Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ He kissed me and tried to stuff his hand down my front — ’ her face winced at the memory of the way his hands and mouth had felt and she saw Luke 's jaw tighten in response , his eyes harden to pure ice ‘ — but nothing more . ’ |
| 32 | A psychologist develops an approach to the shaping of animal behaviour and demonstrates its effectiveness on rats and pigeons and then takes the reckless step of assuming that similar solutions apply to human behaviour . |
| 33 | Concessions apply to senior citizens , students and UB40 holders . |
| 34 | Monaco has no political parties as such , but in national and municipal elections candidates adhere to different lists , including the Union national et démocratique ( UND ) ; the Action communale ( AC ) ; the Mouvement d'union Démocratique ( MUD ) ; and the Evolution communale ( EC ) . |
| 35 | George Soros , millionaire who made $2 billion out of collapse of the pound , funds aid to ex-communist countries |
| 36 | As pointed out above , it is known that extensive interconnection is a characteristic of the neocortex : thus the great majority of the input to any cell comes from other parts of the neocortex itself , and similarly most of the outputs go to other parts of the neocortex . |
| 37 | While manufacturers go to great lengths to produce the many excellent ‘ artificial ’ diets without which the fishkeeping hobby would certainly not have developed to today 's high standards , it is up to the fishkeeper to look more closely at the food requirements of his fish and provide what is necessary . |
| 38 | Again , the normal assumption is that these will be members of his or her own party , but exceptionally a coalition may be formed in which government offices go to other parties . |
| 39 | BROADGREEN MP Jane Kennedy is bidding to make sure jobs at Liverpool 's new customs offices go to local people . |
| 40 | When SAVE heard Sir Horace Jones ' Victorian market was to close and the traders move to new premises in Docklands , we immediately contacted Richard Rogers , who had just received planning permission for the new Lloyd 's building , to ask if he would work on a refurbishment scheme . |
| 41 | Disability arts belong to Disabled people allowing the creation of art to be paramount , without the more usual digression into issues of inaccessibility . |
| 42 | It is well established ( see , for example , Giles and Smith 1979 ) that speakers accommodate to other speakers — in other words , make their speech more similar to that of their interlocutor(s) — for a variety of social reasons . |
| 43 | In the United States , for example , nearly 60 million homes subscribe to basic cable facilities . |
| 44 | Chloasma nearly always goes away of its own accord when the high levels of circulating hormones return to normal . |
| 45 | Supporting this concept is the fact that serum pepsinogen I activity has consequentially found to be raised in both adults and children with H pylori associated antral gastritis and these concentrations return to normal in most patients after successful therapy . |
| 46 | A data structure may also be involuted where entity occurences relate to other occurrences of the same entity . |
| 47 | Book-oriented homes lead to book-oriented children : a child brought up in a home where reading is encouraged as a major activity is more likely to read voraciously from an early age . |
| 48 | This is hardly surprising , because the chemical non-inertness of the dominant volatiles and the considerable differences in volatility between one volatile and another and between their compounds lead to numerous possible ways in which differences could arise . |
| 49 | Check that units conform to British Standard 3456 for safety . |
| 50 | The level of staff required range from post-graduates with 12 months experience to senior managers with 10–15 years post-qualification experience . |
| 51 | A Greenpeace spokesman commented : " Tuna sales are up because dolphin-friendly labels lead to massive complacency by making people think the problem has been solved . |
| 52 | Liz assists Terry in this role in addition to providing Personnel support to Head Office employees . |
| 53 | This concern has traditionally been associated with both a sensitivity within the organisation towards personnel issues and a responsiveness on the part of the personnel function to new opportunities for developing the service provided to the company . |
| 54 | Paraphrase and summary of the arguments of other texts correspond to indirect speech . |
| 55 | These resonances correspond to constructive interference of the circulating field with the incident field , and 8 thus sweeps through 2 as the total cavity length is fine-tuned over an optical wavelength . |
| 56 | Figure 22.2 is a sketch of another pattern from a similar experiment ( the lines correspond to bright lines in the shadowgraph ) . |
| 57 | Reflexology is based on the principle that specific areas of the feet correspond to different organs , glands and parts of the body . |
| 58 | Rovers crash to rampant Wigan |
| 59 | The labels parents attach to particular behaviour patterns often reflect this : thus one set of parents may see a grossly inactive baby as ‘ placid ’ and happily accept him as that , while another set might see the same child as irritatingly ‘ lazy ’ and accordingly try to force him to behave differently . |
| 60 | As recently as the congressional mid-term elections of November 1990 , the arch conservative North Carolina senator Jesse Helms had used the reverse discrimination and quotas issue to great effect in mobilizing the support of white voters against his black Democrat opponent [ see p. 37846 ] . |