Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since that time , a major change has occurred with respect to social mobility that has had a direct bearing on the emergence of Britain 's underclass , and this is considered in this chapter . |
| 2 | The statement , meant to be reassuring , that ‘ Mummy has gone to heaven to be with Jesus ’ , can leave the child very jealous and angry with God for taking his mother away from him . |
| 3 | In the space of only two weeks , the Slovak lawyer has moved from dissident to defendant to government minister . |
| 4 | This is not merely a little churlish ; it also explains why the cumulative effect of their evidence makes less — impact than it should , because it disguises the fact that the unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two decades — since the thalidomide tragedy . |
| 5 | The sensationalist side of sports reporting has gone from strength to strength in the popular press since the advent of television . |
| 6 | The name of every decent practice gets used from time to time to justify something indecent . |
| 7 | The coalition had to agree in principle to the report , announcing its determination to implement the report 's assumption that mass unemployment must be prevented . |
| 8 | Behind the closed door the programme had changed from athletics to wrestling and once more the baby had begun to cry . |
| 9 | But by January the pound had dropped in value to 1.05 . |
| 10 | Erm the Financial Times you showed er I think including the F T Group and Les Echo er in , in the profit analysis , but you did say that their operating profit was up ten percent th the F T Group which I take it to mean they made fourteen point three , leaving I think four point two to Les Echo You did also say that Les Echo had gone from strength to strength but f from my figures I think it 's a third successive decline in their profit . |
| 11 | further suggest , as Figure 1.2 also implies , that the deep structures and instincts of the mind have evolved in relation to the social processes and relations in which human beings have developed . |
| 12 | The committee has asked from time to time , that I keep it updated with er European legislation , in so far as it affects employments matters , and this I 've intended to do in Paper K. There are two Appendix . |
| 13 | The flight burns up energy , and the hummingbird has to stop from time to time during its journey , to defend a territory and re-fuel . |
| 14 | Contrast this with the woodwind who often seem to be fighting gamely against insubordinate instruments and recalcitrant reeds , their difficulties surely exacerbated by lack of contact with the West , where orchestral wind playing has gone from strength to strength . |
| 15 | Just-in-time management philosophy has moved from manufacturing to the university library sector . |
| 16 | The same cat enjoyed jumping from chair to chair when his owner pointed at each in turn . |
| 17 | Before turning to the work of Sayre , Dennett and Sloman , I should at least mention one major question that has been left unasked in this paper , and intentionally so : namely , what properties would a machine have to have in order to be sufficient for us to deem it conscious ? |
| 18 | Francois Carrard , director general of the International Olympic Committee , said the IOC had granted provisional recognition to the 12 former republics , who in exchange had agreed in principle to the condition of fielding a joint team . |
| 19 | ‘ Nate and the Executive Committee have agreed in principle to phase-out all regional activities and bring the whole god-damned shootin' match right back here to Detroit , where I always said it should be . ’ |
| 20 | Having been without a tutor-organiser since 1958 , Essex Federation representatives on the District Council have suggested from time to time that other counties might benefit from following their example . |
| 21 | Rates on domestic property are essentially a regressive tax : the value of the house or other property occupied by a taxpayer tends to decline in relation to increased income . |
| 22 | The success of population targeting depends on access to accurate up-to-date information , but in fact the increasing attention being given to sub-national , and particularly local , populations is running far ahead of the availability of data suitable for monitoring trends at these scales . |
| 23 | I think now that her predominance has done in justice to lesser things in my life , as indeed it may still do . |
| 24 | Panamanian public opinion has shifted from disbelief to bitterness at the failure of the US to back the abortive coup . |
| 25 | If we are to persist in the assertion of absolute sovereignty for whatever body happens to sit from time to time at Westminster , the answer must be affirmative . |
| 26 | There may have been problems of mastery , of control , of appropriate letting go ; or an early refusal to let go as resistance to an over-persistent potty-training parent . |
| 27 | An alternative to dates is to use a term like Romantic , even if its meaning seems to alter from writer to writer . |
| 28 | For a short time she stood still and silent , scarcely breathing as she revelled in the novelty of his tenderness , but presently her body started stirring in response to the warmth of his mouth , a new sweetness to her desire . |
| 29 | If in no other sense than economic , the world 's focus had switched from East to West , from Greenwich to the Date Line , from Atlantic to Pacific . |
| 30 | The identity of the price leader had changed from time to time with no obvious pattern . |