Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE should abandon ‘ fashionable management theories ’ which blur traditional relationships between ranks and return to the hierarchical principles of leadership , a senior officer said yesterday . |
| 2 | Mr Launders is pleased with the responsible reaction of shareholders and press to the valuation . |
| 3 | Tallis mounted Swimmer of Lakes and returned to the south , kicking the horse , challenging it , urging it to run faster through the night , back towards the swirling zones of seasons . |
| 4 | Take himself off to Yzordderrex and set up business with Peccable ; marry Hoi-Polloi despite her crossed eyes ; have a litter of kids and retire to the Hills of the Conscious Cloud , in the Third , and raise parrots . |
| 5 | In retrospect , for instance , he thought that Suite had choreography rather like Balanchine 's in the phrasing of sequences and repeats to the music , and in the lines , which were not straight like a corps de ballet of swans or sylphides but went off suddenly at an angle . |
| 6 | And anyway , why would the Cathedral jackdaws suddenly break the habit of centuries and come to the south side when their haunt had always been on the north ? |
| 7 | They contribute to the enrichment of the quality of life of individuals and contribute to the general economic development of society . |
| 8 | Students like yourself have decided how and why it should be written ; the authors have merely put together a series of explanations and answers to the questions that these students have asked . |
| 9 | The collapse of this organisation created a multitude of problems and led to the rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union as a unitary superpower . |
| 10 | Thus , even if space is left within and at the end of each index , updating will involve the shifting and shuffling of a number of records or the use of pointers and links to the new records . |
| 11 | As soon as she saw him look down , she made a sideways dive between a couple of stalls and crossed to the opposite side of the street . |
| 12 | Mrs Robinson was banished below decks and confined to the kitchens from which emerged a steady issue of victuals from forenoon to midnight . |
| 13 | This society 's accounting policy on provisions is that ‘ provisions are made to reduce the value of loans and advances to the amount which the directors consider is likely to be ultimately received ’ . |
| 14 | The petition , which was presented both to the king and the College of Physicians and referred to the archbishop of Canterbury , alleged that Chamberlen had pecuniary interests in keeping midwives ignorant so that he could take on their difficult cases . |
| 15 | Their later work looked at the smoking habits and health of doctors and led to the crucial evidence that those who stopped smoking eventually lost their increased risk of lung cancer . |
| 16 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 17 | The 1964 committee devised a system of entrances and exits to the serving points , and people went up one aisle and down the next to avoid confusion . |
| 18 | Almost immediately I experienced a series of knocks and pulls to the worm rod but nothing concrete to strike at . |
| 19 | Variations in each of these factors can considerably alter the balance of benefits and costs to the local community in different areas and regions . |
| 20 | She shared my father 's love of horses and enjoyed to the full the constant riding . |
| 21 | Simply cut a hole in the baked biscuits while they are still hot , leave to cool on a wire rack , then thread with ribbons and tie to the tree . |
| 22 | Cut into segments and add to the melon . |
| 23 | The problems of the informal interview , then , are considerable , and they may make us feel that the formal type of interview is much less beset with difficulties and open to the criticism of lack of scientific method . |
| 24 | The kidneys , liver , heart , tail , tripe , and heels were packed into hampers and sent to the Lancashire manufacturing towns like Bury , Wigan , and Oldham where the factory workers prized them as cheap and nourishing food . |
| 25 | ( SCENE : A huge golden tub , studded with emeralds and filled to the brim with the tears of baby narwhals . |
| 26 | Grants in respect of capital expenditure incurred after 31st March 1991 are included in creditors and released to the profit and loss account in equal instalments over the expected useful lives of the related assets . |
| 27 | The order is received by the sales office ; checks are made in the warehouse to see if the sub-assemblies are in stock ; a schedule is made in the production department and the products manufactured ; the goods are despatched by the distribution department ; and the invoice typed up in accounts and sent to the customer . |
| 28 | Some does , and some comes from contributions and grants to the ADAA Foundation , a separate corporation . |
| 29 | Other figures participating in the same religious ceremony wear a cloth robe covering both upper and lower parts of the body and falling straight down without folds or flounces to the ankles . |
| 30 | The demonstration , made in Canada , that diabetes resulted from malfunction of the pancreas was made as a result of experiments on dogs and led to the award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923 . |