Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Brian Pearse FCIB , Deputy Chairman , responded and made strong reference to the need for a return to high standards of banking education .
2 Obviously , the ability to continue someone else 's work is very dependent on how disciplined they have been in identifying work to be done and returning successful work to LIFESPAN .
3 ( d ) Keep records of all payments made and make annual returns to the Inland Revenue .
4 Donald MacRae , a professor of sociology , for example , was seen as lending substantial support to the development of the polytechnics .
5 The ‘ sufficient interest ’ test as interpreted in the Fleet Street Casuals case can be seen as giving partial effect to such an argument .
6 This went back to the development of working-class antipathy to Thomas Malthus , who was seen as giving scientific justification to ruling-class opposition to reform , for after all the aim of his famous moral restraint was to convince the working class to postpone marriage as long as possible .
7 So the highly defined agenda of a festival such as this may well be the way forward for gay men who 've long been marginalised and denied fair access to the media .
8 This in effect recognized and gave official sanction to the thriving black market .
9 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health .
10 Mr. Farr then had her stuffed and gave poor Bess to me .
11 In such circumstances , it seemed surprising that the Report should recommend the repeal of the Obscene Publications Act and consequent decriminalisation of all forms of publication other than those narrowly defined as causing actual harm to performers , whilst urging for films , and films alone , the continuation of an administrative system of prior restraint .
12 Locals were defined as having stronger loyalty to the organization while being less committed to specialized skills and more concerned about the values of organizational colleagues .
13 There was little left that bore any resemblance to the original landscape in which Stephen and Christina had first holidayed .
14 There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein is an evil tyrant who has murdered , tortured and imprisoned any opposition to his regime .
15 Pretreatment of the cells with DNJ did not alter the molecular weight of the integrin chains expressed and reduced HT-29 adhesion to laminin and fibronectin only to 68% and 49% respectively .
16 I have also made available to local authorities resources to enable the level of expenditure per council house to be maintained and to enable further measures to be taken to tackle the problems of homelessness and dampness in council housing .
17 He was hospitalised and needed 28 stitches to a leg wound .
18 ‘ For the purposes of sections 60 , 61 and 62 of the Banking Act 1987 the definition of deposit in section 5 of that Act shall be treated as excluding any sum to which a person becomes entitled ( otherwise than by operation of law ) , or comes to be treated as entitled for the purposes of sections 58 and 60 of that Act , after a petition is presented by the winding up of the institution , or , in the case of an institution in respect of which such a petition has been presented before the date on which this Order comes into force , 30 July 1991 .
19 These are the people who are often quoted as enjoying good health to a ripe old age despite smoking , drinking and never taking any exercise .
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