Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | J. N. M. Smith put out pastry ‘ caterpillars ’ for thrushes , and watched how the birds adjusted their movements to the arrangement of prey . |
| 2 | In the capital the police told employers to work their men to the point of exhaustion the day before the terms were to be made known in order to leave them too weary to protest . |
| 3 | This time around , the national spotlight is far less intense , leaving the candidates to peddle their messages to the local electorate without the big boys to lend a hand . |
| 4 | Their husbands brought their cars to the rally which is being held at the former car-plant at Dunmurry this weekend . |
| 5 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that in my constituency there has been no major industry since 1979 , except for last year when two British companies sold their businesses to the Taiwanese ? |
| 6 | Surely in the next Honours List its services to the nation should be acknowledged . |
| 7 | The position is perhaps best described by saying that the directors owe their duties to the present and the future shareholders , rather than simply to the particular persons who are shareholders at the relevant time . |
| 8 | Several companies open their doors to the public , but Grants ' Glenfiddich Distillery at Dufftown is singled out here because of its Scotch Whisky Museum . |
| 9 | CamHealth for the Environment features a number of facilities to help companies meet their obligations to the ‘ duty of care ’ and ‘ duty of aftercare ’ expressed and implied in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 . |
| 10 | Haiti 's illiterates tell their stories to the world |
| 11 | He said Apscore was one of the first companies to port its products to the Pick look-alike databases UniVerse and UniData , and now the Sun agreement will let them better support these products on Sun hardware . |
| 12 | There were indications during 1990 that the global debt situation , which had been steadily worsening since the early 1980s , might be starting to ease , as lenders from the developed countries resumed their credits to the developing world and as the return of confidence in the global economy prompted a resumption of foreign investment . |
| 13 | The larks carry their tongues to the last atom |
| 14 | At a recent meeting of the CBSG in Singapore , Marjorie Doggett of IPPL urged zoo directors to honour their responsibilities to the animals they own . |
| 15 | Invisible nails held her feet to the floor . |
| 16 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 17 | Pilots using them plot their journeys across the uninterrupted emptiness of the Pacific by plotting a course between a series of way-points , random but fixed points above the Ocean that are each given five-letter nonsense names — Neeva , Nytim , Nokka , Nabie , among a host of others — from above which the planes report their positions to the Pacific 's oceanic control centres at Tokyo , Anchorage and Oakland , California . |
| 18 | Bird-song and bumble-bees added their sounds to the laughter of children playing in nearby gardens . |
| 19 | MUCH rejoicing in Manchester as The Athenaeum bar throws open its doors to the public . |
| 20 | The fishing villages only come alive for the season when frantic fleets of boats fill their harbours to the brim . |
| 21 | On Jan. 10 the prefect of the Timis administrative region , the mayor of Timisoara , the region 's police commander and other officials tendered their resignations to the government , saying that they could no longer control events . |
| 22 | It is good to know that there is now a growing number of organisations working on behalf of carers to bring their problems to the attention of the public and the government . |
| 23 | As the major retailers adjust their strategies to the growth of discounters like their emphasis is very much on cost control . |
| 24 | According to Soviet commentaries the United States ' commitment to these bases underlay its warnings to the ASEAN countries against pursuing the idea of a nuclear-free zone in Southeast Asia . |
| 25 | The Act required these authorities to submit their plans to the Minister by July 1951 . |
| 26 | A long time in the past the Yek had been nomads , and even though the principal cities of the Khanate were constructed from stone , the interior decoration of many of the principal houses owed its origins to the heritage of the tent . |
| 27 | He conveys with a sure sense of atmosphere and detail the satisfaction of getting a job done , the feeling of being within a tradition of a long line of settlers of the land , and the sheer hard work which that entails : from persuading recalcitrant committees to support his endeavours to the literally back-breaking labour of dragging obstinate lumps of bog oak out of the peat to facilitate ploughing . |
| 28 | The Ukrainians put their signatures to the Lisbon protocol . |
| 29 | So while Philip made tentative approaches to Elizabeth , families like the Raleighs , Grenvilles and Drakes put their shoulders to the door and pushed in the opposite direction . |
| 30 | A TOTAL of £590 was raised for the Welshpool Friends of Hope House when the town 's Dingle Nurseries opened their grounds to the public . |