weber 's call for adequacy both at the level of meaning and at the causal level , there is argument at both levels , which , of course , much complicates questions of how to relate them to each other . |
| 8 | The only major difference between such accounts and pluralist accounts is that pluralists tend to describe the specific political pressures without attempting to relate them to broader theories of the relationship between state , society and economy . |
| 9 | Trains had been laid on to despatch them to all parts of the country , so that for the rest of their lives they would be able to recall a few moments of honour , even glory . |
| 10 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 11 | This even brought a ghostly chuckle ; Dr Neil 's being the Master again was enough to bring McAllister back , she thought , if only to provoke him to further jokes . |
| 12 | That silent disapproval had to emanate from her and Thérèse in order to prove that they were young ladies , to provoke him to further displays of cruelty . |
| 13 | This reasoned and ridiculous plea had no effect at all on Jem , other than to inflame him to further violence . |
| 14 | That is why we are committed to provide the opportunity afforded by trust status and to grant it to those health care units that seek it , where they can show that they will use the freedoms that that status involves . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , there are many things about the Demoiselles that serve to relate it to other painting of the period and , more particularly , to the contemporary work of Matisse . |
| 16 | Although Pepper v. Hart is the initial formulation of the relaxed exclusionary rule , the ambiguities which it contains and the failure to relate it to other aids to statutory construction are perhaps less deserving of a welcome . |
| 17 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 18 | After a successful infancy with the junior side Johnstone Burgh , McAvennie was spotted by manager Jim Clunie and signed to St Mirren , the perpetually enterprising Paisley side whose ability to discover great footballing talent is matched only by their pressure to sell them to bigger clubs . |
| 19 | Several American management consultants , notably Dr W Edwards Deming , Dr JM Juran and Philip B Crosby , developed the concepts ; the first two of these , unable to sell them to American companies , turned instead to Japan . |
| 20 | But she was also aware that no matter how she felt , her family would never allow her to relegate them to second place . |
| 21 | An enormous number of Polish nobles , therefore , had survived the government 's attempts to relegate them to lesser estates . |
| 22 | CND was accused of using its computer to record the political activities of its 60 000 members , to allocate them to local groups and check on their attendance at meetings . |
| 23 | But Peyton 's heroics are unlikely to lead him to European glory . |
| 24 | Chris Hankins shows you how to set it to best advantage . |
| 25 | In seeking to be innovative and adventurous , church musicians will need to be careful not to abandon the traditional repertoire or to relegate it to second place . |
| 26 | You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now . |
| 27 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 28 | Double-vault composting toilet : If people wish to reuse excreta in their gardens or to sell it to local farmers composting toilets can be built as long as users agree to follow strict rules of maintenance . |
| 29 | He was going to sell it to some Jew . |
| 30 | It seems a bit extreme to banish you to solitary confinement — especially at this early hour . |