Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not if it means that company directors are literally unable to talk sensibly to outsiders . |
| 2 | Championing the symptoms , the rights of lesbians and gay men against discrimination , has led inexorably to demands that tackle the causes , for example positive images and assertions of homosexuality as equally valid with heterosexuality . |
| 3 | Working in such a school in the mid-1950s , part of my task as a very inexperienced junior teacher was to explain almost daily to parents that Peter or John or Mary would learn their tables , and learn to compute , despite the fact that they were using apparatus rather than sum books and were active rather than passive . |
| 4 | The ego , as says , is open to the outside world and furthermore to stimulations from inside , from inside the body , that reach it through subjective sensations like hunger when you need food , or fear when something threatens you , and cognitive er awareness like er okay you realize that before you have your lunch you 're gon na have to go to the bank to get some money to pay for it . |
| 5 | This practical demonstration of working positively with conflict gives me confidence in your work and helps me to see how I can listen better to others . |
| 6 | I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see . |
| 7 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 8 | But Allen was only wrong in that the price collapsed suddenly to ls a pound . |
| 9 | This owed much to analyses of the labour market by H. Llewellyn Smith , of the Board of Trade . |
| 10 | Public ownership was perceived as a means whereby the state elites could direct the Francoist strategy of economic autarchy launched in the 1940s , which in turn owed much to concerns with national security . |
| 11 | The medical neglect of psychosomatic illness and hypochondria must shoulder some of the blame in such situations , because the stigma attached to these disorders owes much to doctors ' negative attitudes . |
| 12 | Take an active part in group discussion , displaying sensitivity , listening critically , eg to attempts to persuade , and being self-critical . |
| 13 | In the same case Lord Scarman , at p. 186 , referred approvingly to observations of Harman L.J . |
| 14 | It has been pointed out by Ochshorn that Jesus ' message is evidently addressed basically to men . |
| 15 | Indeed , there are some who feel that there should be no border , thinking back nostalgically to days when there was only one domain of art . |
| 16 | The old French military primary trainer is still a very good machine for introducing pilots gently to jets , while giving them lots of fun too , finds Bob Grimstead . |
| 17 | The Fouga , designed as a primary jet trainer , was and still is a very good machine for introducing pilots gently to jets ' special characteristics — while giving them lots of fun too . |
| 18 | For their part , trade unions mostly ignored community-based groups as irrelevant , self-appointed and ephemeral ; they seemed unaware that they were becoming increasingly remote from the people who belonged to them , especially to women ( as members , and even more so as unwaged workers ) . |
| 19 | Others were pure artists , to whom war and other nonaesthetic factors were quite irrelevant ; this applied especially to artists working in the 1930s , such as those associated with nonobjective art and St Ives . |
| 20 | Others were pure artists , to whom war and other nonaesthetic factors were quite irrelevant ; this applied especially to artists working in the 1930s , such as those associated with nonobjective art and St Ives . |
| 21 | There would then follow a quantity of directives relating most especially to handicrafts — knitting , crocheting , macramé — skills Fru Møller had studiously avoided , let alone perfected . |
| 22 | Today it is often a top-cross sire in dairy and suckler herds , especially to Friesians and Holsteins . |
| 23 | Sun St. is a professional set-up offering very keen rates , especially to performers new to recording . |
| 24 | Schools should certainly be accountable , especially to parents and pupils , but one of the dangers of such a competitive approach to education is that the benefits of cooperation between schools and across LEAs will be lost . |
| 25 | Many women have difficulty saying ‘ No ’ , especially to friends . |
| 26 | Marshall ( 1987 ) follows Mandel ( 1975 ) in relating long waves to major shifts in the wider economy , and especially to movements in the rate of profit , but goes beyond Mandel in trying to make the theory less deterministic . |
| 27 | Moves towards toleration began during 1686 , when James used his prerogative powers to grant a large number of pardons and remissions of fines ( especially to Quakers ) , and even allowed individuals to obtain dispensations from the penal laws . |
| 28 | Special attention should be given to the design , maintenance and illumination of areas used at night to avoid accidents , especially to visitors who are n't familiar with the layout of the garden . |
| 29 | Well , Gain has reportedly just snared a porting pact with IBM to move its software to the RS/6000 and once it 's ready IBM will apparently co-market the stuff worldwide especially to users with mission critical distributed applications . |
| 30 | To judge from the surviving traces , this applies more especially to communities which in the course of the last five millennia have dragged themselves from the morass of primitive communism and set their feet on ground firm enough to support civilized ways of life . |