Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or young and trendy , favouring outlandish schemes for bringing religion up to date , inviting the congregation to shake hands with each other , and expecting them to sing newfangled and jolly hymns to the accompaniment of the local pop group . |
| 2 | Where Land 's theory differs from previous models of colour vision is that , instead of relating colour directly to wavelength , he argues that colour experience is related to the relative outputs of these three classes of receptor in different parts of the visual field . |
| 3 | Welsh Water is the only British water authority committed to ending the widespread practice of pumping sewage out to sea . |
| 4 | Unless there is some way of converting ADP back to ATP , the cell would soon run out of energy . |
| 5 | Geodesic sculptures were dropping from the ceiling and exploding around me , and my giant perspex magnifying mirrors , like contorting windows on to hell , were melting down the walls . |
| 6 | A year ago at Unix Expo time we said IBM Corp was interested in moving AIX on to PC platforms other than its own to dispel its proprietary air ( UX No 359 ) : true to the promise , Blue turned up at this year 's Expo with AIX PS/2 Version 1.3 supporting non-Micro Channel boxes and running on Dell Computer Corp , AST Research Inc and Compaq Computer Corp . |
| 7 | There should have been major expenditure on affordable provision , this would be a major factor in getting people back to work . ’ |
| 8 | Hardly a single Labour or Conservative-controlled authority failed to mention the strides that they are making in improving the competitiveness of services and in putting services out to competition . |
| 9 | Philips had no difficulty in luring Tyndale out to dinner . |
| 10 | She was calm and sweet and later insisted on taking Phoebe out to dinner at some fancy little pseudo-Bohemian bistro . |
| 11 | But response rate is to some extent within control : a Modular Course survey of staff satisfaction with modification of a scheme for mapping courses on to timetable hours , yielded an ( internal ) postal return rate of 35 per cent . |
| 12 | Tchoungui and Fochivé had lost their previous posts following the abortive coup attempt of April 1984 , aimed at bringing Ahidjo back to power [ see pp. 33075-76 ] . |
| 13 | The independent sector has also contributed to developments in the area by setting up courses aimed at recruiting staff back to work . |
| 14 | Yet it now looks inevitable that MPs and unions will be demanding the big spending schemes aimed at putting Britain back to work do exactly that . |
| 15 | And that arrogant devil Christie Goldsborough who 'd caused the trouble , so far as Frizingley was concerned at any rate , by egging Ben on to cut the wages at Braithwaite 's mill . |