Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was a reverse of the journey we made so many times to council planning meetings , ’ said Steve Clarke , chairman of the Supporters ' Club and standing for election to the board . |
| 2 | We would be quite happy to pass on this information to persons planning on visiting and/or diving in the Florida Keys . |
| 3 | Moving on its drive to attract as many ISVs to UnixWare as possible , Univel has kicked off another phase of its developers ' programme that will get the software into vendors ' hands at reduced prices : Independent software vendors can get a Personal Edition bundled with a Software Developers Kit for $600 and a Application Server bundled with a SDK for $900 . |
| 4 | It concluded that GPs in Britain referred relatively few patients to hospitals , handling many cases themselves . |
| 5 | Do you think magistrates send too many people to prison ? |
| 6 | No other bishop could have done so much harm to Philip as Conrad . |
| 7 | Entitled The Special Edition , it restored around 17 minutes of original unscreened footage , filling in more background to Ripley 's material angst and showing exactly what happened to Newt 's parents and the other settlers on the Alien 's planet . |
| 8 | We will restore last year 's training cuts which caused so much damage to training for young people and the unemployed . |
| 9 | Graham Taylor is hoping that Santa wo n't give away any goals to England 's World Cup opponents — or he might be given the sack . |
| 10 | Sail early this morning to Denderah . |
| 11 | Even a well-lagged cylinder will still give off enough heat to air clothes if your cylinder is in an airing cupboard . |
| 12 | It was 20 June when they went back , all Goblander 's windows open , the weather being perfect the way you expected it to be that summer , as if it were southern Europe where you woke up each morning to sunshine and unclouded skies . |
| 13 | They decided that they would give as much cash to people in their native Dublin as possible during filming . |
| 14 | Though ostensibly child-centred , it paid rather more attention to teachers and classrooms than to children 's learning . |
| 15 | On the domestic front , the General turned over more power to Pompidou than he had done before 1965 , although he did not abandon domestic politics entirely . |
| 16 | Tozer travelled after the pioneer journeys of W. M. Leake [ q.v. ] in Greece and Macedonia , and W. J. Hamilton [ q.v. ] in Asia Minor had opened up these countries to archaeologists , and his main interest was not in the discovery of archaeological material but in physical and human geography . |
| 17 | Perhaps if corporation executives paid as much attention to programme budgets as they appear to do to their own tax returns , viewers would get better value for their licence money . |
| 18 | In contrast with earlier enquiries — especially Beckford — they were criticized for paying too little attention to parents and for having ‘ a strong focus on the needs of the child in isolation from the family ’ ( DOH , 1988 , para. 4. 57 ) . |
| 19 | Either way the notion is both ill-informed and ridiculous and it comes from paying too much attention to newspapers like the Guardian . |
| 20 | ‘ Flying planes can be dangerous ’ is the type-sentence of semantic ambiguity because it can yield both a passive and an active interpretation , and here a variation is used to demonstrate the danger of paying too much attention to public opinion . |
| 21 | Nobody in the world would suggest GM paid too much attention to Lotus . |
| 22 | He charged Sewell with the maintenance of discipline in the College ( which led to Sewell recommending the expulsion of only one pupil , although some students paid too much attention to tavern and skittle-ground ) . |
| 23 | Hamdi Ali Abdel-Wahab al-Banbi , hitherto chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation ( EGPC ) , took over as Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister from the long-serving Abdul Hadi Mohammed Qandil , whose dismissal had been widely predicted following criticism from foreign companies that he paid too little attention to exploration and production . |
| 24 | An early Tender may also be useful in forcing the inexperienced pursuer 's agent to give rather more consideration to quantification of the claim than has been done previously . |
| 25 | ‘ And worse still , ’ she says , ‘ I often worry that my other two children are suffering because I have to give so much attention to Graham . ’ |
| 26 | Common sense ( or observation ) may show that the pattern of behaviour requires the forecaster to give progressively less weight to values the further back in time they occur . |
| 27 | Schools in a number of prosperous suburbs are starting to give as much prominence to Egypt as to Greece and Rome in their history courses . |
| 28 | Get your team around the table and agree a plan of action to give even more attention to detail . |
| 29 | It 's therefore to give too much credit to Wilko on their developement although their play did improve greatly under his guidance . |
| 30 | If I sometimes recognized this , I blamed my Aunt Lilian who had brought me up to give too much importance to careers and causes and things of the mind , simply because she had never known , herself , any of the pleasures of the body , and had , as a result , made me feel guilty now . |