Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposed council tax , which offers something to each lobby , is a slick political trick . |
| 2 | Note also those facts vital for your purpose as well as anything which leads you to further research — names of other publications , for example . |
| 3 | Sections on Calligraphy , Illustration , Typography and Book Design make way for a commercial break which introduces us to 28 first editions of Penguin paperbacks . |
| 4 | The horror of bachelorhood which condemns you to arid thought for ever , and the horror of marriage , which condemns you to lies and hypocrisy for ever . |
| 5 | A particular , and in representational terms crucial , development of this new activism ( and one which links it to other movements based on class , gender , colour , and so on ) is the de-biologising nature of the disability . |
| 6 | They are subject to a work permit system which ties them to one job and makes them dependent on their employers ' goodwill to continue their stay in Britain . |
| 7 | The left-angled Swastika symbolizes the centripetal force related to the pull of gravity — the force which ties us to mental stagnation — decay and dissolution . |
| 8 | Human subjects are volunteers ; a fact which commends them to those opposed to the use of animals incapable of choice . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 10 | Any or all of these factors may encourage you to seek to negotiate a settlement which entitles you to speedy payment of a lump sum and perhaps other benefits , even if the value of the total package is less than the amount that you might theoretically win if you sued and all went well . |
| 11 | The question , however , is whether II Maccabees — does not present a gross simplification of events which prompts us to misleading analogies . |
| 12 | The first and possibly the widest of these is its use to indicate feelings of pleasure and happiness , of general well-being and even of personal security , which comes from an association between two or more of earth 's creatures , and which attracts them to one another . |
| 13 | What it requires to extend it is what Einstein 's work on general relativity gave to the special theory , namely , a generalization of it which extends it to all frames of reference regardless . |
| 14 | Geometry is not a subject which lends itself to such treatment . |
| 15 | What seemed to me most significant about the period I chose to study was that this was the moment of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , a transition which could best be observed and studied in drawing , which lends itself to greater experimentation . |
| 16 | But the regional representatives will try to convince Mr Lang that Highland is a unique area , with a strong community identity which lends itself to region-wide treatment . |
| 17 | Wallpapering your PC Next in our flying tour of these low cost packages comes Wallpaper Art Gallery for Windows , ( WAGWIN ) a title which ostensibly is single use , but which lends itself to one or two other purposes as well . |
| 18 | Its troopers wear black and white , a combination which lends itself to bold parti-coloured divisions , broad stripes , checks and diamonds . |
| 19 | But , as used generally , a plate is a whole page illustration , coloured or otherwise , printed separately from the text and usually on a different type of paper which lends itself to glossy reproduction . |
| 20 | Which brings me to another point ; looking at the frets after only minimal use there 's already evidence of some scoring and scratching , so their life expectancy seems rather suspect . |
| 21 | ‘ Which brings me to this report which has reached me from Vargas in London via his cousin here in Berlin , the man Rivera . ’ |
| 22 | Which brings us to one vital and final point on the matter of taking our fauna aloft and then casting them off to the winds not knowing exactly where they are going to land . |
| 23 | Which brings us to one final ugly matter . |
| 24 | Most of us were taught the wisdom of saving regularly , which brings us to one of the most sensible ways of investing — the unit trust monthly saving scheme , and best of all through a personal equity plan . |
| 25 | He insists on a quick hug from his young son Jordi who accompanies him to some of the major events where Courier plays . |
| 26 | I bet she changes it to twenty one or summat . |
| 27 | For the past three years Brenda has been learning German at the Open Learning Centre on site and she puts it to good use on frequent trips abroad . |
| 28 | If she finds a piglet in the way she moves it to one side . |
| 29 | Then she leaves us to each other . |
| 30 | They have to compete for telescope time , to make sure that no one beats them to crucial measurements . |