Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new video that 's intended to attract more tourists to Oxford has been condemned by city councillors . |
| 2 | Therefore , any form of report which by virtue of the qualifications of the reporter was intended to provide some comfort to readers of accounts would be regarded as a quasi audit report . |
| 3 | This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) . |
| 4 | The dreams cease to bear much relation to reality , but are so important to both men that they can not be awakened from , controlled or stopped , by anything short of death . |
| 5 | The media has added another dimension to racism by accusing Africans of importing AIDS . |
| 6 | Fortunately for owners of French homes , the pound 's devaluation has added some 10% to 15% to their value in sterling terms . |
| 7 | In a speech that echoed Norman Tebbit 's infamous call to people to get on their bikes , Roads Minister Robert Key announced a series of measures designed to encourage more people to cycle . |
| 8 | However , the all too familiar constraint of funding has prevented much progress to date . |
| 9 | Prince Charles , he says , hates being recognised in public and has transferred these emotions to buildings . |
| 10 | Do n't you think that man has done enough harm to Jennifer as it is without inflicting any more pain on her ? ’ |
| 11 | Those familiar with philosophical writing on causation , or touching on causation , will have noticed that our analysis so far of it has taken the terms necessary connection " , " nomic connection " , and " lawlike connection " as synonymous , but has made little reference to laws . |
| 12 | We have privatised British Gas and the electricity industry in a way that has opened these markets to competition . |
| 13 | Some residents may be in bed when you come on duty , but you will probably need to help some people to bed . |
| 14 | In such circumstances , lending will be at rates close to market rates and will be designed to avoid any distortion to bill rates . |
| 15 | For example , a man who wished to make certain grievances clear to his boss decided that this was best approached , in the first instance , by writing to his boss because he realized that , were he to try to do this face to face , he would find it difficult to express himself without losing his temper . |
| 16 | When the guardians proposed moving some families to Henfield , a few miles away , a fight broke out which could only be stopped by troops from Brighton . |
| 17 | ‘ We want to love these people to death , ’ he gushes . |
| 18 | A party leader who hopes to reach 10 Downing Street has to devote much time to party management , and policies and appointments have to be made with an eye on the reactions of party factions . |
| 19 | By spreading total daily consumption more evenly , society reduces peak demand and has to devote less resources to building power stations whose number is determined by peak usage . |
| 20 | Secondly , the strategy has identified that access to outpatient and non-urgent casualty services run by public hospitals also seems to be declining for public patients . |
| 21 | In the past , Ottawa has taken such owners to court in an attempt to maintain regulatory control over what TV programmes Canadians would be allowed to see . |
| 22 | Since those days — when he starred as the original Ribena Kid at the age of eight — Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo has taken that motto to heart and gone from strength to strength . |
| 23 | However , in two important respects the Misrepresentation Act 1967 has removed some bars to rescission so that s1 provides that , whether or not the representation has become a term of the contract , or that the contract has been fully performed , the right to the rescission remedy is not lost . |
| 24 | Both Blumler , examining coverage by 31 BBC and ITV regional stations , and Hetherington bring out the extensive nature of these programmes , although performance has varied considerably between the regions , with stations in Scotland , Wales and the North appearing to pay more attention to Parliament than stations in the South or the Midlands . |
| 25 | The biggest worry on Wall Street , where priorities tend to be narrowly focused , is over the dividend : if the company has to take another $1,000m to $2,000m of charges this quarter to cover further closures , it is unlikely to be able to meet the dividend out of cash flow . |
| 26 | In reviewing patterns of survival in lower income families , the chapter has drawn its evidence from an established research tradition which has paid little attention to gender . |
| 27 | Traditionally , literary criticism has paid little attention to questions of precise historical contextualisation . |
| 28 | As the ineffectiveness of curative medicine is increasingly exposed ( and costs soar ) Western medicine has paid more attention to prevention , but again within a narrowly individualistic framework . |
| 29 | ( Her family home , now the Hotel Villa d'Este , has astounded many visitors to Cernobbio on the western shore of Lake Como . ) |
| 30 | A composer is haunted by certain themes , subjects or moods , and he must look around for the stories or dramatic vehicles he needs to bring these themes to life as musical theatre . |