Example sentences of "[vb base] to [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things like Fade To Black and Ironhand are untouched , and I like them rather more than the ‘ worked on ’ stuff . |
| 2 | Editors also object to overblown or false claims . |
| 3 | When we listen to gentle and beautiful sounds , the vibrations are actually massaging our tissues and cells which , in turn , improve blood circulation , metabolism and hormone action . |
| 4 | The recent development of ‘ paid volunteer ’ schemes , where small payments are made to untrained local people to provide regular help and support to disabled and elderly people in order to sustain their continued residence in ‘ the community ’ , illustrates precisely this growing interface between private unpaid and public waged caring work ( Leat and Gay , 1987 ; Qureshi , 1990 ; Baldock and Ungerson , 1991 ) . |
| 5 | Sometimes pupils react to insensitive or even boorish and bullying behaviour on the part of some teachers , but this has to be accepted by the child . |
| 6 | In the new world order , it may well be that nationalism functions as the opposition to that order , the main source of resistance and challenge to large and more or less integrated blocks of power . |
| 7 | Nobody ever dropped in , and her parents never went out , save to large and joyless civil functions , or to the cinema . |
| 8 | 16 + A Guide to Personal and Social Development Modules |
| 9 | Kotowaza meigen no izumi Guide to Chinese and Japanese proverbs ( Y9,000 ) |
| 10 | The first of these putative Na + /H + exchangers has 95% homology with the previously cloned human fibroblast Na + /H + exchanger , with which it also shares several functional characteristics , including extreme sensitivity to amiloride. furthermore , immunocytochemical studies showed that polyclonal antibodies to a fusion protein incorporating this sequence localise to basolateral but not apical membranes from rabbit ileum . |
| 11 | In 1989 an additional Advanced Sign Language Training Programme , open to deaf and hearing students from all EC countries , was launched with a grant of roughly £400,000 from the European Social Fund . |
| 12 | I am , however , open to reasoned and informed argument and I await with interest your correspondents ' blueprint for reversing our economic decline , bearing in mind that the stark choice is that we either increase our earnings or we accept a quite considerable reduction in our living standards . |
| 13 | I pledge to increase the amount of time or money I give to environmental and development organisations . |
| 14 | Both men were now smiling genially ; the sort of smile people give to earnest but not very bright children , or to social inferiors . |
| 15 | The lift that lemon grass , ginger , turmeric , coriander , chilli , star anise , cloves and cardamom give to Indian and Chinese food is out of all proportion to the quantities in which they are used . |
| 16 | And they aspire to interesting and well-paid work but without any illusions about the degree of racial discrimination and sexual segregation in employment . |
| 17 | The techniques refer to new or modified agricultural practices to reduce soil degradation and erosion . |
| 18 | The magnetic field strength is given again by eqn ( 3.27 ) ; we only need to substitute for the current In + Ip where the subscripts n and p refer to negative and positive particles respectively . |
| 19 | There are occasional exceptions to this such as ‘ Office boy ’ , but in the main the roles specifying the female gender refer to low and often subservient roles . |
| 20 | Traditionally , the word ‘ black ’ has had a meaning as dishonourable , sinister and evil and terms like ‘ to black ’ , ‘ blacken ’ , ‘ blackball ’ , ‘ black mark ’ , ‘ blackleg ’ , ‘ blackspot ’ , ‘ blacklist ’ , ‘ black market ’ , ‘ blackguard ’ , ‘ black sheep ’ and ‘ blackmail ’ refer to anti-social or wicked behaviour . |
| 21 | These usable answers refer to observable and recordable behaviours . |
| 22 | It is loaded with efficacious cultural and social associations , and these refer to natural and physiological facts of everyday experience . |
| 23 | Sudden changes of mood from cheerful and alert to sullen and moody |
| 24 | The fact that philosophers have not yet persuaded themselves that they understand the idea that facts can be causes should not cause us to rule out all appeal to fact-causation as philosophically unsound . |
| 25 | A DC changes state to REJECTED if a user has rejected the DC using option 2.2.0 but only when the last interested user has assessed the DC . |
| 26 | It does not need to be a trade usage , and may be upheld on what amount to commonsense or market practice grounds . |
| 27 | This is consistent with previous data indicating that different antagonists bind to overlapping but non-identical sites . |
| 28 | Do the same rules apply to part-time or freelance work ? |
| 29 | It follows , too ( although the subject-matter of the case was registered property ) , that the principles enunciated in the judgment apply to unregistered as well as to registered land . |
| 30 | that the general principles of the Law of War apply to nuclear and similar weapons . |