Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His work with the youthful Chamber Orchestra of Europe confirms both a commitment to training and to performing new works . |
| 4 | Attempts to accommodate both a sensitivity to difference and a commitment to the universalistic claims of post-Enlightenment liberalism became increasingly convoluted and forlorn . |
| 5 | In others he finds both the impulse to self-sacrifice , and their masculinity , quite complex ( p. 124 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Earlier traditions survived in rural areas and amongst the unorganised and disrupted working class , but marriage became increasingly the gateway to respectability and stability . |
| 8 | He kept open a line to North , but made sure that he appeared to have no truck with whatever he was doing . |
| 9 | Tara also took quite a liking to rum which she was sometimes given to make her sleep . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It did n't seem entirely the problem to Coffin . |
| 13 | With new songs about Aids and the ozone layer , global space cadets Deee-Lite have thrown away the map to planet fun . |
| 14 | He could never have taken his urine and faeces samples once a week to Health Physics . |
| 15 | Casting aside the aspiration to Home Rule as no longer acceptable , Sinn Fein set as its goal an Irish Republic as declared in the 1916 Proclamation . |
| 16 | The Mancunians ' chances of beating Blackburn into the play-offs were dented by defeat at lowly Oxford the following night , a result which bore absolutely no relation to form . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Modern technology and the discourses of knowledge associated with it represent both a threat to society and a possible means of expanding human consciousness . |