Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diego Maradona did most to restore Napoli to the top , creating headed goals ( 18 and 45 min ) for Andrea Carnevale and scoring a virtuoso third ( 84 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And then a woman who had come in to sell flowers to the customers overheard their conversation and intervened . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 5 | Yet it is not enough merely to draw attention to the growth of what Marx called the ‘ light cavalry ’ of capitalism , without also observing a significant distinction within the developed countries ; or more precisely between the Old and New Worlds . |
| 6 | Overall , the objective is not only to give prominence to the life and work of a highly original and much underrated communist intellectual and novelist , but also to scrutinise the example of Nizan as a guiding principle for action in the present . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal required the council to give such an undertaking , as a condition of the grant of an injunction , first because , as Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held , in English law the discretion to dispense with such an undertaking in cases where an injunction is sought to restrain an infringement of the criminal law is available only to give effect to a privilege of the Crown alone and does not extend to local authorities exercising the function of law enforcement ; and second because under Community law an undertaking must be given were necessary to protect any Community law right of direct effect which might possibly be affected . |
| 8 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , suppose that a young woman is unfortunate enough to give birth to a child outside marriage . |
| 10 | But it was not enough to commend Stanley to the City of Worcester Conservative and Unionist Association . |
| 11 | It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit . |
| 12 | They fail entirely to distribute largesse to the locals and leave the door open again on their loud departures . |
| 13 | If used constructively , instructional programs can be very effective but they can be very boring if they are used merely to transfer work to the microcomputer which would be better carried out in the traditional manner . |
| 14 | Mr Johnson replied : ‘ It had a level of security where people could access only to deliver information to the computer . ’ |
| 15 | The total energy consumed overnight is 70 megawatts , the amount needed daily to supply electricity to a town of around 70,000 like Basingstoke , St Albans or Methyr Tydfil , according to research published yesterday by Friends of the Earth . |
| 16 | Mr. King said it was crucial that everyone works together to bring trade to the town during the period of upheaval while the centre development is built . |
| 17 | These tools should enable all children , not only to gain access to the curriculum but also to allow and encourage them to respond to it in a way which clearly expresses their understanding . |
| 18 | So then I decided , reluctantly , that the letters were merely to gain introduction to the family . ’ |
| 19 | I see it as the so to speak Preface to the Prolegomena ! |
| 20 | The need is to change them ; to find for the means of production and provision another structure such as will of its nature avoid the dilemma with which the present dispensation ultimately confronts the country : either unacceptably high and chronic unemployment or unacceptable and uncontrollable inflation , each so operating as eventually to destabilise society to the point where the purposes of liberal democracy can no longer be entertained , let alone fulfilled . |
| 21 | Evolved for hunting in Africa , the quiet nature of this breed was essential so as not to alert game to the presence of dogs and hunters nearby . |
| 22 | The case had been brought by the CDU which was widely perceived as anxious not to lose votes to the Republicans [ see below ] . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The entry clearance officer ( ECO ) said he was not satisfied that the primary purpose of Mr Hussain 's intended marriage was not to obtain admittance to the UK . |
| 25 | Her duty is like the duty not to set fire to the forest which entails the duty to put out any fire one started . |
| 26 | The purpose , he says , ‘ was not to give succour to the victims of harassment , but to polarise the ethnic minorities and the police . ’ |
| 27 | The execution … of the Saviour 's plan required the prudent application of wise and well-judged measures so as not to injure private property , not to disturb civil order , not to expose Christianity to the scandal of sedition , not to obscure the glory of a Kingdom not of this world . |
| 28 | At one stage no less a person than Bobby Kennedy , soon to accompany Josie to the grave , had offered to help Roth gain his freedom . |
| 29 | They have tended not to consider benefits to the gene itself . |
| 30 | Manning said he was told Mr McVeigh had been warned on four occasions not to supply goods to the security forces . |