Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After completing your priorities to the satisfaction of your boss , discuss in depth the list of tasks that arrived through management by inertia , but do n't use that phrase ! |
| 2 | The £250,000 trip barely rose above the bergschrund on the unclimbed face , and failed again after transferring its attentions to the ‘ normal route ’ , the north west ridge . |
| 3 | FORMER world champion Alain Prost was cleared of bringing motor racing into disrepute yesterday , after offering his apologies to the International Motor Sports Federation ( FISA ) in Paris . |
| 4 | The studies produced interesting results , though there is some doubt about the statistical validity of applying its conclusions to the whole of the uplands in the UK . |
| 5 | Most importantly , he set about resolving the problem of transporting his troops to the mainland . |
| 6 | Hardly anybody else about except the schoolteachers ever thought of taking their children to the sea . ’ |
| 7 | NORWEB , in the process of increasing its supplies to the villages in the Rossendale Valley , was subject to a planning authority caveat that part of the cable route must go underground for environmental reasons . |
| 8 | Three secretaries who in March had taken the unprecedented step of tendering their resignations to the GPC [ see also p. 37333 ] were also affected : Izz al-Din Mohammad al-Hinshiri , hitherto Justice Secretary , was moved to the Secretariat of Transport and Communications while Mubarak al-Shamikh and Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim , hitherto Secretaries for Transport and for Higher Education respectively , stood down . |
| 9 | On the work front , he took a step nearer to what he thought would be a move towards transferring his energies to the other side of the camera and his next work was so outlandishly eccentric that perhaps in the year 1998 it will be rediscovered and offered as a superb example of long forgotten pop art of thirty years earlier . |
| 10 | The goodbyes were said ; Annabel and Millie clasped hands , but Mrs Kirkley gently prevented her daughter from seeing their guests to the gate . |
| 11 | Chapter 2 showed how harmful this image can be in unwittingly discouraging many people in distress from bringing their problems to the CAB . |
| 12 | Let us pray that we may find the contentment which comes from living our lives to the full and being concerned and thoughtful in our dealings with others . |
| 13 | This bolstered Deng 's own position and as Gardner writes , ‘ Deng lost little time in directing his efforts to the pursuit of modernisation ’ ( Benewick and Wingrove : 14 ) . |
| 14 | It is usual to provide for such circumstances by permitting expulsion where a partner , through ill health etc , is prevented from performing his obligations to the firm . |
| 15 | She led him to the bedroom , and spreadeagled him on the bed before tying his wrists to the iron headrest . |
| 16 | Realist or " realo " Green delegates had not succeeded at Neumünster in ending the separation of party and parliamentary office , nor in electing their supporters to the leadership , Ludger Volmer and Christine Weiske being elected as spokespersons . |
| 17 | So Hanson went ahead and brought in outside touring companies that offered simple sets , and a cast of up to ten people , who could stage a place that found its own level in front of people who did n't think twice about live theatre apart from taking their youngsters to the pantomime at Christmas . |
| 18 | He gave me a final incredulous look before quickening his steps to the head of the column . |
| 19 | It must be remembered that Lord Chancellors in making their appointments to the High Court have a relatively small group to select from . |
| 20 | The coroner Nicholas Gardiner recorded a verdict of accidental death … saying he was quite satisfied the brain damage was caused by the forceps … but he joined the health authority in extending his sympathies to the Taylor family . |
| 21 | The information will be of great help in preparing my remarks to the conference which will take place in Oxford in April . |
| 22 | Adults , however , have greater difficulty in accommodating their views to the miracles ' of modern technology . |
| 23 | Gloucester was more successful in asserting his claims to the stewardship of Clitheroe and its members . |
| 24 | Gloucester was more successful in asserting his claims to the stewardship of Clitheroe and its members . |
| 25 | We would also like to establish a functional and efficient method for connecting our systems to the specialist gardens . |
| 26 | the second arises where financial institutions find themselves owing conflicting fiduciary duties to different people , so that they can not comply with their duties to one without breaching their duties to the other . |
| 27 | This went through some crises , as when the Americans dispatched marines to put down a left-wing government in the British island of Grenada in 1984 , without communicating their intentions to the British government . |
| 28 | Today many Third World countries remain dependent on selling their commodities to the West . |
| 29 | The emancipation of the poor and oppressed is thus made part of a civilizing process , which is often seen to be conditional on assimilating their demands to the discourses of humanism and rationalism . |
| 30 | The House of Commons Agriculture Committee recognised the problem but failed to propose any detailed scheme except to call for increased rates of HLCAs in the Scottish Highlands and Islands ( which it referred to as ‘ disfavoured areas ’ ) without extending its sights to the remainder of the UK 's uplands . |