Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blue Arrow plc , a UK employment agency which Mr Reed was responsible for bringing to the bank in 1985 , was seen as a valuable addition . |
| 2 | Bamber blames glamorised media portrayals of nurses for contributing to the problem in that they ‘ do nothing to support realistic expectations of working in a hospital , but only seem to strengthen the ‘ angel ’ stereotype ’ . |
| 3 | " " Woodnesse " " , " madness " , itself becomes a theme of the tale , as Nicholas screams " " as he were wood " " ( 3814 ) on being branded , and Alison and Nicholas assert that John was " " wood " " after crashing to the ground in his tub ( 3833 ) . |
| 4 | Something permanent had clearly been created in Virginia and , shortly after coming to the throne in 1625 , Charles I did what he could to stabilize the situation by declaring it a royal colony and taking into his own hands the power to appoint the governor . |
| 5 | Music mogul Richard Branson was increasingly disillusioned with his company 's rating in the eyes of the City after coming to the market in 1985 . |
| 6 | Gerald Wildish , the unit general manager of the Victoria Hospital said after chatting to the teenager in her hospital bed today : ‘ She thought Blackpool would be probably somewhat livelier and possibly safer and cheaper than other resorts . |
| 7 | She had no intention of returning to the house in a hurry . |
| 8 | Modest ( 1984 ) also made use of a no-arbitrage condition to test the effects of marking to the market in the presence of stochastic interest rates on the prices of index futures . |
| 9 | The Mayor , Coun Trevor Lloyd , yesterday handed over a £400 cheque towards the cost of going to the event in Winchester in June . |
| 10 | Association with the cloth trade was a necessary step towards getting to the top in Coventry , and when wealthy baker Thomas Astelen became mayor in 1529 he was described as a clothier . |
| 11 | An agency is undoubtedly the forum where you will gain the best all-round experience in your career , and have the biggest chance of rising to the top in the advertising business . |
| 12 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 13 | John Pitt , joint managing director of Anchor International , accused the protestors of objecting to the licence in a bid to scupper the whole scheme . |
| 14 | Although Apple is using emulation techniques to get other parts of its Mac system over to PowerPC ( UX No 434 ) , its ultimate goal must be to have everything running native on the IBM/Motorola CPU to extract maximum performance benefits , the whole point of moving to the architecture in the first place . |
| 15 | Although Apple is using emulation techniques to get other parts of its Mac system over to PowerPC , its ultimate goal must be to have everything running native on the IBM-Motorola CPU to extract maximum performance benefits , which was the whole point of moving to the architecture in the first place . |
| 16 | I suggest that the first thing is erm comments on what recommendation you will be thinking of making to the church in regard to the visit of er Mr and Mrs . |
| 17 | Set your students the task of talking to the camera in the way a reporter or newsreader does . |
| 18 | The difference is that ‘ My Lord ’ is the mode of addressing a judge in the vocative case , while ‘ Your lordship ’ is the mode of referring to the judge in the course of a sentence , i.e . |
| 19 | Last-minute decisions can be made about going to the cottage in the country , but a little more planning is needed to arrange a trip abroad . |
| 20 | And three words per second is the way that television presenters make er , their scripts for presenting to the public in a news bulletin . |
| 21 | I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for replying to the debate in the way that he is doing . |
| 22 | To return to the notion of choice , and its illusory nature in such circumstances , a final example ( again from Clarricoates ) will serve to illustrate , and to ring a familiar ‘ warning bell ’ for arts educators with regard to the way in which their subjects are often conceptualized by teachers . |
| 23 | The test is whether there is a ‘ real feeling of reprobation ’ amongst members of society with regard to the conduct in question . |
| 24 | With regard to the diagnosis in approximately 10% of inflammatory bowel disease patients with colonic involvement a definite distinction can not be made . |
| 25 | For example , with regard to the belief in the existence of God we can ask : 1 . |
| 26 | … with regard to the article in the current issue of The Lifeboat regarding an increase in fees . |
| 27 | Secondly , the same relationship to sex offending could be posited with regard to the reporting in popular newspapers as is adjudged with the supposed link to video nasties . |
| 28 | With regard to the vote in the House of Commons on the proposed European committee of the regions , although I can have no sympathy for anyone who votes with the Tory Government I can understand the SNP 's attempts at embracing reality and moving towards the concept of Europe of the regions . |
| 29 | I am writing with regard to the letter in which John Brunner asserts that taking Ginseng over eight to ten days resulted in acute hypertension and ‘ pressure headaches ’ ( Letters , 6 January , p 44 ) . |
| 30 | Those who saw him freeze into immobility against Mike Tyson before crashing to the canvas in the first round in July 1990 believe they are seeing now a repeat of the same symptoms . |