Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb -s] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is a duty which he owes to all those who may have occasion to use the article : and it is a duty which is broken at the time when he is negligent in making the article . |
| 2 | Where , for instance , the characteristics which he attributes to oral communication persist in a society with literacy , and would thus appear to undermine the case for the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy , Goody draws a further distinction which enables him to maintain the purity of his ideal model . |
| 3 | " Since literature is a reflection of social life " , he argued , " the standard by which it should be gauged is precisely the attitude which it takes to such great facts of historical development as the war , the October Revolution and fascism . " |
| 4 | Helicobacter pylori infection increases the serum concentration of gastrin , and this may be one of the mechanisms by which it predisposes to duodenal ulceration . |
| 5 | If Veblen 's book continues to be read this is partly for its unconscious humour but partly for the comfort , however misplaced , which it offers to those still mesmerized by egalitarian ideas . |
| 6 | Often , indeed , students of social policy go further and explicitly analyse the extent to which it contributes to social equality . |
| 7 | The Ley eventually reverted to the Garnstone estate and has long been a farmhouse , which it remains to this day . |
| 8 | This is especially the case with the liberal democratic form of the state whose claim to legitimacy rests on the access to the political system which it grants to non-dominant interests . |
| 9 | An important indication ( although , as we shall see , not a sufficient one ) that a portion of a sentence is a semantic constituent is that its semantic contribution to the sentence is the same as that which it makes to other , different sentences ; in other words , it carries what is in some sense a constant meaning from context to context . |
| 10 | all that trouble with her knee and now walks with a mind you she goes to ten thirty more than |
| 11 | ‘ We 're still left with a list of uncertainties , from the exact scope of his fiscal plans , to who he appoints to key positions and how protectionist he will be , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Every day the newspapers are telling you what happens to other people 's children . |
| 13 | But if ideas are to fit the world there must be something which answers to that generality . |
| 14 | The tiger population may number some 500 or more , the largest surviving single population of the 7-8,000 in the world , and the only one which conforms to scientific calculations of the number required to retain the broad genetic base for natural evolution . |
| 15 | Fundamentally , the inventor ( or more usually , the employer of the inventor ) applies for a patent to the Patent Office in London , whether the inventor wants a United Kingdom patent or one which extends to other countries as well . |
| 16 | The standard to be met will be the same as the one which applies to heavy goods vehicles and buses , ie : |
| 17 | DEC UK 's workstation product manager , Tom Yeates , says sales of VAXstations running VMS exceeded targets by two and a half times over the last quarter , something it attributes to increased confidence in VMS due to the launch of the Alpha chip . |
| 18 | To report my inner thoughts at such a moment of crisis must be to vex anyone who listens to this tape . |
| 19 | They are not a noticeably intellectual lot , the Greens , and anyone who goes to one of their conferences expecting deeply researched papers on the carbon tax issue or the structure of the future Green confederation of Europe will come away disappointed . |
| 20 | Anyone who comes to that debate mithering about standing up instead of sitting down or worried about the fate of Aldershot Football Club should be excluded on the grounds that he has not yet understood the difference between the future and tomorrow . |
| 21 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
| 22 | he says to me , he said tell your mum we 're gon na have three weeks in France , we 're gon na be drinking , going out and huh , picking up prostitutes , see what she says to that and if she says okay to that , we 'll go anywhere |
| 23 | It 's for each person , that 's why like the playwright does n't specify what each thing 's supposed to mean because it can mean whatever it wants to each member of the audience . |
| 24 | To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input . |
| 25 | What it does to that input may not be susceptible to description in psychological terms . |
| 26 | If you do n't get rid of acid you know what it does to even metal , if it sits on metal it eats through it , so you imagine what it does to your bones when it sits on them . |
| 27 | The survey people stressed the importance of neutrality and objectivity in research , and the participant observation enthusiasts argued that the essential thing about social life is what it means to those involved , and that the only valid way of getting at these meanings is to participate in the lives of those who shared them . |