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Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	To restore hair to its former glory , it was tested with Bain de Terre Recovery Complex which revitalises dry hair
2	It was also a popular time for processions of witness or walking days , when the members of churches and Sunday schools of all denominations would walk together through the streets , stopping at selected places along the route to sing hymns to bear witness to their Christian faith .
3	You will tell me that the milkman has refused to continue deliveries , but this only adds weight to my earlier submission that the boat is not only unfit to live in but actually unsafe . "
4	Her head was made up of two snakeheads and her sagging breasts bore witness to her eternal fertility .
5	He has added sound to his Alternative Reality Kit ( Computer Guardian , October 1 , 1987 ) , a simulated world where you , the user , can change the laws of physics .
6	When the Report was sent to Mrs Thatcher 's office with summaries and references prepared by the civil servants at the DES , they naturally drew attention to our firm proposals for the teaching of spelling , punctuation , grammar and written and spoken Standard English .
7	‘ I saw him lying totally naked on a bed , ’ says Gerald Thomas , ‘ while the sister , who was quite formidable , was applying Savlon to his private parts .
8	Rising labour costs , together with the depreciation of the won , helped to increase inflation to its highest level since 1981 , with consumer prices rising by some 10 per cent in 1990 , and wholesale prices by 7 per cent .
9	The control and communication functions of middle management become redundant when everyone has access to their own computer terminal .
10	High-ranking officials were said to be rigging privatization to their own advantage , using their influence in local administrations .
11	and it will not in that sense make any difference to God love , make a lot of difference to you and to me , but it will not make any difference to God 's love whether we spend our eternity in heaven or in hell , he will not love those in heaven any more than he loves those who are already , who will be punished for ever in hell , because God 's love is eternal , it did n't start at Bethlehem , it did n't start at Calvary and it does n't end when you and I die , as love is eternal , so God has provided salvation for every body and he offers salvation to all who will come to him in repent and and seine fe and except his salvation , you see when the Lord Jesus Christ died upon Calvary 's cross he died to make salvation available for who , for every body , you see he did n't just lay your sins on Jesus , listen to what the old testament profit Isaiah says , there in that tremendous fifty third chapter , and , and in what it 's in verse six , all of us says the profit like sheep have gone astray , each of us has turn to his own way , but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him , whether you and I reject Jesus Christ or accept him does not alter the fact that our sin was laid on Jesus the sins are the most awful person you can think of were laid on Jesus Christ , Jesus Christ paid the sins for , for , for , for men like Hitler , he paid theirs , the price for their sins , as much as he paid the price for the sins of somebody like St Francis of Assisi So God is not partial , it 's clear from scripture that all maybe saved , he made salvation available to all in that same book of Isaiah in chapter forty five , verse twenty two , it says look unto me all the ends of the earth are being saved said the Lord , in Romans one sixteen Paul says I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God onto salvation to all who will believe , and the verse we 've already quoted John three sixty , for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that who so ever believe in him should not perish , but have ever lasting life and Paul when writing to Timothy says he gives his own personal testimony he says this is a good and a faithful saying , it 's worthy of every body accepting that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved .
12	‘ Say goodbye to me Italian style , ’ he coaxed huskily .
13	It expects the number of mainframe customers to decrease by 44% — they 'll be interested in value added software to their current mainframe solutions .
14	It expects the number of mainframe customers to decrease by 44% — they 'll be interested in value added software to their current mainframe solutions .
15	To have added excommunication to his other problems would have been folly , and his reaction showed that , when speed was needed , he could act quickly .
16	His outline programme included a 100-day package to curb inflation , a declared intention to make the forint into a convertible currency ( but without a specified target date ) , and a commitment to land reforms , as demanded by the Smallholders who had campaigned on the single issue of returning farmland to its pre-1947 owners ; agriculture was to become primarily based on private ownership , with encouragement for family farms and voluntary co-operatives , although a limited number of state farms would also remain in existence .
17	When he did feel able to write to Coenwulf he reminded him of his humble origins ( but avoided reference to his matrimonial difficulties ) and exhorted him to remember always the very best features of Offa 's reign , avoiding Offa 's displays of greed and cruelty .
18	It removes unsightly discoloration , to restore wood to its natural colour .
19	The Author would like to thank the RAF Museum for its co-operation in the making of this article , and for allowing reference to its own publication on Sugar , A Very Special Lancaster by F E Dymond .
20	When any dominant group asserts its power by imposing its culture on others , or diverts wealth to its chosen art forms , then the cultural expression of other groups in the arts will be suppressed .
21	Speculators haunt Cambodia 's Riviera : Cambodia hopes to restore Kep to its former glory as a holiday resort .
22	From his dark expertly cut hair to his hand-made shoes he was the epitome of the new young man .
23	Officers and other employees of a local authority have always been barred from seeking election to their own council .
24	We have looked briefly at forming a limited company , but this we understand could give rise to our lower flying costs being treated as a benefit in kind by the Inland Revenue — and subsequently taxed .
25	Mr Bush 's clear determination to continue with America 's global role added force to his blunt rejection of Gorbachev 's call for naval nuclear disarmament .
26	I was able to go to Westminster for fairly regular lectures and we added anthropology to our social psychology studies .
27	If they do so , the court will give effect to their expressed intention , even if this means overriding words in the reddendum ( Weller v Akehurst [ 1981 ] 3 All ER 411 ) .
28	But , read the chapter this way or that , if there was ever a case for recognising that unions have a right to share in the management of companies , that case depended critically upon a general expectation — amounting to a near-certainty — that , rather than give primacy to their sectional interests , unions would and could act in the general interest whenever it was necessary or desirable for them to do so .
29	As the gunfire ceased , Ace and Benny ushered the Marines through the door , the group including a pair of medical orderlies who added Petion to their own collection of wounded , and followed after them through the tunnels that led upward more steeply than the others .
30	Mr Masters was quite clear that he had first seen the blue BMW late on the Saturday evening , ten days before , pointing out that , while you could n't exactly complain , it had made access to his own forecourt space a little difficult , or at least when there was already another car on the forecourt , which there mostly was , that being Mrs Masters 's runabout .