Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] to [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A compromise solution may be for the vendor to hive the Target business and assets down to a newly formed target company in its group and for Newco then to acquire Target , in the knowledge that only specified liabilities have been taken over by the new Target . |
| 2 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the ability of employers to take out injunctions to prevent unofficial strike action and the ability of the courts to sequester the funds of unions that ignore such injunctions can act as a very firm and much-needed last line of defence against industrial anarchy ? |
| 3 | Graham pushed him away from the entrance and reached behind the door to unsheath the poniard . |
| 4 | He garbage-dispersed the whodunit concepts because it was always this monster woman behind the scheme to remainder the hero . |
| 5 | It is something that the government needs to look at and indeed it goes hand in hand er with the need to overall the whole regulatory system er which is something that I 've referred to often enough before er and I have no hesitation in repeating it again . |
| 6 | Pipe 's Run For Free is 5-2 favourite with the sponsors to follow-up the brilliant success of Carvill 's Hill 12 months ago . |
| 7 | Myra watched them go , a happy smile on her face , before she turned back into the dressing-room to swathe the wedding gown in its covers . |
| 8 | None of the four fields in the ‘ militant ’ group held a ballot ; in all four , the miners were prepared to strike following their local Executive 's call , and to remain on strike , in the great majority of cases , until the return to work a year later . |
| 9 | At the end of October Jacje fell after being under Serbian siege for five months and in the largest exodus in the war to date the entire population of 25,000 left for Travnik . |
| 10 | Some people went to far as to disguise themselves as pillars in the community to tale a closer loot at the secrets of tile production . |
| 11 | Perhaps most important of all , the RHA was not anticipating that there would be any serious opposition to the proposal to rundown the asylums . |
| 12 | And they 've got to get to the chutes to dispositer the rubbish . |
| 13 | Prior to the application to Council a research programme financed by the Polytechnic , Wolverhampton based on sample years from the Gloucester port books succeeded in devising a database capable of storing and retrieving information about the voyages of boats passing up and down the Severn through Gloucester and the cargoes they carried . |
| 14 | A further paragraph in this message in which the State Department gave its views on the proposal to hand-over the Cossacks we shall come to in Chapter Six , but in respect of the Yugoslavs the State Department was ruling that , whether they were Chetniks or not in conformity with agreed allied policy they should not be handed over and the Supreme Allied Commander was to be left in no doubt of the State Department 's view . |
| 15 | If the postman knocks on the door to delivery the only parcel you 've received in the past three years , you can guarantee it will be at just before eight on the first Saturday morning you 've had a chance to have a proper lie in for months . |
| 16 | Trent half swam and half wriggled across the cockpit to unblock the drainpipes . |
| 17 | ‘ The owner of the castle would put his family into a boat and row them across the lake to church every Sunday . |
| 18 | Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles . |
| 19 | It is a penalty if it was not a genuine attempt by the parties to pre-estimate the likely damages but was intended to hang in terror over one party to ensure that he carried out the contract . |