Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very essence of his buildings is expressed through intimately relating ornament to structure so , together , they create astonishing , tautly dynamic , glittering volumes and spaces for people . |
| 2 | FIVE schoolchildren in Japan were given 100-volt electric shocks for not bringing textbooks to class . |
| 3 | Grand jury documents relating to the forthcoming trial of former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed that , at a Reagan Cabinet meeting in January 1986 , Bush had voted in favour of secretly selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon . |
| 4 | In parallel with the American emergency air lift recently announced , we are offering a supply of badly needed aid to Ekaterinburg , formerly Sverdlovsk — the kind of city of which my hon. Friend is thinking — and details of that British aid are now being worked out . |
| 5 | The Israeli government has a policy of not providing funds to hospitals for capital expenditure so that resources have to be sought elsewhere . |
| 6 | The poem , which many sports people have adopted as a sort of anthem , also advises on ‘ keeping one 's head while all around are losing theirs ’ , of not giving way to hate or dealing in lies . |
| 7 | Taking account of moves towards further devolved management to schools and proposed greater consultation between headteachers and boards it is likely that training will be all the more important in the future . |
| 8 | Written records attributed to the Hittites of Asia Minor of 1500BC contain references to wine , and its use is familiar from Homeric legends onwards . |
| 9 | Bars show the percentage of correctly directed fixations to targets appearing in the left ( LVF ) and right ( RVF ) visual fields , on three successive visits . |
| 10 | CHILDREN of today come face to face with images of the past at an exhibition in a Middlesbrough museum . |
| 11 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 12 | The trial opened in Linz on April 4 , 1990 , of 18 executives of the state-owned Voest-Alpine engineering group and its subsidiary Noricum for illegally supplying arms to Iran via third countries in 1984-86 , during the Iran-Iraq war , in contravention of Austria 's neutral status [ see pp. 35792 ; 36561 ] . |
| 13 | " Restaurant licence " which authorises the supply of alcoholic liquor to persons taking table meals for consumption as an ancillary to the meal in premises which are adapted for habitually providing meals to persons who frequent them , are principally used for providing main meals at mid-day and in the evening , and do not contain a bar counter . |
| 14 | Tattershall Bridge area good for mainly snall roach to pole or waggler . |
| 15 | ‘ We have therefore concluded that there are practical advantages in following the policy of many other countries in not according recognition to governments . |
| 16 | ‘ The composition of the team , strengths and weaknesses of its members , and styles of leadership are all considered with the aim of moving from purely controlling activity to coaching and leading . ’ |
| 17 | In the case of Ernest Saunders , then executive chairman of Guinness and chief defendant in both Guinness I and Guinness II , there were 42 charges in all stretching from dishonestly procuring documents to theft and false accounting . |
| 18 | Close co-operation between the three businesses resulted in a palette agreeable to all and some new ideas in how to present colours to customers . |
| 19 | Lockstitch is used to loosely hold linings to curtains and is like a long loose blanket stitch . |
| 20 | In the longer term , provided finance becomes available , the Plan proposes a new Light Rapid Transit system to eventually run east to west and north to south across the city . |
| 21 | The government 's refusal fully to implement the Disabled Person 's ( Services , Consultation and Representation ) Act 1986 leaves users dependent on the good practice of service providers , without clear cut rights to assessment or explanation when services are not provided . |
| 22 | The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , Mr Claiborne Pell , called the expulsion a ‘ disgrace ’ and compared it to Britain 's decision to forcibly return Cossacks to Stalin 's Russia after the second world war . |
| 23 | I retaliated with detailed instructions on how to bowl off-breaks to left-handers on a drying pitch , and we eventually declared a truce as we watched the sun sink across the oil-storage tanks beyond the creek . |
| 24 | IDEAS ON HOW TO SELL MEMBERSHIP TO CLASS MEMBERS |
| 25 | IDEAS ON HOW TO SELL MEMBERSHIP TO CLASS MEMBERS |
| 26 | Hey ( 1979 ) suggests that Seebohm employed a variety of understandings , shifting from concentration on closely defined function to notions of distinctive competence . |
| 27 | Well I could I could er I could probably take on that task if you wish , cos it 's easy enough to actually write letters to people , cos I can just ask my secretary to do that . |
| 28 | Everybody is very concerned to actually get food to people who are really absolutely desperate now . |
| 29 | She demonstrated a number of instruments from her large collection and talked about how to introduce children to music . |
| 30 | As Sage Associates , based in Oakland , California , the pair intend to peddle their know-how about how to make presentations to analysts to industry folk who , they say , are n't getting their message across . |