Example sentences of "to [det] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noted that the government commission which he had established to investigate the Parys affair had paid more attention to this than the commission later appointed at Walesa 's request [ see p. 38881 ] . |
| 2 | The shopkeeper agreed to this after the rogue told him that he ( the rogue ) was Sir George Bullough . |
| 3 | It is widely accepted that one of the main factors contributing to the relative decline and adverse trading position of the British economy is a shortfall of investment in private industry , and socialists can not afford to be indifferent to this since the employment prospects and livelihood of millions of workers are at stake . |
| 4 | Then Jessamy made a desperate attempt to put an end to this before the tension between them reached an even more dangerous level . |
| 5 | No objection could be taken to this when the offence actually took place in public ; now , of course , it need not . |
| 6 | To listen to this when the mind and body need to recover from effort is , to use a medical term , contra-indicated . |
| 7 | One vast hall of columns gave on to another as the temple rose in long slow ramps towards the inner sanctuaries : seven chapels dedicated to seven gods . |
| 8 | When task allocation was a common way of organising care , a nurse did not usually progress from one task to another until the sister judged that she was competent to do so . |
| 9 | Very intimate sounds were coming from the cubicles , but it was n't until the girl who had beckoned her earlier on came out of one of them and pointed to another where the door was open , and whispered harshly , ‘ Do n't you want to go ? ’ that she realised , Yes ; yes , she did want to go . |
| 10 | Glen Coe Still on conservation issues , it came as a pleasant surprise to many when the news leaked that the Countryside Commission for Scotland , who built and own the controversial visitors centre on National Trust for Scotland ground in Glen Coe , had recommended that the centre be moved . |
| 11 | His father had decided while his son was still very young to give him instruction in using a steerage-drill , a machine to drill or sow the corn : this was an operation that demanded a high degree of skill and also care not to jeopardize one 's own reputation because any mistake one made in the drilling would be visible to all when the crop came up . |
| 12 | It will be recalled that Section 37 of the Finance Act , 1969 provided for the ascertainment for the purposes of estate duty of the ‘ slice ’ of the property in which the interest of ; beneficiary who was entitled to less than the whole of the in come or who had a joint interest in property which was no income-producing subsisted . |
| 13 | That 's why I 'm submitting a budget that holds the growth in spending to less than the rate of inflation . |
| 14 | He wrote a book expounding 1 Corinthians 7 to imply that the apostle was not really defending marriage , since his arguments fatally conceded that it was not the most perfect state for the believer , and no true believer could aspire to less than the perfection to which God called . |
| 15 | Worse , they and the new land against which loans were secured declined in value in some cases to less than the amount borrowed , forcing lenders to foreclose . |
| 16 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |
| 17 | nothing in this Condition shall limit the liability of the Carrier to less than the sum of £10 ; |
| 18 | The values of stocks held [ in Germany ] are to be adjusted if necessary to values equivalent to those if the stock were held in the UK . |
| 19 | The values of stocks held [ in Germany ] are to be adjusted if necessary to values equivalent to those if the stock were held in the UK . |
| 20 | However the executive staff could receive changed instructions from the Council acting collectively , which amounts to more than the member States acting collectively through their delegates . |
| 21 | The other three preconditions , according to FMCG , are : that the acquiring bank has a proven record of controlling its non-interest expenses ( that is , the costs of computer systems , branches , staff and so forth ) ; that the acquiring bank will be getting a mix of businesses , which , combined sensibly with their own , add up to more than the sum of the parts ; and that the two banks are physically close together . |
| 22 | Just as the new conceptual artists have more passion than they were at first credited with , so many of the new painters amount to more than the sum of their supposed influences . |
| 23 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |