Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened to the starch in her voice , observed it in the straightness of her backbone , recognised the ramrod will that made no concessions to hardship . |
| 2 | Whether the investors are prepared to support the migration to software remains uncertain . |
| 3 | The surface may be bowed into a curve by tensioning the two cross-spars and , while this contributes a lot to stability , the Rokkaku is still a single line fighting kite . |
| 4 | Since the Tsar was already an ally against Germany , it was politically inconvenient to demand an end to anti-semitism in Russia . |
| 5 | The pie was made to celebrate the bicentenary of the first pie , which was baked in 1788 to celebrate the return to sanity of George Ill . |
| 6 | The mainsheet traveller tore off the deck and began a chain reaction : next to go was the boom vang , and this caused the boom to fracture at the gooseneck , overloading the mast check-stay which parted . |
| 7 | This allows the librarian to gauge use of the library in total and the use made by particular classes . |
| 8 | 2 Cut the film to size and stretch it over the window frame , sticking it to the tape |
| 9 | On March 13 King Michael had written to interim President Ion Iliescu stating that he was prepared to lead the country to democracy through a constitutional monarchy . |
| 10 | This encouraged an end to labour force participation and established the two arbitrary ages as customary retirement ages . |
| 11 | For any high flyers considering keeping well above this area , a quick reference to EUR 2 shows an air to air refuelling area of 2600 square miles starting abeam Bristol and Bournemouth and ending just before Land 's End , restricting the air from FL 80 to 180 . |
| 12 | A meeting between representatives of the government and 26 political parties was held in Luanda on Jan. 14-26 to discuss the transition to democracy . |
| 13 | This allowed the company to crow about the new models that cost no more than the old — a favourite Ford device but by no means exclusive to the blue oval badge . |
| 14 | In spite of Hawke 's presence the number of enemy ships at Brest rose , within ten days , from 11 to 17 , as the French began the build-up to invasion . |
| 15 | Prima facie , this raised a liability to stamp duty under s57 of the Stamp Act 1891 according to the value of the debt assumed by the transferee . |
| 16 | This blocked the advance to socialism — ‘ the awakening proletariat is seized by a naive nationalism , fortified by class hatred , and this obstructs , for a long time , the penetration of socialist ideas ’ . |
| 17 | This offered the temptation to Government to use section 2 to protect itself against potentially damaging disclosures . |
| 18 | Apart from Kevin Moseley 's steady supply from the line-out , there was nothing much to commend in a Welsh forward effort which reverted to the very worst Eighties stereotype of static , cumbersome donkeys only too willing to slow the game to walking pace . |
| 19 | The rise in equity prices during the 1980s , made it relatively easy to float new issues , and this gave an impetus to equity financing . |
| 20 | It is surprising to hear that Mill does n't hold this view that he thinks that erm the moral health of the citizens is of concern to the government and it actually gives , although he does n't seem to recognize this , this gives a hostage to fortune to his conservative critics because of course they can say , did say that liberalism was very damaging of er morality of the public and so we need a far more restrictive type of regime than Mill allows us . |
| 21 | The resulting public pressure led the government in 1985 to remove the right to compensation , as it applies to blocks of flats where the proposal is for an increase in the number of dwelling units ( not for an increase in height ) . |
| 22 | We were thus free to take the Cup to lunch , where , feeling better , the former rugby hooker , Jeffrey Bernard , pronounced himself happy that ‘ if England ca n't have the Cup , then at least it 's good that the Australians have it … anybody but the wretched French and the bloody Welsh , who never bought a drink for anybody in their life ’ . |
| 23 | If the former can not be allowed to happen because this spells an end to society , then external coercion must come to replace internal restraint ; and drives which can not be inhibited and redirected by the ego and superego must instead be mastered by agencies of social control . |
| 24 | In the first series of experiments , acid was administered into the duodenal lumen after pretreatment with saline to test the resistance to acid applied directly to the mucosa . |
| 25 | This poses a threat to agriculture and the food chain , and consequently to human health . |
| 26 | Erm I was interested to note the reference to day care in the area . |
| 27 | The papers and the TV , which never published a true picture of JFK when he was alive , are still unwilling to alarm the paying customers with anything too toxic , and this leaves the field to movie directors , historians and writers of fiction . |
| 28 | ( c ) The charge If the conveyance or transfer does not fall within the provisions of s83 , one is thrown back on the previous stamp duty position : ( i ) conveyance or transfer on sale This incurs a charge to ad valorem stamp duty at 1 per cent unless the conveyance can be certified at £60,000 or less ( see below ) ( Finance Act 1984 , s109 and Finance Act 1993 ) ; or ( ii ) conveyance or transfer " of any other kind " In such a case fixed stamp duty of 50p is payable unless the instrument can be certified as being one within The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) . |
| 29 | Although it is actually possible to regress a patient to babyhood and even to the mother 's womb , I felt that perhaps in Maxine 's case we should try past-life regression ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 30 | A broadcast speech by Saddam Hussein on Feb. 10 made no reference to peace initiatives , but stressed that every hour for which the war continued was a fresh defeat for the " unbelievers " ranged against Iraq . |