Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 2 | The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 3 | Salt has received much bad publicity in recent years as a major contributory factor to heart disease , but the initial hysteria has now given way to the theory that salt in quantity will only be to the detriment of those people prone to heart disease from other causes . |
| 4 | But the woman who was born the youngest of seven children in Tiger Bay in Cardiff has always lived life to the full . |
| 5 | This is not , I think , meant to be ironical , and it represents a quite logical development from the premiss that the whole production , definition , and reception of literature has now become intramural to the academy . |
| 6 | The Chairman has already paid tribute to the dedication of the Agency 's staff in achieving these aims . |
| 7 | Anindita Balslev has recently drawn attention to the subtlety of many of the Hindu philosophical arguments , for example that concerning the perceptibility of time which took place in the eleventh century . |
| 8 | This horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 9 | The second largest horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 10 | Hungarian football has since fallen victim to the corruption and match-fixing scandals . |
| 11 | Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries . |
| 12 | Patients participating in this study gave fully informed consent to a protocol approved by the Yale University School of Medicine Human Investigation Committee . |
| 13 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 14 | However , reserves of $6,700 million ensured that this figure did not give rise to undue concern . |
| 15 | Now jogging does n't give power to the big muscles of the body , it does n't do that so again you 'd you 'd have to be doing something which , that built up the power . |
| 16 | Bills had not been paid , despite the fact that the club had already given money to Brent Walker to pay them . |
| 17 | This suggestion might tempt those who notice that although we do normally accept without query a person 's description of his own sensory states , we sometimes object by saying , for instance , ‘ Surely that traffic light does n't look orange to you . |
| 18 | By the eighteenth century the older and rougher leathers had largely given way to finer products , often polished and patterned in a variety of ways , e.g. calf could be ‘ sprinkled ’ ( speckled by acid in a regular pattern ) , ‘ mottled ’ ( having an irregular all-over pattern , also produced by acid ) or ‘ diced ’ ( having a pattern of diamond squares ) . |
| 19 | Trips have already taken place to Edinburgh Castle , Luss on Loch Lomond and up the Clyde Valley . |
| 20 | The numerous internal partitions that result have often proved anathema to modern-day breweries . |
| 21 | ‘ Where members entering into IVAs have simply fallen victim to the recession , there are no instances of the Committee pulling the rug from under them , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Technology transfer has also taken place to some extent and there are a few highly advanced maquilas . |
| 23 | By giving it over to Bull , IBM has effectively said goodbye to the French market for the RS/6000 . |
| 24 | Ukraine has also laid claim to the late thirteenth-early fourteenth-century Monomakh Crown , considered to be the oldest Tsarist crown . |
| 25 | Having that Greater York dimension has certainly allowed progress to be achieved dramatically in Greater York , erm , it 's led to progress towards progress towards green belt definition , and more importantly it 's led towards resolution of future strategy for Greater York . |
| 26 | Good type tends not to draw attention to itself , using subtleties of size , serifs , heaviness of stroke , and other characteristics to give ease of reading . |
| 27 | A plethora of pressure groups and popular movements grew up to give vent to such feelings , including the British Empire Union and the National Citizens Union . |
| 28 | The revolutionaries ' lack of interest in a programme of political reform and gradual extension of the rule of law did not imply indifference to individual liberty . |
| 29 | While such phrases do not do justice to its many insights — to which I will return in Chapter 8 — there are nevertheless some serious weaknesses in the approach . |
| 30 | It may be that those parents do not consider colour to be important , but such a blind attitude towards the role of group differences in the society is unwise . |