Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On June 28 the congress proclaimed the Crimea to be " the national territory of the Crimean Tatar nation , on which it alone has the right to self-determination " .
2 She only sent the jacket to spite me .
3 This is generated in a mixing system , situated above the column , by constantly increasing the solvent to non-solvent ratio and as the mixture is initially a poor solvent which is gradually enriched by the good solvent the low molar mass fractions are eluted first .
4 IN A quiz published this week in TODAY and based on the popular TV show Have I Got News For You , we wrongly attributed the programme to Channel Four .
5 You 'd better get the kids to school , now … ’
6 The evidence of history , not to mention the physical evidence of those land deeds , suggested a subject of legitimate journalistic inquiry : who legally as well as morally had the right to ownership of the property ?
7 I much prefer the attitude to sex in Amsterdam where the whole set-up is less clinically efficient than in Germany .
8 Propulsion occurs on the back-stroke ( when the hairs are erect ) and far less energy is expended in moving the leg forward on the recovery stroke ( when the hairs collapse against the leg and so reduce the resistance to movement ) .
9 The homoeopathic remedies with their powerful patterning effect , perhaps along the lines of cellular automata concepts , are visualized as spreading through the body and counteracting the imbalance , so restoring the tissues to harmony and balance .
10 In addition to making an order for the child 's attendance the court may order any person who is in a position to do so to bring the child to court ( s95(5) ) .
11 It is one thing to produce an unbiased manuscript which adequately tells the complex factors which contributed to the American disaster that day ; it is quite another to successfully bring the story to life before the cameras .
12 The church distributed 16,000 copies of the letter which was immediately declared seditious , and the Congress Party secretly sentenced the bishops to death .
13 Cells thus provide the key to understanding development because their behaviour brings about embryonic development and is controlled by gene activity .
14 If the client is willing to pay for a comprehensive pro-active search , MAS will generally refer the search to MC Strategy Services .
15 And if they only want twenty-four hours then they 've already made the appointment to hand it over .
16 Jessica had just seen the boys to bed when the call came .
17 You should not just abandon the site to nature , these areas have very specific needs . ’
18 Individual constructors can easily adjust the rates to suite their own fancy .
19 who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story .
20 He said Alex had already led the girls to safety by the time he arrived to rescue Michael , who had slept through the ordeal .
21 But the establishment of these facts is only one step on the way to a consideration of whether , in all the circumstances , the situation created by the delay is such as to make it an unfair employment of the powers of the court any longer to hold the defendant to account .
22 But it was E.J. Urwick who most aptly summarized the approach to youth work :
23 Papa will have already described the journey to Mamma .
24 ‘ No , I just wanted the key to father 's studio . ’
25 Crude anthropomorphism effectively closes the door to understanding of religion for most pupils .
26 For him it must be said that he went at once to report the death to authority , and then came back to us and again told the same story .
27 From its inception in April 1864 , George Healey was Honorary Secretary of the Liverpool Society for over 50 years , and still found the energy to back James Paul in his efforts to establish a national society .
28 Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon .
29 A new cellular phone has been introduced which directly links the car to emergency aid within seconds .
30 Nobody — not even Finlayson — knew what would have happened if he had ever got the chance to pepper Woolley .
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