Example sentences of "to the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quiet , controlled voice filled her with relief and she scrambled out on to the jig to join David . |
| 2 | Trying not to show that she was completely at a loss , Sophie made a careful examination , then , taking out her stethoscope , she gestured to the herdsman to hold the calf steady while she listened to her patient 's lungs . |
| 3 | Having secured Theodora 's obedience , however , he left it to the Archdeacon to make his wishes clear . |
| 4 | ‘ If the courts undertook to rewrite statutes this would tend to foment litigation , because it would encourage people who objected to the legislation to try their luck with the courts . ’ |
| 5 | Amendment has now been made to the legislation to ensure that the time for raising and answering enquiries is calculated correctly . |
| 6 | That theory , quantum mechanics , will be described next , before we turn to the efforts to combine the two partial theories into a single quantum theory of gravity . |
| 7 | Piven and Cloward ( 1977 ) , for example , in their admirable study of four lower-class protest movements in the US , attribute greater effectiveness to mass protests than to the efforts to build mass-based permanent organizations : ‘ Whatever influence lower-class groups occasionally exert in American politics does not result from organization , but from mass protest and the disruptive consequences of protest ’ ( p. 36 ) . |
| 8 | Posters are far more difficult to monitor : in the past , agencies used to have their own teams of inspectors , but this is no longer done , and the only real check on the presence and condition of posters is a regular service run for the past 10 years by the Poster Advertising Bureau , which reports on the level of damage to posters , as a stimulus to the contractors to take care of their sites . |
| 9 | He would have to go very close indeed to the hoarding to read the word ‘ Taunton ’ between ‘ now ! ’ and ‘ Times ’ . |
| 10 | For location work it is very helpful to the photographer to visit the site beforehand . |
| 11 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 12 | Other times she would go down to the galley to prepare a meal , which might have taken her mind off the water but rarely did . |
| 13 | And so I ran to the forge to fetch him . |
| 14 | No that 's what I say and , and I 've written to the insurer to the insurer to tell , ask them what is the situation and we 're still waiting an answer . |
| 15 | Commander Richard Compton-Hall , museum director , said that the first step in salvage was to get any party with a claim to the wreck to relinquish it to the museum . |
| 16 | The argument is that proper name is an important signal to the processor to treat the referent as a main character , which tends to separate that character from others in terms of the roles they play in interpretative scenarios ( see also Garrod & Sanford 1988 for a fuller discussion of the concept of main character ) . |
| 17 | Not the kind who write letters to the editor to complain about injustice . |
| 18 | Orders came in , and that helped the warehouse people unpack the boxes and despatch them ; the information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were , and it was a continuous process and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them , rather than for the other department next door . |
| 19 | The information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were . |
| 20 | Mr. Justice Taylor 's report following his inquiry into the Hillsborough stadium disaster commented on the cost of policing and stated : ’ The temptation to the clubs to leave it all to the police is stronger if they are not required to make a realistic payment for police services . ’ |
| 21 | When you can feel a steady breeze on your back , pull the line gently and call to the helper to release . |
| 22 | Miles called to the hunters to increase their speed . |
| 23 | At Firbank , where the chapel proved too small , he went out on to the fell to preach to the people , saying that God 's church was not made of stone but of the air and the countryside around . |
| 24 | If this causes difficulties for some , Foucault 's scepticism with regard to the tendency to inflate the effect of individual agency can only be compared to the position of many Marxisms in which resistance and revolution are hardly the privilege of the individual as such , but rather of collective class action . |
| 25 | Boredom and fatigue will lead to the tendency to take naps but whether this should be encouraged or resisted depends upon details of the journey . |
| 26 | It refers to the tendency to transform social relations into relations between things . |
| 27 | Japan is no exception to the tendency to sum up widely shared social characteristics and attitudes under the heading of ‘ national character ’ . |
| 28 | Turning first to the tendency to produce relatively less plural references under the mixed condition , it is possible to analyse the effect in terms of the different effects which name and noun descriptions might have . |
| 29 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 30 | Rose had come to the dance to claim their place as a couple among the people in this loose , Christmas carnival . |