Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 2 | Although they promote hard to American canoeists they have yet to make a start over here . |
| 3 | Although they have yet to fully scrutinise the book , sources close to Venables cite at least four areas in which action might be appropriate . |
| 4 | As the enemy advances the hand gunners use their ability to change ranks as they fire so that they creep closer to the enemy . |
| 5 | He 'd been turning round to speak to her , and the sudden movement caught him off balance , so that they tumbled unceremoniously to the ground together . |
| 6 | The papers and a report on the proceedings are published quickly so that they contribute effectively to the public debate on the questions at issue . |
| 7 | The answer to that question would mean that they belonged either to the Crown or not . |
| 8 | And no touch of tease or laughter in the long grey eyes , eyes set so far apart that they belonged more to the temples than to the full face . |
| 9 | estimates that they collected close to £1,000 towards the appeal . |
| 10 | Similar thoughts may have crossed his mind one week into the run when , on the night set aside to entertain employees , families and friends of Irish Life — who were sponsoring the festival — Archaos refused to perform proclaiming to the gathered throng that they had yet to be paid . |
| 11 | ( b ) Hybrid Bills Where a Public Bill ( dealt with below ) contains provisions which savour of a Private Bill in that they refer specifically to a particular person or locality , the House may , if it so wishes , before second reading refer the Bill to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills . |
| 12 | The first of these elements is that budgets should be objective in that they relate directly to fulfilling the objectives of the organisation . |
| 13 | Although most people are numerate , I think that they respond quicker to this visual display . |
| 14 | Ferranti 's senior management was extremely unhappy about the arrangements , but at that stage took the view that they amounted merely to a credit risk rather than a fraud . |
| 15 | Women who enjoy housework but have had a full-time job say that they look forward to having time to do things like get the carpet shampooed or make new curtains without someone else being in the way . |
| 16 | Public commendations and small gratuities were so minor in character , and so random in distribution , that they contributed little to the City Police 's power of inducement . |
| 17 | Thus they are a fraction of the ruling class in the sense both that they belong integrally to it , directly serving the dominant social order , and that they are a coherent division of it , defined by the values of a specific higher education : the possession of a general , rather than a merely national and class-bound , culture ; and the practice of specific intellectual and professional skills . |
| 18 | At most , third-party states , whether aligned with a superpower or non-aligned , could act as a brake on superpower action , though there is no strong evidence that they did so to much effect in the last 40 years . |
| 19 | Its aim was to persuade charities to co-ordinate and concentrate their considerable resources so that they distributed systematically to those best able to make use of them , according to clear principles . |
| 20 | They used to give 'em subsidies to help 'em pay the rent , they 've stopped that , so they 've either to gerra job , to help put supplement to pay in the , you know , their housing accommodation , or they 've got to stop school . |
| 21 | McLeish asked whereabouts and discovered it was three roads away from his own flat , so they complained enjoyably to each other about the local council . |
| 22 | Over recent years the Tourist Office has re-vamped certain traditional festivals so they appeal more to both tourists and locals . |
| 23 | They do n't like it too hot in summer and they react badly to over-watering . |
| 24 | The wheels caught loose stones and they rattled downwards to oblivion , and Maggie was sure that she would soon follow them . |
| 25 | The Galloway cows have wide pelvises and calve easily , even to Charolais and Romagnola bulls , and they respond well to quiet handling and familiarity , though naturally they tend to be shy if left alone in the hills . |
| 26 | The only other occupants of Carewscourt were the cook , Mrs Joyce , and two maid-servants , and they kept strictly to themselves below stairs . |
| 27 | And they came close to the wall of flint where Wynne-Jones waited , breathless with anticipation . |
| 28 | It was some time before they were able to leave the hospital , and they went straight to Jack 's barn . |
| 29 | Corbett smiled and they went across to the porter 's lodge near the main gate . |
| 30 | ‘ Each one blossoms and they return home to be far more independent and mature in their own little way , because they have done and seen things in a way they 've never been able to do before . |