Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
| 2 | The Tans immediately began to prance around him , laughing and howling . |
| 3 | Workers eventually returned to work on Monday 16 June , having accepted as satisfactory a Department of Labour Inspectorate report at a meeting over the weekend . |
| 4 | Retailing employment has been a traditional refuge for those workers most exposed to redundancy in other sectors , and as such higher consumer prices ‘ provides a form of social security for the retired and unemployed ’ ( Hills 1983 p.65 ) . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 6 | The Safety Director 's is a delicate job , requiring diplomacy in dealing with academics and researchers traditionally used to autonomy in their laboratories . |
| 7 | Knights also went to war in company ; a number , sometimes from the same lordship , would serve in the retinue of a great lord . |
| 8 | It should be noted that the anti-discrimination statutes also apply to termination of partnerships by this means . |
| 9 | These conflicting ideas between party committees and student campaigners nearly led to confrontation at Beida , where the student elected to the local congress was denied his seat . |
| 10 | ( Details only came to light in 1972 , when London Transport received a compulsory purchase order , in connection with a further rebuilding of the bridge . ) |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , ’ I continue ( while we have it , let's press the advantage home ) , ‘ you know as well as I do that these couplings between the separate spheres always come to grief in the end . ’ |
| 12 | Cases frequently come to light in which submissive children have been treated literally like household slaves , often into late middle-age , by domineering parents . |
| 13 | Our results show that these genes rapidly respond to exposure to retinoic acid at preheadfold stages and undergo a progressive series of changes in segmental expression that are associated with specific phenotypes in hindbrain of first branchial arch . |
| 14 | Seesaws and swingboats both lead to estimation of weight as children look for a comfortable partner . |
| 15 | Furthermore , minimal communication between the board members and the workers seems to take place , with board members legally bound to secrecy over ‘ sensitive ’ company matters . |
| 16 | Although religious educators often refer to religion in the lives of children and young people , and recommend that religious education draw on this experience in their teaching , little research has been done in the area . |
| 17 | The moneylenders then looked to Sim for the cash and threatened him and his family . |
| 18 | Indeed , concern about the security of the Church was a major reason why High Tories were opposed to the Union with Scotland , which the Whigs eventually brought to fruition in 1707 . |
| 19 | Of course , biopics still have to pussyfoot around the survivors , hence the Bearded Film Director Who Did n't Look Anything Like John Landis in Wired who finds John Belushi ( honorary rock star ) , snorting coke in his Winnebago and then says ( best line delivered in the film ) ‘ John , this is economically unfeasible ’ . |
| 20 | Finally , claims based on public law rights might well raise factual issues more suited to resolution in an action begun by writ than by Ord. 53 procedure ; conversely , claims based on private law rights may well raise no such issues — which is why originating summons procedure is available as an alternative to writ procedure for claims brought outside Ord. 53 . |
| 21 | Like so many of the men now rising to leadership in poor countries , he has done a stint at the World Bank , and is regarded as capable . |
| 22 | Research done for Philips testifies to the importance that the police now attach to interrogation of suspects and the procuring of confessions from the guilty . |
| 23 | Three men almost went to prison as a result . |
| 24 | Polls reveal the public to be far more forgiving of Clinton 's debut difficulties than the press and fellow politicians , with his flops charitably attributed to unfamiliarity with the job . |
| 25 | In any case , here is the felicitous truth : women rarely go to bed with men they do n't fancy , no matter how many restaurants they get taken to . |
| 26 | Some of us are more mentally productive before midday ; others only come to life in the second half of the day . |
| 27 | In Germany , ministers still appear to side with the federalists . |
| 28 | Three microfilming cameras specially adapted to film from bound volumes of newspapers have been purchased , together with other equipment for the processing and production of microfilm . |
| 29 | Her thoughts then returned to part of the conversation with her aunt . |
| 30 | The Swifts then came to life with Beattie 's 25-yard free kick just over and Robinson 's forward burst barely cut out on time . |