Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the most important of these groupings as it was directly responsible for bringing NIGRA to Derry for the 5 October 1968 march and thus was the catalyst which turned the civil rights movement into a mass campaign . |
| 2 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 3 | Shock attack : An 80year-old woman is recovering from shock after coming face to face with a burglar who stole jewellery from her Wirral home in Spencer Avenue , Rock Ferry . |
| 4 | One further consequence of attributing pre-eminence to quantity in relation to detection rates means that the ‘ prig ’ who ‘ clears his slate ’ ( admits to lots of crimes , no matter how trivial ) becomes a prized catch , simply because he helps the figures . |
| 5 | Although it might be objected that Skocpol 's analysis courts the danger of falling into another version of functionalism , since it postulates some inherent functions of the state , it has the benefit of drawing attention to processes within the state and the specific logic which guides them . |
| 6 | In our chapter on literature and appendix 6 we describe ways of bringing literature to life for pupils of all abilities . |
| 7 | It 's not all bad news , however , as Taunton Cider are ‘ mothballing ’ their rail connection and Fitzgerald Lighting intend to ‘ actively pursue any realistic method of returning traffic to rail in the future . ’ |
| 8 | I think it 's particularly useful as a way of gaining entry to ideas about childhood — what children are for , why to have them — that are n't written about in the official records , that is , in the textbooks of child analysis and child psychology , and in sociological descriptions of childhood . |
| 9 | ‘ This is something that we should be doing both as an employer of a substantial number of people , and as a means of providing information to firms for them to consider for themselves whether or not they want to join Opportunity 2000 , or whether they wish to pursue any of the initiatives outside it , ’ Institute secretary Andrew Colquhoun told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 10 | These are reluctant hunters , ill at ease and inexperienced , wary lest a nervous glance could give flesh to fear — the fear of coming face to face with a cowering countryman , the fear of finding the loaded chamber in a game of Russian roulette . |
| 11 | PEOPLE from a housing estate have been putting themselves on the map — and others have the unnerving prospect of coming face to face with themselves . |
| 12 | The prospect of coming face to face with the man who had figured so prominently in Elise 's diary before her accidental death was just too intriguing to pass up . |
| 13 | Was it because she knew we 'd had an affair and was jealous or was it the heartbreak of coming face to face with Steve ? ’ |
| 14 | She tried not to worry , but the thought of coming face to face with the handsome , the dashing Miguelito made her heart thump in her chest . |
| 15 | They felt it would be a good idea if they extended these ideas to the subject of physics , and we were asked at the university to try for the very first time to run a set of these master classes for children aged thirteen to fourteen in physics , to see if we could transmit some of the excitement and pleasure of doing physics to children at that crucial stage in their scientific development in schools . |
| 16 | ‘ I know you do n't approve of giving money to people in the street , so that was nice of you . ’ |
| 17 | Critics accused the government of giving way to pressure from industrialists and exporters and of reneging on its formal commitment to allow the full discipline of the market to make domestic companies more efficient and competitive . |
| 18 | These women are at risk of developing salpingitis , of giving birth to babies with eye infections and of passing the infection on to their sexual partner in the form of NSU . |
| 19 | The benefit of giving attention to décor in terms of improving overall light levels is shown by Gazeley ( 1968 ) and can be verified by the simple use of a light meter . |
| 20 | Despite the wisdom of giving priority to prevention in low-prevalence areas , it is absurd , as Peter Piot ( WHO , Geneva ) noted , to abandon countries such as those of subSaharan Africa with high rates of infection . |
| 21 | If we take seriously the idea of valuing individuals as citizens , then instead of using bridging capital from the sale of hospital sites to purchase large houses and hostels outright , a means could perhaps be found of lending capital to individuals as an initial down-payment on a property or a share in a property . |
| 22 | Educational policy frequently becomes confused with social policy , as can be seen , for example , in the way that educational integration can come to be viewed as a sometimes misguided way of caring rather than a means of achieving access to society through education . |
| 23 | For the purpose of assessing liability to VAT in the UK , supplies of goods or services provided by a business are divided into taxable supplies ( standard-rated supplies liable to VAT at the standard rate and zero-rated supplies ) and exempt supplies . |
| 24 | The aim is to encourage people to make better use of their qualifications for the purpose of obtaining access to employment in other member states and to help employers to make more informed comparisons between qualifications . |
| 25 | The Roman system of supplying water to cities by means of aqueducts above ground presented an engineering problem . |
| 26 | In his Green Paper ‘ The Health of the Nation ’ he suggests a target of reducing smoking to 21% of women and 22% of men by 2000 and refers to the need for ‘ continued recognition of the importance of controls on advertising of tobacco ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon . |
| 28 | Contrastive linguistics is used especially in courses designed for monolingual groups ( eg for teaching English to Italians in Italy ) . |
| 29 | A comparable straightforwardness put an end to false hopes about the efficiency of the Nuffield/Schools Council scheme for teaching French to children in primary schools . |
| 30 | New arrangements for providing treatment to people with drug and alcohol problems have been implemented with only a minimum of preparation . |