Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 2 | By contrast , the rational expectations hypothesis , when applied to the theory of inflation , appeared to indicate that money would be neutral in the short run also , thereby denying any role to policy activism . |
| 3 | Viscount Palmerston had taken over as Prime Minister by then only to lose that position to Lord Derby again but only for a year , as the Liberals were able to take control of Parliament in 1859 , with Viscount Palmerston remaining as Prime Minister until 1865 , during which period many changes took place . |
| 4 | The physical care of frail old people necessarily involves much attention to food and to toileting . |
| 5 | It was a wonder they had not all mauled each other to death long ago and left the damp , chilly coastline unpeopled except for howling birds . |
| 6 | He was an honest merchant whose skills , and those of others , including thank God the British Nan , had made him rich enough to slake any whim to satiety . |
| 7 | The Liverpool manager diplomatically avoided any attempt to bill this encounter as Souness versus Dalglish . |
| 8 | ROS : Perhaps they 've all trampled each other to death in the rush … |
| 9 | Against a background of rising unemployment and deepening recession , blamed to a large extent on economic mismanagement by Tories in London , some feared John Major 's staunch defence of the Union could only drive more voters to Labour and the Liberal Democrats , both promising a Scottish Parliament . |
| 10 | ‘ Members and officers of the county and borough councils have worked closely together to bring this scheme to fruition , ’ said Coun. Flowers . |
| 11 | Such terms are often found to be more-or-less transferable from one problem to another , and so have some claim to significance beyond the level of the particular problem in which they were derived . |
| 12 | I duly put this plan to Eliot , who , to my mild surprise , did not seem to regard it as so fanciful an idea as I had anticipated . |
| 13 | The Spanish Government 's Telecommunications Office , having twice rejected all competitive bids for a national radio-paging licence , has finally granted this honour to Sistelcom Telemensaje , which will offer the first of three national radio-paging services that were envisaged under the National Telecommunications Plan . |
| 14 | Eliminating skilled labour would thus give more power to management . |
| 15 | The union had already shown some opposition to aspects of Government policy , but this had always been voiced in a guarded or indirect way in its newspaper . |
| 16 | ‘ Now , we 'll just get this place to rights , and have a quiet evening with our knitting , Agnes dear . ’ |
| 17 | I just love that guitar to death . |
| 18 | Written by Christopher Bigsby , broadcaster and Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia , Hester and its eponymous heroine nevertheless bear some relation to Nathaniel Hawthorne 's novel . |
| 19 | In the first place this tax was not , in my view , paid pursuant to a contract that if the money was held not to have been payable it would then fall due to be repaid , thus excluding any right to interest before Nolan J. 's decision . |
| 20 | Tess no longer attached any importance to Clare 's interest in her . |
| 21 | I still commend this report to council as the first real stride along the road we have to take , there 's no choice about that . |
| 22 | She had quickly outgrown any tendency to baby fat , and her legs were like beansticks . |
| 23 | ‘ Ever send any letters to members of the hunting fraternity ? ’ |
| 24 | There may be , within this bonfire — and until it 's taken apart we will not be able to ascertain this — there may be petroleum cans in there , there may be small L P G cylinders , all of which will go off with a very large explosion and possibly cause some injury to life . |
| 25 | This is a definition which , while perhaps satisfying the intellectual appetites of a few myopic geophysicists , and considerably more satisfying than that of the Pentagon , still bears little relation to reality . |
| 26 | It singles out one form of non-marital living arrangement and penalises it ( if the woman sets up house with her sister , her father , her adult children or her lesbian lover she would still have some entitlement to SB ) . |
| 27 | As was reported in Update 2 ( November 1988 ) , this transfer of quality assurance by the appointment of External Course Assessors and retention of control of course content by SCOTVEC is in line with the Council 's policy of gradually devolving more responsibility to colleges . |
| 28 | Such a report would also include some reference to priorities for the future including those for the staff training and recruitment necessary to realise the School Development Plan . |
| 29 | Unionist publications also devoted much attention to Asquith 's Honours Lists , and in October 1912 Our Flag listed thirty-nine " Radical Plutocrats " , of which twenty-three had been ennobled by the Liberals — " so far " . |
| 30 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |