Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a more complete understanding of the operation of and limits to parental rights in education requires a wider examination , of how the law deals with other areas where the interests of children , parents and the state are all in particularly sharp focus . |
| 2 | The Exodus narrative , identifying the God of Israel as the worker of wonders such as those which led Pharoah to release the Israelites from Egypt , could easily be thought of as referring to one god among many . |
| 3 | The European Commission opened talks with the heads of the national telephone monopolies yesterday about its plans to deregulate telephone service across the Community by 1998 : after the two-day discussions , the Commission will decide whether to formalise proposals calling for and end to national monopolies over all call transmission ; the usual row is expected between free traders like the UK , the Netherlands and Denmark and opponents in France , Belgium and Italy , Reuter reports from Brussels ; France Telecom and Belgacom said the plans were too ambitious , the Dutch and British Telecommunications Plc indicated support ahead of the talks . |
| 4 | as if damned to perpetual motion — decay |
| 5 | Those too poor to qualify for this pension were further discriminated against and left to poor relief . |
| 6 | He said Stockton had entered into and adhered to cash-limited agreements with bus companies . |
| 7 | The attitudinal use of intonation is something that is best acquired through talking with and listening to English speakers , and this course aims simply to train learners to be more aware of and sensitive to the way English speakers use intonation . |
| 8 | The first two can be seen as being derived from history , both shared and private , while the third is an attempt to come to terms with and respond to current realities as they are being experienced . |
| 9 | Although planning has its positive aspects and much is written and debated about improving this side of the system , it has to work with and adapt to economic demand ; when it strays too far from that reality it fails . |
| 10 | For example , in the infertility clinics , the patient 's yearning for a child meets the drive , satisfaction and status inherent in or accorded to technical brilliance . |
| 11 | There are no exact equivalents for li and ch'i among our concepts , and there is no way of approaching them except by breaking out from or awakening to one analogy after another . |
| 12 | Similarly , while Wish art and Virden want to admit counter-historical trends to the dominant tonal tradition — in what they call ‘ genuine folk musics ’ — these are understood as almost completely separate from and opposed to that tradition . |
| 13 | The average man is ‘ a cool , common person , with a considerate air , with figures in his mind , with his own business to attend to , with a set of ordinary opinions arising from and suited to ordinary life . |
| 14 | But companies can also borrow from banks using a wholesale money market , in which the banks also borrow from and lend to each other . |
| 15 | the goods exceed 2.25 cubic metres in measurement per tonne , in which case the tonnage rate shall be computed upon and apply to each measurement of 2.25 cubic metres or any part thereof , or |
| 16 | Task mail may be replied to or forwarded to another user — not both |
| 17 | My treatment of intonation is based on the belief that foreign learners of English at advanced levels who may use this course should be given training to make them better able to recognise and copy English intonation ; the only really efficient way to learn to use the intonation of a language is the way a child acquires the intonation of its first language , and the training referred to above should help the adult learner of English to acquire English intonation in a similar ( though much slower ) way — through listening to and talking to English speakers . |
| 18 | The readership to be considered was the actual or at least predictable reading public rather than the precocious fourteen-year-old schoolgirl into whose hands it might perchance fall — unless it were in fact aimed at or distributed to fourteen-year-old schoolgirls , by whose vulnerability to corruption it should then be judged . |
| 19 | There was an upsurge in violence during June and July , with an increasing number of incidents being claimed by or attributed to white extremists . |