Example sentences of "of [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I grew up , young people had various ways of intimating to each other a desire to become better acquainted , but playing footsie-footsie was not generally one of them . |
| 2 | and it all sort of refers to that part . |
| 3 | It brought a new level of handling to front-wheel drive that 's never been equalled . |
| 4 | To teach , to take the initiative , to impose what shall be attended to , puts the student in the position of reacting to external pressure . |
| 5 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |
| 6 | Among the Jewish population of these areas there was a section of the opposition which had no intention of submitting to Fascist aggression . |
| 7 | He also made the mistake of trying to frighten the miners with the consequence of sticking to existing conditions . |
| 8 | It will be seen that this technique has the effect of interchanging the rankings of the best and worst cases in Table 4.4 , emphasizing the importance of sticking to one method of analysis . |
| 9 | It will be seen that this technique has the effect of interchanging the rankings of the best and worst cases in Table 4.4 , emphasizing the importance of sticking to one method of analysis . |
| 10 | But instead of sticking to this problem , which is interesting in itself , Yockey makes wild extrapolations in a futile attempt to show how the classical concept of information can be applied to problems in generating information . |
| 11 | Two years of pandering to bloated businessmen and the nouveau riche did begin to pall on me . ’ |
| 12 | Located near each phosphorylated tyrosine there is a short sequence motif which determines the specificity of binding to various members of the SH2 family . |
| 13 | Many ligands have several different modes of binding to other atoms . |
| 14 | Called the Franchise Company it claims to offer help and advice on all aspects of franchising to any firm looking at franchising as a means of expansion . |
| 15 | One positive result of a newly motivated group would be that some might see the advantages to themselves of returning to full-time education at the age of sixteen . |
| 16 | Their hopes of returning to full strength were again dashed with defender Chris Moore a victim of German measles , recently signed midfielder Steve Cox unavailable , and Tony Scofield still out of action and facing an operation on his knee . |
| 17 | Here he is surely right ; only the educated and affluent people in Western societies are attracted by the idea of returning to primitive conditions . |
| 18 | The concept of a constitutional amendment as a means of returning to fiscal probity had gathered momentum throughout the first half of 1992 . |
| 19 | But in spite of returning to old forms , composers wished their music to have that feeling of nervous stress and tension which is so typical of modern art in general . |
| 20 | In addition , for longer range bombing , there were seven Zeppelins at the call of the Crown Prince 's Army , including the LZ.95 , Germany 's largest and latest , capable of climbing to 12,000 feet , beyond the effective reach of fighters . |
| 21 | At that point we had six teens and early twenties at home and I was doing a great deal of relating to young people . |
| 22 | The second element consists of certain ways of relating to other people . |
| 23 | Language is first learned as a means of relating to other people where those others provide social and psychological supports which enable the child to be an effective communicator . |
| 24 | I 'm going to give you , as a table one of the features of the plan , I 'm going to ask you as a group , but only one of you needs to write it , to write every single thing you can think of relating to that set feature . |
| 25 | Later , when the infant becomes capable of relating to whole objects , such as the mother instead of just the breast , it develops more integrative mechanisms in terms of what is called the depressive position . |
| 26 | Elsewhere , such components are diluted by the larger volumes of magma generated at ridges and by rising plumes capable of ascending to shallower depths where the lithosphere is thin . |
| 27 | The following two papers , by Dick Leith and Mick Short , exemplify the possibility of applying to literary texts theories and methods developed for the study of ordinary language , and vice versa . |
| 28 | We may certainly talk of animals , in the absence of speech , ‘ consciously intending ’ or being compassionate , both of which carry implications of understanding to some degree . |
| 29 | Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Description of Use or in any restriction of driving to specified persons in this Policy the indemnity to the Policyholder in connection with any motor car described in the Schedule shall operate while such motor car is in the custody or control of a member of the Motor Trade and used only for the purpose of its overhaul upkeep or repair . |
| 30 | I can find ways of contributing to peace-making organisations or activities . |