Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary demand on him will be to restore Wanderers to the national league 's first division in time for the club 's 125th anniversary in two years ' time . |
| 2 | From the research which they commissioned into consumer attitudes Mintel concluded there were millions of people in Britain living in a fool 's paradise in the 1990s , continuing to borrow money to the very limit on credit cards , store cards , bank loans and mortgages , yet refusing to accept they were ‘ in debt ’ — mainly because of their ignorance of how money was borrowed and paid back . |
| 3 | In general the Paris negotiators were keen to emphasise solutions to the national minority problem of eastern Europe , rather than reveal that their main aim was the creation and resurrection of neighbour-states to control and limit German power and influence . |
| 4 | It is a responsibility of the Centre to provide support to the academic economist developing programs for new techniques and to make appropriate programs commercially available outside the academic environment . |
| 5 | The Mutawas , clothed in self-righteousness , were there to bear witness to the appropriate punishment . |
| 6 | Little is left today to bear witness to the past greatness of Aksum , other than some revealing inscriptions , the stone-wrought thrones of the kings and judges , and the giant monoliths . |
| 7 | We are here at the moment when Iran news it pledge to History to bear witness to the immense gratitude of an entire people to you , immortal Hero of History , founder of the worlds oldest empire , great liberator of all time , worthy son of mankind . |
| 8 | If the amount of data to be passed is small , you may prefer to pass data to the CHAINed program by using the indirection operators to store them at known addresses . |
| 9 | There have been a number of published attempts to provide solutions to the cross-area aggregation , or ‘ areal interpolation ’ problem ( Goodchild and Lam 1980 ; Lam 1983 ) . |
| 10 | The Bolivian art historian Teresa Gisbert writes that the Councils of Lima , which were responsible for questions of orthodoxy in the Viceroyalty : ‘ sought to attract Indians to the new faith by the use of images which would be especially appealing to them . ' |
| 11 | Even so , it does not seem to be entirely appropriate that , as I have heard privately reported , ministers of the crown now ask to be invited to dinner parties with wealthy Arable in order to try to secure contributions to the Conservative cause . |
| 12 | Legends about the Babylonian and Persian period were revived — or perhaps invented for the first time — to encourage faithfulness to the Mosaic Law in the new conditions . |
| 13 | The Sejm on Nov. 6 voted by a majority of 43 to accept amendments to the 1992 budget put forward by the government . |
| 14 | Inspired by the bridge of the same name in Venice , the Bridge of Sighs was completed in 1837 to provide access to the New Court of St. John 's College and was designed by Henry Hutchenson . |
| 15 | For those of you who feel the need to get away from it all , Edinburgh is uniquely placed to provide access to the untamed magnificence of the Highlands , a mere hop and a skip up the A9 . |
| 16 | This will be done with the full cooperation of C3 Division of the Home Office , the Lord Chancellor 's Department and the Crown Prosecution Service all of whom have agreed to grant access to the relevant documentation in relation to cases during the first five years of the Act 's operation . |
| 17 | Again , unions in conjunction with employers are likely to be able to find answers to the access-to-cash problem . |
| 18 | Prudential regulation is necessary to protect customers and to provide stability to the financial system , and one of its major functions is to deter financial institutions from taking on excessive levels of risk . |
| 19 | Rule-based methods offer some method of combining the two together — the grammar is able to provide information to the semantic analysis . |
| 20 | A magnetic field ( the Flux ) is generated by these heads in order to write information to the magnetic coating on the floppy disk . |
| 21 | It had disintegrated ( in despair , one assumed ) many years ago , but Dorothy continued to bawl furiously at passing vehicles and to write letters to the commanding officer of the local airbase , who returned each time the same duplicated reply of infinite courtesy and obscurity . |
| 22 | Try to relate events to the Third World . |
| 23 | Intending to increase sensitivity to the supposed threat , the right-wing tabloids have been regaling the public with anti-refugee stories during 1991 and 1992 . |
| 24 | Dissatisfaction with facilities offered to the ARC fleet in Barbados is said to be one of the chief reasons why the destination has changed , although a hint of rancour appeared to cloud references to the former destination . |
| 25 | Many commentators fear that this caveat may allow host states to erect barriers to the single market and prevent the marketing of innovative products as soon as the old barriers have been dismantled . |
| 26 | Ministers agreed to open projects to the Soviet Union and Japan for collaboration and were expected to meet in late 1992 to review the situation . |
| 27 | Their newspapers existed solely to point this out , and were designed to lead readers to the inescapable conclusion that what was needed was a new political party , free from the sell-outs of the Labour Party and the trade-union leaders . |
| 28 | Show how this can be used ( with a jump table ) to cause entry to the appropriate subroutine in the above situation . |
| 29 | In the pre-colonial Kandyan courts persons found guilty of cattle stealing were not imprisoned , but were instead required to render compensation to the injured party . |
| 30 | The disclosures , which follow a fortnight of leaks sparked off by the Guardian 's revelation of the sweeteners scandal — show how far Lord Young was prepared to go to sell Rover to the private sector . |