Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Australian Board has added insult to injury . |
| 2 | I am pleased to be able to let you know that our branch has sent £250 to HQ in response to its request for help in its dire financial situation . |
| 3 | If the defence is used by a drug manufacturer where a new drug has caused damage to users , then provided he can show that laboratory tests showed no defects , he would be justified in marketing the drug while testing is still under way . |
| 4 | Once the chairman has summarised progress to date the other advisors should be requested to report ( to the lead adviser and , if present , principals ) on their progress and to highlight any potential difficulties which may affect the timetable . |
| 5 | Jowell has drawn attention to examples where the concern of policy is with ‘ standards ’ that are not susceptible to precise factual definition . |
| 6 | The South African environment department has refused permission to fishermen in Struisbaai to catch and barbecue a whale belonging to a species recognised as endangered . |
| 7 | This link with the President has given rise to speculation that Mr Morrison may be acting as a pathfinder to the appointment of a special envoy . |
| 8 | Doubtless , ultraviolet light has helped evolution to m – along by causing some of the genetic variation that natural selection must work upon . |
| 9 | FoE condemns Britain 's environment record , but says PM has pushed issue to top of world agenda Downing St plays down meeting with Porritt Praise and blame for ‘ green ’ Thatcher . |
| 10 | According to USAID , the US administration had increased aid to Bulgaria from $2,200,000 in 1990 to $88,000,000 in 1991 . |
| 11 | Up in the dome , the uncoupling of the private car had given way to speculation about whether the northern lights would oblige : the weather was right , apparently . |
| 12 | Both American Express and Diners Club have lost ground to Mastercard Gold , which increased its share of the market by about 38 per cent in 1990 ( although from a small base ) and now has 19 per cent of the cards in issue by volume , compared with American Express ' 57 per cent and Diners Club 's 13 per cent , says Market Assessment . |
| 13 | Another provincial Greek museum has fallen victim to museum robbers . |
| 14 | The Institute has issued amendments to Integrity , Objectivity and Independence in its Guide to Professional Ethics ( p 101 ) . |
| 15 | Erm perhaps also say how urgent a lot of people but perhaps there ought to be sort of changes in planning law er changes indeed which erm this Council has sent messages to government about erm er previously . |
| 16 | Printing group Linx has improved 18p to 148p in the month since its debut . |
| 17 | At the Left Socialist Revolutionary trial in Moscow in 1922 it was revealed that the Left Socialist Revolutionary Central Committee had sent emissaries to Tambov and other nearby gubernii . |
| 18 | Having studied data gathered from various sources , the team has assisted staff to programme telephone handsets into ‘ hunt groups ’ , whereby calls can be answered by an alternative to prevent the call reverting to the switchboard unanswered . |
| 19 | But chemistry has to give way to physics . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend the Minister knows only too well that that desire has caused concern to parents in Bexley . |
| 21 | At the end of the nineteenth century the verdict of the legal philosopher Dicey was that laissez-faire had given way to collectivism ; that government had begun to assume a role in society that had taken Britain well on the way to becoming a socialist state . |
| 22 | Inequity and deprivation had brought Marxism to birth . |
| 23 | The previous day 's drizzle had given way to sun and wind . |
| 24 | The Japanese almost certainly knew the Australians were in the area , for a young Chinaman had served food to officers passing through Railaco , and he was later to be ‘ shot at sight ’ after his Japanese contacts were discovered . |
| 25 | In Ealing , social workers , H.E.A.R.S ( Hounslow & Ealing AIDS Response Service ) and the Ealing Home Support team have made referrals to ACET to provide for needs where a single agency can not give all of the support required . |
| 26 | By the time the studio came to make The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) , about a village 's attempt to preserve their branch line against nasty entrepreneurs who have set up a bus service , gentle anarchy has given way to nostalgia for Olde England . |
| 27 | Matthias Earbery the elder had sworn allegiance to William and Mary only ‘ as a conquered person ’ . |
| 28 | With Gibbons , he wrote , oak had given way to limewood and earthbound solidity to feats of impossible lightness . |
| 29 | The bails remained on , but umpire Chris King raised his finger , indicating Border had got bat to ball . |
| 30 | The oddity is that the testator has requested B to institute C as his own heir . |