Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE hundred Liverpool football fans are expected to gather to pay tribute to supporter Dennis Corbett , who died while on a trip to watch his team play in Moscow . |
| 2 | For the first time in its history , the Conference of European Churches ( CEC ) has decided to give priority to communication issues , placing particular emphasis on media ethics . |
| 3 | His departure from nearby Long Eaton thus severs a rugby link that has helped to bring Nottingham to eminence from relative obscurity over the past 14 years . |
| 4 | Ernst & Young has offered to pay compensation to Sound Diffusion investors who took up shares in a rights issue seven months before the electrical equipment company collapsed . |
| 5 | ‘ I imagine he has gone to say goodbye to Claudine , ’ she announced , although Jenna had not dared to ask where he was . |
| 6 | Genuinely considerate and sympathetic to others , she is rather disorganised in her day-to-day functioning but has learned to delegate attention to detail and accuracy while she focuses on broader , long-term objectives . |
| 7 | Yet it is plainly obvious to anyone who works in central London , or has tried to get admission to hospital there , that this is untrue . |
| 8 | Delegation of management responsibilities will be needed : ( 1 ) to avoid having to take day to day problems to full partners ' meetings for decision ; ( 2 ) to free individual partners from onerous administrative tasks so as to allow them to concentrate on fee earning ; ( 3 ) because it is inherently more efficient . |
| 9 | But an additional limitation on the offence at point 7 is that the stationary vehicle must have stopped to accord precedence to pedestrians . |
| 10 | Dear Guitarist After reading your article on A&R depts , I feel moved to put pen to paper . |
| 11 | The recent ENO production of Königskinder may have helped to alert interest to Humperdinck as the composer or more than Hänsel und Gretel , and those who enjoyed the work will find the splendid overture and three other pieces here . |
| 12 | Discussing the case of a headmaster who had reported his pupils to the police for criminal behaviour , the Philosopher , who was female , expressed the opinion that , since the headmaster is in loco parentis , he should have tried to avoid resort to law ; he should have dealt with his pupils himself , privately and without publicity — as would , she suggested , a loving parent . |
| 13 | Yet although Motion may have started to do honour to Larkin 's achievement , what his book predominantly conveys is distaste for the man . |
| 14 | Violence erupted hours after a UN convoy which braved fighting to deliver supplies to Gorazde returned safely to the capital . |
| 15 | This alternative offence can also be proved as at point 5 with the additional observations to the effect ‘ The stationary vehicle had stopped to accord precedence to foot passengers ’ . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , rightfully or not , Zambia had come to mean trouble to Leila . |
| 17 | He said unionists had voted to send representatives to events in Hong Kong and France , but refused to spend a few hundred pounds on the bilingualism conference in Gweedore . |
| 18 | Press reports in June claimed that the United States had threatened to withdraw aid to Israel for immigration absorption if the settlements policy was not terminated . |
| 19 | Prince Karl Lichnowsky had offered to take Mozart to Berlin , where he would be introduced to King Friedrich Wilhelm II . |
| 20 | What Ritschl had said one can gather from his testimonials that had helped to bring Nietzsche to Basle : his pupil was " a phenomenon " who would simply be able to do anything he chose to do . |
| 21 | On Sept. 27 , Economics Minister Andrei Nechayev , in an interview with Interfax , said that the RCB had agreed to cut credit to industry to 500,000 million roubles for the remainder of the year . |
| 22 | Rumours that Ukraine had agreed to supply weapons to Iran went unconfirmed . |
| 23 | He suspected that perhaps McAllister , always so gallant in facing life , as he had now seen on several occasions , had tried to suppress , to crush down the awful memory of what had been done to her , had refused to give way to grief , to shed healing tears , until in his arms something had reminded her so strongly of what had passed and broken the barriers her will had erected . |
| 24 | Ukraine , Moldova , Byelarus , Georgia , Azerbaijan and Armenia had refused to supply conscripts to forces outside their territory ; the Central Asian states , and some republics and regions within Russia , had agreed to submit some conscripts to CIS strategic forces . |
| 25 | Before disembarking , the passengers had been reminded to put their watches forward by six hours to be in line with Continental time , which had served to add disorientation to fatigue . |
| 26 | I found it odd that Robert had chosen to distinguish me alone as English and wondered how he saw himself and Lili and I found it odd that Lili had chosen to lay claim to Englishness . |
| 27 | ( In the SCAN scheme of analysis — see reference 2 — which we have developed to provide feedback to curriculum designers on the use of their material , we call these 1 and 3 levels of teacher guidance respectively , the level of demand is similarly classified unc The classification has been found useful much more widely . |
| 28 | Local authorities have lost important development-control powers and have had to release land to UDCs at extremely low prices . |
| 29 | Well so that one 's got to go back to back to Cambridge then has n't it . |
| 30 | The peculiar geography involved has disturbed many , who have wanted to emend Thuringia to Tongres , an emendation already made by a scribe of one manuscript of Gregory 's Histories . |