Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should be no attempt to shorten it to newspaper-headline form . |
| 2 | Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital . |
| 3 | Yesterday her husband Alan Atkinson , 47 , called on Darlington Council to move them to another house . |
| 4 | Although Pepper v. Hart is the initial formulation of the relaxed exclusionary rule , the ambiguities which it contains and the failure to relate it to other aids to statutory construction are perhaps less deserving of a welcome . |
| 5 | It would be a criminal waste to give it to most women . ’ |
| 6 | Another proof of her social status among the hawkers is her working spot : it is so well located that she if she decides to move she could ‘ sell ’ the right to use it to another vendor . |
| 7 | Associated Tunnelling Co Ltd the Employment Appeals Tribunal ( EAT ) held that the tribunal had correctly concluded that there was an implied term in Mr Jones 's contract of employment to the effect that his employer had the right to transfer him to any site within reasonable daily commuting reach of his home . |
| 8 | I told the spaceship to take us to New Earth , the planet of the Star Council . |
| 9 | It may be that his partner also loves the outdoors but feels a need to limit it to small doses . |
| 10 | The software needs a lot of work before it 's mature and the current situation puts OSF and DCE vendors in a race to get it to that point before the marketplace grows leery of it . |
| 11 | In the productivity of Lake Vanda phosphorus is a limiting element ( Vincent and Vincent , 1982 ) , because of gravitational losses into the sediment and lack of turbulence to return it to general circulation . |
| 12 | Even in this case , some work needs doing to the back of the bevel to bring them to optimum usefulness . |
| 13 | To convert national income into real output per capita , it is necessary to make two adjustments : ( i ) national income must be deflated by an appropriate price index to convert it to real terms ; ( ii ) the figure must then be divided by the population to convert it to per capita terms . |
| 14 | May was the month to see it to best advantage : azaleas spilled cascades of coral and blood-red flowers over the pathways , lilac bushes waved their plump , perfumed arms , interspersed by spiky sentinels of variegated holly , and overhead , leaning in regally protective attitudes , the magnolia trees spread a lustrous canopy of waxen , creamy blooms . |
| 15 | Was it right at the end of a distinguished public servant 's long career to reduce him to such misery ? |
| 16 | Information acquired by an employee which becomes part of his general skills and stock of knowledge is not the subject of an obligation of confidentiality although during the term of the employment it may be a breach of the employee 's duty of good faith to disclose it to third parties . |
| 17 | After a successful infancy with the junior side Johnstone Burgh , McAvennie was spotted by manager Jim Clunie and signed to St Mirren , the perpetually enterprising Paisley side whose ability to discover great footballing talent is matched only by their pressure to sell them to bigger clubs . |
| 18 | If you or your child are affected it is worth asking the doctor to change you to another type of antihistamine . |
| 19 | At times , Michael coached her three times a day in an effort to get her to international standard . |
| 20 | Cos I was out with my first daughter at quarter to eight in the morning to catch the bus to take her to adopted aunty |
| 21 | It contained a mass of papers relevant to the ‘ vision ’ , and sometimes it had been my duty to show it to privileged people , though it was not for general release . |
| 22 | After the courts ' acceptance of the neighbour principle , there was an increasing tendency to apply it to new areas , heralding a major advance in the recovery of damages for economic loss ( e.g. Hedley Byrne & Co . |
| 23 | Multiprotocol is something of a misnomer — currently only TCP/IP and SNA are supported , although there is a promise to extend it to Open Systems Interconnection in the future . |
| 24 | Referring to recent studies indicating that some people are particularly vulnerable to the effects of sleep disruption , the authors of this report suggested that work should be done to identify those doctors who are most at risk , in order to assign them to other duties . |
| 25 | Cassie , I 've got ta come in on Monday morning when there 's school to give it to this student . |
| 26 | The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end , and does not extend to a change in the end itself , to the reduction of profits , or to the nondistribution of profits among stockholders in order to devote them to other purposes ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ No sell-out ’ ENGLAND 'S historic buildings were not being ‘ sold out to tourists ’ under a new scheme to transfer them to local management , the chairman of English Heritage , Jocelyn Stevens , said yesterday . |
| 28 | When pupils do refer to dictionaries , take the opportunity to introduce them to various aspects of their use . |
| 29 | His sister invariably had the power to restore him to good humour . |
| 30 | Q I have layered , shoulder-length permed hair and it has taken me some time to grow it to this length . |