Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 2 | November 2 , 1978 The solicitors successfully appealed to the House of Lords and the third party notice was restored . |
| 3 | This notice does not constitute an admission either that the Act applies to this hotel or that liability thereunder attaches to the proprietor of this hotel in any particular case . |
| 4 | But other oil producing countries have claimed such taxes only contribute to the state revenues of rich , oil-consuming countries while reducing the earnings of developing countries dependent on oil exports . |
| 5 | Soviet spokesmen could argue that although the USSR had for decades proselytised the notion of a national liberation or solidarity ‘ front ’ of Third World states , aligned at least politically to the Soviet bloc , it had not created regional groupings or coalitions of states militarily tied to the USSR or the Warsaw Pact and it had supported the opposition of the non-aligned states to military blocs . |
| 6 | Two religious groups swiftly manoeuvred to the front of the pack : the Roman Catholic church , led by Cardinal John O'Connor , and the Christian Coalition , a group of fundamentalists loyal to Pat Robertson . |
| 7 | Nor does Herodotus necessarily refer to the Jews when he mentions Syrians and Phoenicians of Palestine , who acknowledge that they learnt circumcision from the Egyptians ( 2.104 ) . |
| 8 | ( 4 ) The purpose of the subsection is to make it clear that the extension of the permitted hours only applies to the part of the premises set apart for the consumption of main meals by a person having a table meal there . |
| 9 | I was reassured that the nonsense would stop , and that people would use the bikes merely to get to the base of mountains , where the walk in was prohibitive of completing the hill in a day without some means of transport . |
| 10 | The implications of ‘ story ’ have hardened to the extent that Federman constantly refers to the narrative as a ‘ recitation ’ , as if he were writing over earlier texts such as Beat novels . |
| 11 | Quilted or ostentatiously functional — the Swiss army penknife of the trouser kingdom — with a thousand pockets , clips , keyrings and a thing for getting stuff out of horses hooves all attached to the waistband . |
| 12 | Exit offended alter-ego with money enough to go to the pictures . |
| 13 | The winner seems to be determined by how strongly the extension adheres to the wall , and the cell eventually moves to the site where the attachments are strongest . |
| 14 | Thus , the intellectual climate was transformed by refugees from the failed Paris Commune , and from Spain , Italy and Germany , who had brought with them their socialistic education , which led to the general practice of mutual aid among the immigrants — a practice little known to the people of Argentina' ( Juan Justo , in Aguilar : 1968 , p. 79 ) . |
| 15 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
| 16 | The court heard several witnesses say they saw Mr Austin 's car suddenly swerve to the right in the outsidfe lane , then violently to the left and into the front of the bus forcing it off the carriageway . |
| 17 | The strain on the pound only adds to the pressure on interest levels . |
| 18 | This form of characterisation greatly contributes to the enjoyment of this novel . |
| 19 | She 'd pointed out that it was stupid to talk about Tupperware parties as a means of raising funds since funds raised at Tupperware parties naturally went to the manufacturers of Tupperware . |
| 20 | She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens . |
| 21 | That perception only added to the urgency with which he threw himself into new international initiatives . |
| 22 | Conversations between agricultural workers on the edge of subsistence constantly refer to the city : a city that exists nowhere but which continually transmits promises ' . |
| 23 | Such ambiguities only add to the difficulties of a plan that has still to win the approval of the Bosnian Serbs . |
| 24 | Rex suddenly sobered to the rifle butt which struck him between the shoulder blades . |
| 25 | Neil get out of his aircraft obviously to go to the telephone . |
| 26 | Among the earl 's possessions there was the lordship of Spofforth , the home of the Middletons of Stokeld , who as a result naturally looked to the Percies for lordship . |
| 27 | Among the earl 's possessions there was the lordship of Spofforth , the home of the Middletons of Stokeld , who as a result naturally looked to the Percies for lordship . |
| 28 | As Bloch has commented , ‘ To us accustomed to live with our eyes constantly turning to the clock , how remote from our civilization seems this society in which a court of law could not ascertain the time of day without discussion and inquiry ! ’ |
| 29 | The eyes all swung to the speaker . |
| 30 | One sector is designated ‘ prime user ’ of a section of track , for example , and the other sectors only contribute to the extent that they cause additional ‘ avoidable ’ costs . |