Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 2 | We have seen that the difficulty of obtaining the gratuitous services of suitable persons to act as trustees has necessarily led to the practice of reposing an ever wider range of discretion in those who can only thus be persuaded to act . |
| 3 | All of this activity has meant that aircraft and artefact restoration has necessarily taken to the back-burner , but , to quote one of the volunteers : ‘ no building , no aircraft in the long term ’ . |
| 4 | This has naturally led to the search for ways in which they can be relaxed . |
| 5 | His enthusiasm has obviously appealed to the party faithful . |
| 6 | The tour 's prestige refereeing appointment , the Barbarians game at Twickenham on 25 November , has rightly gone to the world 's best , Clive Norling . |
| 7 | SIR Patrick Mayhew , the new Northern Ireland Secretary , comes from Anglo-Irish Protestant stock in Co Cork , and has long aspired to the testing role he has won . |
| 8 | A similar settlement seems likely at Weston-under-Penyard , where the widespread mass of slag and many furnaces has long pointed to the exploitation of iron from the Forest of Dean . |
| 9 | One has only to listen to the forthrightness of ‘ Surely , He hath borne our griefs ’ or the intricate virtuosic weaving of parts in ‘ And he shall purify ’ or ‘ All we like sheep ’ , to realise that this is a choir or rare quality and precision which should be dragged straight back into the recording studio to commit to posterity its undoubtedly sublime view of Handel 's great choral masterpieces , Solomon and Israel in Egypt , or the earlier but no less demanding Dixit Dominus . |
| 10 | H. raised his special grievance , but his complaint published in the Sunday Express has only added to the completeness of his downfall … |
| 11 | The fate of attempted reforms has only added to the north 's alienation , as Catholic bishops have time and again pulled Dublin 's politicians by the ear — ‘ a question ’ , as the senior archbishop put it earlier this month , ‘ of legislators respecting the moral convictions to which people adhere , and which are influenced by their membership of the church . ’ |
| 12 | The stereotyped view of a homeless person used to be of a drunkard who has slipped into the gutter as a result of a lifetime 's fecklessness and , more recently , the visible evidence of frankly mentally disordered people on city streets , the phenomenon of ‘ Cardboard City ’ and the increasing numbers of people sleeping rough has merely added to the belief that most homeless people are destitute wrecks or foolish youths . |
| 13 | Like a wilting flower the half-span has gently sagged to the ground . |
| 14 | Now it has finally taken to the field and just about touched first base , announcing that OfficePower is from today , generally available worldwide on Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix implementation . |
| 15 | After Danny de Vito showed his skills as a director in Wars of the Roses he used his leverage with the money-men to bankroll a long-cherished project which has finally come to the screen as Hoffa . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State has just referred to the number of social workers . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend has just referred to the car industry 's exports during the past few years , and especially this year , which reflect the quality of the product and the improvements in manufacturing technology . |
| 18 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 19 | The finch has just crashed to the floor of its cage with its wing clasped in its beak ( not for much longer , chickabiddy ) and I take it as an omen . |
| 20 | A castle has just reopened to the public after nearly four years of restoration work . |
| 21 | Industry has already complained to the Department of the Environment that controls will not be effective unless the inspectorate is respected and cowboy companies are aware that they will be prosecuted . |
| 22 | The MP for Clydebank and Milngavie , Tony Worthington has already written to the health board after hearing of the death of Mr Gilmartin following the death of one of his constituents , Joseph Doherty , of Clydebank , in April . |
| 23 | First , the Bank of England has already returned to the gilt market as an issuer and the prospect over the next few years is one of a larger PSBR and gilt issuance . |
| 24 | Mr Taylor has already appealed to the Home Office for an extra 20 men in a bid to boost the number of bobbies on the beat . |
| 25 | These provisions would give the seller a kind of property right over , and thereby give the seller entitlement to , all the proceeds of the sub-sales of unmixed goods ( except those sub-sales made after title has already passed to the buyer ) . |
| 26 | Neither will the contract be avoided or frustrated if at the time the goods perish , property has already passed to the buyer . |
| 27 | However , a call to the Institute 's members ' registrar will confirm whether a firm of a similar name exists , or whether it is a case of ‘ misrepresentation ’ that has already come to the Institute 's attention . |
| 28 | John Morris , the board 's secretary , has already suggested to the World Boxing Council that , since Duran was inside the middleweight limit when he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard , he should have lost that title , even though the pair were fighting for the world super-middleweight championship . |
| 29 | Increased social mobility has further added to the isolation of older people . |
| 30 | Today , however , the village has gradually succumbed to the advent of the motorcar and modern day living . |