Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] to [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the restaurants is the Savini , Milan 's most prestigious , where opera-goers congregate after a performance to while away the rest of the evening in expensive surroundings . |
| 2 | The installation of these CFC-free units is just part of a drive to phase out ozone-depleting refrigerants at head office |
| 3 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 4 | A KILLER stabbed three generations of a family to death then started three fires in their home . |
| 5 | It is , I think , also of interest to note that section 84 will normally come into play for the benefit of a defendant to action already begun by the local authority in the county court . |
| 6 | My staff tell me that the elderly people have sort of taken to it like a duck to water almost . |
| 7 | Blake was amazed at the discussion and how these men could talk about a whole planet in one conversation ; in his day it was not unusual for a conversation to centre solely on one part of London , and only in times of war was England ever considered as a single entity under threat . |
| 8 | The earlier plans of 1939 were considered inadequate and in 1951 Mr Robert Frater ARIBA was asked to provide plans for a church to seat about 386 . |
| 9 | The strategy is that it is difficult for a predator to home in on its target in the confusion which follows an attack on a shoal which scatters in all directions . |
| 10 | Until then an individual could obtain income tax relief for a gift to charity only if the gift was made under a Deed of Covenant . |
| 11 | Integrating primary care into the contracting framework of the health service will have advantages for patients , doctors , and managers but general practitioners could see it as a threat to independence rather than an end to isolation . |
| 12 | It is rather that the idea and ideal is always likely to function as a corrective to complacency rather than as a prop to It . |
| 13 | There was , for one thing , a strong tendency for writing to be used as a help to memory rather than as an autonomous and independent mode of communication ’ ( ibid. p. 40 ) . |
| 14 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 15 | Secondly , there is a need to facilitate the finance of other objectives of economic policy such as fulfilling the objectives of the SEA , and act as a handmaiden to growth both inside and outside the EC . |
| 16 | Thus , so soon after the pronouncement of the intention to restructure industry , through trade unionism , as national co-operatives and so in effect to deny labour to conventionally organised industry , reality compelled the unions to start fashioning themselves as a response to capital rather than as an alternative to it . |
| 17 | He or she will be interested therefore in the products of information technology as a means to communication rather than as a store of data . |
| 18 | In the middle of the night , the ruling party 's congress wound up its work with a resolution to hand back to the state all superfluous assets . |
| 19 | Chamfer the cut edges of pipe to allow easy fitting of the coupling — a few gentle taps with a hammer to chip away the edge is enough . |
| 20 | In this case you will probably join as temporary legal assistant with a view to establishment later . |
| 21 | But with most of the enemy leaders undoubtedly caught in the castle , he did not think that the surprised army would be in a position to counter-attack swiftly . |
| 22 | It 's clear that the many non-party political groups which sprang up in the wake of the election , bodies such as Common Cause and Scotland United , are now prepared to work together in a coalition to stage further events highlighting the deficiencies of the current constitutional arrangements . |
| 23 | Humankind , to summarise , has been moving shoddywards since about 480 BC , when Confucius , Buddha , the Second Isaiah and Pythagoras died : to be succeeded , sages of wisdom and toleration that they were , by a return to superstition not unlike the reactions that tragically followed the Enlightenment or Victorian rationalism . |
| 24 | It is indeed very rare for a case of sexual abuse by a teacher to surface publicly . |