Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Econometric studies of this type have given support to those in favour of limiting overall rates of tax . |
| 32 | The findings of the study , establishing a link between between pollution and chest and lung problems , has given support to communities throughout the country fighting for compensation . |
| 33 | AFTER a week mulling over Budget proposals for offshore tax reform , British Petroleum has given support to the Chancellor 's moves to encourage more efficient oil and gas production . |
| 34 | Using WORDWISE + , : the user is given the following menu : I ] Save entire text 2 ] Load new text 3 ) Save marked text 4 ] Load text to cursor 5 ] Search and replace 61 Print text 7 ] Preview text 8 ] Spool text 9 ] Segment menu ESC Edit Mode Please enter choice To create a document , the user presses the ESCAPE key and is given a screen showing : START END This is the equivalent of a blank page on which the user might write or type . |
| 35 | In our chapter on literature and appendix 6 we describe ways of bringing literature to life for pupils of all abilities . |
| 36 | Adding some hormone rooting powder to the wound can help the plant establish new roots . |
| 37 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 38 | The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth . |
| 39 | Finally , evidence from what was arguably the most traumatic period for capitalism , the post-1929 Depression in the United States , does not lend support to the real-balance hypothesis : ‘ For the 1929–32 period as a whole there was an increase in real balances of 42 per cent , and a decrease in real income of 40 per cent ’ ( Patinkin , 1951 ) . |
| 40 | MacQuillan was n't only talking about getting the British out of Northern Ireland , he was using HM Supplies to channel money to terrorist groups . |
| 41 | Due to work by the union , the community is now set to act on repetitive strain injury , something we 've campaigned on for years and in late June the E C's Head of Health and Safety will share a platform with John and Nigel in Brussels to launch G M B's campaign to create working environment funds at E C level to channel money to unions and their health and safety work . |
| 42 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 43 | Both stylolites and solution seams transect the cemented sediment and develop perpendicular to the axis of maximum stress , which may be either overburden pressure or tectonic stress . |
| 44 | Moderator the convenor in his introduction and in the deliverance says that the church 's position is that it offers baptism to parents who are not er who , who is seeking to explain the church 's position to parents who are not communicant members or intending members of the church . |
| 45 | I think I , I should say that the current law of the church offers baptism to those who are communicant members or intending members of the church or who are adherents . |
| 46 | Wembley chairman Sir Brian Wolfson has given permission to the former England captain 's family for a match in his honour . |
| 47 | " Let the first woman who dares rise to her feet claim her mate and her throne . " |
| 48 | ( 65 – ) If any one of you women dares rise to her feet , she can claim her mate and her throne . |
| 49 | Having a parched nose and throat may lower resistance to colds , croup , sinusitis and respiratory problems . |
| 50 | Far from ‘ smashing ’ the Liberal Democrats , Labour is continuing to lose support to us . |
| 51 | Indeed , neither bird species seems to have developed echolocation to such a pitch of sophistication as bats have . |
| 52 | For example , it is used in West Africa to control blackfly which is a carrier of the disease onchocerciasis and which has developed resistance to many pesticides . |
| 53 | And many pests have developed resistance to the most commonly used pesticides . |
| 54 | But the biggest drawback is that there are very few places left in the world where the malaria parasites ( species of Plasmodium ) have not developed resistance to them . |
| 55 | A FOOT of snow fell in the Scottish Highlands yesterday , bringing chaos to road , rail and air services . |
| 56 | They are immigrants who travel across the world breaking down the moral order , bringing chaos to organized society . |
| 57 | Wind west to southwest moderate . |
| 58 | Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it . |
| 59 | Over half the subjects interviewed ( 57% ) believed that people with positive purified protein derivative ( PPD ) tuberculin test can transmit TB to others . |
| 60 | The likely unpopularity of the local income tax may explain resistance to this tax . |