Example sentences of "they [vb base] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a combat zone which they concede to the predators until morning , when they drive out their cattle again past sleeping lions and strangely reticent hyena . |
| 2 | They dance to an exciting variety of music by composers such as Boyce , Shostakovich , Britten and Philip Glass . |
| 3 | Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music . |
| 4 | I agree with my hon. Friend that in the past the weakness when farmers have got together has been the quality of marketing and management that they bring to a project . |
| 5 | Fortunately , the bias against other accents and dialects has waned in recent years and today they are appreciated for the variety they bring to the language . |
| 6 | This is true even though they bring to the search the knowledge they already possess about how spoken language works . |
| 7 | The glory of the audio-visual media is the contribution they bring to the teacher 's communication skills . |
| 8 | A bit of activity out on the water catches my attention next and I bring the ‘ scope out ; it is a small party of long-tailed duck in their handsome winter plumage , the long tail-streamers of the drakes showing clearly as they display to the females . |
| 9 | When there is tension in the neck and spine , particularly where they connect to the brain at the base of the skull , blood flow is impeded . |
| 10 | The reason for this is that if you put the female pupae in the tube before they hatch to the adult stage , you will ensure that females mate only with the type of male you put in the tube . |
| 11 | They correspond to the ventral basal muscles of the maxilla . |
| 12 | They correspond to the investor 's balance of expectations about the movement of the share price during the period up to the expiry date . |
| 13 | When they hear a battle is brewing they flock to the battle site , ready to cast themselves into what they regard as the final hopeless battle between good and evil . |
| 14 | Self-help schemes provide Latin American governments with a cheap solution for housing the poor , but the contribution they make to the wider socio-economic structure is more far-reaching . |
| 15 | And they make to the same place to their feed . |
| 16 | According to functionalism , it is useful to categorize environmental stimuli on the basis of what they mean to a subject rather than on the basis of their gross physical characteristics . |
| 17 | Nursing includes ‘ caring ’ about the family and what they mean to the patient . |
| 18 | Bolinger points out furthermore that the use of the to infinitive after verbs of perception when they shift to the inferential sense fits into an overall pattern with the object + infinitive construction . |
| 19 | It could well become equally true in other systems as they grow to the size , complexity and pressures of TDC . |
| 20 | A middle-sized species of whale , they grow to an average of 7 metres ( 23 feet ) long , and weigh up to 2 tonnes . |
| 21 | Individuals will also vary in the importance they attach to a particular time-cue . |
| 22 | It is notable that the US Congress has recently granted President Bush fast-track authority to negotiate both the Uruguay Round and the North American Free Trade Area , showing the importance they attach to a favourable outcome in both . |
| 23 | The superpowers ' activity has resulted from the importance they attach to the region . |
| 24 | Little is known about the effect of different care settings on the children 's education though the fact that many foster parents and residential staff have had limited educational opportunities themselves may influence them in the importance they attach to the children 's success in school . |
| 25 | Put rather more strongly , this evaluation was in the tradition of the critical sociology of education of Sharp and Green ( 1975 ) , M F D Young and his colleagues ( Young , 1971 ) , and others whose work has been characterised by the significance they attach to the distinction between rhetoric and reality . |
| 26 | To take the latter first , the New Critics clearly come very close to the Formalists and the Prague School in the importance they attach to the ideas of structure and interrelatedness ( they even occasionally called themselves formalists ) , and in their insistence on the objective character of criticism and the distinction of the author and the reader from the text . |
| 27 | They want to a market economy , and they want the right to be able to choose what they and their families consume . |
| 28 | [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] In comparative terms , however , they testify to a poor record , the cumulative effect of which was a decline in Britain 's international economic status to a level undreamt of even as late as 1955 [ Kravis , 1976 ; Stout , 1979 ] . |
| 29 | They testify to the long hours he has spent working under the eye of his father , Bob . |
| 30 | They testify to the fact that a colossal amount of wealth passed through royal hands , and it is therefore not surprising that control of the royal treasury was a significant factor in Merovingian politics . |