Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my mum wants to go out , or goes to work , I stay at home and look after the girls , and vice versa . |
| 2 | Thus today I am equally at home with both metric systems , and can switch from ergs to joules , or dynes to newtons with ease . |
| 3 | Exhibitors are invited to send details of their special promotions or launches to David Russell at The Bookseller . |
| 4 | In some cases , with your manager 's prior permission , you may make long distance calls or calls to directory enquiries but you will have to pay for these . |
| 5 | Michelangelo 's works have a strong , peculiar and marked character : they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely , and that mind so rich and abundant , that he never needed , or seems to disdain , to look abroad for foreign help . |
| 6 | On death-beds it may be thought that a soon-to-be-deceased settlor is susceptible to giving either involuntary nods or nods to propositions imperfectly understood , or both . |
| 7 | Much of our literature and culture stems from or relates to attempts to represent conceptions of town or country , conceptions that invariably contrast the one with the other ; town and country are always represented as opposites . |
| 8 | the making of grants or advances to bodies other than local authorities , |
| 9 | Grants may also be available for thermal insulation , or repairs to properties in clearance areas . |
| 10 | When the practice begins or comes to light in the context of an existing marriage or other partnership it may be distressing for the partner . |
| 11 | The command you can see starts or switches to Word for Windows ( the USEEXIST makes the button switch to Word if it 's already open , and the IMAX sizes its window to leave the Power Launcher toolbar clear at the top of the screen , and icons clear at the bottom ) . |
| 12 | This has been described as " the affection of a man that clingeth to God , a homely and pious speaking , a standing of the enlightened soul unto enjoying for so long as may be " . |
| 13 | A senior official at the Russian gas industry monopoly Gazprom told Itar-Tass news agency that supplies to Ukraine would be cut off on Thursday . |
| 14 | For example , his account of the nine different reasons why two scientists might disagree could go verbatim into any elementary course on the social relations of science , whilst the extended analogy between ‘ growing science ’ and establishing an orchard should be required reading for every would-be science politician in any nation that aspires to modernity . |
| 15 | You may appeal under rule six , my branch was told , this is the appeal procedures that refers to members not branches , but it will be well understood you are making the appeal on behalf of the branch , which obviously means we 've got ta borrow one to do something else . |
| 16 | While writing this book I have tried to avoid , where possible , medical language that refers to people with mental disorder exclusively as ‘ patients ’ , a race for whom doctors and other professionals make all the decisions , whether the ‘ patient ’ likes it or not . |
| 17 | USL 's in-house counsel says OSF , which appears to looking for proof of an industry-wide conspiracy against it , is asking USL to produce not only every piece of paper they 've got with OSF 's name on it but anything that refers to Unix or even software . |
| 18 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 19 | If developed countries want to reduce the waste that goes to landfill , rather than simply make green gestures , incineration with energy recovery is the best way to do it . |
| 20 | Because , as I say , we 've got recycling credits on our side , we 've got the fact that we 've got this outlet in Exmouth which will take the paper , and that 's why we 're looking at producing this workshop area , so that a lot of this stuff that goes to landfill , I 'm talking about , fridges , tables , whichever else that can be repaired and reused er , I know this is only on a very small scale , but one of the things that I think is very important with is that we 're not purely a recycling centre , we also want to set an education project , to raise people 's awareness of what yo yet waste production is n't about recycling , it 's about not producing it in the first place , |
| 21 | Pusey if you take the road that goes to Pusey you |
| 22 | I hope to reflect this properly in the next-but-one report that goes to Ken . |
| 23 | and even if they did buy without a solicitors assistance , what was the system about sending them the letter which we 've looked at earlier which is at erm D one , five , two , remember this is the letter that goes to Mr solicitors assuming you get a very rare person who does his or her own conveyance |
| 24 | Have you seen , have you seen that , that little lady that goes to Betty , Betty something |
| 25 | Is this the night coach that goes to Dwolding , after all ? ’ |
| 26 | There 's an Imperial Airways ‘ Heracles ’ , the one that flies to India . ’ |
| 27 | T is awful I was taught as a child in catechism the labourer is worthy of his hire there are four sins that cry out to heaven for justice one of them is a oppressing the widow and orphan and the other is defrauding the labourer of his hire because the labourer is worthy of his hire that 's a sin that cries to heaven for justice , that 's what I was taught as a child . |
| 28 | Rather like the concept of Holy Trinity , the Devil hangs around as part of the religious baggage that belongs to tradition or ‘ our church doctrine ’ but seems to have no life or substance . |
| 29 | Dent is so refreshingly different from the city environments of most of the visitors that it would be churlish to deny them this glimpse of a way of life that belongs to history . |
| 30 | Much later — at the time of night that belongs to owls and jackals , when human beings are strangers — Kalchu left the house and climbed the hill behind the village . |