Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | To restore hair to its former glory , it was tested with Bain de Terre Recovery Complex which revitalises dry hair |
2 | It is the county council 's responsibility to bring forward proposals to enable progress to be made . |
3 | for more than 6 weeks now entails loss of pension and loss of Housing Benefit ; formerly local authorities had discretion to continue entitlement to Housing Benefit for quite prolonged admissions . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Far from ‘ smashing ’ the Liberal Democrats , Labour is continuing to lose support to us . |
8 | While he declared that the Lebanese , Syrian and Iranian governments were to continue to support resistance to Israel , he was believed to have given some undertakings to the Lebanese government on restraining Hezbollah activity in southern Lebanon . |
9 | After that BR hopes to continue electrification to Swindon and beyond . |
10 | It would not be too extreme to ascribe insanity to a headmaster with no pupils ringing a long-silent bell in an empty school . |
11 | In the sixth century its ancient Christian traditions were strong enough to sustain resistance to Justinian 's attempts to dictate doctrine to the church . |
12 | He shook hands with the Scotland Yard man , who left to report progress to the one o'clock COBRA committee . |
13 | As we have noted , Circular 11/77 asked Regional Advisory Councils to draw up plans for the training of full-time further education teachers and to report progress to the DES by September 1978 . |
14 | From the research which they commissioned into consumer attitudes Mintel concluded there were millions of people in Britain living in a fool 's paradise in the 1990s , continuing to borrow money to the very limit on credit cards , store cards , bank loans and mortgages , yet refusing to accept they were ‘ in debt ’ — mainly because of their ignorance of how money was borrowed and paid back . |
15 | In severe cases of failure to thrive admission to hospital provides an environment where close observation of feeding patterns and mother-child interaction can occur ( Goldbloom 1982 ) . |
16 | But that was not how they saw themselves : by asserting the importance of lineage and kinship , and contrasting it with the ideology of their state , they thought to claim attachment to eternal values of universal worth . |
17 | Even ignoring its importance as a local employer , to say that a sector which earns 15 per cent of GDP , which finances most of the small business start-ups in Scotland , which provides capital for companies great and small , which finances pensions and insurance for thousands of Scots , as well as backing for a quarter of the UK 's institutional funds , does nothing to help the economy , is to carry ideology to the point of folly . |
18 | This aimed " to restore sanity to housing finance " by a range of measures . |
19 | We will provide improved scope for contractors to carry mail to final delivery offices . |
20 | The West began to see aid to Eastern Europe as more important than aid to the Third World — ‘ charity begins at home ’ . |
21 | Special connector designed to connect pipework to fittings with male screw threads — such as a bib tap . |
22 | The contrast between British Socialism , as then exemplified by trade unionism , and LEGA , could hardly be sharper ; the first , insistent on its traditional and conservative role , the role dispensed for it in the Victorian era by evolving Capitalism — to purvey labour to employing capital ; the second , looking towards a synthesis to accommodate and resolve the opposed interests contained in that dispensation , looking towards ‘ the third way ’ . |
23 | All these advantages for the employer , together with the incapacity of isolated workers to mount opposition to exploitation , are the perfect answers to the call to streamline production . |
24 | Diego Maradona did most to restore Napoli to the top , creating headed goals ( 18 and 45 min ) for Andrea Carnevale and scoring a virtuoso third ( 84 ) . |
25 | to call for all SSDs and SWDs to issue guidance to staff on identifying and dealing with elder abuse ; |
26 | The deposed Kuwaiti government established its base in the Saudi mountain resort of Taif , although the Amir and his ministers spent much of their time travelling the world to bolster opposition to the invasion . |
27 | But possibly the most satisfying task for the Hercules and its crew is to carry aid to the needy . |
28 | Your heart beats faster to carry blood to where it 's needed . |
29 | Instead " the clause must be limited and modified to the extent necessary to enable effect to be given to the main object and intent of the contract " ( per Lord Denning in Sze Hai Tong Bank Ltd v Rambler Cycle Co Ltd [ 1959 ] AC 576 ; see also Alexander v Railway Executive [ 1951 ] 2 KB 882 ) . |
30 | No matter how wide the terms of the clause , the courts will limit it and modify it to the extent necessary to enable effect to be given to the main object and intent of the contract . |