Example sentences of "[verb] to the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently he moved to the neighbouring village of Griesbeckerzell with wife Gisela and their year-old son , Stefan . |
| 2 | Begun in 1960 , in 1984 the fair moved to the ample space of the Fiera which is better equipped to deal with the growing number of visitors and exhibitors . |
| 3 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 4 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying . |
| 6 | He just moved to the other side of the bed , and lay on his back . |
| 7 | Crouching again , he moved to the other side of the cabinet and repeated the same manoeuvre , craning his head to look out . |
| 8 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
| 9 | The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn . |
| 10 | It moved to the then co-ordinator of security and intelligence in the Cabinet Office , Sir Antony Duff , who was given the right of direct access to Mrs Thatcher and encouraged to override the JIC 's supporting machinery and voice his concerns at the highest level when a potential emergency was sensed . |
| 11 | Ian always wanted to work in industry , and in April 1986 , he moved to the Legal Department of British Coal [ then still known as the National Coal Board ] , specialising first in property work in the Gateshead office , and the following year joining a team of commercial solicitors based in Doncaster . |
| 12 | Grant was very much a ‘ practising chemist ’ and moved to the analytical practice of Hehner and Cox in 1948 . |
| 13 | Then at the age of 35 he moved to the ruined fortress of Pispir on the east bank of the Nile . |
| 14 | Tyson , two of whose penalty decisions contributed to the recent battle of Highbury between Arsenal and Norwich , this time gave nothing , but by half-time he had cautioned Sheedy and Pearce for fouls . |
| 15 | In the preceding generation it contributed to the general discovery of the complex and various causes of poverty , and to considerable public discussion of the problem of the aged poor . |
| 16 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |
| 17 | It is clear that the North of England and especially Scotland contributed to the large advance of 1792 over 1788 . |
| 18 | We are grateful also to Lord Flowers and all the speakers at various events and to the many members of the University who contributed to the public launch of the Campaign for Resource . |
| 19 | By deciding in late 1987 to take my daughter to Budapest 's Peto Institute for a spell of conductive education I ‘ contributed to the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's … disability ’ — ; in her case , cerebral palsy . |
| 20 | The advent of work with apprentices gave a new dimension to the Eastern District 's overall programme : alongside the expansion in trade union provision and the increase in branches and branch membership , they contributed to the growing self-assurance of the District by the later 1950s . |
| 21 | The overseas trade in cloth also contributed to the growing dominance of London , because exports were largely in the hands of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company , which was increasingly dominated by the London Mercers ' Company ( 64 ) . |
| 22 | Negotiations with the landlords regarding a reduction of their rent demand of £100,000 per annum have been unsuccessful , and had we not used this break clause we would have been committed to the new conditions of the lease way into the twenty-first century . |
| 23 | This is the expression of a man deeply committed to the practical development of the Soviet socialist state , dismissive of esoteric philosophical debates which fail to take into account the material conditions of the socialist experiment , and preoccupied above all with the need to defend an increasingly isolated Soviet Union from potentially damaging criticisms , however well intentioned they might be . |
| 24 | We are committed to the practical care of all those who are ill with AIDS/HIV regardless of race , religion , lifestyle , sex , sexuality or any other factor . |
| 25 | If this can be established as an objective truth , then this would indeed make a correctionalist approach misguided — although only if it were committed to the total elimination of deviance . |
| 26 | In formal terms , the Labour Party in North Tyneside was committed to the central role of council housing in urban development after 1974 . |
| 27 | A similar conception of the role of sociology ( though with a more ‘ radical ’ political orientation ) is held by certain contemporary sociologists who want sociology to be not simply a discipline which analyses and explains social life but rather a vehicle for changing society , a discipline committed to the extensive alteration of existing social structural arrangements . |
| 28 | BP Exploration is committed to the continuous improvement of its already high HSE performance , despite the tough economic climate . |
| 29 | Paisley accused Craig of proposing UDI and seemed most committed to the complete integration of Ulster with the mainland if the old majority-rule Stormont could not be reintroduced . |
| 30 | We have been robust in dealing with planning applications in green belt areas , and we are wholly committed to the five objectives of the green belt . |