Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When there is tension in the neck and spine , particularly where they connect to the brain at the base of the skull , blood flow is impeded . |
| 2 | Greeted by a rubbing of practised hands , the Tory Party 's celebrities take their seats before well-appointed tables where they listen to the supplications of their hosts while scrutinising the menu . |
| 3 | In general there seems to be a tendency for structural rock surfaces to be stripped where they approximate to the profile of the wavecut bench . |
| 4 | As with the basket , divers are recovered from the water to the surface , where they transfer to the decompression chamber . |
| 5 | Although they relate to the growing tendency to move computer applications from larger machines to smaller ones ( See ACCOUNTANCY , February , p 101 ) , reduction in the size of the boxes is not the most significant factor . |
| 6 | If we look back at the exchange between the piano movers , for example , we can see that the verbs ( 's goin , 's got to take , ai n't goin' , do n't , come on ) are all in the present ( although they refer to the future ) . |
| 7 | The two main findings of this study are that ( i ) capsaicin sensitive afferent neurones do not seem to have an affect on rapid repair of injured gastric mucosa , although they contribute to the defence against injury , and ( ii ) anaesthetics can affect the recovery of gastric mucosa from damage . |
| 8 | Although they belong to the group of animals called Crustaceans , the group that includes crabs , lobsters , shrimps and water-fleas , they live on land . |
| 9 | Whatever the support or not for these values , the book fails to recognize the wider changes that have gone on in the family and in gender relations , changes which may be quite separate in origin from the question of poverty , although they add to the poverty of women and children . |
| 10 | An ozone depletion over the Arctic could be much more serious , as many more people live closer to the north pole than they do to the south pole ; for example North America , Russia and Europe . |
| 11 | The Commission strongly affirms the value of silent as well as vocal participation , and it believes that worshippers need to be taught how to listen to music no less attentively than they do to the reading of Scripture , or to preaching , or to the recitation of prayers . |
| 12 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 13 | Logically , these latter producers can claim that they contribute to the value of exports , and are therefore entitled to part of the proceeds . |
| 14 | They conclude that differential rewards are functional for society , that they contribute to the maintenance and well-being of social systems . |
| 15 | The Treasury had accepted the idea that international facilities are a cost-effective way to support large-scale research , but is has been reluctant to provide financial incentives to attract such facilities to Britain , following the example of France and Switzerland , because of doubts that they contribute to the country 's economic wealth . |
| 16 | A common feature of all these systems and methods of control is that they contribute to the setting of standards , as well as to the measuring of performance against standards . |
| 17 | In the chapters which follow , we discuss the constructional meanings that they contribute to the language ; there are also one or two minor structures to be introduced later , and we shall have to take note of certain cases where apparently identical sequences of surface syntax correspond to different intensional patterns . |
| 18 | He ensures that they get to the best conferences and from time to time will organize his own , bringing in the best speakers . |
| 19 | When Mrs Orton proposed that they listen to the Queen 's Speech on the radio , Bill 's only protest was to produce a bottle of brandy from his case , open one of his gift books , roll himself a cigarette with gift tobacco , lean back and stare covertly at his son . |
| 20 | Apart from errors and omissions these are defined in the National Accounts in such a way that they come to the same value . |
| 21 | And the result of that , according to the Forum of Private Business , can be that they go to the wall , taking hundreds of jobs with them . |
| 22 | The good new s is that they go to the Ranfurly Library . |
| 23 | Not only then do about a quarter of respondents cite pavement parking as one of the problems for pedestrians in that they object to the loss of pavement space to the vehicle and the obstruction caused by it , but they are then subjected to considerable accident rates as a result of the broken slabs and uneven surfaces that result ( Figure 8.3 ) . |
| 24 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that they refer to the Duchess of York when the woman says : ‘ The red-head is being actually quite supportive . |
| 26 | Most speakers would agree , I think , that Mary wore a red dress and Mary wore a blue dress were contraries ( assuming , of course , that they refer to the same occasion , and that Mary , as would be normal , wore only one dress at a time ) ; the colour terms refer to the predominant colour of the dress , and there can be only one predominant colour . |
| 27 | The disadvantage , of course , is that the dissenting minority may feel sufficiently aggrieved at the proposal that they complain to the Panel ( in particular , that General Principle 8 has been contravened which requires that rights of control must be exercised in good faith and that an oppression of the minority is wholly unacceptable ) or , alternatively , commence an action under CA 1985 , s459 complaining of unfairly prejudicial conduct . |
| 28 | No surprise , then , that they look to the United States with such extravagant hope . |
| 29 | Erm , one other thing that I want to make about erm , the victims , erm , I am very much er , involved with erm , victim support Wiltshire , and one of the problems with victim support Wiltshire is their work is increasing all the time because the crime rate goes up , and every time there is more crime there is more victims , but the , the Government has not yet said that they will put the money up that they erm , that they er , the grant up that they give to the victim support . |
| 30 | It may be shown ( using the criterion that they lead to the same set of equations ) that by adding the so-called leakage inductances to the ideal transformer the two representations ( Fig. 4.11 ) become equivalent . |