Example sentences of "to [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will ensure that , following maternity leave or a career break , all women working in the NHS , including those returning to nursing on a part-time or job-sharing basis , are able to return to work of a similar status or level to that which they left . |
| 2 | Nutritional counselling aims not to prescribe yet another rigid diet but to guide the patient back to eating in a normal and relaxed way , with sufficient flexibility to adapt to various social settings such as going to a restaurant or eating with friends . |
| 3 | The tradition of large , sometimes very large vases , probably still grave-markers , continues and the spreading of the figure-zones on these leads to drawing on an unprecedented scale ( fig. 9 ) : a monumental art of which there will be more to say in the next chapter . |
| 4 | Provision for children with special educational needs is becoming a major problem , leading to overspending in a considerable proportion of local authority education budgets . |
| 5 | But , by a similar argument to that used above , we can see that the path from to corresponds to an alternating sequence of forward variables with value 1 and reverse variables with value 0 . |
| 6 | Asked a few pertinent questions on Thursday 's Question Time television programme , he was reduced to mumbling about an academic study by a ‘ distinguished ’ Stirling University economist . |
| 7 | Large numbers of people in Britain are reduced to subsisting on a low income once they are unable to work . |
| 8 | That applies not only to a decision but to appearing under an appellate process . |
| 9 | STUNNING pop singer Sophie B. Hawkins was upset when she was given the thumbs down to appearing in a white sumo-style nappy in her new video . |
| 10 | I do n't like heroes , so I was pleased to find that on the way up to Gorffwysfa Norman fussed and worried as anyone might when faced with the return to climbing after a long break . |
| 11 | ‘ The fact that such specific parts were targeted , useless to anyone else , seems to indicate that this dastardly deed was carried out by a steam preservation ‘ colleague ’ with a view to fitting to a similar GWR-designed loco — quite sickening if so . |
| 12 | ( Take care in planning a walking tour : one guy we talked to came across an impossible cliff which required a two-day detour . ) |
| 13 | It was perhaps originally an oral message from Cnut , committed to writing by an ecclesiastic for circulation to the shire courts , and then redrafted into its present state by Wulfstan . |
| 14 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 15 | Nevertheless he does possess a yellow face as opposed to lodging in a yellow room , or handling yellow money , or being issued ( the bureaucracy ! ) with a yellow ticket . |
| 16 | So life went on and I adapted to my new country , to living as a black youngster in a white-dominated society . |
| 17 | But by this time the Captain had grown used to living in a blue haze . |
| 18 | The patient may need to adapt to living in a new way ( e.g. Mr Reynolds ' stoma ) or without a particular organ or a limb which will make considerable alterations in lifestyle ( e.g. an amputation ) . |
| 19 | To provide a service within the community by providing a safe , secure environment in which the individual 's rights and needs are recognised , by assisting clients to adjust to living in a communal setting and providing support for clients using professional agencies and the resources of the department . |
| 20 | The fact that she was used to living in an expensive , glamorous apartment in London , and held down an equally glamorous if exhausting job , had little or no relevance at the moment . |
| 21 | There are advantages to listening in a face-to-face conversation which communication links such as the telephone and tape recorder do not offer , although being in the presence of the speaker is not an absolute prerequisite for ‘ effective listening ’ . |
| 22 | Reduced to serving as a mere garden hut , a lucky chance brought it to the notice of a vigilant W & L member fresh from success in W & L 's competition to design a ( new ) building for Raven Square . |
| 23 | The Hammersmith & Fulham Group recommends that the change in Amnesty 's Mandate , extending the right of conscientious objection to include members of the armed forces who object to serving in a particular war , ‘ be rescinded ’ . |
| 24 | Not only does it refer to developing in a photographic sense , but to the development of a group of young people . ’ |
| 25 | and were close to acting as a full opposition again under Carson . |
| 26 | Firstly , in addition to looking for a general description of the information available in the films , this study was concerned particularly with information which is related to risks and potential risks in the scenes . |
| 27 | Having started along the path of gas-cooled reactors , the nuclear industry stuck with them when it came to looking for an improved model . |
| 28 | It could aim to copy the Pentagon 's example , devoting a portion of the MOD 's budget to looking after a mothballed version of any production line judged a strategic asset . |
| 29 | People who devote their lives to looking after an elderly or disabled relative or friend are again demanding more support from the government . |
| 30 | ‘ quality does not mean expense and luxury : it means reliability and service , and satisfying agreed requirements — it is the key to operating on a world-class level . ’ |