Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 2 | Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy . |
| 3 | But this kind of rationalism largely yielded to empiricism with the rise of the Logical Positivists and it is therefore disconcerting to find that experience can not do its job . |
| 4 | Continue along the coast soon keeping to left of lighthouse buildings at St Abb 's Head ; briefly join lighthouse road , but it is best almost immediately to divert off it to rejoin cliff-top for sea views . |
| 5 | This does not mean that the mind just responds to information in the way in which a thermostat , for instance , transduces information about temperature and performs switching operations . |
| 6 | In 1982 the enfeebled Leonid Brezhnev still clung to power in the Kremlin , detente was dead , the end of the cold war nowhere in sight . |
| 7 | Could there really be a building site in the middle of this swamp rapidly reverting to nature after a brief and unsuccessful flirtation with civilization , Zen wondered ? |
| 8 | The Tans immediately began to prance around him , laughing and howling . |
| 9 | Iris Murdoch briefly warmed to Buddhism in her middle years , and more recently adopted a congenially fellow-travelling stance to Christianity much like Larkin 's : ‘ There are advantages , ’ she has remarked in an interview , ‘ in staying with the icons of one 's own people . ’ |
| 10 | There is no way of telling how many of these men were actually raised , but Sir Edward certainly went to sea with a fleet at the end of April , and Dorset was thought to have accompanied him . |
| 11 | There is no way of telling how many of these men were actually raised , but Sir Edward certainly went to sea with a fleet at the end of April , and Dorset was thought to have accompanied him . |
| 12 | Did you say something about Mr Boulez perhaps returning to work at the opera ? |
| 13 | Although the Secret Committee formally agreed to publication of Nazimov 's instructions , many contemporaries recorded the attempts of committee members to prevent it . |
| 14 | In her despair and grief Mrs McDermott also turned to alcohol for relief . |
| 15 | A four-year-old boy nearly bled to death after karate kicking a glass door as he mimicked the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles . |
| 16 | Also , the extinction of a species is not the end of the story : insect taxonomy simply transfers to archaeoentomology with attendant information loss . |
| 17 | Daniel Hersheson then set to work on Pamela 's hair , cutting it into a more tailored and modern style . |
| 18 | None of either type quite come to mind at present but , still , it is the latter bunch who are likely to become rich or famous or both . |
| 19 | In celebration of his new appointment Mozart apparently intended to write a large scale missa solemnis in D minor , of which one movement , a Kyrie previously thought to date from much earlier in his career , survives . |
| 20 | They get practically no help at all and yet mum still manages to sort of save a bit |
| 21 | It also contended that he should have £80,000 to buy a house , in which his carers could live upstairs , rather than £150,000 for a bungalow more suited to life in a wheelchair . |
| 22 | Nineteen of the 31 authorities who spent over £3,000 ( see Table 11 ) actually spent £5,000 or more , and it should be noted that this group of 19 library authorities accounted for 55% of the money directly allocated to training by our sample , while employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 23 | Workers eventually returned to work on Monday 16 June , having accepted as satisfactory a Department of Labour Inspectorate report at a meeting over the weekend . |
| 24 | It was with his father Paul 's encouragement that Pascal eventually set to work on the project , which has been ‘ something of a labour of love over the last few years ’ . |
| 25 | Retailing employment has been a traditional refuge for those workers most exposed to redundancy in other sectors , and as such higher consumer prices ‘ provides a form of social security for the retired and unemployed ’ ( Hills 1983 p.65 ) . |
| 26 | Quite a large group apparently went to work as compositors in the south of England , if that is the right interpretation to put on the mention " gone to Colchester " which is recorded against the names of some women in the trade-union membership registers which are the chief source for this information . |
| 27 | Azaña promptly returned to power at the head of a purely Republican government , the Socialists preferring to shun cabinet responsibility . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 29 | Hares ( but not rabbits ) are particularly vulnerable to paraquat , a herbicide often applied to stubble in the autumn so that it can be easily burned . |
| 30 | Working on an exhibition of this nature inevitably leads to reflection on the artist : ‘ The more I work on Rembrandt , the more fascinated I am and the more remarkable he becomes ’ was Christopher Brown 's assessment , ‘ in range , ambition and the achievement of that ambition he stands so far above his contemporaries ’ . |