Example sentences of "' [noun pl] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | LMS was viewed as being very similar to the pilot schemes , although the heads ' opinions tended to be related to how kind they expected the formula to be to their situation . |
| 2 | Sub-panels and writers ' groups report to the vertical panel and the whole is co-ordinated by the Institute 's professional board . |
| 3 | Au pairs ' hours have to be fitted around language classes and travelling and so are unlikely to fit in with yours , unless you are prepared to compromise a great deal and have the energy after work to deal with the appalling homesickness experienced by young people living far from home . |
| 4 | As the teachers ' notes had to be available at least a fortnight in advance of the visit , some lack of precision was inevitable . |
| 5 | The differences between Blacks and Whites were fewer than have been found in other surveys , though Blacks ' attitudes tended to be less favourable . |
| 6 | EC countries are likely to miss their target for carbon dioxide emissions in 2000 by atleast 4 per cent , according to a report on member countries ' plans submitted to the European Commission . |
| 7 | Research studies , however , including ( … ) those of Wolkind and Kozaruk ( 1983 ) on children placed through the Adoption Resource Exchange , and Reich and Lewis ( 1986 ) , and Maca-skill ( 1985a ) concerning the agency Parents for Children , indicate that children who have been placed against their parents ' wishes seem to be settling quite well , but there are insufficient numbers , followed up for insufficiently long , for us to know what the impact of adoption of older children without consent is going to be in the long term . |
| 8 | Manchester-based Airtours needed 50 per cent of Owners ' shareholders to agree to the deal , but failed to get the necessary votes . |
| 9 | At classroom level , the attention on some areas of the curriculum could sometimes be achieved only by the deliberate neglect of others , the reasons having to do partly with teachers ' attempts to conform to other advisory expectations : those relating to classroom organization . |
| 10 | In April 1992 , the month in which responsibility for the financing , organization and management of the Magistrates ' courts passed to the Lord Chancellor 's Department , machinery of government changes made in the aftermath of the General Election transferred five existing Home Office functions to other departments . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , in the repeated game of incomplete information we have shown that players ' strategies converge to those they employ in the full information game . |
| 12 | Shrews ' aces look to Keeley |
| 13 | The celebrated bust , looking like two dunces ' caps applied to her chest , was encased in a puce halter-necked sweater which left all but essentials bare . |
| 14 | Climbers ' eyes tend to be drawn to the cleanest and most direct route up a rock face , while in a similar way walkers piece together peaks and ridges to create their own ‘ direct ’ routes — albeit ( usually ) on a more horizontal plane . |
| 15 | The prisoners ' grievances appear to be the food here and the availablity of prison clothing . |
| 16 | Many licensed dealers ' clients boast to friends of their broker or their " man in the City " , who gives them tips . |
| 17 | He produced a manual for internal use , including a three-monthly monitoring system and general managers ' bonuses tied to implementation , and sent it to his competitors . |
| 18 | By law , therefore , bookies ' offices have to be seedy reminders of the 1960s — an outrageous imposition when , for many , the Saturday punt is the week 's intellectual activity . |
| 19 | During 1992 shareholders ' funds increased to £49.8 million ( up 22% ) . |
| 20 | An analysis should be given of the total amount of non-equity interests in shareholders ' funds relating to each class of non-equity shares and series of warrants for non-equity shares . |
| 21 | The tone of Tithonus ' words seem to be of great regret and self lamenting . |
| 22 | Yet farmers ' voices tend to be drowned out by articulate city-dwellers deprived of subsidies and no longer able to afford imported goods . |
| 23 | The clamour of gulls ' voices rose to a shriek and , with her ears full of it . |
| 24 | Horses ' feet need to be trimmed , preferably by a farrier , every six or eight weeks . |
| 25 | They suggest that our understanding of mothers ' experiences has to be gleaned from studies employing a variety of income measures , which collect and analyse their data in ways which obscure differences both within and between households . |
| 26 | Whether this increase will be applied to the employer 's or to the employees ' contributions remains to be seen . |
| 27 | During his lifetime Marxism scarcely penetrated socialism in France , the main revolutionary nation of the period , and it was only with the growth of a strong Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) in Germany after 1870 that Marx and Engels ' ideas began to be a major influence on European socialism . |
| 28 | Some of Sir Charles ' ideas relate to 19th-century physics such as his very recent work on the vectorial description of the rational relationships between neighbouring crystal grains . |
| 29 | Feminist psychological theories ' inadequacies seem to be due to their close but largely unexamined relationship with this concept . |
| 30 | In the business sector , the users ' needs approach to accounting theory has been adopted in a number of authoritative statements . |