Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this would bump up against the western world 's self-serving policy of subsidised farming , which explains a lot of its enthusiasm for shipping grain to Africa . |
| 2 | Paul Henderson , the head of Matrix-Churchill whose trial for supplying arms to Iraq was abandoned amid controversy last autumn , is writing a memoir which Bloomsbury will publish in October . |
| 3 | Thanks too to all those at the unit who helped with technical and administrative aspects of the work , particularly Sue Allison , Lillian Astell , Bob Edwards , Peter James , and Moira Stephenson , and to those at Cambridgeshire County Council Department of Transportation for providing access to accident reports and traffic flow figures around Cambridge . |
| 4 | For gardeners , the range includes Sellotape All Weather , designed for repairing plastic greenhouses and cloches ; Sellotape insulating tape for fixing plants to stakes ; and Sellotape Outdoor Sticky Fixers for fixing hooks , and similar greenhouse items . |
| 5 | He had a fondness for setting fire to cats , apparently . ’ |
| 6 | The results are also adversely affected by the costs of meeting enhanced safety requirements and a switch of accounting date to November , the 14-month period bearing the full costs of a non-income producing extra two months . |
| 7 | Apart from the recognition and prevention of non-A-non-B post transfusion hepatitis , the availability of reliable tests for the demonstration of circulating antibodies to hepatitis C virus peptides has made it possible to address a number of yet unresolved problems as the aetiology of cryptogenic chronic liver disease and the role of hepatitis C virus in cases with other known risk factors ( hepatitis B virus , alcohol ) . |
| 8 | She explains that women are socialised to hedge their meaning in language for fear of giving offence to men . |
| 9 | These are reluctant hunters , ill at ease and inexperienced , wary lest a nervous glance could give flesh to fear — the fear of coming face to face with a cowering countryman , the fear of finding the loaded chamber in a game of Russian roulette . |
| 10 | The Delight was met with opposition at St John 's Harbour from the mixed fishing community , but on sight of the queen 's commission the squadron was admitted and Gilbert went through the ceremony of annexing Newfoundland to England and issuing passes to non-English vessels to fish there . |
| 11 | This chapter explains : ( 1 ) that the identity and qualifications of an expert are established by the parties , usually in the expert clause , and that an expert need not be an individual ( 9.2 ) ; ( 2 ) the practice of referring disputes to a named individual , firm or company ( 9.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the same practice where the test is the position held by an individual , firm or company ( 9.4 ) ; ( 4 ) the practice of referring disputes to members of a particular profession ( 9.5 ) ; ( 5 ) the effect of stipulating criteria for an expert 's eligibility ( 9.6 ) ; ( 6 ) the effect of a requirement that an expert be independent ( 9.7 ) ; ( 7 ) the practice relating to umpires ( 9.8 ) . |
| 12 | The practice of providing secondments to education and business is unique in education business liaison because it requires participants to transcend the barriers of classroom or workplace to break out of their normal work pattern behaviour and to learn by direct experience from others ' work settings . |
| 13 | The King 's main object in forcing the Act through Parliament was to regain the revenue from the perquisites enjoyed by a feudal lord and paid or owed by his tenants , known as the incidents of feudal tenure which had been depleted by the practice of conveying land to uses ( see below , Chapter 5 ) . |
| 14 | He has no intention of following Esau to Seir , as he reveals when he leaves his brother and travels on towards the west . |
| 15 | Both of these developments have tended to have the effect of dulling sensitivity to religion . |
| 16 | The circumstances of war-time Britain had the effect of giving weight to policy resolutions by the State as to where and how people should live . |
| 17 | The IoD estimates that the increased taxes announced yesterday will have the effect of adding 7p to income tax . |
| 18 | The conference was also told that as an alternative to the expense of sending officers to university , it was proposed to ‘ direct officers to research a particular problem … and give them a short period to carry out intensive research ’ . |
| 19 | But meanwhile this is the supposition on which we proceed ; we assume that there is only one price in the market at one and the same time ; it being understood that separate allowance is made , when necessary , for differences in the expense of delivering goods to dealers in different parts of the market ; including allowance for the special expenses of retailing , if it is a retail market . |
| 20 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 21 | Was it because she knew we 'd had an affair and was jealous or was it the heartbreak of coming face to face with Steve ? ’ |
| 22 | Many men have tried to make the switch from racing motorcycles to car , but most have failed , despite their impressive records on two wheels . |
| 23 | To improve and develop good practice in providing care to clients , adequate training , development and support is provided for all staff in the Home . |
| 24 | Thus , far from wanting punishment for young people , between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of Scots supported measures such as ‘ counselling to help offenders with personal problems that may have led them to offend ’ , community service orders and welfare support ‘ as an alternative to sending offenders to court ’ . |
| 25 | In two successive years , I have pointed out that , although we take serious action on giving access to Members of Parliament , we take little action on , and treat with scant seriousness , the question of access to this place for disabled people . |
| 26 | On Feb. 1 the Linz district court ( Landesgericht ) acquitted four people but handed down prison sentences ranging from six months to 2@1/2 years ( with portions of some terms suspended ) on 14 others convicted of violating Austrian neutrality or legislation on war materiel by selling arms to Iran during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 27 | As a senior manager in a profession which earns its living by presenting ideas to children , frequently in a visual way , it struck me how we infrequently use the same techniques when carrying out our managerial functions . |
| 28 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 29 | The necessity of obtaining consents to transfers subject to a mortgage from occupiers of the matrimonial home aged 18 years and over must not be overlooked in view of the effect of Williams & Glyn 's Bank Ltd v Boland [ 1981 ] AC 487 . |
| 30 | I mean I think it 's bot of a parallel with the business of kind of giving money to charity to help people who have n't got enough to eat . |