Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a visit to Moscow made by Raúl Castro in mid-July 1960 , the USSR not only arranged to supply arms to Cuba , but Khrushchev ‘ reaffirmed that the Soviet Union would use everything to prevent US armed intervention against the Republic of Cuba ’ ( Soviet — Cuban Communiqué , Pravda , 21 July 1960 , p. 1 ) . |
| 2 | He finally agreed to sell Dunphy to Charlton . |
| 3 | As La Forest J. said , at p. 193 : ‘ The law of restitution is not intended to provide windfalls to plaintiffs who have suffered no loss . ’ |
| 4 | During the meetings ministers were not expected to raise objections to decisions affecting other ministries , much less to challenge the chair . |
| 5 | The commercial is not designed to win non-drinkers to Guinness but rather to build company awareness and to remind current drinkers — and especially blonde beer drinkers — about Guinness . |
| 6 | Getting acceptance of the technical specification by these functions is the first hurdle for the project manager ; the process should be viewed as a form of insurance that the proposals are not going to give rise to problems in these areas , not as unwarranted interference with the job . |
| 7 | Chlamydial infection was thus shown to have similarities to gonorrhoea in this respect . |
| 8 | If he is vague about the meaning of Christ 's death and resurrection , he can not hope to introduce others to Jesus as their Saviour . |
| 9 | Last year the Americans did not bother to renegotiate access to Berbera when their lease expired . |
| 10 | The European Court held that although Belgium had not legislated to give effect to Article 119 , Ms Defrenne was entitled to pay equal to that of male cabin stewards . |
| 11 | Lord Mackay referred to work already under way to simplify and speed defamation case procedures and said : ‘ I would be very keen to encourage anyone who wished to develop systems which do not require to take people to law . ’ |
| 12 | The European Court of Human Rights has not hesitated to give prominence to Article 10 . |
| 13 | It 's part of the 1964 licencing act you 're not allowed to serve drink to people already intoxicated . |
| 14 | ‘ You are not allowed to serve drinks to people who are already intoxicated and these young people were under age . |
| 15 | The Water Services Association , the trade body representing the water companies , said the suppliers were not trying to make access to information difficult for consumers . |
| 16 | If not , the fairness of an election may be suspect ; but to use the senatorial rules is to add a further complication to a system whose misguided ingenuity can in any case scarcely fail to give rise to misunderstandings and doubts about the way in which it works . |
| 17 | Now that traders no longer have to meet face to face , and can communicate by telephone or computer , the exchange is not so easy to identify . |
| 18 | But she did not know if she would ever want to make love to Tom . |
| 19 | He quite understood that there was no way she could have possibly refused to accompany Ross to New York . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've always wanted to walk Coast to Coast , but Wainwright 's route is getting very worn in places now . |
| 21 | From the mid-nineteenth century onwards it turned out that not the whole population of Ireland was willing to be represented at Westminster but only a portion , the portion namely in which sixteen out of seventeen constituencies still choose to send Members to Westminster today . |
| 22 | Dorcas , the engineer , had once tried to explain electricity to Masklin , but without much success because Dorcas was n't too certain about it either . |
| 23 | ISS proposals for the fourth and fifth years were carefully formulated to ease transition to FE , both in terms of providing students with fuller and positive records of achievement ( the unit credits ) and by experiences of new forms of curriculum organization , especially in modular form ( the units ) . |
| 24 | He or she also needs to demonstrate commitment to curriculum and pastoral development . |
| 25 | The Jan. 30 meeting also voted to extend assistance to Romania ( excluded when demonstrations were crushed in June 1990 — see pp. 37544-45 ) . |
| 26 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 27 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 28 | Other reports said that some republics , notably Kazakhstan and Russia , had also agreed to sell arms to Taiwan and Yemen . |
| 29 | Zenith Electronics Corp filed a shelf registration with the Securities & Exchange Commission for 4m shares to raise cash to cut short-term borrowings and for working capital ; the Glenview , Illinois company also agreed to sell 1.2m to 1.5m new shares to Fletcher Capital Markets Inc . |
| 30 | I would also like to pay tribute to chairpersons , secretaries and committee members who give many hours of service to our Institute . |