Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 2 | Puzzled as to why the DEA and CIA would choose to do this through a front operation in Nicosia rather than through official channels , Coleman duly reported all this activity to Control , but the response was so muted he could only conclude that the DIA knew about it already . |
| 3 | In the exercise of that power , the Secretary of State has transferred many such functions to Securities and Investments Board Ltd . |
| 4 | Miss Ashley had in fact , except as regards changing her birth certificate , overcome all these obstacles to acceptance . |
| 5 | To have made one such contribution to mankind would have been remarkable , but to have also contributed greatly to the early understanding of electricity , is outstanding . |
| 6 | The Frenchman had made any such trips to Teheran before the fall and he understood the need for absolute secrecy . |
| 7 | The Armstrongs were a lawless lot , paying little more allegiance to Scotland than they did to England , for they straddled the borderline ; so they were not to be trusted , but Johnstone and Jardine assured the Regent that on this occasion they would not cause trouble , for although they would care nothing about Balliol one way or the other , they hated Dacre , who as English Middle March Warden had recently hanged some of their people . |
| 8 | erm plastic erm , er the new plastics erm always give much more scope to lighting fittings , erm than the , the glass in the past but erm |
| 9 | Got all this stuff to type up and I 'd forgotten my typewriter . |
| 10 | To force increased employment costs on such firms , as we do when we add all that baggage to employees , is likely to drive them nearer to the margin , nearer to closing down . |
| 11 | If represents marginal congestion costs of adding one more person to region , then a welfare maximum requires that |
| 12 | If the outstanding quality of the Limited is any guide , the Motorsport team is going to be bringing many more smiles to people 's faces . |
| 13 | The democratic base must remain as wide as possible and I commend all these paragraphs to council . |
| 14 | Any assistance to Russia in a struggle with Japan in East Asia would involve these powers in war with Britain , so the alliance effectively restricted any such conflict to Russia and Japan alone . |
| 15 | I include due process as a separate virtue because I do not believe it collapses into either of the others as I describe these , but my arguments in this and the following chapters will pay much more attention to fairness and justice , and I shall mainly ignore procedural due process . ) |
| 16 | ERA presented all this evidence to Glasgow District Council who finally admitted that there was a problem with the housing stock but said they had not got the money to put things right . |
| 17 | A diametrically different view came from a trades-union leader , Mr Lee Chuk-Yan , who said : ‘ This whole thing of right of abode gives one more choice to people who already have lots of choices . |
| 18 | I made two more visits to Knowlton , and it has now become a focus for my own particular pilgrimage . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're wearing that ridiculous outfit , ’ said Robert , ‘ and I do n't know why you 're telling all these things to Malik and telling him about things I gave you as a present . ’ |
| 20 | Secondly , who rode both those horses to victory and thirdly , who owns both those horses ? |
| 21 | They helped to bring six more people to safety in the town of Ballycastle . |
| 22 | Has it not occurred to the Government and the nation , therefore , that the excessive consumption of alcohol also incurs these same costs to health and the NHS . |
| 23 | ABC TV wanted Newman to bring these same qualities to England , and offered him a post in control of their series Armchair Theatre . |