Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan Booth has added a test piece to Grange Crags with Body Count , E6 6c . |
| 2 | There was also speculation concerning the health of both Taufa'ahau Tupou and his aged Prime Minister , the former having cancelled a state visit to Japan in order to travel to Australia for medical treatment , the latter having been incapacitated for a number of years after suffering a stroke . |
| 3 | Many health authorities claim to have adopted a TQM approach to quality improvement , and the DOH funded 17 pilot sites from 1989 with more added later . |
| 4 | When the President and a 28-member delegation ( which included his wife and children ) had made a state visit to Taiwan between Jan. 7 and 15 , numerous opposition leaders had condemned the visit as a pointless extravagance which Haiti , the poorest country in the Western hemisphere , could ill afford . |
| 5 | When she arrived at the airport she reached into her baggage and quickly made a phone call to Amsterdam . |
| 6 | The filthy conditions would n't help : the droids probably had infra-red sight , and heat-seekers do n't notice a rainstorm when they 've got a rocket trail to home in on . |
| 7 | Hoffman has sold a US company to Amersham in exchange for shares . |
| 8 | The thrifty genotype is thought to have offered a survival advantage to individuals in hunter-gatherer and early agricultural societies , who were subject to periods of nutritional hardship , by favouring fat deposition during periods when food was abundant . |
| 9 | One claimed that a manager in the West Midlands had offered a Christmas bonus to employees who had worked through strikes in Coventry and Wolverhampton . |
| 10 | Jim Clark spends his working day in the store-room of Stoddards Carpets — but in his spare time , he is doing excellent work for Elderslie Boys Club where he has recently arranged a football trip to Holland . |
| 11 | ‘ I know it 's silly , but I 've never outgrown a childhood tendency to travel sickness . |
| 12 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |
| 13 | So really it 's given a 9% increase to farmers which I think is long overdue really . |
| 14 | For the UK we are informed that the Public Record Office ( PRO ) has developed a computer output to laser disc ( COLD ) system for the storage of electronic records , yet we have no idea of how many or what categories of records are being preserved ( Higgs 1992 ) . |
| 15 | One day Leonie 's employer had got wind of what was going on , sacked Leonie and placed a telephone call to Victor Nicholson , the ignorant , ill-tempered manufacturer Hugo was contracted to at the time . |
| 16 | Jane had once invited a bank manager to Christmas Eve drinks , which he had loftily declined . |
| 17 | Malcolm Hulke was a creator of Pathfinders , while Terry Nation , a close friend of Dennis Spooner , had contributed a sf script to ABC TV for a series called Out of this World , script-edited by Irene Shubik , soon to be brought to the BBC herself by Sydney Newman to helm his adult science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown , destined for the new channel , BBC 2 . |
| 18 | The two companies have announced a side deal to Novell 's pending acquisition of Unix System Labs , that will see Novell and AT&T co-developing and co-marketing products that link their core businesses : computer networks and business phones ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 19 | Judge Lawrence Verney , the Recorder of London , who had earlier issued a routine warning to jurors not to discuss the case with outsiders , discharged the eight men and four women . |
| 20 | He was awarded a Heriot bursary to Edinburgh University in 1906 , and in 1911 took his MA degree with first-class honours in mathematics and natural philosophy , and also the B.Sc. |
| 21 | The United States Air Force has awarded a $91.6m contract to GTE Government Systems Corporation to supply the Pentagon with IBM Corp RS/6000 workstations running the Informix Software Inc database , Aster*x office automation software as well as automation and networking solutions . |
| 22 | Mogul — which began operations in Silvermines three years after the introduction of the Planning Act — never submitted a planning application to Tipperary County Council for the tailings lake . |
| 23 | He would have liked to have taken a doggy bag to restaurants and collar extras he could n't quite fit in , like garlic bread , crusty granary rolls and After Eights . |
| 24 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
| 25 | It brought a tragic end to a love story that began when they met as they walked their dogs after each had lost a marriage partner to cancer . |
| 26 | The Regional Council has paid a subscription fee to SAPC for many years . |
| 27 | Handy has also suggested a contingency approach to leadership . |