Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand it can emphasise the regular contributions citizens/groups make to collective life , while on the other it can reduce their participation to elections . |
| 2 | The authors are Rudolph and Margot Wittkower , and their theme is that while some artists succeed in financial and social circumstances without strain , other artists tend to Saturnine temperaments . |
| 3 | One possible explanation is that even though reproductive success probably varies more widely among males in these species , maternal rank has a stronger effect on the success of daughters since females remain in their mother 's troop and inherit her rank while sons disperse to other groups and may be unable to benefit substantially from their mother 's rank ( Altmann , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | You will wish to note that this department through the Personnel and Financial Services Unit provides a day to day personnel service to other central departments . |
| 5 | Is my hon. and learned Friend aware of the importance that the Baltic states attach to financial autonomy ? |
| 6 | On such occasions , there is a process of mutual education and stimulation which can at times descend to mere manipulation of the delegates by the leadership and can also rise to a high level of discourse about the basic problems confronting the nation . |
| 7 | This is consistent with previous data indicating that different antagonists bind to overlapping but non-identical sites . |
| 8 | In the endeavour to minimize the contributions work environments make to avoidable fatalities , state officials also play a significant part . |
| 9 | The pickup coil signals connect to analogue switches controlled by the first ( and higher frequency ) bistable in the driving divider chain , in order to isolate only those signals which coincide with the saturation waveform transitions . |
| 10 | This is especially true in applied areas , such as the study of psychopathology , where we are uncertain whether animals experience the same problems as humans and , if they do , we are uncertain about identifying which disturbances in animals correspond to particular disturbances in humans . |
| 11 | It tells us something also about the weight with which received connotations attach to long-established traditions : it was probably the pre-modern ( or at least pre-industrial ) , and at the same time the quasi-ritualistic motoric-gestural associations clinging strongly to the high Baroque style which attracted the rock group and their counter cultural followers . |
| 12 | Cohn ( 1971 ) presented evidence that summated auditory evoked potentials show a greater amplitude of initial output over the right hemisphere with click stimuli but higher amplitude over the left hemisphere when subjects listen to monosyllabic words . |
| 13 | Crusader castles cling to jagged crests or rise up from barren plains . |
| 14 | Scots succumb to southern comfort |
| 15 | Prospective students are advised to consult the leaflets ‘ FB23 , Young Peoples Guide to Social Security ’ and IS20 ‘ Guide to Income Support ’ available from DHSS offices , which will also be able to provide further guidance . |
| 16 | LANGUAGE & STYLE IN THE PRESS A readers guide to British Newspapers . |
| 17 | Recommended for Manufacturers guide to suggested mileage and the type of terrain the shoe is suited to . |
| 18 | Huge rusting cannon-barrel legs disappear to frightening depths . |
| 19 | A handful of inscriptions from British sites and many more from other provinces refer to various provincial officials , usually soldiers seconded for duty to the governor 's staff . |
| 20 | It is no secret that preachers refer to theological books when they prepare sermons . |
| 21 | While some goals refer to broad aims , such as efficiency or the pursuit of profit , these afford little insight into the operations of a specific enterprise , and so more detailed goals are normally of interest . |
| 22 | Differentiation theory does not predict that the magnitude of the acquired distinctiveness effect will depend on the similarity of X and Y. This theory might suppose that some form of discrimination training will be superior to none if only because such training will ensure that the subjects attend to relevant aspect of the situation . |
| 23 | The threat of a similar crisis involving a possible Western attack against Iraqi targets had been revived on Aug. 6 after the government declared that it would no longer grant weapons inspectors access to official buildings and ministries . |
| 24 | The tall , grouped piers ascend to tiny , foliated capitals . |
| 25 | Soccer : Liverpool 's worries turn to semi-final casualty list |
| 26 | Different sites on the hairs respond to particular scent chemicals , and the smell we experience depends on which combination of these sites is triggered . |
| 27 | Parallel considerations apply to turbulent pipe flow . |
| 28 | The same considerations apply to vaginal diameter and depth . |
| 29 | Research is showing that many animals respond to other weather cues . |
| 30 | Given the variety of strategies available to us for the pronunciation of words , it is not surprising that there are marked individual differences in the ways in which skilled readers respond to different kinds of words . |