Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nestle is offering contracts to dairy farmers working within reasonable supply distance of its factories at Omagh , Co Tyrone , Ashbourne , Derbyshire , Dalston , Cumbria and Girvan , Ayrshire . |
| 2 | Russia contended that Ukraine was exporting inflation to Russia when Ukrainian enterprises purchased Russian goods with credits issued by Ukraine , for although Russia had the monopoly on printing money , all former Soviet republics could issue credits to their industries . |
| 3 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
| 4 | During their stay the Juan Carlos and Salinas presided over the signature of a five-year treaty of friendship and co-operation in the context of which Spain was to provide aid to Mexico of 4,400 million pesetas ( about US$40,000,000 at current exchange rates ) over five years in the form of credits and investment in the private sector . |
| 5 | One of the biggest businesses in Little Saigon is sending money to Vietnam . |
| 6 | Armenia is begging Russia to recommission two old reactors that had been shut down for good in 1988 under popular pressure . |
| 7 | QMH 's shares dipped 1.5p to 52.5p , while Bass 's lost 13p to 590p. — PA |
| 8 | ‘ When de Craon was refused entry to Godstowe , he came here and offered you money : gold and silver for your church and parishioners . |
| 9 | Their task is nowhere better summed up than by Ernest Newman , one of the great music critics of his day , who rarely watched ballet until intrigued by the news that Massine was creating ballets to Tchaikovsky 's fifth Symphony ( Les Présages , London 1933 ) and to Brahms ' Fourth Symphony ( Choreartium , London 1933 ) . |
| 10 | Vic Wilcox was dictating letters to Shirley when Brian Everthorpe knocked and put his head round the door , grinning , for some reason , from sideburn to sideburn . |
| 11 | Her question never got answered , for just then another couple with a dog appeared in the distance and Vendelin Gajdusek was calling Azor to heel so that he could leash him . |
| 12 | The row began in 1985 when Mr Phillips was granted permission to resite the gates at the entrance to the mile-long lime avenue nearer to the house . |
| 13 | The fifth case belonged to a different category : a gentleman named Thomas Arundell was given leave to demise a tenement and three yardlands which he presumably treated as an investment . |
| 14 | Thousands of people in Qom on Jan. 5 demonstrated their opposition to the regime 's leading " moderate " dissident , Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri ( the designated spiritual successor to Ayatollah Khomeini until his resignation in March 1989 — see pp. 36538-39 ) , who had reportedly criticized government policies and claimed that Iran was selling oil to Israel . |
| 15 | In 1792 , however , Lewis was elected surveyor to Christ 's Hospital and in the following year he was appointed to the corresponding post at the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals ; and from then on these institutional responsibilities appear to have formed the principal element in his career . |
| 16 | By the end of 1987 CLBN was making loans to companies controlled by Mr Parretti . |
| 17 | Similarly , on the eve of the Reformation , over 90 per cent of testators in three of the archdeaconries of the diocese of Lincoln were leaving bequests to cathedrals , and over 80 per cent to parish churches . |
| 18 | Texas Instruments Inc cut suggested retail prices on its personal computers by $100 to $700 : the TravelMate WinSLC is cut 5% to $1,900 and the TM4000 Win models are up to $700 cheaper ; it also introduced a new Travelmate 4000 model , with an 80486 microprocessor , at $3,100 . |
| 19 | Germany is giving money to Poland , the Czech Republic and Slovakia to help them patrol their borders more strictly . |
| 20 | I mean I mean during the week she never , she 's going to get to the stage except that Chris is taking Amy to ballet , she wo n't see Neighbours at all . |
| 21 | In 1820 Stutchbury was appointed assistant to William Clift [ q.v. ] , conservator of the Hunterian museum of the Royal College of Surgeons . |
| 22 | Concluding a three-day visit to Vietnam on Feb. 1 , the US presidential envoy , Gen. John Vessey , announced that for the first time the USA was to provide assistance to typhoon victims . |
| 23 | This time discipline won and Hughie Gallacher was transferred south to Chelsea . |
| 24 | In 1864 , three years after the prince consort 's death , Brown was brought south to Osborne as her groom to give the secluded widow more riding exercise . |
| 25 | ( Later , Karajan was to lay claim to Holst 's The Planets , first with his Vienna Philharmonic Decca recording , a favourite of the composer 's daughter , Imogen , and subsequently with his Berlin recording which , with a mixture of bemusement and pride , Karajan would tell you is one of his all-time best-selling records . ) |
| 26 | Germany was to lose Alsace-Lorraine to France , and northern Schlesswig to Denmark . |
| 27 | In 1976 Huan was made ambassador to Belgium and to the European Communities , and in 1979 became vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences . |
| 28 | This deal provided GM with the entry to the luxury car market that it had sought — Saab was promised access to GM 's resources and dealership network . |
| 29 | On Feb. 18 Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah was appointed successor to Musawi . |