Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 During a visit to Moscow made by Raúl Castro in mid-July 1960 , the USSR not only arranged to supply arms to Cuba , but Khrushchev ‘ reaffirmed that the Soviet Union would use everything to prevent US armed intervention against the Republic of Cuba ’ ( Soviet — Cuban Communiqué , Pravda , 21 July 1960 , p. 1 ) .
2 He finally agreed to sell Dunphy to Charlton .
3 Chlamydial infection was thus shown to have similarities to gonorrhoea in this respect .
4 If not , the fairness of an election may be suspect ; but to use the senatorial rules is to add a further complication to a system whose misguided ingenuity can in any case scarcely fail to give rise to misunderstandings and doubts about the way in which it works .
5 Now that traders no longer have to meet face to face , and can communicate by telephone or computer , the exchange is not so easy to identify .
6 But she did not know if she would ever want to make love to Tom .
7 He quite understood that there was no way she could have possibly refused to accompany Ross to New York .
8 ‘ I 've always wanted to walk Coast to Coast , but Wainwright 's route is getting very worn in places now .
9 From the mid-nineteenth century onwards it turned out that not the whole population of Ireland was willing to be represented at Westminster but only a portion , the portion namely in which sixteen out of seventeen constituencies still choose to send Members to Westminster today .
10 Dorcas , the engineer , had once tried to explain electricity to Masklin , but without much success because Dorcas was n't too certain about it either .
11 ISS proposals for the fourth and fifth years were carefully formulated to ease transition to FE , both in terms of providing students with fuller and positive records of achievement ( the unit credits ) and by experiences of new forms of curriculum organization , especially in modular form ( the units ) .
12 He or she also needs to demonstrate commitment to curriculum and pastoral development .
13 The Jan. 30 meeting also voted to extend assistance to Romania ( excluded when demonstrations were crushed in June 1990 — see pp. 37544-45 ) .
14 So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances .
15 So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending , which I think is what Good is abou is suggesting , if carried on properly on market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the financial institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances .
16 Other reports said that some republics , notably Kazakhstan and Russia , had also agreed to sell arms to Taiwan and Yemen .
17 Zenith Electronics Corp filed a shelf registration with the Securities & Exchange Commission for 4m shares to raise cash to cut short-term borrowings and for working capital ; the Glenview , Illinois company also agreed to sell 1.2m to 1.5m new shares to Fletcher Capital Markets Inc .
18 I would also like to pay tribute to chairpersons , secretaries and committee members who give many hours of service to our Institute .
19 Finally , the policy also aims to provide assistance to employees with other substance abuse problems .
20 But both had to give way to Larne AC 's flying doctor Peter Howie who produced his best ever run by storming through in the closing stages to grab the runner up spot .
21 There were four major East Coast developments in the 1980s : the significant increase in HST productivity so that sets could be more extensively deployed to provide service to Inverness , Glasgow Queen Street , Hull and Cleethorpes ; electrification of the route from Hitchin to Leeds with only minor interference to train services ; introduction of a new track-maintenance strategy and transfer of overnight Anglo-Scottish sleeping-car services to the West Coast main line .
22 However , we urgently need to find £1,500 to £2,000 to have it printed and widely distributed .
23 However , we urgently need to find £1,500 to £2,000 to have it printed and widely distributed .
24 The elder composer , finally released from servitude at Esterháza , had been invited to visit London by the impresario J P Salomon , who also intended to entice Mozart to England .
25 Kerry Walter was now expected to transfer BG-BASE to Edinburgh in October .
26 Accordingly , US PC Week reports , Taligent now plans to ship technology to developers later this year , starting with development tools for OS/2 , AIX and Macintosh System 7 , the idea being to get developers started with the new technology .
27 There is easy access to the foot of one of the buttresses where the mammoth task of construction is better appreciated and the industry and enterprise of the builders more fully admired : these craftsmen of a past age here erected a work of art that has become their own memorial and puts to shame the undistinguished concrete structures favoured by the builders of today , builders who have the benefits of modern technology yet seem too often prepared to sacrifice character to utility .
28 Nowadays , the tolling of a bell is often used to summon people to church .
29 We in the world campaign which has so far tried to stop armaments to South Africa and its nuclear build up we want to work if possible to build a common security er , arrangement in the region where peace will be everywhere if we can make it everywhere because the region has got so many weapons and arms and military expenditure is very easy to increase when you have growing number of nation states where the people really need food and development .
30 Bigger employers , like the vast Beardmore 's factory at Parkhead , as well as many of the shipyards , employed people who lived within a mile 's radius , but there was large-scale unemployment , and many now had to travel miles to work .
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