Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | " If men only married women they loved , the population of England would soon dwindle to nothing . |
2 | What the Prime Minister said of Russia can equally apply to the Enigma code . |
3 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |
4 | In effect , Ayer has put them in a ghetto and they are happy to remain there , content to be making statements of nonsense in the assurance that what to the believer are the words of God must necessarily appear to the unbeliever mere gobbledygook . |
5 | We have , of course , stressed to our friends in the Baltic states that their membership of the CSCE — Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe — process and their aspirations to join the Council of Europe will naturally depend to a great extent upon their ability to meet international standards in such matters . |
6 | No Archbishop of Canterbury can simply pronounce to his flock , as does the Pope , and have the whole Church toe the line |
7 | The arrangements proposed in Maastricht can only lead to the eventual fusion of the various pillars . |
8 | Only in England would there need to be , as in West Germany , first a national distribution of seats to parties , then a regional distribution . |
9 | Somerset 's visit to Orneau , Belfast in mid-August will then reduce to only two the counties that have never played Ireland . |
10 | For example a bilingual fieldworker acceptable to an Asian community in Britain would probably need to be selected carefully for a range of characteristics such as religion , geographical provenance , or political affiliation , all of which are associated with a distinctive ethnicity . |
11 | An accident in France would no have to be as serious as Chernobyl to imperil life and health over a wide area in France and its heavily populated neighbours . |
12 | Orders for books and reports published by Elsevier ‘ s Advanced Technology Division in Oxford should now go to Book Orders Department , Elsevier Advanced Technology , Elsevier/Pergamon Fulfilment ( UK ) , ( ) . |
13 | Official circles in London would dearly like to be rid of Irish problems . |
14 | For sheer indulgent nostalgia , it 's hard to beat the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express ( which from June will also go to Budapest via Vienna ) . |
15 | ‘ So they thought that a lot of the people who could n't go to Knebworth would maybe come to the shows if we did them in London — Earls Court and places like that . |
16 | The prosecution argued that the Newleys had driven down together from London ; after the murder , Mrs Newley had driven back in her husband 's car , and parked it near their home ; no doubt she hoped that the trip to Hampshire would never come to light . |
17 | Peter Kessler , spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) , said it was hoped the ten-truck convoy which set out from Belgrade on Sunday could now proceed to the village of Cerska , where some 25,000 Muslims are trapped . |
18 | Saturday 's abandoned match at Morley will probably have to be played the next week , followed by the trip to Liverpool St Helens on the final Saturday of the season . |
19 | Work also continues on the replica 2-2-2 ‘ Bloomer ’ , Pannier tank 7752 , presently on loan to the South Devon Railway at Buckfastleigh will shortly return to its home base when some routine work will be carried out . |
20 | Something of the problem defined by Jameson would also apply to the reading of longer poems , but I believe it would be more manageable ; with poetry , a better case can be made for homologies between style and structure . |
21 | But the main question posed by America will still need to be answered : should the Bank as a whole recast itself as a lender to private enterprise ? |