Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes them rather like Health Maintenance Organisations ( HMOs ) in the United States , which receive a fixed annual sum of money to provide health care for enrolled patients ; the system subjects them to the same financial incentives and may lead to the same adverse effects . |
| 2 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 3 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 4 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 5 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the Offline System . |
| 6 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the offline system . |
| 7 | Teachers retain control of registration — keeping the important element of one-to-one contact — and perform it in the usual time , but instead of noting absences on paper , they feed the information directly onto a portable electronic register which then passes it to the central computer . |
| 8 | The first person puts the banana on their feet and passes it to the next . |
| 9 | The landlord collects the charge on the basis of the number of days a person has been resident and passes it to the local authority . |
| 10 | The second person carries the stakes and hands them to the third , unpointed ends first , who then pushes them into the ground and fastens the top line to the net with a half-hitch . |
| 11 | This leads me to the last determinant of transmission teaching I want to explore here : that of teacher isolation . |
| 12 | That leads me to the last question , ground ( 7 ) . |
| 13 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 14 | And that , logically , leads me to the obvious conclusion — that I love you , and that we must be married as soon as possible . |
| 15 | The Centre is a joint venture between the Livingston Development Corp , a government-funded body set up in 1962 to develop new towns — this organisation provides Centre users with in-house advice on marketing and introduces them to the local information technology and software community ; Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd , a local enterprise company that provides training , commercial validation of business plans and advice on possible avenues to funding , such as venture capital ; and the Scottish Enterprise Software Group , which offers technical and product evaluation . |
| 16 | McDunn introduces me to the other officers . |
| 17 | Sleep suggestions are made to encourage the subject to sever the critical awareness that normally links him to the external environment ; ‘ reality testing ’ has to be set aside . |
| 18 | Crilly hugs my brother back warmly and introduces him to the languid one . |
| 19 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |
| 20 | The Dear Report on Handsworth captures this image and links it to the social condition of young blacks : |
| 21 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 22 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 23 | Continue west to Lillooet , where a breath-taking train ride through stunning mountainland delivers you to the world-renowned Whistler Resort . |
| 24 | A right-turn up Rue des Bouchers gets you to the stately Galeries Saint-Hubert , a nineteenth-century glass-roofed arcade lined with marble-fronted shops . |
| 25 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 26 | A short bus or taxi ride from the city centre takes you to the Botanical Gardens which , until 1936 , were the Quinta do Bom Successo residence of the Reid family . |
| 27 | The haul up the corrie takes you to the first peak , Tom na Gruagaich , from where you must drop down and follow the ridge to the summit of Beinn Alligin , and although that 's where we packed it in , the walk could continue along a stunning ridge to cross the famous horns of Alligin , two pointy crags that stand like gateposts over a terrifying gully . |
| 28 | A fifteen minute bus ride takes you to the buzzing resort of Magalluf with its lively nightclubs , bars and discos , and Palma Nova , with its shops , bars and restaurants , is even nearer . |
| 29 | This splendid Sovereign tour takes you to the historic areas of Upper Egypt and the treasures of the Nile Valley . |
| 30 | So that which makes man vulnerable to the force of the leaping devil , also opens him to the effortless strength of the leaping God which is known through the experience of inadequacy . |