Example sentences of "they [vb base] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it obviously has nothing to do with the actual gender of the words , since all of them refer to ungendered objects or substances . |
| 2 | Although apparently some of them go to all lengths , resealing Coke cans what have you , to smuggle drink in . |
| 3 | Firms use the-factor inputs to produce output which they sell to domestic households ( the consumption flow ) , to other firms ( the private investment flow ) , to overseas buyers ( the export flow ) and to the government ( the government expenditure flow ) . |
| 4 | While these descriptions of the semantic value of to + infinitive are too specific to be adequate characterizations of the potential meanings involved here ( in fact they correspond to actual meanings of the construction in particular contexts ) , they are nevertheless faithful reflections of the potential meaning of to and of the fact that the latter always evokes the bare infinitive 's event as an after-position with respect to some position before its realization . |
| 5 | These four categories admittedly overlap in theory and in practice , but I use them since they correspond to real differences of approach in the study of literary language , and help to show in what way stylistic and linguistic studies differ . |
| 6 | 5.3 There are two further reasons for not accepting any sort of identification between adverbal adjectives and predicate qualifiers , apart from the indications given by ambiguity , and by the fact that they correspond to different types of question , and by the intuitively close relationship which is found in many cases between a verb + adverbal adjective pair and a single lexical verb . |
| 7 | They correspond to chaotic fluctuations of the whole circulation . |
| 8 | Languages therefore differ widely in the way they are equipped to handle various notions and express various aspects of experience , possibly because they differ in the degree of importance or relevance that they attach to such aspects of experience . |
| 9 | It is possible , however , to classify most British political leaders according to the relative importance they attach to these values . |
| 10 | For both ways of life and for both sets of values , excluders and includers , the language of ‘ coping ’ and ‘ coming to terms ’ describes the transition between one world and another world ; this much they agree on , even if the values they attach to these worlds are totally opposite . |
| 11 | Several studies demonstrate that the kind of help people want , or the priority they attach to particular needs , does not coincide with what they are offered ( Mayer and Timms , 1970 ; Lerner , 1972 ; Merrington and Corden , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | And what the folks had done , with their quarterly newsletter that they send to both villages , North and South , on the back , they 'd put a form requesting that every household submitted their five favourite hymns . |
| 13 | Provided atomic individuals are mapped to the same role-slot in one representation , then plural reference is possible , and provided they map to different role-slots in another ( simultaneously ) , then singular references are possible . |
| 14 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
| 15 | They may decide that they react to particular foods , on the basis of a bogus diagnostic test or an elimination diet that is not properly carried out . |
| 16 | One danger with this emphasis on the language of adults is that it easily leads to the conclusion that adults actually cause developmental progress by the way in which they speak to young children . |
| 17 | Held : While occupiers do not owe the same duty to trespassers which they owe to lawful visitors , they owe trespassers a duty to take such steps as common sense or common humanity would dictate to avert the danger , or warn persons coming onto the premises of its presence . |
| 18 | Moreover , though individuals may differ in the weight they assign to various aspects of a job , most individuals are prepared to make trade-offs between different sources of satisfaction . |
| 19 | THEY JUMP TO THESE CONCLUSIONS |
| 20 | They jump to these conclusions and these conclusions are passed round in the staffroom . |
| 21 | They jump to unwarranted conclusions without realizing they have done so , so that ‘ crossed-wires ’ and other misunderstandings arise . |
| 22 | However , it remains possible that people do see the support which they give to elderly relatives as part of a two-way pattern which stretches over time and across generations , and where they themselves will benefit ultimately from the support of someone in a younger generation . |
| 23 | Crime statistics , to which the right hon. and learned Gentleman referred , are the most commonly used indicators of the level of crime , but they refer to notifiable offences reported to the police . |
| 24 | Certainly , this is not the sort of behaviour that modern judges have in mind when they refer to young thugs as behaving ‘ like animals ’ . |
| 25 | Unlike singular statements , they refer to all events of a particular kind at all places and at all times . |
| 26 | They talk like doctors ( in bits of Latin ) , they have illegible handwriting , they undergo years of training , they refer to medical textbooks . |
| 27 | They refer to airborne concentrations of materials to which the majority of people may be repeatedly exposed without adverse effects . |
| 28 | It is expected that instructors will become increasingly familiar with the material as they teach to more groups . |
| 29 | Because it 's very , I mean you know mathematicians have written books about this , erm and yeah kids of five or six are quite happily adding and taking away until they get to negative numbers , until someone says ah I 'm going to add to that money you 've got there , I 'm gon na add minus seven . |
| 30 | IMF and World Bank men are often booed when they talk to African audiences . |