Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Allen was only wrong in that the price collapsed suddenly to ls a pound . |
| 2 | Turning to the consumer 's view of these conditions , a customer who buys from a " never knowingly undersold " ( or , indeed , any ) source presumably would benefit from occasionally looking elsewhere to police the claim ( though there is a free-rider problem here — if the price reduction becomes general once any one consumer has complained , why not let someone else do it ? ) . |
| 3 | The second relates more to skills the application of that knowledge , practical , oral and investigative , which figures in some examinations to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 4 | Although prosecution followed by a fine can bring home to parents the reality of their child 's non-attendance problem , a financial penalty is likely to be inappropriate when imposed on what is often a poor family whose financial problems are already one of the factors threatening family stability . |
| 5 | The best economic incentive to achieve environmental goals is often a tax , for it brings home to consumers the external cost of their consumption without clumsily trying to regulate it away . |
| 6 | Our war efforts over the air were strengthened and increased : I wrote and produced a series of dramatic features to bring home to listeners the horrors of the Nazi blitz on London , and to build up and emphasize the importance of Winston Churchill 's leadership . |
| 7 | Likewise a television dramatisation of British social history can often bring home to pupils the harsh realities of the workhouse and desperation of unemployed and impoverished labourers in the early nineteenth century . |
| 8 | These invitations provide schools with an opportunity to spell out clearly to parents the values that they hold dearly and provide an accurate picture of their schools as centres of learning and excellence . |
| 9 | Now , in these latter sixteenth-century days , Knollys 's shipyard had been driven to the building of more modest ships , and confined itself mainly to boats no larger than forty or fifty tons — small merchantmen for the most part , which sailed for their owners to Italy and Spain with cargoes of wool , tin and salt fish . |
| 10 | For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale . |
| 11 | Getting itself involved in access so deeply has turned it from a benign , vaguely representative organisation into one whose role is increasingly to police the activities of climbing and climbers . |
| 12 | John arrived first in Australia in 1791 , aged 18 , as a lowly and poorly paid Ensign in the New South Wales Corps , an ill-disciplined and motley band of renegades raised in Britain and sent out chiefly to police the penal colonies . |
| 13 | Just out of Bainbridge by the road that snakes up by Brough Hill are the remains of a Roman camp built by Agricola in the first century AD to police the area . |