Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But the approach used has considerable advantage in principle over the cruder system used for educational deprivation , since there is an attempt to relate expenditure needs directly to deprivation indicators , rather than adoption of an ad hoc procedure with little justification other than expediency .
2 This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment : few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market .
3 Welcome back : The government is being urged to put more money into pre-school playgroups , to help mothers get back to work . .
4 Backdate home responsibilities protection to cover women coming up to retirement now .
5 DAVID James is a young man with a mission — to put Bruce Grobbelaar out to grass at Liverpool and challenge Chris Woods as England 's No 1 keeper .
6 Annunziata agreed that Anthony was unlikely to waste time going out to dinner with the others even if he did return in time and promised to cook something quickly for him if he appeared wanting a meal .
7 The law might be seen to seek a balance between paternalism and liberation , accepting that whilst advancement of the autonomy interests of children to make their own decisions in respect of their own lives is an appropriate aim of the law , some restrictions are necessary to enable children to progress safely to maturity .
8 At which London railway station did Jeffrey Archer arrange to have cash handed over to prostitute Monica Coghlan ?
9 Will he take steps to ensure that buses have greater priority over other road users and to eliminate one of the major causes of road congestion in London — the long time that it takes to get passengers loaded on to one-man operated buses because drivers have to give change to passengers ?
10 NB In spite of our attempt to seek information relating only to time spent on specific work on the nature of language and its role in the world , it was clear that many respondents considered that any course on ( e.g. ) language teaching methods or reading methods was entirely ‘ about ’ language .
11 The government has failed to provide adequate day-care facilities for children to enable women to go out to work .
12 Large real depreciations were needed during the 1980s to bring exchange rates back to equilibrium .
13 Under the CAP , export subsidies are given to bring EC prices down to world prices .
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