Example sentences of "[vb base] to [adj] and " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nobody ever dropped in , and her parents never went out , save to large and joyless civil functions , or to the cinema . |
| 6 | 16 + A Guide to Personal and Social Development Modules |
| 7 | Kotowaza meigen no izumi Guide to Chinese and Japanese proverbs ( Y9,000 ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I pledge to increase the amount of time or money I give to environmental and development organisations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And they aspire to interesting and well-paid work but without any illusions about the degree of racial discrimination and sexual segregation in employment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These usable answers refer to observable and recordable behaviours . |
| 16 | It is loaded with efficacious cultural and social associations , and these refer to natural and physiological facts of everyday experience . |
| 17 | Sudden changes of mood from cheerful and alert to sullen and moody |
| 18 | that the general principles of the Law of War apply to nuclear and similar weapons . |
| 19 | The cuts apply to domestic and business bills . |
| 20 | While there is a good deal of intuitive sense in the observation that social workers and teachers respond to financial and other economic incentives like most workers , it is a hypothesis rather than an empirically supported contention . |
| 21 | The project will examine the way 11-16 year olds respond to scientific and technological change . |
| 22 | give and respond to precise and accurate instructions , upon which successful use of the technology depends , as does language competence more generally ; |
| 23 | The scientists of Idaho were designing a gold-lined stainless steel container that could hold a mixture of deuterium and tritium gases at up to 3000 times atmospheric pressure and at temperatures ranging from hundreds of degrees centigrade to freezing and below . |
| 24 | The Pack also contains helpful inserts describing clearly the Barclays services which we offer to new and growing businesses . |
| 25 | Students who are inexperienced in research frequently fail to narrow and focus their efforts to achievable units . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the claim that ISAs serve to legitimate and maintain the delicate balance of power within a structured totality needs to be elaborated , and its limits explored . |
| 27 | Its unnecessary difficulties are an economic burden , contribute to educational and social problems and make communications less efficient than they should be . |
| 28 | to exploit more fully the opportunities provided by the unit credit system to offer these studies on undifferentiated full-time , mixed mode , and part-time routes , and hence contribute to local and national needs for initial undergraduate courses and continuing education . |
| 29 | Analyses of sexism in the curriculum should also include identification of what is left out , either within subject areas , or in terms of potential links between areas of knowledge : my contention is that the higher the prestige , and the more valuable a credential the subject becomes , the more likely it is to exclude issues , themes and approaches which relate to personal and female domains . |
| 30 | In-depth discussion groups with local residents are used to explore what features of different open-areas people like or dislike and to find out how these assessments relate to personal and social characteristics and to where people live . |