Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general , whose appointment as prime minister a year ago is disputed by a rival Muslim government in west Beirut , did not want Christian deputies to go to Taif in the first place . |
| 2 | Described in press coverage of the Angry Brigade trial as a ‘ compulsive joiner of revolutionary movements throughout Europe ’ , he dropped out of his Latin American studies course to go to Paris during the student riots of May 1968 . |
| 3 | He also expressed " deep remorse over the unbearable suffering and sorrow Japan inflicted " by its " reckless " decision to go to war with the USA . |
| 4 | Whether it is the timidly smiling cleric having tea , the piously confident student talking about the way in which Jesus warms up his or her heart , or the aggressively confident know-all trying to recall the country to ‘ civilisation ’ , it is a similar picture of inability to come to terms with the way in which most people in Western societies live . |
| 5 | A moving and painfully honest account of a mother 's struggle to come to terms with the death of her baby . |
| 6 | Furthermore , he made real attempts to come to terms with the Emperor , and it seemed likely that the papal imperial conflict would now be resolved . |
| 7 | RACE HATE , rape fear , miscegenation , a battle-scarred outsider 's fight to come to terms with the new society — the themes of Ford 's massively influential movie would provide rich pickings for '70s brats in the years to come . |
| 8 | He spoke out as the development services committee was asked by Leech Homes to agree to changes in the types of houses to be built on land in Bankhead Street , Seaham . |
| 9 | One way of perceiving this progression is as the struggle of the poet to come to terms with the nature of creativity , drawing on all that he sees in the imagery of lines 12–22 until the attainment of maturity in the ‘ momently ’ of line 24 , when he reaches a state of oneness with his environment and is free to channel its flow into works of art . |
| 10 | There was no attempt to come to terms with the central issue of wage determination : an issue commented upon at the time but one whose importance was to become far clearer in hindsight to politicians and economists alike [ Meade , 1982 ] . |
| 11 | In T. R. Fyvel 's The Insecure Offenders , which first appeared in 1961 and which represented the most systematic and unsensationalised attempt to come to terms with the youth problem , the argument pivoted upon the assumption that the impact of ‘ affluence ’ had conspired to produce a novel disorientation among the nation 's youth . |
| 12 | At the time of the first interviews in June 1990 the authorities were grappling with the devolution of services to the units and the district 's attempt to come to terms with the new role of purchaser . |
| 13 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 14 | It was J. A. Hobson who made the most influential and original attempt to come to grips with the nature of the new imperialism . |
| 15 | Ramos further stated that the policy was based on a desire on the part of his administration to contribute to solidarity within the Association of South East Asian States ( ASEAN ) and to peace and stability within the region . |
| 16 | Brailsford deplored the incapacity of pacifists to get to grips with the larger drift of British foreign policy — the effective entry of Britain into the European alliance system . |
| 17 | It is not an attempt to get to grips with the fundamental problems of this society . |
| 18 | It is sufficient to notice here that speaking in tongues is one of the gifts of the Spirit to his people ( I Cor. 12:10 ) , and that the primary purpose is to enable the recipient to pray to God from the depths of his being and not merely from the conscious levels of his mind . |
| 19 | Both the police and the AA , who had been urging football fans to travel to Wembley via the M25 and the A40 , avoiding Staples Cross , reported ‘ little difficulty ’ . |
| 20 | An unemployed lift engineer 's mate , Darren Webb , 25 , of Colchester , also appreciated the opportunity to talk to people about the various training and job schemes available rather than having to rely on leaflets . |
| 21 | ( Suddenly telling a child to go to bed in the middle of an exciting TV programme is asking for trouble . |
| 22 | Sources say SunPics was ‘ dragged kicking and screaming ’ into the brand new Sun Microsystems Inc and Adobe Computer Systems Inc alliance , ( UX No 404 ) , orchestrated by SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , one of the first of the Sun mafia to come to grips with the slippery notion of standards — prodded no doubt by the coming onslaught of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 23 | Marx had expected the communists to come to power in the most developed industrial societies of the West , where there would already be considerable accumulated wealth , scientific knowledge , and industrial capital to provide well-being for all . |
| 24 | In late March Hun Sen , the Prime Minister of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) or Phnom Penh government , visited the USA , when he warned US officials that a delay in funding might help the Khmers Rouges to return to power through the use of military force . |
| 25 | The Wider Horizons Programme has been set up to fund 22 young unemployed people from all over Ireland to travel to Louisiana in the United States . |
| 26 | Involvement in these issue areas , together with the need to attend to management of the political party , means that she normally sees the Chief Whip , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer on political business more frequently than she does other Cabinet colleagues . |
| 27 | Perhaps most importantly the vendor should remember that the value of the consideration shares can go down as well as up and the purchaser may require the vendor to agree to restrictions on the manner and timing of subsequent sales of the shares by the vendor . |
| 28 | I now prefer the analogy of the legal ‘ flak jacket ’ which protects the doctor from claims by the litigious whether he acquires it from his patient who may be a minor over the age of 16 , or a ‘ Gillick competent ’ child under that age or from another person having parental responsibilities which include a right to consent to treatment of the minor . |
| 29 | All people that went to the Salvation Army in they they always used to have their treat there , other church always used to go to Felixstowe , that used to cost us ninepence to go to Felixstowe on the train . |
| 30 | He thought of Beryl and the need to come to grips with the Garland set-up as it had been before the old man 's death . |