Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun pl] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single market is , of course , designed to lower and eventually eliminate barriers to the movement of goods , services and people . |
| 2 | Baird rarely adds eggs to the purée as the scallop meat tends to be firm enough without them to absorb a fair amount of cream . |
| 3 | The generals rarely send orders to the troops . |
| 4 | It has been SCOTVEC 's consistent view that centres can not only prepare students/trainees to the level of occupational competence , but can also model the requirements of the workplace . |
| 5 | The damages being unpaid , he sought to levy execution upon Hansard and to put the sheriff 's men in to distrain goods to the value of the judgment . |
| 6 | And then a woman who had come in to sell flowers to the customers overheard their conversation and intervened . |
| 7 | ‘ Then after the war , Disney and Reagan , he was running the Screen Actors Guild , they ganged up together to feed names to the McCarthy Committee … ’ |
| 8 | In fact , the text can only give bones to the story . |
| 9 | The fact that his life is totally unrecorded until 866 need not suggest that Ermentrude 's own influence was limited , but shows that a royal marriage did not necessarily bring honours to the bride 's close kinsmen . |
| 10 | One can , then , only obtain approximations to the height of the significant features . |
| 11 | They hope that the sale of the tape will bring in some much needed funds to the trust . |
| 12 | Ministry of Defence approval was gained many years ago and as such PAS have supplied much needed parts to the RAF 's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight , all transactions being made with the relevant release documentation . |
| 13 | ICI has also developed specialised equipment , such as ‘ Cleanseal ’ and ‘ Cleanzone ’ , which can reduce solvent losses by up to 90 per cent , so minimising emissions to the environment . |
| 14 | And beckoning along drifting strata to the tug |
| 15 | The film ended with Wayne assuming responsibility for an orphaned Vietnamese boy to the strains of The Ballad of the Green Berets and the sun apparently setting in the east , a scene which outraged his critics but apparently brought tears to the eyes of many less demanding viewers . |
| 16 | By and large , the retina only sends messages to the brain when the image on it changes . |
| 17 | The other ‘ disappointments ’ during the final week of the third session ( known as la settimana nera ) , such as the last-minute papally imposed amendments to the decree ‘ on Ecumenism ’ , had a similar function : to make the text more acceptable to the minority . |
| 18 | Voice of Lebanon radio reported on June 24 that Gen. Aoun had told Scheer that he was not demanding amendments to the accord , but simply a reconsideration of some of its provisions . |
| 19 | This authority would not make changes to the software , but would be responsible for pursuing the SPR to a satisfactory conclusion . |
| 20 | By the autumn , however , the Russians , through their ambassador in Istanbul , Andrei Italinskii , began to threaten the sultan that if he did not make concessions to the Serbs they would intervene to enforce the disputed Article VIII of the Treaty of Bucharest ( see above , p. 81 ) . |
| 21 | In particular the purchaser should not grant exceptions to the exclusivity as the court will then require the attendance of the vendor before granting the injunction . |
| 22 | The reasonableness test is for the tribunal to consider , though both parties will normally make representations to the tribunal on this issue . |
| 23 | ‘ But they are not producing programmes to the extent that we would like . |
| 24 | We already make exceptions to the capital rule where homes are occupied by a spouse , a relative over the age of 60 or a relative who is incapacitated . |
| 25 | The case had been brought by the CDU which was widely perceived as anxious not to lose votes to the Republicans [ see below ] . |
| 26 | However , if you are charming and efficient you may actually get booked again by the venue : Similarly , all sorts of things often go wrong on stage , and the golden rule here is not to communicate mistakes to the audience . |
| 27 | After years of frustration in the European arena , Wednesday 's success has finally carried Rangers to the threshold of untold riches . |
| 28 | To this end , the semantic net must itself convey a meaningful model of the world or must somehow present patterns to the user that are easily understood . |
| 29 | Joachim 's idea of a completely unworldly religious order nearly found expression in the confraternity that began to form around the followers of St Francis of Assisi shortly after Joachim 's death , but the main body of Franciscans soon made concessions to the demands of everyday life . |
| 30 | My Department and the Secretary of State for Transport have already made submissions to the Commission that a standard high level of security — as high as we have in Britain — should be enforced across Europe . |