Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision was taken in principle to require agencies with independent sources of income to transfer them to the central treasury . |
| 2 | Oldfield 's marriage lasted for just two weeks , requiring lawyers and a large sum of money to bring it to a conclusion satisfactory to the bride . |
| 3 | ‘ I have no love for the very common attitude which places certain literature and pictorial matter in the realm of art to justify it to the establishment … |
| 4 | Fun-filled Faliraki is only a 20–25 minute walk away but there is a public bus service which departs from outside the hotel , and lots of taxis to whisk you to the beach and Faliraki centre . |
| 5 | In specifically educational matters , stress was laid on both initial and in-service training of teachers to attune them to the needs of ethnic minority groups and to improve their understanding of a multicultural approach to education . |
| 6 | ‘ In your labours in the Vestment Guild you are creating things of beauty to lead us to the wonder of God . |
| 7 | Once dolphins locate a school of fish , they spread out , some individuals diving down to the school of prey to herd it to the surface by swimming around and under the fish in an ever-tightening formation . |
| 8 | Delaney fixed the detonating pins into the plastic , using the remaining length of wire to bind it to the timer , making a DIY bomb . |
| 9 | Well , that 's not how schoolboys talk , so they sneered some more and waited for Oliver to challenge them to a formal fight . |
| 10 | Macnaghten J. dealt with the question whether the action is maintainable on the ground of the principle of Foakes v. Beer ( above , p.240 ) , to which I have referred , and he says : ‘ In the present case the jury , by their verdict , have found that on July 6 Mr. Kennard made an offer that if , on the following day , the plaintiff obtained the money and paid it into a bank at Eastbourne with instructions to remit it to the account of Stanley Evans & Co. at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , he would not serve the bankruptcy notice . |
| 11 | It was certainly true that now , when at last it looked as if we might have our prahu , an increasing number of extremely sinister nakodas were approaching us with offers to take us to the Aru Islands . |
| 12 | A solid yet agreeable course book with material to commend it to the serious student . |
| 13 | Additional accommodation and travel expenses incurred as a consequence of accident or mechanical failure involving the motor vehicle in which you are travelling or failure of public transport services resulting in failure to deliver you to the International departure/return port or airport in time . |
| 14 | Please ring me at the above number and I will meet you in Paris to escort you to the hospital . |
| 15 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 16 | Then catch the 79 Seatoller service from Keswick to take you to the southern end of Derwentwater . |
| 17 | Thus , the situation should not arise in which the writer of an option contract can not fulfil his obligations by buying securities in the stock market , or that an investor can not buy shares in order to sell them to the option writer . |
| 18 | Moreover , it is important to note that an SRO may modify or waive the core rules ( on a case by case basis ) in order to adapt them to the circumstances of a particular firm . |
| 19 | The Commission was instructed to prepare for December 1993 a report re-examining " certain Community rules in order to adapt them to the principle of subsidiarity " . |
| 20 | More significantly , if questions may not even be asked in open court about illegal tapping , how is the victim to find out about it in order to bring it to the attention of the police ? |
| 21 | If the basis were significantly positive just prior to the delivery day , it would be possible to make substantial arbitrage profits by selling futures contracts and at the same time buying the underlying cash market goods in order to deliver them to the buyers of the contracts . |
| 22 | He also gathered together nearly all the drawings formerly in his father 's collection in order to present them to the public . |
| 23 | Fairly detailed criterion statements are considered in order to relate them to the test questions used , which themselves are derived from the foundation list topics . |
| 24 | I have cast this account in the past tense in order to relate it to the developments of the late 1960s , although I know that much of this shape and many of these assumptions have survived . |
| 25 | Historians will seek to understand the late twentieth century in order to relate it to the collective identities and experiences of their own period . |
| 26 | A typical microcomputer system therefore consists of a microprocessor chip , one or more ROM chips , one or more RAM chips ( to hold variable data ) , and a further chip to decode the top few bits of the 16-bit address coming from the microprocessor , in order to direct it to the appropriate store chip . |
| 27 | I 'll be back in time to take you to the studio , so do n't worry about that . ’ |
| 28 | Collins still hopes to push his proposal through committee sessions in time to get it to a plenary session of the full parliament in May . |
| 29 | Allen , in turn , took Coleridge to Balliol to introduce him to a young radical and poet called Robert Southey , who was then almost twenty years old . |
| 30 | At about 30 yards ' ( 27 m ) range , he began his charge , relying on speed to get him to the target before the pigs knew what was about to hit them . |