Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 2 | The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 3 | Salt has received much bad publicity in recent years as a major contributory factor to heart disease , but the initial hysteria has now given way to the theory that salt in quantity will only be to the detriment of those people prone to heart disease from other causes . |
| 4 | This is not , I think , meant to be ironical , and it represents a quite logical development from the premiss that the whole production , definition , and reception of literature has now become intramural to the academy . |
| 5 | The Chairman has already paid tribute to the dedication of the Agency 's staff in achieving these aims . |
| 6 | Freud 's reply is that the research method of psychoanalysis has revealed that religion has not helped men to be happy , nor moral , nor cultured and intelligent . |
| 7 | This horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 8 | The second largest horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 9 | Hungarian football has since fallen victim to the corruption and match-fixing scandals . |
| 10 | Finniston takes issue , however , with the view that the next generation of managers will find themselves working within a post-industrial society , where manufacturing industry has largely given way to a dependence on the service industries . |
| 11 | Patients participating in this study gave fully informed consent to a protocol approved by the Yale University School of Medicine Human Investigation Committee . |
| 12 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 13 | On the other hand , disappointment did not drive Nithard to defection : Charles had nicely calculated , just as Lothar had done — and this surely was a prime requirement of successful kingship — whom he could , and could not , afford to disappoint . |
| 14 | However , reserves of $6,700 million ensured that this figure did not give rise to undue concern . |
| 15 | Now jogging does n't give power to the big muscles of the body , it does n't do that so again you 'd you 'd have to be doing something which , that built up the power . |
| 16 | Among the allegations related to the Iraqgate affair was the claim that the US administration had fraudulently channelled loans to Iraq through the Atlanta branch of Italy 's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro ( BNL ) . |
| 17 | Bills had not been paid , despite the fact that the club had already given money to Brent Walker to pay them . |
| 18 | This suggestion might tempt those who notice that although we do normally accept without query a person 's description of his own sensory states , we sometimes object by saying , for instance , ‘ Surely that traffic light does n't look orange to you . |
| 19 | He announced that the so-called Scots Regent and his main force had clearly abandoned Berwick to its fate , and had insolently chosen to invade England . |
| 20 | Waldheim , a former UN Secretary-General , had been banned from entering the United States , and during his term as President had only paid visits to various Islamic countries ( including Iraq and Iran — see pp. 37759 ; 38309 ) and to the Vatican . |
| 21 | The numerous internal partitions that result have often proved anathema to modern-day breweries . |
| 22 | Technology transfer has also taken place to some extent and there are a few highly advanced maquilas . |
| 23 | Having that Greater York dimension has certainly allowed progress to be achieved dramatically in Greater York , erm , it 's led to progress towards progress towards green belt definition , and more importantly it 's led towards resolution of future strategy for Greater York . |
| 24 | Good type tends not to draw attention to itself , using subtleties of size , serifs , heaviness of stroke , and other characteristics to give ease of reading . |
| 25 | The revolutionaries ' lack of interest in a programme of political reform and gradual extension of the rule of law did not imply indifference to individual liberty . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , ’ Athelstan continued , ‘ the assassin may have been someone in the Tower who knew where Sir Ralph lay , and seized the opportunity of the moat freezing over to gain access to the footholds on the North Bastion . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman 's attitude does not do justice to the seriousness of this debate . |
| 28 | Foucault emphasizes that his work does not lay claim to universal or general categories , nor is it even homogeneous , a presupposition that , as he has shown , has less to do with the work as such than the critical construction of its ‘ author ’ . |
| 29 | Law had indeed brought Asquith to the point of conceding all that could be hoped for from Ulster 's resistance , but he was unable to seize the fruits . |
| 30 | Although the Act does not make reference to the current climate of opinion about sexual explicitness , juries in obscenity trials are enjoined to keep in mind the current standards of ordinary decent people . |