Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such clubs may have contributed to the desire for respectability of many seamen . |
| 2 | In explaining the fall in mortality , some weight must be given to the increasing wealth of Europe which made possible better feeding and better housing — however slight the improvements may have seemed to the poor . |
| 3 | Market estimates for yesterday 's intervention put the Bank 's purchases of pounds as high as $500m , and there were indications that the authorities may have intervened to a similar extent the day before , when sterling fell almost 6 pfennigs . |
| 4 | PP : Mrs Aquino , do you accept that your policies may have contributed to Mrs Rodriguez 's death ? |
| 5 | Cambodians may have taken to democracy , but queueing is still an alien concept . |
| 6 | The magnificent late twelfth-century font in the great church of San Frediano at Lucca shows Pharaoh drowning in the Red Sea ; and he and his troops are dressed up much as Frederick and his knights must have appeared to the Lucchese of the 1160s . |
| 7 | The clubs should have stuck to their guns . |
| 8 | Tradition says the original three large bells should have gone to Driffield but were delivered to Hutton by mistake . |
| 9 | It is difficult now to imagine the splendour which the vast incrustation of ornaments must have presented to the eye by the time the church was complete . |
| 10 | In fact , the more economical methods may have led to stronger liquors being discharged because the water has been the vehicle by which unwanted impurities have been removed from the textiles and put down the drain . |
| 11 | Other goals may become subordinated to a search for relationships , providing a misleading profile . |
| 12 | He had worked as a farmer and it was feared his long term exposure to pesticides may have led to his ill health . |
| 13 | Bats must have come to terms with the jamming-avoidance problem long ago . |
| 14 | Correspondingly , unpopular schools might expect to contract to a point at which they lose their viability . |
| 15 | Lord Lane CJ added : [ o ] ne hesitates to suggest that different legal considerations might apply according to whether the proceedings are taking place in the civil rather than the criminal courts and we do not do so . |
| 16 | This interest in national subjects could have led to cosiness as it tended to during Balcon 's time at Ealing Studios , but at this period he was under pressure from the Ostrer Brothers to maintain a diversity in his output and aim for the international market . |
| 17 | It is a late-third to mid-fourth century group and none of the vessels need have belonged to the second half of the fourth century . |
| 18 | Creators of the farce , US cinema giants Loews , say fans would have to go to the cinema 68 times before seeing the same plot . |
| 19 | We all have some idea of the major events in the world over the 1970s and 1980s , though our lists would differ according to individual memory and perspective . |
| 20 | These floaters would have to apply to be put on one of the regional lists , suggests a member of the Plant commission . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly , left to themselves some manufacturers would feel bound to institute corrective measures in the processes , or pay compensation , but many would not . |
| 22 | In order to establish the appropriate conditioned responses ( or expectancies ) during the first stage of training , the subjects would have to attend to and discriminate those features that distinguish A from C and those that distinguish B from C. Any plausible mechanism capable of allowing a subject to do this would also endow the subject with an enhanced ability to discriminate between A and B because it would involve the animal in coming to respond to the distinctive features of each of the three stimuli . |
| 23 | In 1654 , only a year after Cromwell had taken the title of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth , the School was the stage for the preaching of the independent divine , Samuel Eaton , a remarkable orator , whose speeches against the Book of Common Prayer were said to be so powerful that his listeners would refuse to go to Church . |
| 24 | Understandably , the behaviour of various words and their overlaps will vary according to the dictionary used — the current project has used the Collins English Dictionary ( CED ) , the Oxford Advanced Learner 's Dictionary of Common English ( OALD ) , and Longman 's Dictionary of Contemporary English ( LDOCE ) . |
| 25 | It is still uncertain how much time schools will have to devote to the national curriculum and its various subjects , and how much they will be able to give to other activities . |
| 26 | The methods of applying these four steps will vary according to the stage of embryogenesis being examined and they will be described in turn . |
| 27 | The last offices will vary according to the deceased 's religion . |
| 28 | Where man has bred horses for his own purposes their temperaments will differ according to their required role , making racehorses excitable , whereas carthorses will be placid and reliable . |
| 29 | The Bosnians will have to look to the lesson the Palestinians have learnt to their cost . |
| 30 | Please bear in mind that facilities and amenities can vary according to the mix and age of the various nationalities . |