Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [det] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years later ( 5 April 1710 , described in a contract of ‘ vente d'heritages ’ ) Jean sold this property to Nicolas ( dit Colin ) Hotteterre . |
| 2 | Edward showed this letter to Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 3 | Mr Gorbachev began this week to inch in that direction . |
| 4 | Chatterjee told this idea to Bikash Sinha , Director of the Calcutta Cyclotron , during a car ride back from the springs in 1984 . |
| 5 | Lord Cross paid some attention to matters of policy raised by the case . |
| 6 | As a result , Sranan bears little resemblance to English : its grammar and phonology have more in common with the African languages of the original slave population than with English , and its vocabulary , though largely English in origin , has undergone alterations which make it sound very unlike English : Sranan kondre na wan asi-tere ; wan dey a way so , a trawan a way so . |
| 7 | But before you jet off to soak up sun and sangria , or cruise around the Norfolk Broads give some thought to security . |
| 8 | Althusser compares this characteristic to Freud 's proposition that the unconscious is eternal . |
| 9 | Graham gave this reminder to Graham after seeing his £2.5 million striker score in the 1-0 win over Manchester City at Highbury . |
| 10 | With due humility , Mozart recorded another debt to Haydn by dedicating to the older composer the six finest of his 23 string quartets . |
| 11 | In Brightman v Johnson ( 1985 ) The Times , 17 December an award made in December 1985 , Tudor Price J increased this figure to £95,000 to take account of the circumstances which made the plaintiff 's injuries more serious than the average case of tetraplegia ( see Report in para A2-001 of Vol 2 of Kemp & Kemp ) . |
| 12 | Mr. Lawson applies that description to people like me , who believe that tobacco advertising and sponsorship of sport are immoral and have precisely the effect that they are intended to have , which is to recruit young people into smoking . |
| 13 | Did Marcus , did Marcus take that wine to work ? |
| 14 | In February 1984 the strange , black snow that fell on the Scottish Cairngorms bore more resemblance to vinegar than frozen water . |
| 15 | Selborne repeated this view to Churchill [ KP 3 ] , who asked the Foreign Secretary for his comments [ KP 5 ] . |
| 16 | Success allowed Frith to devote more time to leisure and to his family ; he remained a convinced Quaker . |
| 17 | Boswell and Johnson took this road to Cruden Bay , in order to fulfil an invitation put in train by a lady they had met at worship in Aberdeen on Sunday morning . |
| 18 | Miller concluded this letter to Alston with a note on his own intentions — to add figures to supplement the Dictionary — ‘ my scheme is to give the characters of each Genus after the manner of Tournefort , which are all drawn from the growing plants and then to add , one , two , or more plants of the most beautiful , useful or rare species of each Genus . ’ |
| 19 | Josef gave us a thank you letter from the Red Cross , and a teacher told us that Britain supplies more aid to Croatia than any other country . |
| 20 | It was one of the great post-war institutions whose central purpose was political — to put an end to the frightful nationalistic quarrels which had for decades , indeed centuries , seen the people of Europe tearing each other to pieces and spreading havoc far and wide . |
| 21 | Beaverbrook reiterated this position to Berle when the two met on 21 July . |
| 22 | Is he aware that that firm and many other people feel that the Governments of other countries in Europe give more assistance to manufacturers to sell to eastern Europe and the Soviet Union than do the British Government ? |
| 23 | His admonition was unnecessary , for Robbie chose that moment to black out , and the next thing she knew she was lying face down on the canal bank , with Fen applying rough but effective resuscitation techniques . |
| 24 | Though he had been a psychiatric nurse Bob attached more value to medication and group therapy than to dream interpretation . |
| 25 | Major pledges more weight to Citizen 's Charter |
| 26 | But it meant that Swindon had more room to manoevre and Maskells determination in front of goal brought them back level . |
| 27 | Legrand denied any credibility to allegations of dividends paid to the PS by Luchaire . |
| 28 | Fish : The EC sought some access to EFTA country territorial waters , Spain having originally proposed a 90,000 tonne annual cod catch quota . |
| 29 | Many writers on democracy believe that the experience of democracy in ancient Greece has little relevance to democracy in the modern world . |
| 30 | Nikko v MEPC applies that preference to experts ' decisions . |