Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the last counter-offer came from the buyer , then the seller will signify acceptance ( depending on the type of goods and the nature of the transaction concerned ) when he ei ther appropriates goods to the contract , puts their manufacture in hand , or delivers them to the buyer . |
| 2 | In addition , protestant — loyalist politics has always been a zero-sum activity : one either has a monopoly of power or concedes it to the opposition . |
| 3 | It had begun to rain : the kind of damp , penetrating drizzle that chills you to the bone . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |
| 5 | For example , does an animal recoil from a naked flame because it can feel the heat or because it can ‘ see ’ the heat — or because it has some completely different sense that alerts it to the danger ? |
| 6 | Erm , right that gets us to the er performance analysis , and er graphs . |
| 7 | Some LEAs ( notably ILEA ) have tried to present examination results in a way that relates them to the ability of the school 's intake . |
| 8 | This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution . |
| 9 | It is a dramatic change , and not one that recommends itself to the city 's residents . |
| 10 | The tale is in fact carefully tied in as the Shipman 's Tale at the beginning of fragment VII , with an endlink that binds it to the Prioress 's Tale that follows it . |
| 11 | He called his acceptance of human sexuality and respect for the female energy Red Thread Zen , acknowledging that life itself would not exist if not for the umbilical cord that connects us to the feminine . |
| 12 | Watt 's Nine Men ( 1943 ) depicts a group of soldiers making their last stand in a desert hut , which has a dramatic intensity that pushes it to the edge of documentary fiction . |
| 13 | Erm I think that brings us to the end of the announcements . |
| 14 | In the different sense of the priest ‘ representing ’ the people to God in worship the role is more that of an intermediary or go-between — a role more akin to that of a Member of Parliament who understands the needs of his constituents and represents them to the Government in Parliament . |
| 15 | Frodo the Ring bearer does not really want to carry the Ring and offers it to the elf-queen Galadriel . |
| 16 | But the location is , as it were , accidental , and contributes nothing to the tension between Circe and Persephone as it has been teased out , in this passage along with others , by Guy Davenport ( see his ‘ Persephone 's Ezra ’ , in New Approaches to Ezra Pound ) . |
| 17 | To undertake strategic research , which takes the new ideas coming out of basic research and develops them to the point where the possibility of commercial application can be identified . |
| 18 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 19 | The first person puts the banana on their feet and passes it to the next . |
| 20 | The landlord collects the charge on the basis of the number of days a person has been resident and passes it to the local authority . |
| 21 | In this phase , the shipper 's freight forwarder prepares the text of the bill of lading and submits it to the carrier for calculation of freight , and for stamping or notation . |
| 22 | The lion immediately jumps on him and forces him to the ground . |
| 23 | One young married points at Babur and says something to the Gazza clone with her . |
| 24 | She runs away but it bears down and casts her to the ground . |
| 25 | In the forest insectivores with non-sociable behaviour , the male pursues the female , courts her , and leads her to the nest he has built . |
| 26 | The Centre is a joint venture between the Livingston Development Corp , a government-funded body set up in 1962 to develop new towns — this organisation provides Centre users with in-house advice on marketing and introduces them to the local information technology and software community ; Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd , a local enterprise company that provides training , commercial validation of business plans and advice on possible avenues to funding , such as venture capital ; and the Scottish Enterprise Software Group , which offers technical and product evaluation . |
| 27 | Crilly hugs my brother back warmly and introduces him to the languid one . |
| 28 | In Valentina 's Italian Family Feast ( Conran Octopus , £15.99 ) , TV favourite Valentina Harris takes us on a tour of Italy and introduces us to the food served by her family at parties and other celebrations . |
| 29 | The second person carries the stakes and hands them to the third , unpointed ends first , who then pushes them into the ground and fastens the top line to the net with a half-hitch . |
| 30 | ‘ The chief cipher clerk , Walter Peckle , decodes them and hands them to the ambassador . ’ |