Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today .
2 However it is a very difficult and time-consuming operation to read through the evaluations and to compare them to the original project document .
3 From time to time we still had meat , for cattle still had to be slaughtered and there was little transport , because of the fuel shortage , to carry them to the wholesale market .
4 Why not , the mandarins decided , invite a few of our foreign friends over to reintroduce them to The True path .
5 The purpose of this chapter is to examine some possible answers to these questions and to relate them to the clinical situation .
6 It is understood therefore , that , as part of the pupil 's exploration of aspects of religion and morality , he/she will have access to these five main elements of the Mysteries of the Faith , and the opportunity to relate them to the particular issue/topic being explored .
7 Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression .
8 The most difficult aspect of a merger is trying to put a team together of people who come from different business cultures and trying to adjust them to a different end .
9 Physical activity and natural light Light exercise and brisk walks taken at your accustomed time by the new local time will help to adjust you to the new time zone and to make you feel ready for sleep at bedtime .
10 " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . "
11 Specially commissioned by The Tea Council , Teapot 2000 has a unique design that allows you to brew it to the exact strength you like , from the first cup to the last .
12 Because we try to relate it to the real world .
13 He was very much a social novelist and to appreciate the moral significance of his novels you have to relate it to the actual society that it reflects and often criticises .
14 It had emerged that a recently formed Soviet state co-operative company called ANT , with clearance from at least three government ministries , had bought the tanks as surplus stock from an armaments factory at Nizhny Tagil in the Urals , had arranged to sell them to a Western country ( not officially disclosed , but unofficially reported to be France ) , and had stood to make US$8,000,000 profit on the deal .
15 The implications for individual managers are that ‘ increasingly it will come to be seen as the individual 's responsibility to maintain , alter or boost his skills , to find the right market for his skills and to sell them to the appropriate buyer ’ .
16 There 's nothing to inspect and without my words the photographs are useless unless Mitch decided to sell them to the national Press .
17 The wicked Dr Mamuk has stolen the secret plans for a virtual reality chamber and is trying to sell them to an alien race .
18 Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? …
19 as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door .
20 Monie , who guided the Cherry and Whites to four successive league and Wembley doubles , narrowly failed to lead them to the Grand Slam last term after they were beaten by St Helens in the premiership final .
21 To lead you to an overwhelming question
22 When Donald examined his wire in the last stages of the illness it might be necessary to lead him to a medical textbook and steer those calm , grey eyes in the direction of the chapter headed ‘ The Guillain-Barré Syndrome ’ .
23 Half of her could n't wait to escape from him , to relegate him to a past memory , enjoyable at the time but without consequence — like Tivoli … a temporary pleasuring of the senses but insubstantial … åd the other half ?
24 In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry .
25 When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants .
26 ‘ After all , even if Jefferson has perfected some magic putter which gives Harley an illegal edge on the greens , he will never be allowed to sell it to the ordinary punter , so there 's no point .
27 Just as its perspective gathers all that is extended to render it to the individual eye , so its means of representation render all that is depicted into the hands of the individual owner-spectator .
28 Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage .
29 Well , that 's not how schoolboys talk , so they sneered some more and waited for Oliver to challenge them to a formal fight .
30 Over here , it 's MCA who have shown themselves more than keen to clutch them to the corporate breast , and have consequently raised the stakes uncomfortably high for a band who readily confess to their ignorance of this caper 's day-by-day dealings .
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