Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 3 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And that , logically , leads me to the obvious conclusion — that I love you , and that we must be married as soon as possible . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | McDunn introduces me to the other officers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Crilly hugs my brother back warmly and introduces him to the languid one . |
| 13 | The Dear Report on Handsworth captures this image and links it to the social condition of young blacks : |
| 14 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Continue west to Lillooet , where a breath-taking train ride through stunning mountainland delivers you to the world-renowned Whistler Resort . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This splendid Sovereign tour takes you to the historic areas of Upper Egypt and the treasures of the Nile Valley . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Once the soil has been dug , it should be broken up with a fork , hoe , back of a rake , by hand , with a hand fork , or whatever you find most convenient , until it reaches the stage at which raking it backwards and forwards , and then crossways , reduces it to the fine tilth described . |
| 24 | The hobbyist 's name ‘ Quetzal ’ compares it to the Central American bird of that name almost legendary for its fabulous colours . |
| 25 | To use the landscape itself as the stage or background for artistic expression takes us to the very boundaries of art until , as we step across , we realize that the whole of life is , or could be , Art . |
| 26 | Here they run across wayward convent schoolgirl Kim , Holly Marie Combs , who directs them to the deserted cafe of Kate , an enigmatic Karen Sillas . |
| 27 | She sports a high-riding mini-skirt — which scarcely endears her to the strict Hasidic sect . |
| 28 | Again , the way he applies it to the specific case of popular music poses problems : the utopian promise which , for Adorno , is the mark of great art 's autonomy is in his view relevant to popular music solely by its absence , for here , he thinks , social control of music 's meaning and function has become absolute , musical form a reified reflection of manipulative social structures ; and this moment in the historical process actually represents , in effect , the end of history — the possibility of movement by way of contradiction and critique has disappeared . |
| 29 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
| 30 | He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level . |