Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a boy who is married to a woman 14 years his senior and plays father to a girl only nine years younger than himself . |
| 2 | Thames Water is one of the biggest water companies in the world ; Cholderton and District Water Company near Salisbury is run by a man and his wife , and supplies water to a couple of small villages on a private estate . |
| 3 | The Slough , Berkshire company has offices in about 20 countries , looking after sales and local support ; has over 700 customer sites in 72 countries ; and supplies software to over 500 banks . |
| 4 | And supplies power to the rear with a throaty roar that 's guaranteed to make you grin . |
| 5 | Their Botanomancy range is based on elementary herbalism and offers top to toe treats such as Smaragadine , £4.75/500ml , a shower gel made of nettles , roses , peppermint and orange peel , and Fagner 's , £3.25/200ml , a foot lotion perfumed with violets . |
| 6 | Contracting may be effective because it makes evasion difficult , facilitates communication , and offers rewards to the patient . |
| 7 | The narrator himself — the subject of his poem — joins in , and offers sympathy to the defeated party . |
| 8 | WordPerfect in the UK has an ongoing upgrade policy — the company likes to see its users keeping abreast of the times , and offers upgrades to new versions of its programs at reasonable cost . |
| 9 | Easily Accessible : The Old Rectory is ideally place for touring the area , and offers access to many splendid walks , including those encompassing the coastal path and Bodmin Moor . |
| 10 | The method is only available for use with virtual storage systems , and offers access to records in three ways . |
| 11 | But Micro Focus is bearding its leonine partner IBM Corp in its lair , effectively going head to head with IBM 's own CICS/6000 by creating an open system that can run CICS applications and offers links to mainframe CICS systems . |
| 12 | But Micro Focus is bearding its leonine partner IBM Corp in its lair , effectively going head to head with IBM 's own CICS/6000 by creating an open system that can run CICS applications and offers links to mainframe CICS systems . |
| 13 | Using genetic engineering , the company Delta Biotechnology has inserted into yeast the human gene for the manufacture of haemoglobin , the protein that gives blood its scarlet colour and transports oxygen to tissues around the body . |
| 14 | It 's in pretty bad taste and encourages children to nasty games . |
| 15 | This one period a week course brings in guest speakers , involves group discussion and co-operation , and encourages sensitivity to adult values . |
| 16 | It is a house of character and adds beauty to the centre of the village . |
| 17 | The gardener 's idiom is distinctive , and adds vigour to Mary Leapor 's poetry . |
| 18 | Both backward linkages , when a TNC buys local materials and goods and adds value to them , and forward linkages , when domestic companies buy intermediate goods that the TNCs produce and add value to them , can have substantial financial , employment and technical effects . |
| 19 | She also swims , plays ping pong and has ambitions to ‘ do a lot of travelling ’ . |
| 20 | Forte already holds 68.36% of the equity and has rights to 42.12% of the group 's total votes . |
| 21 | he is in a professional or business relationship with that company or a related company and has access to unpublished price sensitive information which ought not reasonably to be disclosed except for the proper performance of his duties |
| 22 | Student Services is a user and a provider of lodgings and accommodation data about all students , including those on the Modular Course , and has access to the student management system for this purpose . |
| 23 | The Department has subscribed to the CIPFA/ADSS Financial Management and has access to the material produced which is designed to assist Local Authorities in preparing for the changes to be implemented on 1 April this year . |
| 24 | The Centre has its own library and conference rooms and has access to services for oligonucleotide and peptide synthesis and microsequencing as well as to powerful computer and database services . |
| 25 | The Institute possesses a wide range of data logging , micro- and mini-computing equipment and has access to the computing facilities of the Edinburgh University Computing Service and to national and international networks . |
| 26 | Next morning the city 's crystal-blue skies are covered by a curtain of grey smog which hides the snowy Andean peaks and causes havoc to local flight schedules . |
| 27 | If , for example , a hotelier contracts with a lift company to repair the lift of the hotel , and thereafter the lift malfunctions and causes injury to a guest , will the hotel or the lift company be liable to the guest ? |
| 28 | Liz has a clerical husband , who owns a car like , a tin bath , displays an oar on his study wall , and writes notes to his more important lady parishioners with frequent recourse to the Dictionary of Quotations . |
| 29 | A circuit analysis program that reads a circuit description from a text file and performs various ‘ bench ’ tests and writes results to an output file for later viewing . |
| 30 | Each night , all British Gypsum manufacturing sites send details of sales to a central accounting system , which processes the transactions and passes invoices to Atlas . |