Example sentences of "[vb base] to a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual specimens grow to a length of 5cm or more . |
| 2 | It was built in 1632 by Sir Edward Peyto , some say to a design by Inigo Jones , though that is unproven . |
| 3 | That 's what I say to a lot of people today , they moan about dockers but they 're only fighting for their rights . |
| 4 | Turn right and walk to a junction of roads and tracks . |
| 5 | Those who cling to an impression of Reger as an unrelievedly turgid and ponderous musician should certainly sample the 6 Burlesques of 1901 which open this recital . |
| 6 | Subjects are given a particular word — let us say the word lead — and then they listen to a pair of sentences and press a button as soon as they hear the target word . |
| 7 | Pupils listen to a story about Caxton and the printing press |
| 8 | Why , he asked , listen to a bunch of second-raters who had n't won a war since Napoleon ? |
| 9 | When I listen to a piece of music , my first questions have to do with whether it moves me , does it have anything unique to tell me , and questions about what style it 's in are way down the list . |
| 10 | ‘ Because I listen to a lot of jazz and classical music and the others listen to harder stuff , I find it a challenge to try and incorporate my influences into what we do , ’ Adam enthuses , dropping in the expression ‘ be-bop hardcore ’ to pinpoint his guitar quirks . |
| 11 | A lot of it is a matter of hearing : you just start to hear it that way after a while , especially if you listen to a lot of Coltrane and people who really developed that part of the language . ’ |
| 12 | They cut to a drone in uniform with a face like leftover porridge . |
| 13 | This is the impact that a speaker has when they stand up and speak to a group of people . |
| 14 | Tax payers react to a rise in government spending funded through the sale of bonds by saving more now to meet future tax liabilities . |
| 15 | The parties chose to refer the damages issue to a firm of accountants acting as experts in preference to litigation or arbitration . |
| 16 | Never announce to a group of strangers or in a crowded public place that you live alone . |
| 17 | WELCOME TO A WORLD OF PERFORMANCE , CHALLENGE AND SAFETY . |
| 18 | WELCOME TO A WORLD OF PERFORMANCE , CHALLENGE AND SAFETY . |
| 19 | Clearly no one person could get round five parishes , control five PCCs , prop up the fabric of five buildings , look to a couple of church school governing bodies , visit , bury and comfort the sick , dead and bereaved , let alone baptise , prepare for confirmation and marry five sets of parishioners and at the same time keep up a life of prayer . |
| 20 | Others draw back from legislation and look to a change in attitudes on the part of professionals and employers . |
| 21 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 22 | Whereas for the men garments have a determined , precise meaning , that is to say , a truth value , for the women clothes are nothing but signifiers open to a variety of meanings ; they are items whose function and referential meaning can easily be changed … . |
| 23 | As we have already seen , the results of experiments comparing the effects of mere observation of the stimuli with those produced by explicit discrimination training have turned out to be inconsistent and open to a range of interpretations . |
| 24 | Other areas of difference included the degree of damages open to a victim of discrimination and the extent to which court-ordered affirmative action plans were open to further legal challenge . |
| 25 | The divisions between special and mainstream education extend to a division between curriculum and curriculum delivery . |
| 26 | To cook lentils for salads , add to a pan of water , chunks of onion and a bay leaf . |
| 27 | Assisted often by ‘ convict warders ’ , who add to an atmosphere of fear and connive in the corruption which is endemic in many institutions . |
| 28 | It is impossible not to feel the contrast between the reception which Ministers give to a body of owners and a body of miners . |
| 29 | All had to agree to the investment , and at the last minute Stockport , the only council where Labour had lost overall control to a mixture of Tories and Liberals , vetoed the decision . |
| 30 | Between the two the unquantified aspect is easier , you just have to push and push and eventually get to a kind of measurement . |