Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Efta states agreed to make a contribution to the Community budget in return for participation in the market . |
| 2 | , The Minister for Agriculture has put an end to scallop fishing in the north-east in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning which has no cure and can be fatal . |
| 3 | This little side-play caused Peggy to stop and wonder , and it also gave Lizzie the opportunity to try to bring a smile to her daughter 's face and perhaps ease the tension she saw there . |
| 4 | The Accounting Standards Board has issued an amendment to SSAP 15 , Accounting for Deferred Tax . |
| 5 | ‘ Black Will has taken a fancy to your little brother — what think you of that ! |
| 6 | This existing history of ‘ miraculous ’ cures is just a hint of what may be available to the human mind struggling to find a way to greater self-help in coping with ill health and adversity , if only the vitally necessary ‘ faith ’ were more easily grasped and held on to . |
| 7 | Siding with the opposition in the 198-member Assembly , the dissidents sought to ensure an end to the military 's previous stranglehold on politics , which had ensured the routine re-election to the presidency of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner , dictator from 1953 until his removal by Rodríguez in a military coup in February 1989 [ see p. 36458 ] . |
| 8 | Durkheim sought to provide an answer to this question by demonstrating that society forms an integrated unity similar to that of living organisms . |
| 9 | Since 1985 the Belgian French Speaking Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has sent a questionnaire to maternity units annually . |
| 10 | Death sentence : A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian to death for blasphemy against Mohammad . |
| 11 | And just as there are books on the Munros , Richard Goedeke has written a guide to their alpine equivalents , describing each peak and the easiest way up it . |
| 12 | Pakistan have n't complained yet but ICC secretary Colonel John Stephenson has sent a FAX to their Board ‘ asking whether there is any official objection ’ . |
| 13 | The MMC is not able to initiate investigations itself ; either the DGFT or the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has to refer a case to it . |
| 14 | Last June David Ennals tried to introduce an amendment to the Mental Health Act which would have allowed nurses to withdraw from ECT . |
| 15 | The applicant has lodged an appeal to the Secretary of State against this decision . |
| 16 | The Museum of Fine Arts has dedicated a gallery to its superb collection of ancient artifacts from Nubia . |
| 17 | Financial adviser Peter Hargreaves of Hargreaves Lansdown has produced a guide to Gilts which he will send free to Assets readers who call 0272 741 309 . |
| 18 | In Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Hansen Tangen [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 989 , shipbuilders contracted to build a vessel to a certain specification at Yard No 354 at Osaka Zosen , but the ship was in fact built at a different yard , the House of Lords did not consider these words of location as being part of the identity of the vessel . |
| 19 | Enjoying widespread support in the constituencies , the supporters of the tariff threatened to become a danger to Baldwin 's leadership — as they had been during the 1929–31 period . |
| 20 | Recent studies ( see page 29ff ) show that many schools continue to follow an approach to learning which is impeccably orthodox . |
| 21 | Nevertheless the OECD cautions that principles of equity do impose a limit to the possibilities for charging . |
| 22 | Though it does not deny that subjects do have a duty to God to obey their ruler , it insists that rulers are not absolute , and themselves have duties to their subjects . |
| 23 | Suppose a judge then announces , in the style of law as integrity , that the precedents do establish a right to damages because that reading of the precedents makes them in retrospect morally sounder . |
| 24 | Another member of ASUTRAMES explained how the repression increased , until there came a point when the Association had to call a halt to its public activities . |
| 25 | On Sept. 10 Gorbachev had addressed a telegram to all republican , regional and local leaderships calling on them to take action to prevent a collapse of law and order . |
| 26 | I agreed with him , even if Posh Porky had won a scholarship to some place called St Paul 's , which in any case was miles away in Hammersmith . |
| 27 | The historian Cassius Dio , a contemporary of that period , related how Albinus had taken an army to Gaul to face Severus . |
| 28 | , Mercury accumulation in lakes across Canada and the United States continues to pose a threat to health , despite earlier claims that it had virtually been eliminated as a problem , according to recent studies . |
| 29 | In June 1308 Edward had accompanied a letter to the pope on Gaveston 's behalf with the grant of the castle of Blanquefort to the pope 's nephew ; later that year , at the pope 's request , the king released some prisoners , among whom was Walter Langton , bishop of Lichfield , who had offended the barons by his corruption and extortion at the exchequer and the king by earlier siding with Edward I against Gaveston . |
| 30 | Voting will not be announced until this morning — but gay campaigners were cheered by delegates when they protested that the party 's policy review had replaced a commitment to ‘ full equality ’ for gays with ‘ greater equality ’ . |