Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN THE GODS WERE ASKED TO NAME AN AUSPICIOUS DAY FOR the sheep to go south to Aula for the six months of winter , they had said the twenty-second of Kārtik , November the sixth . |
| 2 | Two sofas placed back to back in the centre of a space can often define the divisions of space very well . |
| 3 | Figure 4.3 includes the test results for a pair of groups given pre-exposure to saccharin before being conditioned and tested with milk . |
| 4 | Bill had the opportunity to sit face to face with them and you catch his eye , you you used to er time to er use , use hand gestures and show things to them on , on presenters . |
| 5 | In the present context they are important for attempts to relate transition to turbulence to transition to chaos , a matter we shall be considering in Section 24.7 . |
| 6 | Beneath them cars sit bumper to bumper in a haze of exhaust fumes . |
| 7 | By some terrific fluke Richard came face to face with his future at the precise time he most needed to see it . |
| 8 | The world-famous pecussionist Evelyn Glennie came face to face with the musicians of the future today . |
| 9 | From my audience ( a solid queue of cars waiting bumper to bumper at a side road ) there came a sort of gasp or groan . |
| 10 | Young guitarist Eric Clapton paid tribute to King by purposely copying one of his hit solos . |
| 11 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 12 | In response to this decision Parliament hastily passed the War Damage Act 1965 with retrospective effect to deny entitlement to compensation for damage for acts lawfully done by the Crown during a war in which the Sovereign was engaged . |
| 13 | Within the intestinal mucosa , expression of T cell mediated immunity to gliadin in the gut occurs across a spectrum of histological and functional abnormalities . |
| 14 | This loss of faith in course-based INSET to influence practice gave rise to growth of school-based INSET : the INSET equivalent of school-based curriculum development . |
| 15 | At present , with Walker circulation flowing west to east at low level there is warm surface water in the eastern Pacific and cool surface water in the west . |
| 16 | But according to several Washington commentators and analysts , in sending senior aides to China , Mr Bush may have signalled that the Administration gave priority to continuity in relations over moral outrage , and thus helped to shore up the repressive Beijing regime . |
| 17 | An attempt to bring Eyre to justice on a trial of murder , spearheaded by John Stuart Mill , was to prove unsuccessful in spite of the Lord Chief Justice 's eloquent support for his indictment . |
| 18 | A guiding hypothesis in the work to be carried out is that fluent readers have access to information regarding the location of at least some previously read words . |
| 19 | Sex in Miranda 's experience was n't a matter of spectacle , but of darkness and touch , magnified by her senses ' usually exacerbated state , the extremes of the night , of smoking and drinking and hunger and tiredness , and she was a blind swimmer through walls of warm water , and knew nothing of the practice and technique of the models in the pictures crammed edge to edge in the shop . |
| 20 | The general sense of dog would of course give rise to anomaly in 26 , because of the rule of maximisation . |
| 21 | Simon Patiño , the family 's patriarch , who rose from being a clerk in a mining supplies store to owner of the largest known tin deposit , accrued revenues from the manufacture of nearly every tin can and piece of tin foil and was ultimately appointed a representative of the Bolivian government in Paris . |
| 22 | Their spring offensive in Negros Occidental province — " Operation Thunderbolt " — cleared the NPA from an area which they had long regarded as their own , but with heavy civilian casualties giving rise to criticism of their action from the Catholic Church and human rights groups . |
| 23 | There was a full moon and we marched until midnight , the camels tied head to tail in groups of three or four . |
| 24 | Politics and showbusiness have collided head on during the election campaign with one of the country 's leading Conservatives coming face to face with himself … or at least his Spitting Image . |
| 25 | And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality . |
| 26 | In the summer of 1989 , as a Standard Liege player , Rosenthal put pen to paper on a deal with Udinese and spent two weeks there . |
| 27 | There was a great need to obtain access to knowledge through books , or quick money to be made by pirating cassette tapes or Gucci bags . |
| 28 | He has a right to come face to face with me , and judge for himself whether he can honourably deliver them , and never fear that he is helping to lure a brave man to his death . ’ |
| 29 | Much of the power of middle-out strategies derives from the quickness with which an analysis of some stretch of sound has access to information in a later stretch of sound . |
| 30 | As Big Ben ticked … the cameras clicked as the oarsman of Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the official challenge |