Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very essence of his buildings is expressed through intimately relating ornament to structure so , together , they create astonishing , tautly dynamic , glittering volumes and spaces for people . |
| 2 | FIVE schoolchildren in Japan were given 100-volt electric shocks for not bringing textbooks to class . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Israeli government has a policy of not providing funds to hospitals for capital expenditure so that resources have to be sought elsewhere . |
| 5 | The poem , which many sports people have adopted as a sort of anthem , also advises on ‘ keeping one 's head while all around are losing theirs ’ , of not giving way to hate or dealing in lies . |
| 6 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | " 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We have therefore concluded that there are practical advantages in following the policy of many other countries in not according recognition to governments . |
| 10 | ‘ The composition of the team , strengths and weaknesses of its members , and styles of leadership are all considered with the aim of moving from purely controlling activity to coaching and leading . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So it 's usually made by stoichiometrically adding water to ethylene over an acid catalyst . |