Example sentences of "[vb base] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People 's propensity to misjudge the context of a reference is an indication of their willingness to assimilate the situations they encounter to paradigms of thought and action with which they are familiar , however misleading or falsifying this process of assimilation might be . |
| 2 | It is often not understood by outsiders that certain types of music immediately suggest to dancers , teachers and choreographers particular kinds of steps . |
| 3 | Often I suggest to children that the piece of paper could be used for learning about the subject they 've decided on , or which I 've given them , in any way they feel is right . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm a storyteller , and so I can show readers that people think in a certain way , and suggest to readers that under those circumstances they might thing in the same way . |
| 5 | his pennies till they grow to pounds and then invests in |
| 6 | Seaweeds grow to depths of about 100 m ; below that level plants are rare , but the sea-bed is thinly carpeted with animals that live in or on the mud and feed on the rain of debris from above . |
| 7 | The need for irreproachable standards has been brought into sharp focus by the events concerning the Maxwell pension funds , which turned the spotlight on pension funds and the security they provide to members . |
| 8 | Each year we review the cost of Friends subscriptions and take into account the level of admission charges at Historic Scotland properties , the costs charged by comparable organisations in Scotland and elsewhere in the United Kingdom and the service we provide to Friends . |
| 9 | Graham said : ‘ People are generally happy with the new premises and the move has taken place with the minimum of disruption for the service we provide to schools . |
| 10 | You put on a good front , and appear to others as an outgoing person . |
| 11 | A good starting point is to think of how closed and impenetrable a school 's affairs , particularly its curriculum , appear to governors and to visualise the report as a series of entry points . |
| 12 | One of the frustrations of learning about psychology and psychobiology is that the practitioners frequently behave in what appear to outsiders as totally illogical ways . |
| 13 | How does the black sheep of the nursery rhyme appear to children ? |
| 14 | The Daemonettes appear to characters failing an Int test as attractive members of the opposite sex of their own race ; a successful WP test is required to resist their charms . |
| 15 | Many flowers appear to bees to be ultraviolet-coloured even though to us they appear to be a quite different colour . |
| 16 | In greater or less degree according to their temperaments , their training , their intelligence , they are swayed by prejudice , rely on intuition instead of reasoning , leap to conclusions on inadequate evidence and fail to recognise the cogency of material which might cast doubt on the validity of the conclusions they reach . |
| 17 | To order : complete coupon in block capitals and send to Clothes Show Magazine Offer , Dept 6 , Banaman , 97 King Street , Cambridge CB1 1LD . |
| 18 | Head down , they race to departments , charge at the shelves and scarcely look at the price before stampeding to the cash tills . |
| 19 | We apologise to customers for the cancellation of breakfast owing to : repair work in the kitchen , staff shortages , a fatality in the cold room , the non-arrival of deliveries . |
| 20 | ‘ We apologise to customers ’ [ as they insist on calling us ] ‘ on the delayed 1850 to Aberystwyth . |
| 21 | We apologise to readers for this error . |
| 22 | The curves approximate to hyperbolae and incorporate the principles of transition curves discussed in Chapter 8 . |
| 23 | just looking at that one where we said well report to parents |
| 24 | They have committees selected by the members which report to councils elected by the member councils . |
| 25 | Fast tempo for the F major Sonata 's Presto finale also causes slight , but only slight , rhythmic hiccups when quavers cede to semiquavers . |
| 26 | Knowledge-based innovations differ from all others in the time they take , in their casualty rates , and in their predictability , as well as in the challenges they pose to entrepreneurs . |
| 27 | The latter may involve changes in the content of work ( for example , the decline in manufacturing and shift to services ) and changes in the level of work ( upgrading or deskilling ) . |
| 28 | Forestry Commission report records shift to broadleaves |
| 29 | Ann Black , NALGO Branch Secretary , says it 's becoming increasingly difficult to provide the professional services we supply to students . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) The purposes referred to in subsection ( 2 ) above are : ( a ) the sale or supply to persons taking table meals in the premises of alcoholic liquor supplied in a part of the premises usually set apart for the service of such persons , and supplied for consumption by such a person in that part of the premises as an ancillary to his meal ; and ( b ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor so supplied . |