Example sentences of "[vb base] to [noun] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 It sounds promising to say that these sentences stand to wonderings and wishes very much as factual statements stand to beliefs .
2 The public accounts refer to money that has been spent .
3 For example , an employer who has allowed all his employees access to information or has entrusted it to the least skilled may find the court unsympathetic .
4 Drives groom to wedding and pays necessary fees .
5 In any event , membership of an international organisation does not amount to recognition nor does a vote on credentials and representation issues : see Warbrick , 30 I.C.L.Q. , 568 , 583 citing 1950 UN Doc S/1466 .
6 All the processes that follow apply to wood that has been stripped and to articles made with new wood .
7 Similar rules apply to loans and advances to credit institutions , with the additional categories of amounts payable on demand or at seven days ' notice and those payable within three months , although here where amounts are repayable by instalments each instalment is to be treated as a separate amount .
8 And I 'm sure when we do these blood tests we 'll find that things are not altogether normal , now sometimes it 's actually the way you respond to treatment that gives it away rather than
9 I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control .
10 I took the mid-afternoon express to Valladolid that goes on to Salamanca .
11 Although concerned initially with resource allocation effects , the concepts of trade creation and trade diversion have been used to analyse whether shifts in trading patterns lead to benefits or costs in terms of gains and losses of consumer and producer surpluses .
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