Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , when there is a baby in the pram and a two- or three-year-old to attend to , is no mean feat . |
| 2 | Does not a human cypher or zero have to be capable of hearing the inner voice and , to the extent that he does hear it , is he not then a human being with the defects and failings that one normally associates with a human being ? |
| 3 | On Thursday and Friday volunteers at Morrison 's supermarket on North Road , Darlington , asked shoppers to buy an extra tin or two to send to hungry youngsters in Kostroma , County Durham 's twinned Russian city . |
| 4 | Volunteers at Morrison 's supermarket on North Road , Darlington , asked shoppers to buy an extra tin or two to send to hungry youngsters in Kostroma , County Durham 's twinned Russian district . |
| 5 | Our black-and-white picture does not really do justice to its chameleon-like metallic paintwork , which seems to appear as green , silver or blue according to the light . |
| 6 | You can reenter automatically next year and might do well yourself more harm than good going to the start line . |
| 7 | He punched Mr. Gilbert in self-defence and both fell to the ground . |
| 8 | Say that we want it set up in here with a photograph and that wants to be on the thing outsi |
| 9 | The genetic instability of the cloned wild type hsd genes in pBR322 in a rec A + background suggests that the increased production of the Eco K endonuclease from pBR322 is detrimental to the cell and this leads to deletion of the genes from pBR322 . |
| 10 | None of these authors continued with this type of study and all returned to essentially descriptive studies of vegetation . |
| 11 | We ca n't pay for that out of the general population in the City of Oxford , we 've got to take it out of the people who live in council houses and are paying rent and this seems to me a most iniquitous way of erm financing our people on how incomes . |
| 12 | Proper audit er is the effective way er to detect fraud and that needs to be at the at the er the re requirement er er that we impose er on and I , as I pointed out er at the moment the auditors themselves are not being effectively er regulated . |
| 13 | Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century . |
| 14 | I knew our modern bungalow on the village outskirts overlooking the Carse was n't as grand as Andy 's mum and dad 's house , which was practically a castle and stood in its own estate : ponds , streams , statues , lochs , rivers , hills , forests , even the old railway line passing through one corner of it ; one big garden in effect and vast compared to our single acre laid to lawn and shrub . |
| 15 | We can not deny the reality of biblical scholarship and this has to be expressed clearly . |
| 16 | And , in describing the consequences of what he defines as literacy , he distinguishes between societies which employ the notion of ‘ logic ’ and those which do not , between societies with ‘ historical sensibility ’ and those with only myth , and between societies where ‘ scepticism ’ is present involving ‘ deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma and those limited to ‘ semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 17 | Normally ( see Fig. 3.2 ) cortisol is secreted mainly around the time of waking and this seems to be part of dealing with the ‘ stress ’ of waking up and preparing for the new day . |
| 18 | The rules can be divided into those concerned with electron spin and those related to orbital properties . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , the signs are that he died as a result of poisoning but this has to be confirmed . ’ |
| 20 | It is inevitably the case that these tend to be people who are not rich enough to engage in high-powered tax planning , or who , for lack of knowledge or advice , fail to take the necessary precautionary action . |
| 21 | It only allows for a diet less generous as regards variety than that supplied to able-bodied paupers in workhouses . |
| 22 | However , there is an even more active sense of the notion of differentiation than that referring to marketing and planning strategies , although these are derivatives of this final process . |
| 23 | She must respect the ideas and methods of the ward , provided of course that these correspond to accepted hospital practice . |
| 24 | The DHSS provide sick pay contributions to the self-employed , but at a lower level than that paid to an employed operative . |
| 25 | These new roads may often be recognised by the fact that they run for miles without passing through a village , or indeed habitation at all apart from their own toll-houses ( their most notable addition to the scene ) and an inn or two attracted to the roadside by the prospect of traffic . |
| 26 | Families of people with a learning disability might welcome a less intense form of case management than that offered to single male schizophrenia sufferers who have a long history of compulsory admission to hospital . |
| 27 | Kenyatta and Ahidjo were nationalists first , and localists second although both went to great lengths to secure their political base amongst their own ethnic group . |
| 28 | Almost any substantial group of buildings with perhaps a shop , or village hall is today called a village and this leads to great confusion , both for researchers looking at earlier arrangements , and for the inhabitants for whom finer definitions are not needed . |
| 29 | Traditionally , you should row towards the swan , but swan-upping can be hard work and many prefer to be towed . |
| 30 | Composite nine is about putting young people back to work and that has to be a priority in a year which has seen youth unemployment hit the one million mark . |