Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First they were based on an ‘ Age Participation Rate ’ ( APR ) defined as ‘ the number of young home initial full time and sandwich entrants to HE in a given year expressed as a percentage of the 18 year old population ’ . |
| 2 | The British Telecommunications Act 1981 established BT as a public corporation and transferred telecommunication functions to it from the Post Office . |
| 3 | The majority of home entrants to HE in the UK are aged 17–20 — around 80 per cent of home entrants throughout the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 4 | Whether housing your new brood of Kribs in a derelict stone cottage appeals to you at a whimsical or practical level is irrelevant . |
| 5 | One practical problem was providing everyone with suitable places to work — in the end we allocated one of our conference rooms to them for the fortnight . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ John Bryan was the surrogate father to them during a most impressionable time . |
| 7 | ‘ Your promises , phone calls to me at the university … |
| 8 | And I oh I fought hard I never wanted a baby to be born in the wok house cos the word workhouse to me in the old it was a terrible name . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , ’ Fabia agreed , but what was more than obvious to her , with Ven stressing , ‘ specifically ’ stressing , that Lubor talk to her on an impersonal basis only , was that he still did n't trust her not to ask personal questions about him . |
| 10 | An example you would do well to learn from , if this sort of book appeals to you as a potential writer , is the Inspector Dover novels of Joyce Porter . |
| 11 | We had decided to print birthday messages to him in the Beirut press and once again our love and thoughts went over the telex and into a vacuum . |
| 12 | On the memorial tablet to him in the church are the words , " Remember Thomas Stearns Eliot , poet " . |
| 13 | Of course , America is concerned about our debt payments to her in the event of a freeze in German reparations . |