Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In the Abdaly region of northern Kuwait there are some 156 farms which are separated by desert and thus exposed to sandstorms , where metal wind-breaks and shelter-belts have not prevented sand encroachment , largely as Al-Nakshabandi and El-Robee have suggested , due to poor management . |
2 | Throughout the transaction process announcements in accordance with the Yellow and Blue Book will need to be made to the Exchange and simultaneously transmitted to shareholders . |
3 | It is all very well to say that the production of a new rose plant is a skilled job and best left to specialists , but that takes little account of the satisfaction to be derived and enjoyed by trying something difficult , and being successful . |
4 | But visitors have reported intolerable conditions on many wards , patients locked up all day or even chained to walls as approved forms of correction . |
5 | As this is in fact used as the Parish Burial Ground and not restricted to members of St Peter 's church they feel that responsibility for its upkeep should not be left to a relatively small number of volunteers . |
6 | Ms Davis said that by this time the girl 's mother had learned of her disappearance and was told that the child had been sighted with the defendant , who was ‘ well known in the area and well known to police ’ . |
7 | We have the example of the anaerobic bacteria to show us that life can exist — indeed , may have to exist — without the presence of oxygen , but that is a slightly different concern : it seems likely that these bacteria evolved in an oxygen-rich environment and then adapted to ecologies lacking in oxygen . |
8 | Sheep could be kept on poorer land and also taken to wastes , commons and distant resources . |