Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | , The Minister for Agriculture has put an end to scallop fishing in the north-east in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning which has no cure and can be fatal . |
| 2 | This little side-play caused Peggy to stop and wonder , and it also gave Lizzie the opportunity to try to bring a smile to her daughter 's face and perhaps ease the tension she saw there . |
| 3 | The Accounting Standards Board has issued an amendment to SSAP 15 , Accounting for Deferred Tax . |
| 4 | This existing history of ‘ miraculous ’ cures is just a hint of what may be available to the human mind struggling to find a way to greater self-help in coping with ill health and adversity , if only the vitally necessary ‘ faith ’ were more easily grasped and held on to . |
| 5 | The MMC is not able to initiate investigations itself ; either the DGFT or the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has to refer a case to it . |
| 6 | The applicant has lodged an appeal to the Secretary of State against this decision . |
| 7 | Enjoying widespread support in the constituencies , the supporters of the tariff threatened to become a danger to Baldwin 's leadership — as they had been during the 1929–31 period . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the OECD cautions that principles of equity do impose a limit to the possibilities for charging . |
| 9 | Another member of ASUTRAMES explained how the repression increased , until there came a point when the Association had to call a halt to its public activities . |
| 10 | Voting will not be announced until this morning — but gay campaigners were cheered by delegates when they protested that the party 's policy review had replaced a commitment to ‘ full equality ’ for gays with ‘ greater equality ’ . |
| 11 | Campaigners fighting to save a hospital from closure have delivered a petition to Downing Street , calling for the plans to be scrapped . |
| 12 | Development rules involving elements of frontier search need to assign a value to active node k . |
| 13 | ‘ The talent required to drive a machine to the ultimate of its ability is the same as always . |
| 14 | On 22 April the American Relief Administration wanted to clear a shipment to Patriarch Tikhon for him to distribute at his discretion . |
| 15 | For the second , public ownership has become a question to be settled on the merits of the particular case . |
| 16 | A constructed exchange control index is used to provide support for the hypothesis that financial deregulation has provided a boost to foreign portfolio investment . |
| 17 | As its next step , the Institute has submitted a paper to Desmond O'Malley , Irish Minister for Industry and Commerce , urging the government to make the necessary changes to company law that would allow more recommendations to be implemented . |
| 18 | ISLAMABAD ( Reuter , AP ) — The Queen has sent a message to Pakistan , welcoming its formal return to the Commonwealth . |
| 19 | Whereas pity has to overcome a reluctance to be drawn into subjective awareness of another 's suffering , cruelty welcomes it . |
| 20 | The Economic and Social Research Council has awarded a grant to the newly established Adult Education Research Network to enable it to organise a series of seminars over two years , beginning in January 1993 . |
| 21 | A Brazilian federal judge has ordered a halt to logging on Indian lands in south Para state . |
| 22 | The committee , chaired by Conservative MP Hugh Rossi , wants an amendment to the Trade Descriptions Act to help put an end to companies making misleading " green " claims bought about by the rise of green consumerism . |
| 23 | LISBURN Borough Council is to donate £2,500 to the Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games Council to help send a team to the 1994 Games in Canada . |
| 24 | King : Then stand not so , dear Wapping , when you speak , All stiff and formal as you were a judge Preparing to send a murderer to the scaffold . |
| 25 | The ILEA had made a commitment to schools/industry curriculum development and had been one of the five pilot authorities in the first phase of the Schools Council Industry Project , now the Schools Curriculum Industry Partnership ( SCIP ) . |
| 26 | Another Nassauer battalion had formed a line to the right of the stream . |
| 27 | Their casualties had been acceptable , and the cynogen had put an end to the indigenous subterraneans . |
| 28 | Some earlier critics of the deprave-and-corrupt test had suggested a return to a test based on ‘ outrage ’ , with the Longford Report proposing in 1972 that an article might be deemed to be obscene ‘ if its effect , taken as a whole , is to outrage contemporary standards of decency or humanity accepted by the public at large ’ . |
| 29 | ( vi ) Conveyance or transfer by husband to wife , not within s83 , with element of gift — no monetary consideration Although hardly within the circumstances mentioned in this book , such a conveyance does avoid a charge to stamp duty by virtue of the Regulations and provided that it is a conveyance or transfer of property operating as a voluntary disposition inter vivos for no consideration in money or money 's worth nor any consideration referred to in s57 of the Stamp Act 1891 ( conveyance in consideration of a debt etc ) . |
| 30 | Smith added : ‘ If the management wish to refer an issue to the England committee , all they have to do is pick up the phone . ’ |