Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people feel restricted in their choices or limited to their present station in life , because their birthcharts declare that they are unlikely to better themselves . |
| 2 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 3 | Inside the territories the NGC was dismembered by Israel , its leaders expelled , imprisoned or confined to their home town . |
| 4 | More revisionist radical elite theorists have an alternative concept , ‘ technocracy ’ , to describe administrative elites who operate primarily in their own interests , or according to their own professional norms , rather than being beholden to outside elites . |
| 5 | If a small child is asked to group a set of objects he may gather together items according to their colour ( for example , all brown objects ) or according to their normal use ( for example , all cutlery ) . |
| 6 | Most systems also have some method of assigning scores which rank competing hypotheses according to how well they match the constraints , or according to their probability given the evidence . |
| 7 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 8 | One family would gather on Sunday evening round the harmonium ; another would go to their grandfather 's village shop , boys and uncles each with a fiddle or cello , to sing or dance to their own tunes — ‘ we really enjoyed that ; ’ while a Yorkshire millowner 's family used to ask all their kin for weekly musical parties , taking turns to host these ‘ dreadful performances . ’ |
| 9 | Which of the people engaged in work there may consider that tourists are a nuisance , or damaging to their activities ? |
| 10 | Manuscripts and correspondence of many other 20th-century Scottish writers were added to the collections , creating or adding to their representation . |
| 11 | Thus , for example , the Court held in a 1970 decision that , since Community regulations are directly applicable in all the Member States , the Member States can not , in order to ensure their application , in the absence of a provision to the contrary , take measures the purpose of which is to alter the scope of or add to their provisions . |
| 12 | Then there are cyclists with all kinds of strange burdens strapped to their backs or tied to their carriers , and teams of horses and donkeys ( and sometimes bullocks ) pulling carts . |
| 13 | As throughout the tour , Ashenden had observed the opportunist self-seekers at the front of the queue ( as ever ) for the room-keys ; and in the rear ( as ever ) the quieter , seemingly contented souls who perhaps knew that being first or last to their rooms would make little difference to the quality of their living . |
| 14 | Many businesses print or refer to their standard terms of trading on their invoices which are normally sent out after the contract has been performed — for instance by delivery of goods . |
| 15 | However , since not all antislavery public meetings were under the aegis of local societies or linked to their establishment , the fact that some abolitionist groups were chary of a ‘ populist ’ style of activity before the early 1830s does not exclude democratic implications from all antislavery usages of meetings . |
| 16 | Where left to their own devices as to choice of subject , and bearing in mind the possibility of their being illiterate , they took subjects that were pagan in origin such as The Green Man which is a growth and fertility symbol . |
| 17 | The highest ranking Kislevites fight on horseback and carry tall lances , but their most distinctive feature is the tall winged banner which they wear upon their back or attached to their saddle . |
| 18 | Those ladies slim and brave enough to wear the high fashion were ethereal in gauzy dresses that clung to their bodies as they moved . |
| 19 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 20 | The new legislation encouraged them into a buying spree that led to their picking up such distribution companies as Ideal and C. M. Woolf 's W&F Film Services , and sufficient cinema circuits to build a chain of 316 theatres . |
| 21 | Souness was still grumbling about the decisions that went against his team — the penalty that gave Coventry their first goal , the free-kick that led to their second , an offside flag that never came for the third and the sending off of Jamie Redknapp . |
| 22 | Behind that , among the bogs of the river-plain , was the wide crossing that led to their station last night and then , further north , to Dunblane , where their base was . |
| 23 | she says she says to me just take thirty pound , the , there were , I think there 's about seven quid that belongs to their bed , well their bed was bloody horrible to pay |
| 24 | It is equally notable that in four other instances , children who later had a choice stayed on with grandparents , rather than returning to their parental home . |
| 25 | According to their report , " dismantling " or " recycling " are often used euphemistically for dumping , as toxic residues resulting from the process almost always end up staying in Poland rather than returning to their country of origin . |
| 26 | And I know many older women who have found the kind of partnership that adds to their life rather than subtracts from it . |
| 27 | TRGs is a concept , first identified by Gambling ( 1987 ) in which patients are classified more according to the treatment they receive than according to their clinical classification . |
| 28 | With the exception of items made in Srinagar ( Kashmir ) and Jaipur , Indian rugs are usually marketed under the name of the Persian weaving group whose design has been copied ( i.e. , as Indo Isfahans , Mirs or Bidjars , etc ) , rather than according to their place of origin . |
| 29 | They 're normally char er classified according to their gating properties rather th initially , rather than according to their ionic specificity . |
| 30 | I 'm making films for a population of people who have never had films that speak to their heart and their soul , you see ? |