Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BUT when the system loosened up slightly under pressure from Gorbachev 's reforms , some groups started to return to the cafes . |
| 2 | Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , some optimists continue to refer to the primary visual area in the rat as ‘ striate ’ cortex . |
| 4 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 5 | This scenario seems to apply to the position in The Netherlands , otherwise seen as being in the forefront of community care . |
| 6 | Now I appreciate that some people seem to object to the words public protection , erm I 'm not certain why bearing in mind you have a public protection committee . |
| 7 | This project aims to contribute to the empirical analysis of the relative concept of poverty . |
| 8 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |
| 9 | The results displayed in Fig. 3.14 show that these subjects continued to orient to the light over the course of 16 ten-trial sessions . |
| 10 | Amongst all these fugitives seeking to surrender to the British in those first few days were the two groups whose fate is the particular concern of this report . |
| 11 | These grades have to conform to the normal curve of distribution . |
| 12 | At the airport , crews from many nations prepare to fly to the crisis centre ; Sarajevo in Bosnia . |
| 13 | Yet not many visitors bother to climb to the summit of Sgur na Stri , which rises straight from the sea . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ Too many people want to go to the festival and we have just not got the space to accommodate them . ’ |
| 15 | The team members previously worked on developing the software optimising compilers for Elbrus , and it is this technology in particular that SunPro wants to take to the US . |
| 16 | Citizens of the United Kingdom do , however , have an individual right of access to the European enforcement agencies whether Her Majesty 's government likes it or not , so long that is , and only so long as that government continues to accede to the Convention and the jurisdiction of the machinery which it establishes . |
| 17 | Because several tutors failed to keep to the new time table for applications the Board has decided that they will have to revert to the original dates for the Written Examination entries . |
| 18 | Gas bubbles in any liquid tend to rise to the surface , so in any basalt lava flow , it is only the top part which is likely to have a honeycomb texture . |
| 19 | That same Heinkel managed to escape to the Firth of Forth , turn , and move back for another attack run . |
| 20 | And if his own son has to take to the hills — ‘ Yes , well — is Alex sound , then ? ’ |
| 21 | Both groups trained to attend to the sounds of words were significantly better at reading and spelling at the end of the study than the untrained group . |
| 22 | Most people continued to go to the cinema occasionally , and about two-fifths of C2 and DE audiences in 1986 claimed feature films were their favourite TV programmes . |
| 23 | Most couples start to adjust to the idea of being a family during pregnancy with antenatal care and parentcraft classes . |
| 24 | Most Protestants want to return to the days of Stormont when they could control the internal policies in Northern Ireland . |