Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [to-vb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the defendant negligently starts a fire and strong winds then cause the flames to spread to the plaintiff 's property , the court will not find that the winds break the chain of causation . |
| 2 | In practice , this is unlikely to prove a problem for directors of private companies who are probably also the shareholders , but directors of public companies do have to consider whether it is in the interests of the company and the shareholders to agree to a lock-out clause at a figure which may not be the highest obtainable . |
| 3 | Frankly , dear readers , I was getting bored waiting for the graphs to get to the point of maximum excitement . |
| 4 | The Austro-German advance became an irresistible tide , forcing the Russians to retreat to a line running almost straight , north to south , from Riga to Czernowitz . |
| 5 | Clearly , training that allows the subjects to come to the task with these associations ready formed will be of help ; and equally clearly , reversed pre-training will have just the opposite effect . |
| 6 | The test , in every case , is whether reasonable people would understand the words to point to the plaintiff personally , and the journalist can not escape simply by widening the net of suspects . |
| 7 | When the desk-clerk left his post for a moment , crossing to the lifts to talk to the porter , she moved quickly to the desk and left an envelope addressed to Colonel Lin Foh upon it . |
| 8 | Anger : in many ways anger is the most powerful of the emotions to come to the surface in early recovery . |
| 9 | The bacterium is difficult to grow and it may be necessary to biopsy one of the lesions to come to the diagnosis . |
| 10 | This resulted in one flush and one staggered end , forcing the linkers to ligate to the cDNA in only one orientation . |
| 11 | Fly right to the platform under the last button you hit , go up and collect the arrow , go down and right , go left and right through the platforms to get to the bottom , at the bottom go up the other side of the wall , collect the star and fly left over the spikes , collect the arrow and recharge your flying abilities on the star , fly right and go down , go right to the star in the grass , collect it and fly up , push the crate down , fall down . |
| 12 | It feels the unit would be better off in a company willing to invest in and grow that line of business — it says it does not have the resources to devote to an operation that is outside its core business . |
| 13 | Let's now use the biomorphs to return to the point made by the monkeys typing Hamlet , the importance of gradual , step-by-step change in evolution , as opposed to pure chance . |
| 14 | Separate grants for providing public access to set-aside land are available in certain counties under the Countryside Commission premium scheme , a scheme which , in the reform of the common agricultural policy , we hope will have the powers to extend to the rest of the country . |
| 15 | She ran up the stairs to go to the toilet to be sick but collapsed on the landing . |
| 16 | It was announced on March 20 that Jiri Dienstbier , the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister , had rescinded the previous regime 's decision to expel UK , US and Canadian diplomats who had supported the Czechoslovak human rights movement Charter 77 , and had invited the diplomats to return to the country at any time . |
| 17 | ‘ If you ask the players to perform to the extent that they are expected to entertain the public , they you must pay them as entertainers ’ , was the way former Ireland coach Jimmy Davidson summed up the situation . |
| 18 | In woodlands they can swing from tree to tree or scramble over the treetops to drop to the forest floor below . |
| 19 | The next Labour Government will do it ; we will have the guts to come to the House with a solution that we think will be in the interests of the consumers , those who want to retain the special nature of Sunday , those who work in the industry and all the other interested groups . |
| 20 | My decision not to eat had been made on the spur of the moment and was based not , as I well knew , on the terrible beating , but on the pointless cruelty of not allowing the others to go to the bathroom . |
| 21 | Anyway , I was asked by the organizers to contribute to the debate on jobs , recovery and communities . |
| 22 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 23 | Left penniless when her husband dropped dead suddenly one Monday morning as he was putting his horse between the shafts to go to the country on his weekly door-to-door round , her pride had not allowed her to accept for long the charity of the community 's Board of Guardians . |
| 24 | Pie accepted it without question or thanks , then shook Estabrook 's hand and left the trespassers to return to the safety of their car . |
| 25 | THE REPLACEMENTS ' singer Paul Westerberg is about to begin work on his first solo LP , and has indicated that he has no plans to return to the group . |