Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun pl] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 2 | The operations of insider traders effectively cause losses to market-makers with whom they deal . |
| 3 | A walk through the arboretum soon turned thoughts to life as a lumberjill half a century ago . |
| 4 | Membranes must let in relatively few Ca ions to change local concentrations by a large percentage ; such changes can thus connect stimuli to responses with great speed and sensitivity . |
| 5 | Grand jury documents relating to the forthcoming trial of former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed that , at a Reagan Cabinet meeting in January 1986 , Bush had voted in favour of secretly selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon . |
| 6 | Maturities vary but they tend to be longer than those for conventional stocks ; only three of the 13 stocks outstanding at end-September , 1991 had maturity dates before the end of the century and several still had terms to maturity in excess of 20 years . |
| 7 | On Aug. 24 aid officials said that the UN had once more suspended flights to Juba after shells landed near a plane unloading food at Juba 's airport . |
| 8 | All had been part of the Reagan-Bush administration which illegally sold arms to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held in Lebanon . |
| 9 | However , the internationally recognized rights to freedom of expression and to peaceful association fully encompass peaceful actions such as those carried out by Abie Nathan . |
| 10 | His money-lending activities also included loans to members of the Finch family and their political connections . |
| 11 | The , in the last few months alone , we 've also had visits to Brussels by the General Secretary , the Deputy General Secretary , a number of Regional Secretaries , political officers , training officers and others . |
| 12 | Although Father Christmas also delivers presents to children in Australia , he does this in the middle of summer because December is one of the summer months there . |
| 13 | To provide a further economic incentive for emission sources to reduce the pollutant emissions , Norway later introduced rebates to polluters in proportion to the amount of pollution reduction achieved by them ( OECD , 1980c ) . |
| 14 | The company also exports programs to owners of computers in the United States . |
| 15 | Because it imposes constraints by reference to what a person says , the section clearly sets limits to freedom of speech , and if too stringently enforced , is a potential threat to the civil liberties of the individual . |
| 16 | ‘ The mayor also gives jobs to people from other villages if they 're good football players . |
| 17 | This would also open doors to coverage in non-Olympic years , the ones which are currently closed to us . |
| 18 | The trial opened in Linz on April 4 , 1990 , of 18 executives of the state-owned Voest-Alpine engineering group and its subsidiary Noricum for illegally supplying arms to Iran via third countries in 1984-86 , during the Iran-Iraq war , in contravention of Austria 's neutral status [ see pp. 35792 ; 36561 ] . |
| 19 | ‘ References to costs shall be construed as including references to fees , charges , disbursements , expenses and remuneration and , in relation to proceedings ( including taxation proceedings ) , also include references to costs of or incidental to those proceedings . |
| 20 | In general , pupils ' interpretation of spatial concepts such as area , angle and shape are highly influenced by context and presentation ; they often provide cues to pupils about the way to interpret a task , and can be misleading . |
| 21 | Wine merchants often lend glasses to customers for a small charge or even for free — assuming that you buy a few bottles from them . |
| 22 | The system was pay-as-you-go ’ : taxes on people in work roughly covered payments to people on pension . |
| 23 | This is worth emphasising since monetary control regulations often include references to ratios of various sorts . |
| 24 | Furthermore , extensive spreads of such seas can as effectively isolate pieces of emergent continent as spreading ocean floor , thereby creating barriers to migration of terrestrial organisms , and should also promote equability of the continental climate . |
| 25 | There is undoubtedly some truth in this ; the nobility frequently sent proxies to parliament in these years ; they were too preoccupied with war to have any reason for opposing the king in parliament , and their independent campaigns on the continent took some of them away from England for several years at a time . |
| 26 | Funny man Norman Wisdom will be at Wynyard School , Billingham , tomorrow to make awards to winners of Service with a Smile . |
| 27 | He said Association member companies , 35 in total , fully support representations to MPs by the North Western region of the House Builders Federation . |
| 28 | Estonia 's residents were able initially to convert roubles to kroon at the rate of 10 roubles=1 kroon . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it is worth recalling that Foucault never starts at the political , but rather begins with a contemporary problem and then addresses questions to politics about it . |
| 30 | I never got drunk — that is , I never got too drunk ; I never wrote prescriptions for imaginary patients ; I never made advances to women in my surgery . |