Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 2 | In recognizing that child abuse and child care are not discrete areas we should start from the premise that the understanding and skills developed in relation to child care should inform our approach to child abuse . |
| 3 | The icons change from level to level , but the effect remains the same . |
| 4 | Ideologies change in response to material circumstances and needs and the 1970 rock/pop shift was not just the result of some random play of stars and influences . |
| 5 | It was the not fault of my client , that just as the Visitor seemed to be gaining the trust of the young person who is the subject of this enquiry ( she was a child when the case was first brought to their attention as in need of care and protection but is now classed as a young person ) she was transferred because of area reorganisation undertaken in response to changes in government policy , and that the officer who took over the case was hospitalised shortly after she assumed her new duties . |
| 6 | Although the detailed patterns change from generation to generation — as both C clusters and D clusters expand , collide , and fragment — the asymptotic overall fraction of sites occupied by C , f C , fluctuates around 0.318 for almost all starting proportions and configurations . |
| 7 | Another idea thrown up by interferon research has been to make synthetic analogues of the 2',5'-oligoadenylate molecules formed in response to interferon and which activate the nuclease enzyme to break down viral messenger RNA . |
| 8 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |
| 9 | Ralemberg and his wife sprawled there , their throats gashed from ear to ear . |
| 10 | Dismayed at the pain he had inflicted and at the pain he himself felt in consequence , Richard rushed forward , then stopped a few feet from Victoria twisting from side to side in frustration , wondering how he could stop her crying . |
| 11 | Take this opportunity to come with Travelsphere to China — one of the last great travel experiences . |
| 12 | Frequently generals thought it best if they were outmanoeuvred to in effect accept an honourable surrender er and er bargains of this kind occurred from time to time between largely mercenary armies . |
| 13 | If you work regularly for one agency you may want to have your position and experience reviewed from time to time , so that future work you undertake can be constructive and part of bona fide career development . |
| 14 | The pace of change differed from country to country : Poland , Romania and Bulgaria were effectively Soviet puppets by 1946 , but Hungary was only brought under Moscow 's control in mid-1947 and a coalition government survived in Czechoslovakia until February 1948 . |
| 15 | Bathsheba trembled from head to foot . |
| 16 | The values recorded for 1990 indicate that manufactured exports rose in value to £8.574 billion , continuing the steady rise in the value of exports since 1987 . |
| 17 | Opportunities for wives and children to contribute to the household income varied from place to place , though they were everywhere low paid . |
| 18 | These patterns varied from language to language , but only a limited number of such patterns seemed to occur , so that the same pattern of kinship terminology was found among totally unrelated peoples speaking totally unrelated languages . |
| 19 | Patterns varied from area to area , differed between industrial and rural areas , and between city and city , and a host of social factors have to be taken into account . |
| 20 | The titles of the lectures included : Dr. Crawford on " The four stages of man 's existence considered in relation to Health and disease " and later on " Physiology ; " Mr Hector McLean on " Taste , " " Highland Poetry & Romance " and " The Study of Geology ; " Mr Chisholm on " Social Reform ; " Mr Lerach on " Burns ; " Mr Dewar on " Electricity ; " Mr Coath on " The Acquisition of Knowledge , " " The Study of Political & Constitutional History and its bearing on Christianity " and " Mental Philosophy ; " Rev. Hugh Monroe on " The Connection of Revelation with Geology " and " Our English Bible ; " Rev. McFadyen on " Rising in Life ; " Dr. Blair on " The Atmosphere " and " Health " where he condemned the Port Ellen water supply ; Colin Hay on " Agriculture & Commerce " and " Instinct & Reason . " |
| 21 | Of course , the response varied from council to council . |
| 22 | The PC magazine market needs a reasonably priced down to earth mag so I hope your circulation goes from strength to strength but on present showing there 's a lot to do to get it right , Andrew H. |
| 23 | Staff who take such a break remain on contract to Shell . |
| 24 | In Wednesday 's race Courtney was promoted to first place following the disqualification of the winner Nigel Davies but yesterday there was no such drama as Courtney led from start to finish to win by 20 seconds from Nigel Hansen with Greg Broughton third . |
| 25 | This discretion has attracted much criticism and means licensing practice differs from area to area . |
| 26 | Dryden led from start to finish opening with a 75 and then roaring him with a 71 to win by six shots from Blyth 's Gary Wilson . |
| 27 | There 's Echo There 's Echo goes from strength to strength to the extent that one of its competitors , the main competitor , Tribune del Expansione was obliged to merge with Lacoude Francais I mentioned earlier that Ensure was re-launched and er it achieved a circulation of a hundred and five thousand . |
| 28 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 29 | Watery nasal discharge and obstruction goes from left to right nostril . |
| 30 | If I can put it in , not , I hope , in a boastful way , but to illustrate how important this is to us , about forty per cent , getting on for half of the income of the Education Area last year , was made up not of normal University funds , but of funds attracted from outside to support research from private foundations and from government departments like the Department of Education and Science . |