Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two sofas placed back to back in the centre of a space can often define the divisions of space very well . |
| 2 | Figure 4.3 includes the test results for a pair of groups given pre-exposure to saccharin before being conditioned and tested with milk . |
| 3 | In the present context they are important for attempts to relate transition to turbulence to transition to chaos , a matter we shall be considering in Section 24.7 . |
| 4 | Beneath them cars sit bumper to bumper in a haze of exhaust fumes . |
| 5 | From my audience ( a solid queue of cars waiting bumper to bumper at a side road ) there came a sort of gasp or groan . |
| 6 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 7 | A guiding hypothesis in the work to be carried out is that fluent readers have access to information regarding the location of at least some previously read words . |
| 8 | Sex in Miranda 's experience was n't a matter of spectacle , but of darkness and touch , magnified by her senses ' usually exacerbated state , the extremes of the night , of smoking and drinking and hunger and tiredness , and she was a blind swimmer through walls of warm water , and knew nothing of the practice and technique of the models in the pictures crammed edge to edge in the shop . |
| 9 | Their spring offensive in Negros Occidental province — " Operation Thunderbolt " — cleared the NPA from an area which they had long regarded as their own , but with heavy civilian casualties giving rise to criticism of their action from the Catholic Church and human rights groups . |
| 10 | There was a full moon and we marched until midnight , the camels tied head to tail in groups of three or four . |
| 11 | Politics and showbusiness have collided head on during the election campaign with one of the country 's leading Conservatives coming face to face with himself … or at least his Spitting Image . |
| 12 | And we gazed into the little flickering fire , grieving once more for the parents brought face to face with reality . |
| 13 | In broad and generalised terms , visual defects give rise to loss of clear vision , loss of central vision , or loss of peripheral vision , the visual field may be reduced or interrupted . |
| 14 | Derek Reeves , a retired British Rail employee , spent 18 days travelling north to south across China by train . |
| 15 | Second , it introduced the practice of Interim Development Control by enabling authorities to give consent to development in advance of the preparation of a scheme . |
| 16 | The authority or aristocracy and armed excise officers came face to face with the fact that a substantial part of the rural and urban population alike either connived at , or were intimidated by , the activities of well-organised armed gangs . |
| 17 | On the afternoon of Saturday 27 July 1689 the two armies came face to face at the pass of Killiecrankie , about midway between Pitlochry and Blair Castle , where the road ran through a narrow valley beside a deep gorge . |
| 18 | Faults trending north-west to west-north-west with brecciated , altered and partly mineralised zones displace the mapped stratigraphical boundaries . |
| 19 | Available since September last year under Windows 3.0 and OS/2 , Cooperative plans to port Ellipse to Unix by the third quarter of this year . |
| 20 | As Spaniards came face to face with their country 's impotence , backwardness and inescapably second-class status , there arose a confused chorus of demands for the ‘ regeneration ’ of what was widely seen as a ‘ decadent ’ nation . |
| 21 | FLASHPOINT THE famous day Spurs hard man Dave Mackay got to grips with Leeds legend Billy Bremner at White Hart Lane — two Scottish firebrands coming face to face in the heat of battle |
| 22 | The most common kinds of situations giving rise to interaction amongst Network members are summarised below , together with a checklist which sets out the obligations of the initiating member and the participating member in each set of circumstances . |
| 23 | Moore 's way of putting it might be defended on the basis of a realist view of universals for which individual horses are horses because they participate in a universal object horse , and do so in virtue of the fact that they have parts participating in universal objects which are parts of the universal object horse and related to each other in ways which participate in the universal relations linking part to whole in the universal object . |
| 24 | A blockage can also occur when two rabbits come face to face in a hole of small diameter . |
| 25 | What it can offer will be illustrated in case studies below , but can be summed up as a general information carrier , providing instant access to a variety of information which is more up to date than printed sources an educational service , providing information on new technology , higher education , careers , educational developments and new educational products a gateway service , providing access to remote databases such as ECCTIS ( see below ) a service providing access to other viewdata systems via Bulletin ( W.M. ) , Monitel a mailbox facility , allowing electronic communication between schools and other users and providing contact points for school librarians and teachers a software service providing telesoftware and enabling users to obtain access to software via Prestel Education and Micronet a microviewdata service , allowing users to create their own databases through Prestel |
| 26 | TWO North-East councillors came face to face in court for the first time yesterday over allegations that they assaulted each other . |
| 27 | You know , i i it is a very fine line between er how we talk to our customers , which is why I , I , I ca n't stress enough the need for the project coordinators to talk face to face with the customer first of all , and perhaps gently lead him down some of the items in this list that the project coordinator thinks the client might not have remembered . |
| 28 | A number of Amerindian languages encode reference to home-base in a more systematic way . |
| 29 | A dedicated telephone line for HCIMA members giving access to advice on a range of financial matters including : |
| 30 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |