Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councils , argues Mr Cawley , are being hit by an unenviable double whammy , thanks to the recession and the Government 's response to it : tighter spending assessments and declining revenue income are adding insult to injury , with ordinary people bearing the brunt . |
| 2 | The loss is causing concern to Moscow doctors , who have warned that without the forest , the city 's air pollution problems will increase . |
| 3 | ‘ Labour 's supposed conversion to multilateralism is no more than a confidence trick to try to make Labour electable . |
| 4 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |
| 5 | In the 1990s the report of these professional organizations who constituted a separate industry , was based on what they could discover about the applicant 's known record to date as regards prompt and full payment , on the applicant 's own assertions and , controversially ( because of possible contravention of the Data Protection Act ) information volunteered upon questioning by third parties . |
| 6 | Garrucho 's resignation , a public illustration of disunity within the Ramos administration , fuelled growing rumours that the government was racked by conflicts , despite the new President 's repeated commitment to teamwork . |
| 7 | The search was extended west to Rookhope , near Stanhope , and the RAF Rescue Co-ordination Centre sent a Sea King helicopter from RAF Boulmer in Northumberland . |
| 8 | Valerie Langer and Garth Lenz of Vancouver Island 's Friends of Clayoquot South are drawing attention to Canada 's plans to clear-fell 88 per cent of its ancient boreal and temperate forest . |
| 9 | In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face . |
| 10 | Most of non-statutory work is giving advice to people like control , and others , which may not be purely statutory in the sense that is , but the major difference is there 's a time when it 's imposed on when we have to do it . |
| 11 | The first is to provide a sampling facility and the second is to draw attention to products which might otherwise be overlooked . |
| 12 | The Old Museum is playing host to Druid Theatre Company this week , which is playing to packed houses with its wonderful production of Merriman 's ‘ The Midnight Court ’ . |
| 13 | Stockton Council is to improve access to Bowesfield Pond for the disabled and people with pushchairs after the leisure services committee was told large gates were causing problems . |
| 14 | Supplementary Benefit was to give way to Income Support and the much-abused system of single payment was to be replaced by a Social Fund ; Housing Benefit was to be reformed so that it did not discriminate against the low-paid in work ; and the whole social security system was to be simplified . |
| 15 | Brian Brunswick , principal inspector in charge of the construction group for East Anglia , said the regional HSE was giving priority to falls because the figures in Suffolk , Norfolk and Essex mirrored the national average . |
| 16 | By December 1989 evidence was mounting that consumption was giving way to investment as the main engine of growth . |
| 17 | Their aim is to give aid to groups of people who are held to be disadvantaged for any reason — because of ethnic origin , sex , sexual preference , age , unemployment or any kind of disability . |
| 18 | Reading and Thinking in English is aimed at a wide range of learners whose ‘ main need is to gain access to information through English . ’ |
| 19 | My worst moment was saying goodbye to John Reynolds ( and Australia ) at Sydney airport . |
| 20 | The Commons inquiry was denied access to intelligence sources , and its report was published despite the many questions it said were still unanswered . |
| 21 | The aim was to confine attention to people who had frequent contact with the dementia sufferer , rather than interviewing all nearest relatives , who might or might not have contact with him or her . |
| 22 | All seas towards the moon are giving rise to tides . |
| 23 | A bear had broken loose amongst the stews ; a whore was being whipped outside the gates of St Thomas 's Hospital ; two butchers who had sold putrid meat were riding back to back on some old nag , their hands tied behind them , the rotten offal they had sold fastened tightly under their noses . |
| 24 | A survey conducted on behalf of the Institute of Marketing into selling practice in the UK ( PA Consultants , 1979 ) found that , on average , only 20–30 per cent of a salesperson 's normal working day is spent face to face with customers . |
| 25 | The purpose of this Commissioner is to give assistance to members of the public wishing to sue a trade union if their supply of goods or services is affected by industrial action . |
| 26 | that the purpose of the Video is to teach English to learners of English as a foreign language . |
| 27 | that the purpose of the Video is to teach English to learners of English as a foreign language . |
| 28 | that the purpose of the Video is to teach English to learners of English as a foreign language . |
| 29 | Dusk was giving way to night and the fires outside the gate burned brightly . |
| 30 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |