Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I jut hope to god Fashanu and John Scales sought themselves out . |
| 2 | Without silicon , plant growth is retarded and animals do not grow properly ( they also suffer damage to their bones and cartilage ) . |
| 3 | Some youngsters who sniff have accidents while they are intoxicated and some suffer damage to their health . |
| 4 | With this in mind , one must be concerned with how fans gain admission to the Rowdies group , how they are able to progress socially within the group , and with how they are able to graduate out of the group . |
| 5 | Indeed , although some physical geographers perceive hydrology to be a separate field of scientific enquiry and , for example , Progress in Physical Geography maintains progress reports on fluvial geomorphology as well as on hydrology , other physical geographers have advocated the notion of geographical hydrology . |
| 6 | In the past did people really deny support to relatives who were in no position to reciprocate , or at least who seemed unlikely to be able to do so ? |
| 7 | Using WORDWISE + , : the user is given the following menu : I ] Save entire text 2 ] Load new text 3 ) Save marked text 4 ] Load text to cursor 5 ] Search and replace 61 Print text 7 ] Preview text 8 ] Spool text 9 ] Segment menu ESC Edit Mode Please enter choice To create a document , the user presses the ESCAPE key and is given a screen showing : START END This is the equivalent of a blank page on which the user might write or type . |
| 8 | Both stylolites and solution seams transect the cemented sediment and develop perpendicular to the axis of maximum stress , which may be either overburden pressure or tectonic stress . |
| 9 | Wind west to southwest moderate . |
| 10 | ‘ How can he be a Copt and bring money to be given to a Moslem for the Moslem to use against the Copts ? ’ |
| 11 | Caught unprepared by East Germany 's explosion of discontent , West Germans fear that the regime 's stubbornness could provoke a revolt and bring chaos to the country , threatening the stability of Europe and pose immense problems — including the question of German reunification — which they and their neighbours are not ready to face . |
| 12 | Earlier this year , The Sunday Telegraph reported scientists also fear damage to life in the oceans . |
| 13 | Apart from the view that the narrow roads around Oakhanger are inadequate to take a frequent pounding from dustcarts , villagers fear damage to the environment from pollution . |
| 14 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 15 | It is now possible to clone the gene that controls Bt production and experiments have proved successful in introducing the gene into tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum ) plants which subsequently develop resistance to the pest . |
| 16 | Moreover , Schell et al. ( 1989 ) point out that it is now possible to engineer plants , by introducing B. thuringiensis genes encoded for toxin production , that develop resistance to tobacco hornworm ( Manduca sexta ) and the large white butterfly ( Pieris brassicae ) . |
| 17 | Although widely used in cancer chemotherapy , cisplatin and its analogues suffer from the drawback that tumour cells develop resistance to these drugs . |
| 18 | They are blessed with good humour and bring luck to mortal miners by knocking at spots behind the seam faces where rich ore lodes may be found . |
| 19 | Increasing calls from both sides to end domestic feuding and make resistance to Japanese encroachments a priority were resisted by Chiang until 1936 , when he was kidnapped and briefly detained by Chinese troops from Manchuria in Xian . |
| 20 | He rejects comparisons with American-style ‘ workfare ’ programmes , where the unemployed lose entitlement to state benefits if they refuse community service jobs . |
| 21 | The supertram is , in effect , a low-cost replacement for British Rail 's ageing fleet of suburban diesel multiple-unit trains , those rasping diesels which change gear to the accompaniment of voluminous clouds of acrid black exhaust fumes and the blessing of train spotters . |
| 22 | Relocate it to the UK , give , say , Craig Charles his head , change Cali to Scally — and you 'd be left with dead air . |
| 23 | The speeches of Prince Philip on the preservation of wildlife , of Prince Charles on modern architecture or inner city deprivation , gain entry to the newspapers and television news bulletins automatically , although the sentiments they express are unexceptional , the ideas unoriginal and their delivery undramatic . |
| 24 | Ingestion is another means by which microorganisms gain entry to the body . |
| 25 | According to their analysis of American industrial confrontations from the 1870s to the 1960s , violence has been most severe on those occasions when employers have tried to ‘ break ’ existing unions , or deny recognition to newly forming ones . |
| 26 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |
| 27 | In education such a policy would improve performance indicators immediately as a much higher percentage of youngsters would then achieve three or more Highers and gain entrance to university ; success all round ! |
| 28 | They also want funding to be made available from new sources responsible for unemployment , to help the CAB cope with unemployment related stresses . |
| 29 | The Kurdish leaders reportedly asked for an arms supply route to be opened through Turkey to assist the Kurdish insurrection in northern Iraq . |
| 30 | Firstly , as one would expect , 28 offer professional services and/or provide support to their members in this regard ( 13 of those are in the field of law ) . |