Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , many who are genuinely aggrieved by apparently unlawful decisions by government bodies and public officials are effectively denied access to justice . |
| 2 | There are other reasons why women are unable to build up sufficient National Insurance contributions and are thereby denied access to unemployment benefit . |
| 3 | They are generally arranged back to back , and a rough little relief of Roman date shows that then at least they were so set . |
| 4 | They are generally fed whole to sheep , although this can cause older ewes to shed their incisor teeth prematurely and thus shorten their useful lives . |
| 5 | There 's a couple of boats , but they ai n't moving — they 're just rocking side to side . |
| 6 | I 'm just having regard to criterion four of policy H two . |
| 7 | As long as the sun shines and the waters flow , this land will be here to give life to men and animals . |
| 8 | Among its aims are increasingly to devolve responsibility to area offices , to set performance targets and to secure that policies on the grant and continuation of legal aid are applied consistently . |
| 9 | ‘ The musicians in the gallery are about to put flute to lips and fingers to lyre . ’ |
| 10 | White settlers often objected to the reserves because they were thereby denied access to farming land , and in some areas the size of the reserves was scaled down to meet their demands . |
| 11 | But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person ? |
| 12 | Below , in the mathematician 's trench , they were already fighting hand to hand . |
| 13 | Apples were also taken west to Greece and Italy , and Homer refers to them in The Odyssey , which was written between 900 and 800 BC . |
| 14 | But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson . |
| 15 | I mean , how do we know you were n't playing Stairway To Heaven , Smoke On The Water or Eruption ? |
| 16 | Genetic counselling is basically giving advice to parents , including those who have already given birth to a mentally handicapped child , of risks of having a first or second child with mental handicap . |
| 17 | BORIS BECKER 'S much heralded return to fitness and form last night ran into the buffers at the ATP World Championships . |
| 18 | Diminished responsibility has a wider ambit , but its effect is merely to reduce murder to manslaughter , giving the judge discretion on sentencing or other disposal . |
| 19 | Here the rhetorical approach is not drawing attention to arguments between cultures , or between ideologies , but the arguments which occur within cultures or ideologies . |
| 20 | In this case , then , to write about reality is not to relate word to thing , but text to text . |
| 21 | ‘ I think I should warn you : Jean-Claude 's not writing music to Frontenac 's libretto . |
| 22 | The SNM withdrew and is now laying siege to Hargeisa and four other garrisons in the region . |
| 23 | Chair , on the recommendations erm on item D , I 'm a bit unhappy about the use of the term ‘ natural ’ disasters , because I believe that many of the disasters that people in Oxford are actually giving money for are man made disasters , particularly matters of international economics and the unfair burden , erm unfair distribution of wealth which places a whole sector of the world in poverty , and I think , you know , you do get a magnificent response from people in Oxford to these charities , and we must be aware that there are a whole number of greater issues involved , and while I hear what you 're saying earlier on about you ca n't take on the problems of the whole world , I think when people are actually giving money to charities for example , like Oxfam , they are often unaware of these issues , and we do have a wider role in making the , joining with organisations like Oxfam in spreading public awareness on these issues . |
| 24 | Wheeler , who in the past had been unprepared for much in life , was not leaving placement to chance . |
| 25 | Gros Espiell , who was later named ambassador to France , denied that his decision was connected with the referendum result , but his departure was seen as a further blow to the government . |
| 26 | In the same period a peasant group calling itself the Union of the True was also advocating opposition to taxes . |
| 27 | In addition , this was at a time when Coenwulf , king of the Mercians , was also giving protection to opponents of Eardwulf . |
| 28 | Dear Guitarist I have been meaning to write to your fine mag for a long time , but whenever I was about to put pen to paper someone else got there before me with the same topic . |