Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in another way some stubbornness was at work in me , some determination never to give up , and to cling in secret to whatever reality I could find for myself . |
| 2 | In practice the procedures adopted by local authorities differ widely , and change in response to political control and financial stress . |
| 3 | This multiplicity of objectives , and the way in which they are defined through the political process and change in response to changing political priorities , distinguishes state enterprises from private firms . |
| 4 | The question as to whether time could conceivably exist if there were no ‘ soul , ( or mind ) to apprehend it had been raised , but not answered , by Aristotle , whose definition of time as the ‘ numbering ’ of motion and change in relation to before and after appeared to presuppose the existence of a ‘ soul ’ that contemplates and measures it . |
| 5 | We may now assess the significance of his role by examining the themes of continuity and change in relation to his twin principles of Parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law . |
| 6 | Mr Lumley said parallel trade had become so great that eight in 10 High Street chemists in Britain regularly dispensed drugs made in Britain , exported to France , say , and re-imported for sale to NHS patients . |
| 7 | Only by such means could motivations be established and explained without resort to one of Television 's phoniest cop-outs — the character who consistently talks to himself , to the point of ultimately causing the audience to have serious doubts about that character 's sanity . |
| 8 | This is why it is extremely dangerous to imagine , as many positivist criminologists seemed to do , that such actions can be understood and explained without reference to these processes of definition and application . |
| 9 | First , the judicial history in England was examined and explained by reference to legislative circumstances for which there was no parallel in Hong Kong . |
| 10 | The doctor came , and arranged for Esther to be re-admitted to the gynaecological ward of the hospital so that she could continue nursing the baby , if possible . |
| 11 | It also offers powder skiing weeks off-piste with a local guide in Klosters and Grindelwald for £199 to £295 on top of the holiday cost . |
| 12 | Any changes in deployment , recruitment , promotion and grading can be quantified , tested and checked by reference to a library of analysis routines and projection models . |
| 13 | I could n't look as I stood helplessly at the top of stairs listening to him bumping and thudding from step to step until he reached the bottom . |
| 14 | The 11 sufferers identified in the study said the smell blighted their relationships with the opposite sex , wrecked promotion prospects at work and led to addiction to cigarettes , alcohol and drugs . |
| 15 | This is not just a matter of looking at the distribution of power and influence in relation to official decision-making bodies , or even of power over the minds and feelings of the people themselves , although in both cases that distribution is manifestly and grotesquely uneven . |
| 16 | As Gerry and his fellow villagers talked of the better days to come , a carload of American tourists pulled up in the street beside him and asked for directions to ‘ Dannygal ’ . |
| 17 | The political culture of Britain may then be characterized , in broad terms , as having the four orientations identified : empirical in terms of problem-solving and change , allegiant in terms of the political system , cooperative in making decisions , and trusting with relation to fellow countrymen and allies . |
| 18 | Instead a vision of fertile English culture is linked to human freedom and truth and placed in opposition to the narrowness of science and the idols of the market-place . |
| 19 | That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House , to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it . |
| 20 | It would require pigeons ( like salmon ) to remember a home odour , or a ‘ landscape ’ of odours around its home , and to orient with respect to them . |
| 21 | A self-complementary 19-base oligonucleotide , with sequence 5'-TTAGACGTCTAGACGTCTA-3' ( that is , two tandem consensus met boxes flanked by T.A base pairs and one unpaired 5'-T ) , was synthesized on an Applied Biosystems 381A oligonucleotide synthesizer , purified by anion exchange and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography ( HPLC ) , and annealed by heating to 80°C for 5min , followed by slow cooling to room temperature , for use in crystallization trials . |
| 22 | Just about the time that Dougie started er building substantially in the town and doubled to population to its present six and a half thousand or so . |
| 23 | Half a mile past this the path branches off to the right , and goes through plantations to a large open glade known as the dry loch . |
| 24 | The route then climbs out of the Severn Valley and goes across country to Heightlington . |
| 25 | What 's yellow and white and goes from London to Birmingham at 125mph ? |
| 26 | I am able to examine concepts , she thought , to test values , for I have thought things out , I am not like my sister who bakes and cleans and shops and irons , and goes from day to day , never realising what her mind might discover , content to accept what has always been told her , without a doubt . |
| 27 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 28 | Mr Haughton was taken to Whiston Hospital and treated for burns to his chest and right shoulder . |
| 29 | The various outcomes were enumerated and examined in relation to entry characteristics . |
| 30 | The throne is thought to have been made in Constantinople and given by Justinian to his viceroy Maximian . |