Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval . |
| 2 | The Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus [ see p. 39155 ] on Nov. 11 ordered partial mobilization in all of its republics , instructing commanders to go to the Chechen capital , Grozny . |
| 3 | By challenging the right of Parliament to agree to the social chapter against the wishes of the Government and proposing that the treaty will be ratified without the decisions of Parliament , it has underlined the very reasons why there is a need for referendums on the crucial constitutional questions that face us . |
| 4 | He 's gone all over the eastern Mediterranean , and now has plans to go to the western end , to Spain , which was a thriving colony of the Roman empire with a lively intellectual life which had n't been touched by the Christian faith . |
| 5 | Perversely , in the way of Customs Officers , we insisted but gave him ten minutes to clear up , then climbed on board to see to the necessary documentation . |
| 6 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 7 | It would seem that the direction in which it will be refined is to move towards a system more or less completely based on unit costs , or common funding , and that the element of further funding has been included as a temporary measure to allow high cost institutions to adjust to the new system . |
| 8 | The procedure is that : LCH gives notice of its decision to consolidate to the relevant exchange , the selling member and the buying member ; the seller is charged with the conduct of LCH 's case against the buyer ; and the buyer is charged with LCH 's case against the seller ; copies of all pleadings being supplied to LCH and LCH retaining the right to submit its own arguments to the arbitrators . |
| 9 | The presbytery also instructed their clerk to write to the Prime Minister , John Major , the Secretary of State for Scotland , Ian Lang , the local Member of Parliament , Jim Wallace , and the Member of the European Parliament , Winnie Ewing , asking for the law concerning child abuse to be reviewed as a matter of urgency . |
| 10 | A high cut-off score is necessary since achieving it is taken to indicate mastery of a particular domain , or readiness to proceed to the next level of learning . |
| 11 | In a similar fashion it was becoming common for quite trivial legal disputes to go to the papal Curia on appeal : this was to transform the very nature of papal jurisdiction and authority , and is a striking example of the cosmopolitan links and assumptions of twelfth-century culture . |
| 12 | ‘ It is difficult to judge how far this attempt to appeal to the baser sort is dictated by the mere desire to be re-elected ( which , though by no means admirable , is , we suppose , understandable enough ) , rather than by any firm conviction ; or how far a re-elected Tory government would seek to put these detestable principles into practice . |
| 13 | Yet there can be little doubt that Joseph 's reformism was genuine and was combined with an attempt to appeal to the national past ; he encouraged the national theatre , set up a commission to exhume Cervantes ' remains , patronized a national museum of painting . |
| 14 | ‘ It had always been her ambition to go to the Holy Land and so when I arranged the trip I told her ‘ Right , now you 're going ’ . |
| 15 | For a moment she stood in the doorway , allowing her eyes to adjust to the gloomy interior . |
| 16 | Wordsworth 's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh : even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable , and even though Coleridge , like Sir Walter Raleigh before him , spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant , it is clear that Wordsworth 's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness . |
| 17 | Another significant contact is developing between the Historical Group and the local primary schools ; the young workers are being invited into the schools to talk to the older primary children about the materials they have collected . |
| 18 | On 24 September , in the Daily Mirror , ‘ Cassandra ’ urged his readers to listen to the comic capers of the Nazi propagandist . |
| 19 | Inner City 's singer has flown into Detroit to listen to the new single . |
| 20 | When he left an hour later , he paused on the steps to wave to the still-waiting crowd . |
| 21 | People are also being asked to make their voices heard expressing concern over the possible cut to aid to the third world . |
| 22 | Se alquila — there were several ‘ To Let ’ signs as she drove slowly through the complex and all requesting clients to apply to the central reception for details . |
| 23 | His death enabled Mr Beltrami to Apply to the Scottish Law Society for a waiver of the confidentiality he had observed in relation to McGuinness 's admissions to the Ayr crime ; and he enclosed a statement from Mrs McGuinness that her husband had also admitted the crime and Waddell 's Participation in it , to her . |
| 24 | It would seem that these moves , the deification of Jesus Christ , and the introduction of the Holy Ghost , were the outcome of the obstinate intention to apply to the new religion the utterly unalterable condition that the ancient ‘ god ’ of the original scriptures must , at all costs be retained . |
| 25 | Two associated berths , one equipped with two pneumatic grain elevators were also completed allowing vessels drawing up to 9.6 metres ordinary spring tides to discharge to the new facility . |
| 26 | or , Thomas ( c. 1490–1555 ) , king 's printer under Henry VIII , was probably born about 1490 , since in his earliest testimony , under the surname Bercula , he named himself as printer and servant to John Rastell [ q.v. ] during the latter 's unsuccessful attempt to sail to the new world in 1517 . |
| 27 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 28 | As his English guest turned at the door of his study to bow to the Romanian head of state before leaving his presence , he saw that Ceauşescu was holding out his fingers in the shape of a gun pointing at the head of his own interpreter ! |
| 29 | This allowed the administration to extend to the Soviet Union credit guarantees worth up to US$1,000 million to buy US agricultural produce . |
| 30 | For all Mellor 's protestations that the tabloids brought him down in an attempt to dictate to the Prime Minister who should be in his Cabinet , the truth is that the Heritage Secretary was rejected by his peers . |