Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His decision to sacrifice the newspaper to MacQuillan rather than sacrifice the estate to the newspaper had not met with universal approval , but he did not let that trouble him .
2 Turn left along this lane ; a signpost points the way to Norber , a long limestone ridge forming the north-western skyline .
3 The group 's cash balances shrank from £77 million to £36.5 million , and a token final dividend of 1p slashes the total to 3p , from 10.25p in 1991 .
4 Rectangular Cartesian coordinates can be assigned at O using the tangents to plus ON itself .
5 Minton provided the introduction to William Johnstone which obtained Vaughan a job teaching composition and illustration at Camberwell .
6 Sarah holds the key to fitness
7 The archbishop dedicated the church to San Satiro , the brother of Sant' Ambrogio .
8 The Ajax case emphasises the danger to players , especially goalkeepers .
9 Lincoln referred the proposal to Colonels Charles Bonesteel and Dean Rusk for consideration .
10 Too many local authorities used the changeover to milk people of money that they did not have through bills that they could not have anticipated and therefore provided for .
11 Initial plans to tour the exhibition to Russia , and to show the entire span of the artist 's activities , have now been shelved .
12 JAPAN 'S second largest car maker , Nissan Motors , has announced it is to close one of its main passenger car factories in Japan and shed 5,000 of its Japanese workforce by 1996 in a bid to restore the company to profitability .
13 The company , faced with a bad debt of £40,000 , took drastic action to accommodate the blow to cash flow .
14 Ann whispered the question to Harry while the new arrival was being led upstairs by her cousins to see the house .
15 Corbett caught the reference to medicine .
16 Halliday has the vision to size up virtually any position in the backs .
17 One woman walked for an hour through the snow to catch the bus to Skipton , waited for three and a half hours to meet Hannah , and still went home smiling .
18 These will be sketched briefly in this chapter to provide the background to Duncan Sandys ' revolutionary Defence White Paper of 1957 — the first attempt to establish a post-imperial Defence policy .
19 Quietly , competently , she shut up her flat before making her way to the Underground to catch the tube to Heathrow .
20 Judge David Selwood adjourned the hearings to October 7 for pre-sentence reports .
21 The Opposition welcome the transfer to Scotland of responsibility for higher education and the ending of the binary divide .
22 Team manager , Buckley 's Tudor Jones , has decided to entrust Flint 's bid to recapture the crown to youth and that means no places for Hall 's heavyweights .
23 The early running was made by the 100–1 outsider City Scandal , who after two furlongs conceded the lead to Shikampur , with Pinza in about sixth place and Aureole unable to take up a handy position .
24 MPs today begin investigating the events which led to the Government dropping its golden share in Jaguar and the subsequent deal to sell the company to Ford .
25 Not until 1886 did an Italian art critic attribute the work to Lombardo .
26 Morality and religion open the door to oppression but in focusing so sharply on the woman 's role they make her the central symbol of the culture .
27 The final day of the festival , May 16th , celebrates 40 years of music in Tilford Church when the programme includes the sonatina to Bach 's cantata No. 106 Gottes zeit ist die allrbeste Zeit , and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 .
28 I therefore managed to get myself accredited as a journalist to cover the visit to Rome by Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax in early January 1939 for talks with Mussolini .
29 When Barney opened the door to Melissa he greeted her with a smile but his eyes remained grave .
30 THE charity Live Music Now , inspired by famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin , sent a young musician to play the harp to patients at two Darlington hospitals .
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