Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [noun] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training courses were arranged and at one of them General Aung San himself presided and listened to my opening speech to the PROS . |
| 2 | ‘ And you did n't know he gave all her housekeeping money to the Druids — ‘ |
| 3 | One woman told Elizabeth Roberts that she had resorted to taking her wedding ring to the pawnbrokers ' three times : ‘ each time I was caught with babies ’ . |
| 4 | John Paul 's pontificate may then appear as , in part , aberration , while a pluralist Catholic Christianity will be revealed as not only heir to the central religious tradition of the West , but as able to respond without losing its core identity to the needs both of a truly world Church and of the ongoing transformation of human consciousness and intellectual understanding . |
| 5 | About 50 UN envoys monitoring the violence moved from their Johannesburg hotels to the suburbs after four were attacked . |
| 6 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 7 | The TDC administration is increasingly gearing its work programmes to the requirements of the State Purchasing Agency , as well as the expanding parts of the private sector . |
| 8 | ‘ However , in fairness to Price Waterhouse , it should also be stressed that on other occasions — for example , in April and October 1990 — when the firm had made its audit report to the directors of BCCI , it ensured that some information was passed on to the Bank of England . |
| 9 | The inclusion of a counselling element into such groups is based on the understanding of their potential value in facilitating and enabling personal change , by helping group members understand their own thoughts and feelings , and in changing their coping behaviour to the situations in which they find themselves within the group . |
| 10 | Her Bible talks to the students were always practical and direct . |
| 11 | ‘ This winter has been relatively mild and frost free , so birds like lapwing and golden plover have delayed their departure south to the farms and coastal areas of Scotland and England , and many are still finding enough food in Shetland . |
| 12 | The regnum of the pope goes back to the Donation of Constantine and its title deeds to the diplomas of the eighth- , ninth- and tenth-century emperors . |
| 13 | The contribution of their lowland breeds to the cattle of the world is out of all proportion to the size of the country and their success has been phenomenal , with the black-and-white pied dairy breeds in particular spreading in huge numbers all over the world . |
| 14 | She was kneading bread , her arms flour to the wrists , when the doorway behind her was darkened , and she knew even before she whirled to face him that this was not her father coming home from his snares . |
| 15 | ‘ The reason that Hollywood keeps selling all its film companies to the Australians , the Japanese , and so on , is to prevent them falling into the hands of people from New York . ’ |
| 16 | She first visited in March last year with her mother thanks to the villagers who started an appeal when they heard about the serious burns Elena suffered in a domestic accident . |
| 17 | The fight with Tucker , in the meantime , will earn Lewis a contractually agreed 80 per cent of £6m and with a clause in the agreement which gives him and his management access to the courts if King indulges in the questionable manoeuvres for which he is not unknown . |
| 18 | Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants . |
| 19 | His audience of around 300 loved it , shouting ‘ No ! ’ with gusto after each of Mr Major 's ‘ Do we really want … ? ’ questions and feigning hysterical laughter at his put downs to the hecklers . |
| 20 | As he was growing up , he was brought here from his Birmingham home to the hills by his parents and grandparents . |
| 21 | He moves onto a review he 's just read of his book Eyes To The Hills , considers in detail the argument it follows and expresses frustration that his rigorous intellectual approach has been mistaken for pretension . |
| 22 | Athelstan made his way north to the Elms near Newgate where a great three-branched scaffold stood stark against the sky ; each bore its grisly burden , a corpse swinging by its neck , head askew , hands and feet securely tied . |
| 23 | Undoubtedly , the proceeds of offshore oil taxes , by which method the Exchequer benefits from North Sea oil , covered the cost of unemployment benefits ; but our tax bill to the companies who extract the oil is no less than 90% of the sale price . |