Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This relates to the situation where A sells or agrees to sell goods to B and then later sells or agrees to sell them to C. To whom do the goods belong ? |
| 2 | My branch submitted a motion to the Apex conference two years ago that sought to draw attention to unemployment amongst the white collar workers . |
| 3 | Under the policy , companies that want to import computers to India have to show that they also have export orders for software . |
| 4 | It was only the last and biggest headline-grabber — Sir James Goldsmith 's failed bid in 1989 for B.A.T Industries — that threatened to bring junk to London . |
| 5 | Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach . |
| 6 | Ideologies are constructions of reality that serve to support claims to power or authority ( Holzner 1972 : 144 ) . |
| 7 | I mean in my opinion that 's a good thing , but it 's had the effect of school governors , not having had any training in appointing people , have this sort of stereotyped model in their mind and tend to give promotion to men rather than to women . |
| 8 | On this day : the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy and Spain and today became 15 October 1582 ; Spain declared war on Britain , 1796 ; Italian troops occupied Tripoli , 1911 ; the first air battle took place between German and French aircraft , 1914 ; the Allies landed at Salonika , 1915 ; Sir Arthur Lee presented the estate of Chequers as an official country residence for the Prime Minister , 1917 ; the Locarno Conference met and the great powers guaranteed frontiers and agreed to put disputes to arbitration , 1925 ; unemployed shipyard workers started to march from Jarrow to London , 1936 ; the Cominform ( Communist Information Bureau ) was set up to aid European Communist parties , 1947 ; tea rationing ended in Britain , 1952 . |
| 9 | The Chases , the Waylands , the Chyldes , the Esplins — they 've all found old houses in the south-western and northern suburbs of the city , and done them up , and rung to invite Howard to dinner . |
| 10 | She took Bible-reading classes among her nurses , and tried to lead sinners to repentance , and Florence Nightingale was afraid this might damage the reputation of workhouse nursing . |
| 11 | He originally trained as a plumber and used to give classes to inmates in his local jail before taking up prison work full-time . |
| 12 | He originally trained as a plumber and used to give classes to inmates in his local jail before taking up prison work full-time . |
| 13 | Slaven claimed he had been made the scapegoat and vowed to blast Boro to promotion given the chance . |
| 14 | These " necessary steps " , Bush said , included " condemning the [ May 30 ] operation , dissociating itself from it , and beginning to take steps to discipline Abul Abbas , the perpetrator " . |
| 15 | The virus travelled into the neural net during a regular systems update and began to transmit information to IMC . |
| 16 | The joint training programme has been extremely important , and nice to mention that we 've trained , on a joint basis , over three thousand people , in the er , use of the new arrangements development of the assessment er , procedures and continue to provide training to people where it 's , where it 's essential . |
| 17 | She left the two boys and went to say good-bye to Hepzibah . |
| 18 | It featured strong condemnation of the radical party faction known as the " Democratic Platform " , and appeared to give notice to faction members to leave the party or face expulsion . |
| 19 | ( ‘ If forced to come face to face with the Subject avoid catching the Subject 's eye . ’ ) |
| 20 | He attended the early meetings of SADCC Ministers and Heads of State and Government , and continued to provide assistance to SADCC , until illness made this impossible . |
| 21 | He will recall that dealing with NIE and trying to bring electricity to Rathlin was not one of the easiest tasks that he or I had to undertake . |
| 22 | Great Britain , for example , has two chambers — the House of Commons and the House of Lords , but the power of the House of Lords is restricted to the possibility of delaying legislation passed by the Commons for a short period and trying to make amendments to bills , if the government is prepared to accept them . |
| 23 | My immediate anxiety was that the authorities might forbid my journey , since the Asaimara of Bahdu had recently renounced their allegiance to the Government and refused to send tribute to Asba Tafari . |