Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday . |
| 2 | France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday . |
| 3 | France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday . |
| 4 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 5 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 6 | ‘ We have moved against the trend in opencast mining , which has tended to shrink in response to the general recession and hiatus in the underground coal mining industry . |
| 7 | Lunch consisted of bread and cheese , neither of which Charlie would have dared to offer for sale to Mrs Smelley . |
| 8 | For example 1 might have chosen to go by ship to New York . |
| 9 | In conclusion I wish to emphasise that if this appeal is allowed the House will not thereby have chosen to re-establish in relation to a limited class of offence an inquisitorial method of ascertaining the truth in criminal cases which English law has long since repudiated in favour of an adversarial process . |
| 10 | You do n't have to come too early only I 've got to go at quarter to seven . |
| 11 | At first it was very difficult , but now we 've learned to live from day to day . |
| 12 | However , official figures suggest that more girls have tended to stay at school to secondary level than boys , both in the homelands and in DET areas . |
| 13 | This can be seen to underlie economic change in the UK in that the older industrialized regions have tended to suffer in relation to the expanding regions of the south of England . |
| 14 | In the meantime , the two DTI inspectors , Mr Hugh Aldous and Mr Henry Brooke ( now Mr Justice Brooke ) , have had to listen in silence to a spokesman for the Al Fayeds publicly rubbishing their report . |
| 15 | Bearing in mind the reference by Shelley J.A. , in Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , 180 , to the concept of counsel for the Crown as ‘ minister of justice whose prime concern is its fair and impartial administration , ’ their Lordships , while not feeling bound to accept in relation to Jamaica the comprehensive principles , almost amounting to criminal discovery , which the defendant has attempted to rely on , recognise that the ‘ Purvis–Barrett ’ principles do not cover every situation in which fairness may demand that the prosecution make available material to the defence . |