Example sentences of "[to-vb] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People mainly fish for trout and salmon but other fish have been known to attract to the artificial flies . |
| 2 | In effect , everything flowed to and from the House of Commons : the civil servants were held responsible to the Commons through their ministers ; the Cabinet was collectively responsible to the Commons ; the monarch only acted on the advice of ministers responsible to the Commons ; and the Lords were always to defer to the legislative views of the Commons . |
| 3 | A systematic and documented approach will be more cost effective , auditable and more likely to come to the right conclusions . |
| 4 | Erm by saying it 's a priority we 're not saying it 's our only priority , we have a number of priorities and it 's it 's up to us to in debate with the housing corporation er , to come to the best agreements for Harlow . |
| 5 | At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him … |
| 6 | There are a hundred different ways of evaluating every piece of intelligence gathered so it is not hard to come to the wrong conclusions . |
| 7 | In any event we would like to know of any intending applicants for training , even if they are unable to come to the Potential Teachers ' Day . |
| 8 | The banks were closed on Feb. 1 to adjust to the new measures and long queues formed outside cash points as people tried to withdraw money . |
| 9 | ‘ One of our most pressing problems ’ , he concluded , ‘ is how to deal with the human waste which has come through the discarding of the services of workers unable to adjust to the new requirements ’ . |
| 10 | That he opposed Winchelsey earlier only aligned him with popes and realists ; that his appointment to Canterbury involved both the exclusion of a saintly scholar and expedient intervention by the pope was hardly of his doing or proof of his unsuitability ; that he readily undertook to secure taxes from reluctant clergy only looks unprincipled against the background of thirteenth-century prelates who had yet to adjust to the vast needs and new methods of kings everywhere . |
| 11 | He had been put under the tutelage of Sergeant Bragg , a great bear of a man , a man whose principles would not allow him to stoop to the self-serving tactics of his superiors . |
| 12 | Everyone knew she and Ryan had been living together , and it was easy to jump to the wrong conclusions . |
| 13 | These goals are likely to relate to the following areas : — improvement of academic achievement , — improvement of the staying-on rates , — improvement in attendance and punctuality , — development of record of achievement , — commitment to Work Experience for all , — commitment to teacher secondment to industry , — involvement of adults other than teachers in curriculum development , — service to the community . |
| 14 | The express terms contained in a booking contract are likely to relate to the following points : |
| 15 | The initial requirement is a tension square in your own choice of yarn and stitch pattern and the stitches and rows are used to set the Knitleader to work to the appropriate measurements . |
| 16 | If a proposed merger is likely to lead to the merged firms having a market share greater than one quarter or alternatively involves assets in excess of £30 million , then it may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 17 | A failure to conform to the legal requirements in contracting a marriage will render that marriage void . |
| 18 | The measures will be introduced in two stages starting in July 1992 , when all new models will have to conform to the new regulations . |
| 19 | Constituency parties had to be wound up and re-formed to conform to the new boundaries . |
| 20 | Just as the civic buildings in Moscow expressed the confident power of the Communist regime , so the new housing blocks were designed to conform to the new ideals of social life . |
| 21 | They do not determine the activities of teaching and learning , but on the contrary are themselves required to conform to the changing perceptions and experiences of the teacher and learner . |
| 22 | A choreographer working in the classical style is wise to conform to the traditional principles and rules found valuable through years of experience . |
| 23 | Within its peer group , the young child , by interacting with others and playing childhood games , learns to conform to the accepted ways of a social group and to appreciate the fact that social life is based on rules . |
| 24 | It asked him to omit the Foreign Secretary 's residence , and although generally to conform to the 1856 conditions , he should ascertain Hammond 's latest requirements and find out if the building could be reduced in size . |
| 25 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 26 | To conform to the statutory requirements in respect of the deduction of income tax and national insurance , and the Wages Councils Act 1959 . |
| 27 | Women writers are less likely to identify with the existential plight of the lone male , but even so , a willingness to conform to the narrative conventions of realism is evident in the fiction of a number of writers who are now viewed as innovative . |
| 28 | It nevertheless refuses to conform to the narrative conventions of nineteenth-century realism . |
| 29 | The bones are first modified and altered to conform to the skeletal dimensions of the body , which is then built up from the inside outwards using organic substitute flesh . |
| 30 | Wordsworth 's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh : even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable , and even though Coleridge , like Sir Walter Raleigh before him , spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant , it is clear that Wordsworth 's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness . |