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 . ’ |