Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the cases that followed ( ie the disposal of the whole of the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 3 ) ; a conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 4 ) ; and the conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to a third party ( Chapter 5 ) ) , once the husband had disposed of his interest no further tax considerations applied so far as the husband was concerned ( unless there was an element of gift involved in the conveyance not at arm 's length and the husband died within seven years , thus bringing in a charge to inheritance tax ) . |
| 2 | An invasion by Uganda-based rebels , launched on the night of Sept. 30-Oct. 1 , threatened the 17-year regime of President Juvenal Habyarimana , who cut short a visit to North America on hearing that his country was under attack . |
| 3 | DESMOND DOUGLAS , 36 , a legend in British table tennis over the past decade has moved up a place to No 3 on the new England men 's ranking list , writes John Woodford . |
| 4 | And to qualify for that grant , you have got to submit two er your programme for the year and you 've got ta give the secretaries , you 've got to give a report and you 've got to give your balance sheet and er , Jean is always , I must say , very pleased with mine because erm you know , we do give quite a lot to charity . |
| 5 | It has opened up a market to Apple , to which it previously had no direct access . |
| 6 | His work with the youthful Chamber Orchestra of Europe confirms both a commitment to training and to performing new works . |
| 7 | Attempts to accommodate both a sensitivity to difference and a commitment to the universalistic claims of post-Enlightenment liberalism became increasingly convoluted and forlorn . |
| 8 | And tonight we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity . |
| 9 | Well it 's just brought out a budget to paper over a few cracks and make it look good because they knew that , they 've got no more chances this is it in n it ? |
| 10 | It seems almost a pity to subject these lively fancies to the stern test of verisimilitude , but I feel constrained to point out three facts . |
| 11 | This move formed the basis for the human sciences which , through their organization around the figure of man , once more brought about a unity to History . |
| 12 | He kept open a line to North , but made sure that he appeared to have no truck with whatever he was doing . |
| 13 | She invested in up-to-date equipment , took out a subscription to hairdressing magazines to keep in touch with the latest ideas , and took clients at the weekends and evenings . |
| 14 | Tara also took quite a liking to rum which she was sometimes given to make her sleep . |
| 15 | Use either a processor to puree the liver and chop the bacon and onions , or a mincer , working the liver through the fine blade and the bacon and onion through the coarse blade to vary the texture . |
| 16 | Reasoning that the very nature of Doctor Who would mean scenes at the beginning and end of serials where only the regular cast were involved , this element became almost a prerequisite to production . |
| 17 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
| 18 | He could never have taken his urine and faeces samples once a week to Health Physics . |
| 19 | Douglas , who has retired from the England squad , has lost only twice this season — to the No 1 Carl Prean at the English National 's final and nine days ago in the final of the Essex Open to Alan Cooke , who also moves up a place to No 4 . |
| 20 | But such homosexuality must in some sense be repressed ; overt ‘ masculine ’ homosexuality is subversive , says Irigaray , because it openly interprets the law according to which society operates and in so doing threatens it : ‘ once the penis itself becomes merely a means to pleasure , pleasure among men , the phallus loses its power ’ ( This Sex , 74 , 24 — 8 , 128 , 171 , 192 — 3 ; her emphases ) . |
| 21 | Gill joined Darlington from Middlesborough and another former Ayresome Park player , Alan Walsh , is thinking over a move to City and is likely to sign on Monday . |
| 22 | For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’ |
| 23 | Hallmarks of the research training provided by the department include both a commitment to individual , specialised scholarship and a concern for broader contemporary trends and potentials in the discipline . |
| 24 | Modern technology and the discourses of knowledge associated with it represent both a threat to society and a possible means of expanding human consciousness . |