Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIVE schoolchildren in Japan were given 100-volt electric shocks for not bringing textbooks to class . |
| 2 | Grand jury documents relating to the forthcoming trial of former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed that , at a Reagan Cabinet meeting in January 1986 , Bush had voted in favour of secretly selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon . |
| 3 | The Israeli government has a policy of not providing funds to hospitals for capital expenditure so that resources have to be sought elsewhere . |
| 4 | Written records attributed to the Hittites of Asia Minor of 1500BC contain references to wine , and its use is familiar from Homeric legends onwards . |
| 5 | Bars show the percentage of correctly directed fixations to targets appearing in the left ( LVF ) and right ( RVF ) visual fields , on three successive visits . |
| 6 | The trial opened in Linz on April 4 , 1990 , of 18 executives of the state-owned Voest-Alpine engineering group and its subsidiary Noricum for illegally supplying arms to Iran via third countries in 1984-86 , during the Iran-Iraq war , in contravention of Austria 's neutral status [ see pp. 35792 ; 36561 ] . |
| 7 | " Restaurant licence " which authorises the supply of alcoholic liquor to persons taking table meals for consumption as an ancillary to the meal in premises which are adapted for habitually providing meals to persons who frequent them , are principally used for providing main meals at mid-day and in the evening , and do not contain a bar counter . |
| 8 | In the case of Ernest Saunders , then executive chairman of Guinness and chief defendant in both Guinness I and Guinness II , there were 42 charges in all stretching from dishonestly procuring documents to theft and false accounting . |
| 9 | Close co-operation between the three businesses resulted in a palette agreeable to all and some new ideas in how to present colours to customers . |
| 10 | Lockstitch is used to loosely hold linings to curtains and is like a long loose blanket stitch . |
| 11 | The government 's refusal fully to implement the Disabled Person 's ( Services , Consultation and Representation ) Act 1986 leaves users dependent on the good practice of service providers , without clear cut rights to assessment or explanation when services are not provided . |
| 12 | The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , Mr Claiborne Pell , called the expulsion a ‘ disgrace ’ and compared it to Britain 's decision to forcibly return Cossacks to Stalin 's Russia after the second world war . |
| 13 | I retaliated with detailed instructions on how to bowl off-breaks to left-handers on a drying pitch , and we eventually declared a truce as we watched the sun sink across the oil-storage tanks beyond the creek . |
| 14 | Well I could I could er I could probably take on that task if you wish , cos it 's easy enough to actually write letters to people , cos I can just ask my secretary to do that . |
| 15 | She demonstrated a number of instruments from her large collection and talked about how to introduce children to music . |
| 16 | As Sage Associates , based in Oakland , California , the pair intend to peddle their know-how about how to make presentations to analysts to industry folk who , they say , are n't getting their message across . |
| 17 | Urraca at once sent messengers to Alfonso who , having won the support of the Moorish king of Toledo , left his place of exile to proclaim himself King of Castile , Leon and Galicia . |
| 18 | In particular that fireworks comply with the British Standard that people register that they are keeping fireworks retailers and wholesalers so that we can go and inspect the storage conditions er and that people obey the law by not selling fireworks to people under the age of sixteen . |