Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . , , . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | An enormous number of Polish nobles , therefore , had survived the government 's attempts to relegate them to lesser estates . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But Peyton 's heroics are unlikely to lead him to European glory . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It seems a bit extreme to banish you to solitary confinement — especially at this early hour . |
| 16 | I want to help them to enlightened self-expression , and to develop their imaginations — to rid themselves of repressions through self-expression . |
| 17 | In Britain , for instance , Waste Management International , Shanks & McEwan and Severn Trent/Biffa are enraged that the government has decided to postpone the introduction of the landfill standards in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , and refuses to apply them to existing landfills . |
| 18 | The purpose of this chapter is to outline the elements involved in resource management in schools and to apply them to current practice . |
| 19 | Are these sufficiently closely defined for us to be able to apply them to particular cases ? |
| 20 | And I spring out of bed , naked as I am , and I just start to tear him to fucking pieces . |
| 21 | It 's simpler to obtain large amounts of it and one hopes that if one finds out something of the mechanism through this enzyme one would be able to apply it to other enzymes dependent upon the same coenzyme . |
| 22 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 23 | People who study psychology never seem able to apply it to real life . |
| 24 | After the courts ' acceptance of the neighbour principle , there was an increasing tendency to apply it to new areas , heralding a major advance in the recovery of damages for economic loss ( e.g. Hedley Byrne & Co . |
| 25 | We will extend compulsory competitive tendering to local authority housing management , and examine how to apply it to white-collar services . |
| 26 | The emergence of current cost accounting and of efforts to apply it to public sector organizations has necessitated taking an explicit view of capital maintenance in their accounts . |
| 27 | Referring to recent studies indicating that some people are particularly vulnerable to the effects of sleep disruption , the authors of this report suggested that work should be done to identify those doctors who are most at risk , in order to assign them to other duties . |
| 28 | Defending barrister Thomas Teague told Mr Jones yesterday : ‘ You used to steal things from your foster parents and you used to give them to other children at school . |
| 29 | I took a basket of eggs into church last Sunday because I was so afraid I should forget to give them to old Mrs Baldwin on my way home . |
| 30 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |