Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A period of stress , a new job , moving house or a family row are all trusty pretexts for returning to the tobacconist 's ; even minor crises , such as missing a bus , can do the trick . |
| 2 | After returning to the governor 's mansion , Mr Clinton later said during a jog through rain-swept neighbourhoods near the mansion that he watched a movie with his wife , Hillary , and their 12-year-old daughter , Chelsea . |
| 3 | As the oar disappeared into the distance , his last chance of returning to the team 's hotel with dignity drifted away . |
| 4 | The controversy has resulted in each side accusing the other of contributing to the seal 's demise . |
| 5 | As we shall see , this process often brings a congregation to a point of listening to the Lord 's voice . |
| 6 | The figures have been released on the day the Samaritans mark forty years of listening to the nation 's problems . |
| 7 | The marriage of a son was a way of adding to a family 's wealth , and a woman 's role was to display this wealth through her clothes , manner and life style . |
| 8 | He had sensed her fear of yielding to a man 's passion and had reined in his desire immediately . |
| 9 | Some mortgagees have standard clauses that they require to be inserted in the conveyance or transfer of the property charged in their favour and some mortgagees require to approve the draft document , whilst others ( for instance , the Halifax Building Society ) delegate the task of drafting to the mortgagee 's solicitor with a few suggested ( but by no means mandatory ) clauses . |
| 10 | For each area of study which a centre is currently offering the centre is required to submit to HCIMA for forwarding to the centre 's moderator three copies of the following : |
| 11 | Practically each one began by saying , ‘ This is like coming to the Headmaster 's study . ’ |
| 12 | It is therefore also important that the final SAS makes clear the degree of assurance that a clean auditors ' report will be expected to provide , with regard to a company 's ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 13 | Held , allowing the appeal and granting the applications , that since on an application for the grant of leave under section 8 no question with regard to a child 's upbringing was determined , and since section 10(9) stipulated particular matters , including parental wishes , to which the court was to have regard on such an application , section 1(1) did not apply so as to make the children 's welfare the paramount consideration on an application for leave to apply for a residence order made by a person other than the child concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had applied the wrong test ; that as a result of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the application the judge had been deprived of additional material necessary to the proper exercise of his discretion ; and that in the exercise of a fresh discretion , having regard to the new evidence and to the circumstances of the case , the foster mother 's application for leave would be refused ( post , pp. 428G — 429F , 430F , 431C–E ) . |
| 14 | Scepticism with regard to the writer 's power to translate reality into words is taken even further by Guillermo Cabrera Infante in Three Trapped Tigers , where endless word-games , irreverent discussions of literature and parodies of various literary styles all point to an acute sense of the treachery of language . |
| 15 | He was seeking advice with regard to the Council 's refusal to rehouse him in suitable ground floor accommodation . |
| 16 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 17 | IBM Corp 's James Cannavino took some time out to explain exactly what Louis Gerstner is doing with regard to the company 's restructuring — Gerstner , he says , ‘ has stopped any organisation in IBM that was creating a subsidiary just for accounting reasons ’ — instead , he decided it was better to change the accounting practices — ‘ which is great ’ declares Cannavino , ‘ because it means that the accountants are staying up as late as we do now ’ . |
| 18 | IBM Corp president Jack Kuehler says that we 've all got it all wrong with regard to the company 's $1,000m cut in 1993 research and development budget ( UX No 416 ) : he says that the cut is off the gross budget , which is $9,000m , not the net budget , which is $6,000m , the difference being that the net figure takes account of software development costs written off as incurred ; most people reckon that a cut of $1,000 is a cut of $1,000m and is a very big sum to lose in one year . |
| 19 | Cannavino took some time out to explain exactly what Louis Gerstner is doing with regard to the company 's restructuring — Gerstner , he says , ‘ has stopped any organisation in IBM that was creating a subsidiary just for accounting reasons ’ — instead , he decided it was better to change the accounting practices — ‘ which is great ’ declares Cannavino , ‘ because it means that the accountants are staying up as late as we do now ’ . |
| 20 | When they arrived the hospital team changed tack and referred to them about all matters with regard to the girl 's care because they were the next of kin . |
| 21 | The most striking change that occurred was with regard to the parties ' respective attitudes towards Court–Country issues . |
| 22 | With regard to the inspector 's decision to which you refer , it should be borne in mind that he was concerned with the effect which development would have , and where development would be suitable or unsuitable . |
| 23 | The defendant then complained that the trial judge had failed to direct the jury adequately with regard to the defendant 's previous good character in that he failed to point out that this is primarily relevant to the question of credibility . |
| 24 | The very word ‘ teaching ’ came to be looked on with disfavour , implying , as it did , an unacceptable de-haut-en-bas presumption with regard to the teacher 's role . |
| 25 | The situation was the same with regard to the Revenue 's right to demand information where the taxpayer had no statutory right of appeal , and a failure to comply with the demand would entail a penalty . |
| 26 | Andy remembers Paul Heaton ringing him to pester him into listening to The Housemartins ' demo , telling him , ‘ You 've got ta sign us , we 're brilliant . ’ |
| 27 | The once-in-a-while reward is often used to deal with disobedience about coming to the parents ' bed in the middle of the night . |
| 28 | Well one of the variants that , that was applied , you see under the , under the old er er time workers ' er arrangements where it was only the foreman who by visual contact you know with the amount of items produced at each machine could make any reasonable assessment in regard to the individual 's effort . |
| 29 | As C. S. Coon has pointed out in regard to the world 's hunting peoples in general compared with urbanized people : |
| 30 | Where 's Snoopy getting the money from to go to the Tiger 's Head tonight ? |