Example sentences of "they [vb base] to [adj] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | As they bind to similar DNA sequences and associate with the same proteins , they are likely to be closely related . |
| 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 | Algebraic quantities remaining essentially unchanged under a change in coordinates are important in coordinatised geometry since they correspond to intrinsic geometric properties . |
| 8 | They correspond to chaotic fluctuations of the whole circulation . |
| 9 | It is not surprising really , for carp are beautiful fish , they grow to large size , fight very hard , and are not too difficult to catch . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | They are spiritually awake and they sometimes put us to shame because they seem to make strides so fast that we have a job to keep up with them , they want to do this , they want to do that , they get baptized they want to auxiliary pioneer and before you know where the , where you are they 're in the regular pioneer ranks , and that 's lovely to see is n't it ? |
| 12 | We er You always made friends with people , could talk to people and if they want to miserable they can be miserable , you 'd got to tell them a tale , whether you know it or not . |
| 13 | The news that developing economies , whose costs are low , are bigger than previously thought will cause some Americans and Europeans to fear still more the threat they pose to local output and jobs , and to demand higher trade barriers to check the intrusion of these nouveaux riches . |
| 14 | They are , in effect , triggered off by very specific and local forms of social relationship and the threats they pose to everyday life . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ They object to nuclear power on the grounds that it releases radioactive nuclides into the air . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Such sources are valuable for the wide-ranging data they provide and , particularly , for the historical dimension they add to primary data that is necessarily bound to the present day . |
| 20 | In fact , they seem to post-date North Hill , mosaics B and C and the High Wycombe pavement ( appendix E , section 1.3 ( pp. 129-130 ) . |
| 21 | While people look to the Tories to make money , they look to Labour to spend it to more social purpose . |
| 22 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |
| 23 | They look to local authority housing and social services departments to help them achieve a basic human right . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Against Dorestad 's decline ( which they attribute to particular local difficulties ) they set the origins and/or thriving of Ghent and Bruges , Cologne and Mainz , Nantes and Angers . |
| 26 | Rather there are a variety of perspectives which do share the common emphasis of viewing social behaviour as the product of social arrangements , social forces and conditions , etc. , but which may differ in the relative emphasis which they assign to certain specific factors or variables for explaining that behaviour . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They jump to unwarranted conclusions without realizing they have done so , so that ‘ crossed-wires ’ and other misunderstandings arise . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Many Home Helps become very fond of the elderly people they visit , often doing all kinds of extra jobs for them when they have the time , and the moral support they give to lonely old people is invaluable . |