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

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1 The Young Minds Information Service was launched last week , aiming to make it easier for families with troubled children or adolescents to gain access to counselling and other professional help .
2 When Rebekah suggests that Jacob take his brother 's place , or when Potiphar 's wife tries to seduce Joseph , or Tamar calls attention to Judah 's progeny , their interference breaks up the exclusive father-son dialogue and forces recognition of their presence … .
3 Nicholas 's government mounted a counter-offensive , using press and pulpit to reinforce loyalty to Orthodoxy and autocracy .
4 The pun as a rhetorical motif of both dialogue and narrative gives way to utterances with multiple layers of meaning : I 'm sorry , I 'm very sorry . ’
5 In the 1970s optimism and faith gave way to disillusion and doubt as medical costs soared with little apparent benefit .
6 Partners will vary in their ability and willingness to commit time to partnership activities .
7 LOVING LOOK : Torvill and Dean see eye to eye in their act
8 TIM AND PATSY STOTHERT 'S QUAKER MEETING HOUSE IS APTLY NAMED , FOR IN IT DIVERSE STYLES CONVERGE AND VICTORIANA COMES FACE TO FACE WITH ART DECO .
9 386BSD was originally intended to be ‘ a university curiosity , ’ Jolitz said , a non-commercial , non-industrial strength way for students , facility and researchers to have access to Berkeley code on inexpensive machines .
10 They are used to hold the least dangerous categories of prisoner , including those waiting to be tried or sentenced ( remand prisoners ) , fine defaulters , those serving short sentences and prisoners awaiting reallocation to training prisons .
11 The Bank opened a ‘ helpline ’ to handle foreign exchange difficulties and institutions offered help to businesses forced out of the bomb-ravaged area in St Mary Axe , the heart of the shipping market .
12 Negative Richardson number corresponds to a destabilizing density gradient ; both shear and buoyancy give rise to turbulence generation .
13 Twenty two-year-old Christian and Tom ( 24 ) answered an advertisement in the Alton Herald , asking for qualified plumbers and electricians to offer help to Romania .
14 to call for all SSDs and SWDs to issue guidance to staff on identifying and dealing with elder abuse ;
15 The hold tightened as Saxon thegns and clergy gave way to Normans .
16 The interesting point , however , is that divisions within the student body would become less significant as conditions for all students deteriorated throughout the reform decade and optimism gave way to despair .
17 She had £50 in her purse when she and Horatia took ship to Calais where she brazened it out until January 1815 when she died — not in disgrace but hardly gracefully .
18 One week later , the p24 antigen had fallen to 80 pg/mL and WB showed reactivity to HIV-1 p24 and gp160 .
19 In principle , therefore , there was now a global US policy even if , in Vietnam , it depended upon a French surrogate , and when Acheson and Schuman met face to face , after apparently unrecorded or at least so far undisclosed conversation , Acheson wanted to establish a close and immediate connection between the problem of Southeast Asia and the defence of the West .
20 There is much less evidence for the fifth century than for the fourth , when Philip and Alexander attracted attention to Macedon , but recently discovered gravestones show that by 400–350 Macedonians had good Greek names ( which they were given in the fifth century , of course ) like Xenokrates , Pierion and Kleonymos ( M. B. Hatzopoulos and L. D. Loukopoulos ( 1980 ) Philip of Macedon , plates 109–10 on pp. 206–7 ) .
21 As Big Ben ticked … the cameras clicked as the oarsman of Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the official challenge
22 Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in .
23 He wo n't have to go to the two language schools being set up by Volvo and Renault in France and Sweden to teach English to engineers and designers ; le Quement was educated at a public school in England .
24 In an interview with Pravda in March 1979 , the Iranian Minister of Information and Propaganda drew attention to measures such as ‘ the establishment of control over bases from which the Pentagon was carrying out electronic intelligence observations of the territory of the Soviet Union , the termination of the services of American military advisers in the armed forces , and a sharp cutback in the military budget ’ .
25 Once Wordsworth could believe that the sound of angels ' wings comforted childhood sleep but now , thanks to Dr Freud , the belief is that childhood imagination is an extended video nasty , with unacknowledged lusts and cravings giving way to fantasies of violence and the visitation of mutants .
26 dolphins and porpoises fall victim to drift-nets in large numbers because they can not ‘ see ’ them on their sonar .
27 Please could you ensure that this is made clear on any notices that are put up and that the contractors doing the work are also aware that pedestrians , cyclists and people requiring access to property are to be allowed through .
28 Critics and scholars had access to libraries , and the paid leisure to think , read , and write during university vacations , and , sometimes , sabbatical leave .
29 When it did n't , and Parker gave approval to THORP , there was widespread disillusionment .
30 ‘ Made of birchwood they were — this wood 's mostly oak and birch giving way to conifers as we come out , with a view of the foothills . ’
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