Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were n't liked at all to begin with , especially by the Children 's Department who resented the fact that a programme aimed at 8 to 14-year-olds had been given to the Drama Group , and not to them . ’ |
| 2 | Something of this cultural cosmopolitanism may be gauged from the fortunes of the psalter given in 1318 to Cardinal Gaucelme Duèse , papal nuncio to England and nephew of John XXII , by Geoffrey of Croyland , abbot of Peterborough . |
| 3 | These transactions led in 1988 to disputes , to legal proceedings and to threats of further litigation . |
| 4 | Node i is indicated by a number i in a circle and node i is joined to node j with an ( unbroken ) line or edge and an arrow directed from i to j , if x i j is basic . |
| 5 | Kevin Drinkell , 29 , became Coventry City 's record signing yesterday when his transfer from Rangers cost £800,000 — £20,000 more than the fee paid in 1987 to Chelsea for David Speedie . |
| 6 | Santa Clara , California-based SynOptics Communications Inc has cut prices on its LattisNet family of Fibre Distributed Data Interface intelligent hubs , saying the cuts were made possible by lower component costs and better manufacturing efficiencies — the 2000 FDDI Workgroup Hubs were reduced immediately , with the 2912A with 12 shielded twisted pair master ports and two fibre optic A/B ports reduced by 36 to $10,000 , or $714 per port ; the Model 3904 FDDI Fiber Optic Host Module was cut 27% to $5,500 and the 3910S-04 FDDI Network Management Module was cut 33% to $10,000 . |
| 7 | Among the water companies Northumbrian Water spurted 68p to 419p and Yorkshire Water put on 77 to 430p . |
| 8 | Anglian Water raced on 14 to 331p , Severn Trent added 13 to 315p and Thames Water put on 15 to 344p . |
| 9 | A royal charter granted in 1257 to Roger de Merlay for his lifetime , that his own woodwards should have exclusive custody of the vert in his woods , provided however that the king 's foresters should still have custody of the venison there , and that de Morlay 's woodwards should be answerable to the Justice of the Forest , or at the Forest Eyre for any waste of those woods . |
| 10 | If we write x i j for the number of items sent from i to j , the problem can be written as an LP . |
| 11 | The left ventricular ejection fraction varied from 39 to 64% ( mean 57% ) . |
| 12 | The floral tributes varied from fresh to wreaths of plastic flowers and most families request their relatives are dressed , the funeral home produces suits and dresses specifically for this purpose , bodies lie ‘ in state ’ to allow family and friends to pay their respects . |
| 13 | Teachers trained for three to eight-year-olds |
| 14 | The charges , filed before a court in New Delhi , related to a contract awarded in 1986 to Bofors for the supply of a field artillery system to the Indian Army . |
| 15 | Mind is synonymous with information in two categories ; that governing instructions for operations and the raw information operated upon prior to decision-making . |
| 16 | The outbreak of war naturally marked the end of the collaboration of Picasso and Braque , but the unprecedented closeness of their artistic careers over the preceding years makes it impossible to separate completely the contribution made by each to Cubism during the most vital years of its development . |
| 17 | In contrast , economic activity for adult women increased from 31 to 45% and the percentage actually working rose from 29 to 36% . |
| 18 | Pressure to limit unplanned high-density urban sprawl was the more acute because , in the fifteen years before 1908 , 500,000 acres of land passed from agricultural to building use , mostly on the fringes of existing urban areas . |
| 19 | The family moved in 1623 to Oldenburg , where Martinus died in 1638 . |
| 20 | This and other more personal disagreements between the founders of the IWA led in 1951 to Rolt 's withdrawal from the association . |
| 21 | Follow-up MRP investigations in the Benglog area of North Wales , near Dolgellau , showed barium enrichment in Ordovician sediments associated with subaerial to submarine bimodal volcanism ( MRP 63 ) . |
| 22 | On the stock market the shares put on 5 to 256p yesterday . |