Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers and judges talk to each other in ways the prisoner in the dock can not always understand ; doctors diagnose patients for medical students in a language which they know the patient will not follow ( though there are also valid scientific reasons for this ) ; and parents spell out words they do not want children to understand . |
| 2 | During the period from five to 30 hours in culture the number of receptors per cell fell from 2.3×10 5 to 1.1×10 5 . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the iteration , we have retained only two decimal places : later three , then four , until to this order of accuracy the iteration repeats . |
| 4 | And we should perhaps add to this list of discourses the critical one which organises an anecdote , which may not have taken place at all , to re-iterate a point about Shakespeare and power . |
| 5 | Moreover , the survival of Iraq 's aircraft has meant that allied pilots keep having to return to Iraqi airfields to crater the runways . |
| 6 | The Government should address themselves to such wasting of money and not to fictitious ideas about Thomas the Tank Engine . |
| 7 | We hope we 've got a deal going with Oxford Mail , where they 'll maybe deliver to 20,000 doors in Oxford the programme , door- to-door . |
| 8 | It demonstrated clearly to all Members of Parliament the dangers of making even inadvertent and mild statements about a trial while it is taking place . |
| 9 | One is that the Bill will extend to all consumers in Scotland the option of being able to pay for water by metered charges if they wish , having the amount that they use recorded and being charged direct . |
| 10 | Horace Dall and George Alcock are two lively old men who both still actively contribute to various areas of science The Universal explorer and spare-time inventor |
| 11 | Though , as he had already noted , Matthew was aware that to one stratum of society the choice between Annabel 's or Regine 's could be seriously serious . |
| 12 | By three to five years after surgery the actuarial survival rate exceeded that of a control population.This enhanced survival may reflect the fact that patients referred for surgery were highly selected , and an important limitation of these data is that the selection criteria were not explicit . |
| 13 | Gunthorpe with the exception of the first ten pegs which are giving 10 to 15 lb of roach the rest appear devoid of fish , Shelford for fish around Stoke Ferry land end and pleasure anglers getting 30 lb plus nets on stick and maggot . |
| 14 | To reduce this hardship the Act provides that if the charge is void to any extent for non-registration the whole of the sum thereby secured becomes immediately repayable on demand . |
| 15 | Despite hopes that some tasks inappropriate to junior doctors can be delegated to other groups of staff the new deal on juniors ' hours risks worsening the situation by increasing the intensity of work still further , notwithstanding the shorter working week . |
| 16 | The manager should explain to other heads of department the importance of maintaining even distribution of staff throughout the year . |
| 17 | Pressure for his removal had come from trade unions ; Pérez had made 3,000 workers redundant and had failed to improve on the three to four hours of electricity the country received daily . |
| 18 | TV COMIC Bob Carolgees is flying to war-torn Yugoslavia with Spit the Dog to help buck up British troops who are serving with United Nations forces . |