Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN Dee Skip Hire , of Albert Road , Darlington , has applied to the borough council for permission to move to the Cleveland Industrial Estate . |
| 2 | After more skirmishes , a compromise was reached which allowed for Liesl to stay with the Wynnes until her real mother was able to care for her . |
| 3 | Bob Wilson was so confident that the deal would go through that some weeks before it was even completed he had given authorisation for work to begin at the Boeing factory in Seattle to modify the aircraft to British CAA regulations and finish it in the red and grey Virgin livery . |
| 4 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 5 | Around that time , we were sharing a lot of material to work toward the Apollo link-up . |
| 6 | The Attorney General would spend hours poring over the evidence before asking the Court of Appeal to look at the Courtney case . |
| 7 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 8 | DEC has found it has another piece of technology to throw on the COSE heap . |
| 9 | I had allowed plenty of time to return to the Commons to vote , but the train was one and a half hours late . |
| 10 | ‘ He said we were being served with notice to leave on the Tuesday and had to be out by Thursday . |
| 11 | He was acquitted on all counts after the court heard the boy in question , by then a young man , had been put under pressure to testify by the FBI and the district attorney . |
| 12 | I make a point each day of leaving the New York before lunch to walk along the Rue de la République where , fifth on the right , is a fine flower shop . |
| 13 | The general ground swell of opinion in Washington enabled the ‘ American Firsters ’ in Congress to force through the MacMahon Act in August 1946 , making it a criminal offence to divulge classified atomic information to any other country , including Britain . |
| 14 | Like Herbert , however , he suffered from ‘ aguish distempers ’ ; his doctor advised that the only chance of saving his life was for him to travel overseas in order to escape from the Cambridge climate and as a respite from his studies . |
| 15 | It is concerned to remove barriers to the process of product authorisation , to unify standards and ensure patent protection for EC biotechnology products in order to compete with the US industry and attract investment . |
| 16 | People in the regions should not have to travel to London in order to fly to the United States . |
| 17 | The contras had been supported , through the CIA , since 1981 ; in 1984 , in order to get round the Boland amendments ( which forbade the administration to spend appropriated money on the contras ) management of the war was brought into an office on the third floor of a building beside the White House . |
| 18 | Gorbachev 's hopes of signing the Union Treaty in time to present to the mid-July G-7 Summit an agreement on the future shape of the USSR , were disappointed by the actions of Ukraine . |
| 19 | The duo are on course to meet in the Tripleprint Feltham Chase after convincing wins on Saturday . |
| 20 | Representatives of tourism interests in the valley were invited and met over lunch to talk about the HCIMA and its work for the industry worldwide . |
| 21 | They were invited to court to perform for the Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. |
| 22 | With customs and police officers deployed on shore Vigilant put to sea to patrol off the Kent coast . |
| 23 | Once the exercise was completed satisfactorily , the coastguard helicopter duly saluted us and flew of at speed to rendezvous with the Stromness lifeboat . |
| 24 | After rounding the head of the Kyle , the old road returns north along the west bank to the bridge , there rejoining the A.838 which then aims across country to pass over the River Hope which issues from the freshwater Loch Hope . |