Example sentences of "to [det] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this picture leads to few complications if the action is playing the piano or playing tennis … |
| 2 | The study revealed that growth of Asian businesses was confined to few areas and , although this had been rapid during the 1970s , it had been declining recently . |
| 3 | As soon as any of their number is reduced to half Wounds or below , they must all make successful Ld tests or break off combat and flee back to their cave . |
| 4 | They were not quite a secret society but certainly a network , not always trusted , not , indeed , acceptable to some bishops and in some livings . |
| 5 | Though in some ways Colin was quite close to his drivers — closer to some than to others — he was , in financial matters , something of a cheese-parer and though his sponsors were generally reasonably generous , even at the height of Lotus 's reputation he neither enjoyed the kind of largesse available to some teams nor , with his many other commitments and his fairly flamboyant life style , could devote all of what he did receive to his team . |
| 6 | The hut was home to some lizards and to the island 's one taxi driver who had sequestered it as his office and gasoline store . |
| 7 | In conclusion , I am advocating that , as the whole-school approach grows in popularity as a positive response to children with special educational needs , it is important that schools , as organisations , and teachers , as individuals , reject the segregationist policy towards disruptive pupils which might appeal to some teachers and government policy makers . |
| 8 | Forty years later , when viruses were better known and several people had attributed viral origins to some tumours and perhaps leukaemia , the paper was rediscovered . |
| 9 | Given the demands of the United Kingdom 's aging population and the tendency of health care costs to rise , it seemed certain to some doctors that governments ' policies in this area would contain an appreciable element of cost containment . |
| 10 | It may be able to detect the entire NCSA virus library , but it 's still oblivious to some viruses that have been common knowledge for many months . |
| 11 | In the first edition of this volume I pointed , optimistically , to some signs that this situation was changing slowly with , for example , the establishment of the Older Feminists Network in 1982 and the recent Age Concern/EOC joint initiative on incomes in old age . |
| 12 | So there was no place in therapeutics for lysozyme , but it had a more fundamental value : it showed that substances did exist which were lethal to some microbes and harmless to human tissues . |
| 13 | Once the linguist ‘ brings over ’ his formal abstract concepts into the cultural domain then , however much he protests that no ranking is intended , the attribution of such qualities as ‘ objectivity ’ to some languages and not others can not but have implications for ranking and for power . |
| 14 | I know there 's lads get eggs and butter and stuff from the farms , but everybody has n't got farms , and I could take you to some cottages that are well supplied with butter , sugar and cheese and what have you , that 's not from the farms . ’ |
| 15 | Nevertheless , some important instruments of accountability to Parliament can be identified , although most apply to some quangos and not all . |
| 16 | The kit will be made available to some customers and other interested parties for around the cost of a day 's consultancy . |
| 17 | The kit will be made available to some customers and other interested parties for around the cost of one day 's consultancy . |
| 18 | The walk led to some greenhouses and what had once been a stable , now converted into a surgery . |
| 19 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 20 | To make the maximum contribution towards creating the commercially successful product — success in other fields is of trivial interest — engineers must face up to some questions that they may initially feel poorly equipped to answer . |
| 21 | But we hope it will raise some questions in your mind , and give you the answers to some questions as well . |
| 22 | We were showing off our handiwork to some friends but admitted we were puzzled by the bedding plants , grown from seed , which produced attractive foliage but nothing else . |
| 23 | It sought to improve the conditions of a Sept. 5 decree law , which had offered lenient sentencing to some traffickers and a more " discretionary " attitude to extradition . |
| 24 | The prolonged delay , coupled with low spirits caused by cold , squalor and exhaustion , naturally gave rise to some suspicions that East Germany might , incredibly , have reneged on its deal . |
| 25 | I went along to some services and again I saw how happy people were . |
| 26 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
| 27 | Thank you Chairman , erm I 'm delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups . |
| 28 | As for the glamour attached to some jobs and not to others : forget it , it 's a sham . |
| 29 | I do n't know I do n't know who Mr is referring to er Chair , but I presume you wish me to reply to some comments that came from across the other side of the room . |
| 30 | The opportunity and the time to just talk to some kids and sound them out … or y' know , listen to what they 've got to say — have the time to do that . |