Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A West German ship with a cargo of uranium concentrate bound from Antwerp to Genoa disappeared and its cargo later turned up in Israel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Once known primarily as the wife of Diego Rivera , her reputation outside of Mexico now far supercedes his : since 1919 , sale room estimates of her work have risen from $40,000 to over $1 million , and in 1990 a work by Kahlo broke all records at Sotheby 's New York for a Latin American artist . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But those who can take a joke have ranged from children to adults - something that the Uderzo-Goscinny team had never anticipated . |
| 7 | Since 1987 , the group 's dividends per share have grown from 4.6p to 11.85p in 1992 — a 158% increase . |
| 8 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
| 9 | As Tumin ( 1953 , p. 389 ) points out , the very reverse is so : ‘ Smoothly working and stable systems of stratification tend to build in obstacles to the further exploitation of the range of available talent . ’ |
| 10 | As to the first question it is clear that views as to the availability and scope of certiorari together with its actual use have varied from time to time . |
| 11 | Operating profits of the Imperial cigarettes to Butterley bricks giant have soared from £955m to £1.07bn for the year to September 1992 , and this year should be just as buoyant . |
| 12 | Profits of the Bisto-to-Mr-Kipling-cakes giant have nose-dived from £150m to just over £92m with big bites taken out of both bread and cakes . |
| 13 | More-over , the effects of imitation on performance seem to differ with respect to phonological abilities and grammatical abilities . |
| 14 | Those who may at some stage look at VSEL 's order books may care to consider that , even if the fourth submarine is constructed , the consequences for employment in such constituencies will remain severe because of what the Government have done in relation to naval and submarine construction . |
| 15 | In the far north , where the landscape is turned white in winter by snow , mammals like rabbits and birds like ptarmigan have to change from brown to white and back again when the snows melt in spring . |
| 16 | ROPLEY Parish Church have agreed in principal to the provision of a new hard surface drive , to serve the recreation ground . |
| 17 | At least in the higher animals , it is more likely that the visual perception of shape and motion have evolved in response to such biologically significant environmental features as the gait or stance of hunter or prey , or the facial grimaces and tail-waving of conspecifics . |
| 18 | The costs of the preferred British Rail route have risen from £1.7bn to between £3.5bn and £4bn partly because of extra tunnelling insisted upon by ministers after protests in south London and Kent . |