Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A plan drawn up to this end by Foreign Ministers at a meeting on May 5 in Guatemala City was later embodied in the Tela agreement [ see below ] . |
| 2 | Action : Correct the errors noted up to this point , then run the scanner again . |
| 3 | It so happened that the local station was still waiting on the True Brit for recognition of a tidbit passed on to that paper six months ago about a rural dean and a lady elephant-tamer . |
| 4 | Was this the treatment Roman meted out to any female who presumed a little too much , grew a little too possessive ? |
| 5 | Another temporary need fitted in to this plan , for Robert Slater , the Anglican chaplain at the university , was also to go on leave , and I was to keep services going in the little wooden Anglican church on the university side of the lake , as well as the other two quite heavy responsibilities . |
| 6 | Well , I say that , but of course me and my sore back got up to all kinds of stuff . |
| 7 | Obviously you can have photocopies or laser prints copied on to this material , but I have here some pens and a box of blank acetates which you will have the opportunity later to use if you so wish . |
| 8 | Indeed the poverty of the police resources put on to this kind of case is one of the lasting issues it raises . |
| 9 | As the media caught on to this aspect of the cult , it caused some skins to leave the movement and more violent people to join it . |
| 10 | The man had his arms stretched out to either side . |
| 11 | The glass used up to that time had had a very poor ‘ memory ’ . |
| 12 | In 1968 , Price reported that the 97 identical and 119 fraternal twin pairs studied up to that date had shown substantially different concordance rates for depression ( 68 per cent and 23 per cent ) . |
| 13 | All the cases analysed up to this point have involved a relationship of incidence between the infinitive and some other verb . |
| 14 | Moreover , the severity of the treatment meted out to this underclass , who have borne the brunt of the welfare changes , is in stark contrast to the benevolent attitude demonstrated by the Government in its welfare policies for the most privileged . |
| 15 | The book was certainly the most thorough document of a country made up to that point in time , and received accolades from all quarters . |
| 16 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 17 | Any figure at which the assessor of damages arrives can not be other than artificial and , if the aim is that justice meted out to all litigants should be even-handed instead of depending on idiosyncracies of the assessor , whether jury or judge , the figure must be " basically a conventional figure derived from experience and from awards in comparable cases " . |
| 18 | Anyone who withdraws more than net interest or pledges the Tessa as security for a loan immediately loses the tax exemption and has to pay tax on all interest credited up to that time as though it were income arising during the year when the withdrawal or pledge took place . |
| 19 | The teacher had finally got her class settled down to some work . |
| 20 | ROS : To sum up : your father , whom you love , dies , you are his heir , you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother popped on to this throne and into his sheets , thereby offending both legal and natural practice . |
| 21 | Allowing play to continue for an hour if such time has been lost during the day is splendid ; but the idea must be extended to ensure that any time lost up to that hour is added on . |