Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [vb base] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |
| 2 | You are big , burly men and I am small , but I will cause a lot of noise and draw attention to us all before I go down . ’ |
| 3 | An appendix to the book lists resource centres in different areas of South Africa and gives details of organisations that offer training to community organisations . |
| 4 | One of the most common practical problems at the time of someone 's death is that there are lots of extra expenses involved and yet it is not possible to get hold of cash or obtain access to funds because financial accounts have to be reorganized following the death of the person concerned . |
| 5 | In conclusion , as a matter of private law it is not clear to what extent Chinese walls prevent attribution of knowledge and provide protection to a firm against liability to a customer for breach of fiduciary duty . |
| 6 | The children each hold a cup full of water and stand back to back . |
| 7 | She mutilated herself , damaged her cell , showed violence towards staff and set fire to her bedding . |
| 8 | It 's useful when you 've got to contact lots of staff or get information to many people at the same time and allows you to put detailed information down . |
| 9 | In collisions at relatively low energies of PETRA ( the electron-positron accelerator at DESY ) the quark and anti-quark produce two streams of particles that appear back to back in apparatus surrounding the collision point . |
| 10 | The Route Impériale was laid out by Napoleon , the First this time , for strategic rather than aesthetic purposes , but it is a delight , a quiet , curly road along a ridge with long vistas of farms and moor land to the east , and of more farms , villages and cultivation to the west . |
| 11 | The credit would support the government 's 1992 economic and financial programme to achieve 3-4 per cent growth , strengthen the balance of payments and reduce inflation to 9-12 per cent . |
| 12 | Constitutions , while they may create the institutions of government and allocate power to these institutions , also generally seek to control or restrain the exercise of power . |
| 13 | The development of a model that describes the balance of forces that give rise to a net free energy change per base pair stacking interaction in a DNA duplex ( formed from disordered single strands ) requires some method of partitioning the individual contributions . |
| 14 | When employees receive benefits from the trust , these are unarguably acquired by virtue of employment and give rise to a Schedule E income tax charge , unless they are granted options structured so as to avoid a Schedule E charge on grant ( see s135 Taxes Act ) . |
| 15 | The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and owe allegiance to a wide diversity of schools of thought . |
| 16 | ‘ Liberal Democrats in association with other relevant organisations and bodies , will publicise the benefits of neutering and give encouragement to low-cost neutering schemes . ’ |
| 17 | The research aims to document the range of factors that give rise to arrears , as identified by the borrower . |
| 18 | When A per cent of records that give rise to B per cent of accesses is loaded first , the improvement obtained tends to ( 100 — B ) / ( 100 — A ) as . |
| 19 | For banks that fall prey to others , the study finds , the experience was in one sense rewarding . |
| 20 | The business plan was the vehicle for communicating the strategic necessity for rationalization and work reorganization to the workforce while the participative job evaluation process maximized employee commitment to this strategic goal . |
| 21 | Just before church take gate into churchyard and follow path to kissing-gate on far side . |
| 22 | Fifteen years later , it became obvious that Lord Sagramoso was seducing the hereditary lords of neighbouring star systems — mainly agricultural ones — to turn preachers into compost and swear fealty to him rather than to a deity thirty thousand light years distant . |
| 23 | Magazines are fine , but you want to be able to go into bookshops and have access to other people 's minds and lives through fiction . |
| 24 | For this need , another type of para.professional was envisaged , with sound training in all these areas , able to work with teachers and give support to teachers , and with a thorough understanding of educational principles and methods . |
| 25 | Then she lopped off her head and finally decided to douse her mortal remains with petrol and set fire to herself . ’ |
| 26 | Any staffing review must take this into account and have regard to the design/layout of the building . |
| 27 | What racegoers contribute , and what sponsors pay in order to link their name with races and provide champagne to clients , is only about £70m . |
| 28 | ( v ) freedom from substances that give rise to foaming or unpleasant odours . |
| 29 | The wardrobe is designed to fit from wall or end panel to wall , and from floor o ceiling ( though in high rooms , you might want to finish short of the ceiling ) . |
| 30 | When it comes to evangelising , Michael Green reminds us , ‘ Evangelism is never proclamation in a vacuum ; but always to people , and the message must be given in terms that make sense to them ’ ( Green 1970:115 ) . |