Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 On Nov. 14 the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet voted overwhelmingly to confirm Vitold Fokin as Chairman of the Ukrainian Council of Ministers .
2 Polanski used the club as his base and as an access point to its abounding supply of beautiful women ; just as Hefner 's Playboy mansion in Los Angeles was a magnet for the bright young things of Hollywood , so Lownes established a social whirl that attracted the cream and the elite of off-beat London society , plus some very famous names , eventually to include Nicholson himself .
3 The way in which Eadwine was able eventually to induce Eorpwald , king of the eastern Angles , to accept Christianity ( HE 11 , 15 ) would suggest that the eastern Anglian court was more amenable to Eadwine 's influence than the Mercian upon which Eadwine could not prevail in the same way .
4 The principal problem area concerns the additional amount of computation that may be necessary successfully to implement Monte Carlo based techniques .
5 Those were the days when the Company was really into the Track One , Track Two stuff cover within cover mostly to fool Capitol Hill I dare say but other governments too and all to hide destabilisation .
6 A blonde woman fashionably dressed in half-mourning , wearing a violet gown , her hair dressed high under a huge picture hat trimmed with a bird of paradise in full flight , rose to meet them , or rather to meet Dr Neil .
7 But he managed very effectively to isolate Benn and others who leaned towards a siege economy .
8 Out of this and out of a more general TANU mass media seminar in 1968 was eventually to come TANU 's mass media committee , which has now become an important influence on Tanzania 's mass media as a whole .
9 At the next crossroads turn right to find Everdon Stubbs .
10 You must use your time at work effectively to meet ES business needs .
11 Taken together the 1972 Basic Treaty on Germany and the 1975 Accords seemed effectively to provide Europe with what it had lacked since 1945 : a post-war peace settlement based on the acceptance of the Continent 's division .
12 With all 651 results declared , the Conservatives had an overall majority of 21 — enough to sustain Mr Major for the five-year lifetime of a Parliament .
13 One has only to compare Michael Wright 's ‘ Sir Robert Vyner and Family ’ ( 1673 ) with David Allan 's ‘ Family of Sir J. Hunter Blair , Bt , or Wheatley 's entrancing ‘ Browne Family ’ .
14 ‘ The plan has been put together to enable London Zoo to move forward in practical , achievable stages and represents the relaunch of this great London landmark . ’
15 Fowler and Andy Lloyd made a good start , Gower chipped in well , and the rest of the batsmen did enough to see England home by three wickets .
16 If he had lived long enough to see Henry crowned king at Westminster he would have been able to carry out his plan of leaving Anjou to his second son Geoffrey .
17 This is despite the fact that around 40,000 visitors enter the Magic Kingdom daily to see Mickey and Co at a cost of £23 for adults and £15 for kids .
18 Only to support Bruce in what he said Mr Chairman , that it is absolutely essential that we do keep some money after to take advantage of five B.
19 A hostess in tight teeshirt and jeans lingers only long enough to assure Kate discreetly with her eyes that she is not poaching on her territory , smiles velvetly at Jeremy , brings them their drinks .
20 Rhodesia had long presented an affront to Ghana and other Black African states , yet Nkrumah still valued the Commonwealth connection sufficiently to support Britain 's compromise proposals .
21 DEC 's 64-bit Alpha AXP microprocessor will be incorporated in the original architecture of the parallel ACRI system and the two companies will work together to optimise DEC 's implementation of the OSF/1 Unix operating system for highly parallel multiprocessor systems .
22 The following morning ( Wednesday , December 6th ) they went together to see Balfour , still in his sickroom .
23 As soon as I got to the wire I spotted a gap and ran through it , only to see Private Prescott overtake me as he charged on towards the enemy lines .
24 But in 1987 , Labour also won the campaign — only to see Mrs Thatcher back in Downing Street with a majority of 101 .
25 At one end fast-medium bowler Hill-Wood vigorously shone the ball on his trousers , only to see Ian Peebles at the other end undo his work by rubbing the shine away in the dust .
26 WEST Ham 's Steve Potts opened the scoring against Ipswich in Frank Yallop 's testimonial yesterday with a 63rd minute header only to see Neil Thompson equalise from a penalty .
27 Only to see Eleanor Thorne .
28 That was good enough to prompt Gordon Taylor , the PFA chief executive , to suspend the threat of industrial action .
29 By the 1290s the priory 's financial base was secure enough to enable Eastry to invest in the local land market and , after the expulsion of the Jews , to acquire the former Jewish tenements in the city of Canterbury .
30 Far too much of the forest has been cut down already , but I think there 's enough to enable Nahum and his people to enjoy a traditional way of life .
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