Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lautro has ordered 13 life assurance companies to withdraw some of their advertising for single premium with profits bonds , and two were requested to write to clients with a fuller explanation of the bond 's characteristics . |
| 2 | When he moved to Rangers as a player and the red cards flourished it was a quote he was destined to regret . |
| 3 | This does not mean , of course , that they will fall to pieces at a touch and as we have said , some brittle substances are very strong . |
| 4 | This is perhaps not surprising given that bidders are attracted to targets for a variety of reasons that may be unconnected with the potential for improving the target 's management . |
| 5 | When she was sixteen , in the age of Gucci shoes and Lambrettas , and being taken by her father on birthday treats to his favourite trattoria in the King 's Road ( white lavatory tiles and low-slung lights , waiters singing ‘ O Sole Mio ’ and her father embarrassingly ordering due cannelloni per favore and molto formaggio for my daughter' ) , Molly was conscious of becoming attracted to men with a lot of black hair round the bracelets of their wrist-watches . |
| 6 | Whether in Kipling or Chapman or other authors , Eliot was attracted to glimpses of a world beyond . |
| 7 | You put on a good front , and appear to others as an outgoing person . |
| 8 | The changing context of educational management requires schools to adopt proactive staff management strategies in order to come to terms with a range of complex issues : |
| 9 | Small powers seek also to come to terms with a particular great power either to guarantee themselves against the overwhelming strength of another great power or in order to prevent the great power in question from asserting its strength more directly and imperiously over them … |
| 10 | On the contrary , the federation or confederation of states , whether for the purpose of pursuing common goals , ensuring common defence from a foreign power or in order to come to terms with a powerful neighbour , is as old as the federation of the city states of ancient Greece . |
| 11 | They have to come to terms with a loss of freedom , a loss of the chase . |
| 12 | The Catholic community , especially in the Northern part of the diocese was undergoing , as indeed was the whole area , a gradual process of change , having to come to terms with a broader view of Church and society which sat rather uncomfortably with long held views . |
| 13 | The 50-year-old actress is struggling to come to terms with a series of disasters that have brought her life crashing round her . |
| 14 | The psychologist justified his own persuasive efforts with this belief that he was actually helping the parents to come to terms with a decision ‘ they really want to make ’ . |
| 15 | The inter-war period was one in which the distribution of population began to come to terms with a range of structural economic and social changes . |
| 16 | If Nietzsche was to come to terms with a specialized academic career , his need of a compensatory allegiance was extreme . |
| 17 | Charitably , you might say they represent the struggle of a generation to come to terms with a responsibility and authority they would once have rejected . |
| 18 | They have n't started packing their suitcases yet , but they fear it may be inevitable and they 'll have to come to terms with a completely new existence . |
| 19 | Eldorado ( BBC1 , 7pm ) : Ingrid has to come to terms with a matter of life and death , while Marcus does the dirty on Alex . |
| 20 | The locals field one former Test player , Madan Lal , and although Maninder Singh — last seen being swept to oblivion by Gooch in the Bombay World Cup semi-final — was practising at the England net yesterday , he has yet to come to terms with an attack of the yips . |
| 21 | Larsen , in fact , represents the alienated hero who seeks to come to terms with an absurd world by entering into the game , by playing out a meaningless life as if it were meaningful . |
| 22 | I had to come to grips with a lot of things in a hurry . |
| 23 | There were also pages of poems forced into some sort of rhyming structure so that they might conceivably have worked as songs , several paragraphs of references to critical works ( Barthes , especially ; Death of the Author ! shouted what looked like a headline over one entire page of notes devoted to ideas about a looseleaf novel/poem ? ? |
| 24 | I 'm thinking about marketing my services on quality and relating to customers in a way that I 'd just begun to think of before but now it 's come right to the front . |
| 25 | If a transaction relating to English land is within the legislation regardless of the identity or whereabouts of the other party to the transaction , why should not this equally be so with regard to a transaction relating to shares in an English company ? |
| 26 | The European Commission did object to aspects of a proposed link between Fiat , Italy 's big car maker , and Alcatel-Alsthom , a French electronics giant . |
| 27 | Evacuees were dispersed to billets over a wide area : for example , London children were spread from Land 's End to the Wash , under 476 billeting authorities and 73 education authorities . |
| 28 | In eukaryotes , in contrast , recombination is usually confined to members of a sexually reproducing species , although there are some facts that suggest that distant gene transfer is not wholly absent . |
| 29 | As we saw in the example of the cleaner fish ( pages 186–7 ) , reciprocal altruism is not confined to members of a single species . |
| 30 | They are confined to discussions of a very general nature and to providing the resources necessary for an efficient service . |