Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [to-vb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this week , the college announced plans to extend to a second campus either in the Grassmarket or near Leith . |
| 2 | The charge was that the trio had ‘ conspired with persons inserting ads and with other persons to induce readers to resort to the said advertisements for the purposes of homosexual practices and thinking to debauch and corrupt public morals contrary to common law . ’ |
| 3 | The Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus [ see p. 39155 ] on Nov. 11 ordered partial mobilization in all of its republics , instructing commanders to go to the Chechen capital , Grozny . |
| 4 | He 's gone all over the eastern Mediterranean , and now has plans to go to the western end , to Spain , which was a thriving colony of the Roman empire with a lively intellectual life which had n't been touched by the Christian faith . |
| 5 | The union wants employers to agree to a specific date for equalising eastern and western wages , though it is willing to wait beyond 1994 . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 7 | But many farmers will need help to adapt to the new conditions , and we will continue to provide assistance . |
| 8 | Such knowledge could , however , continue to be useful when used in a regional context , which is what the RANs do , enabling members to react to a wider range of human rights violations in any given region . |
| 9 | Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients . |
| 10 | He was a member of a working party which caused ICI to switch to a new approach under which each division took direct control of its own sales . |
| 11 | Gedge explained its meaning to Splutter fanzine : ‘ It concerns itself with those factors which cause men to conform to a particular form of sexual stereotyping . |
| 12 | The Director encouraged individuals to respond to the Scottish Office — to ensure these efforts are guided , it would be useful if your Divisional response on strategic planning was circulated within our Division as a standard framework . |
| 13 | Last year 's event had to be cancelled due to problems with the course , forcing organisers to switch to a new two-lap route mainly off the road . |
| 14 | Let us use SENSE to refer to the basic logical , conceptual , paraphrasable meaning , and SIGNIFICANCE to refer to the total of what is communicated to the world by a given sentence or text . |
| 15 | What are the main principles teachers and parents should hold in mind as they try to help children to develop to the full their ability to use and understand English ? |
| 16 | Attempts to resolve differences met with little success when Latin American regional heads of state gathered in San Jose , Costa Rica , in October and sought to persuade Brazil to agree to a new price-support scheme based on a reduction of its 30 per cent quota allocation in return for a similar agreement by Colombia to cut exports . |
| 17 | A control room duty manager ordered staff to revert to the manual logging of emergency system early yesterday after the computer slowed down . |
| 18 | Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work . |
| 19 | There are often substantive reasons for expecting proportions to respond to an explanatory variable in something resembling this flat S shape . |
| 20 | It 's not unknown for an American to want to show a dozen video tapes , each of which may cost £50 to transfer to the British system . |
| 21 | Lois Forer , a judge and former assistant Pennsylvania attorney general , expects that the decision on the Barnes tour will encourage donors to include ‘ gift over ’ provisions in their bequests , allowing gifts to pass to a second institution if the first recipient of a donation violates the restrictions placed on gifts . |
| 22 | In April 1990 the Prince of Wales launched his ‘ Volunteers ’ scheme , under which young people would have opportunities to contribute to the public welfare and learn the value of participation and the feeling of belonging to the community through voluntary work . |
| 23 | Moments before , Mr Chittenden called the Daily Post 's office in Chester asking staff to go to the United Friendly offices in Chester 's St Werburgh Street . |
| 24 | The challenge in our modern world is to use medical techniques that will preserve the life of the baby and the health of the mother , yet still allow women to respond to the natural forces of childbirth , so that they may really feel they have given birth , rather than having a baby taken out of them . |
| 25 | It ca n't be a good idea to allow licences to go to the highest bidder . |
| 26 | More specifically , the user should press TAB to move to the next field when input at the current field is complete . |
| 27 | More specifically , the user should press TAB to move to the next field when input at the current field is complete . |
| 28 | They had to wait 20 minutes for a train to take them back the way they 'd just come from , then hire cabs to return to the Five Ways area . |
| 29 | For much of the nineteenth century this strategy was attractive to local government because it enabled localities to maintain to a large degree their prized autonomy . |
| 30 | Xhibition 93 has managed to get COSE to agree to a question-and-answer session by application developers and computing managers during the Xhibition Executive Conference in San Jose . |