Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law . |
| 2 | It 's better to take them with you in the car rather than consign them to the chilly furniture van . |
| 3 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 4 | And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat . |
| 5 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 6 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 7 | If a potential investor should assume that ‘ preference ’ means that he should prefer them to the ordinary shares he would be sorely in need of professional advice . |
| 8 | Sir David Wilson , in his annual address to the Legislative Council in October 1989 announced that the government was to embark upon a £10,000 million development project to build a new airport , to expand its container port facilities and to construct extensive transport links to connect them to the urban and industrial areas . |
| 9 | However it is a very difficult and time-consuming operation to read through the evaluations and to compare them to the original project document . |
| 10 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 11 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 12 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 13 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 14 | From time to time we still had meat , for cattle still had to be slaughtered and there was little transport , because of the fuel shortage , to carry them to the wholesale market . |
| 15 | It closed the banks and immediately sold them to the Richmond-based Signet Banking Corp . |
| 16 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 17 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 18 | Why not , the mandarins decided , invite a few of our foreign friends over to reintroduce them to The True path . |
| 19 | So not every teacher was one hundred per cent successful with mixed ability teaching , but I do n't think one can ever expect that with a new method and I think now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 20 | I think that now that the system has been running for a number of years in the school that it 's possible for each department to support new members of staff and introduce them to the appropriate methods and approaches to mixed ability classes . |
| 21 | ‘ Can you direct me to the private wing ? ’ |
| 22 | To operate the service Sistelcom has set up a National Management and Operations Centre , seven regional centres , which receive the calls , process , multiplex and send them to the central system , a series of base stations , six 9,600bps tie lines to connect the national centre and the regional centres , and signal distribution tie lines via satellite . |
| 23 | Send them to the right person at the right address for payment and include the following information : |
| 24 | As their only match preparation for the Test , it was patently inadequate but it did alert them to the vast difference between the cricketing conditions and environment in the Caribbean and those in Australia and New Zealand where they had performed so impressively in gaining the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 25 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 26 | We have yet to integrate them one with another , and we have yet to relate them to the practical demands of learning and teaching foreign languages . |
| 27 | The task of sociology is to develop tools and modes of understanding these different patterns and responses and to relate them to the broad strands of historical change . |
| 28 | The purpose of this chapter is to examine some possible answers to these questions and to relate them to the clinical situation . |
| 29 | It is understood therefore , that , as part of the pupil 's exploration of aspects of religion and morality , he/she will have access to these five main elements of the Mysteries of the Faith , and the opportunity to relate them to the particular issue/topic being explored . |
| 30 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |