Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went on to issue a challenge to parents : ‘ The Government is allowing Essex to spend as little as £62 per child for a whole year . |
| 2 | Eventually I felt strong enough to write the truth to Margaret . |
| 3 | On 6 January , 1918 , the soldiers ‘ protecting ’ its deliberations marched in to put an end to proceedings . |
| 4 | She 's only to give an envelope to Louise . |
| 5 | Later that day — the 26th — Hitler was still in command of his mental state sufficiently to send a telegram to Mussolini demanding a precise list of what he needed , but after that he almost snapped . |
| 6 | However , these fun boards winds are not frequent enough to recommend the resort to experts . |
| 7 | Luckily , 21-year-old Emma , was well enough to make the trip to St. Bart 's on Monday morning by train , said Lyn , — but a few months ago the situation would have been completely different . |
| 8 | In addition to making an order for the child 's attendance the court may order any person who is in a position to do so to bring the child to court ( s95(5) ) . |
| 9 | If the maxim of Quality is interpreted as the injunction to produce non-spurious or sincere acts ( a move we need to make anyway to extend the maxim to questions , promises , invitations , etc . ) , |
| 10 | Whilst operating systems as distinct as Unix SVR4 and DEC 's OpenVMS embrace the Posix standard , each has thousands of other calls beyond the specific Posix requirement , says Price , which means that it is not sufficient just to port an application to Posix and assume that it will then run on any Posix-compliant system , because it wo n't . |
| 11 | • Does the machine have an effective cool zone into which loose particles of food can fall so as not to expose the oil to carbonisation , which will reduce the life of the oil ? |
| 12 | At first he tried halfheartedly to appeal to me not to send the story to England for ‘ the sake of the side ’ . |
| 13 | He reached this conclusion notwithstanding the fact that the defendants had received this information as agents for Mr. Brant and that they owed accordingly a duty to Mr. Brant not to disclose the information to others . |
| 14 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
| 15 | But the establishment of these facts is only one step on the way to a consideration of whether , in all the circumstances , the situation created by the delay is such as to make it an unfair employment of the powers of the court any longer to hold the defendant to account . |
| 16 | Although it may be argued that the effectiveness of local social pressures not to take the crime to court declined as a consequence of colonial rule , this change was gradual , and therefore does not explain why the rate of criminal litigation was highest in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | The return journey is steam-hauled and runs to Oxford and then along the Cotswold route to Worcester for Kidderminster where the diesel will take over to return the train to Birmingham . |
| 18 | He was asked politely not to bring the rifle to lectures in future — or at least to leave it with the umbrellas in a corner of the room . |
| 19 | The wood should be allowed to air dry slowly to avoid a tendency to surface cracking and distortion , but it kiln dries well with little degrade and is stable in service . |
| 20 | For him it must be said that he went at once to report the death to authority , and then came back to us and again told the same story . |
| 21 | Mrs Chandler , a senior occupational therapist from Chepstow , had set off to do the Coast to Coast Walk from Bees Head to Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 22 | I knew there was only the one slice left , but I 've never been the sort deliberately to starve an animal to death , so in it went . |
| 23 | By June 23rd he had found some , and took off to fly the bag to Balsley in his hospital . |
| 24 | We sat and watched not the coldness and menace of evil but a pantomime dame who was obviously too stupid and incompetent ever to pose a threat to goodness . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh … we 're just off to get the train to Holborn . ’ |
| 26 | He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel . |
| 27 | In 1848 Prussian peasants rose up to put an end to serfdom and to pledges of service to their landlords . |
| 28 | I intend also to drop a line to Norman too . |
| 29 | ‘ My aim is not only to raise money but also to introduce the trust to non-members . |
| 30 | How different the world may have been if long ago those missionaries who set out to convert the world to belief in an all-providing benevolent ‘ god ’ , had themselves been aware that the human race , sooner or later , would have to control its rate of procreation , for the world can never provide for unlimited human life . |