Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footsteps are heard ascending the stairs to platform I passing clean through the locked barrier gates and proceeding along the platform . |
| 2 | His trip to Rome in 1228 was intended to secure the succession to Archbishop Langton whom Alexander served also as executor . |
| 3 | Governments may adopt various industrial , regional and fiscal policies designed to increase the incentive to entrepreneurs to set up new businesses and possibly also to reduce the ‘ red tape ’ involved . |
| 4 | Once finalized , the new accord was expected to open the way to resumption of debt reduction talks with Western commercial banks which had been suspended since June 1991 . |
| 5 | ‘ You see , Roger , ’ he commented , ‘ you were expected to take the road to Dover whilst I was bound for Scotland . |
| 6 | Although deliberately designed to test the market to destruction , the results shocked the participants and the Department of Health . |
| 7 | Likewise , South Metropolitan cars were permitted to make the journey to Hendon Works over L.C.C . |
| 8 | However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid . |
| 9 | 8 ) It was decided to circulate the paper to members of the Scottish Churches Christian Aid Committee for comment at their meeting on June 9 . |
| 10 | There is some evidence that institutional investors are now more prepared to increase the allocations to gilts in their portfolios . |
| 11 | Good intentions , of course , are said to pave the way to hell , but one must , like Edward Teller , be optimistic , so I turned to it ( 9 February ) to watch the rubbing together of two creative intellects , those of John Berger and Susan Sontag who were to discuss/argue/disagree about storytelling . |
| 12 | Here the half-section is said to convert the load to impedance at the input . |
| 13 | According to one deponent , the duke had threatened to remove the countess to Middleham , at which she yielded , ‘ considering her great age , the great journey , and the great cold which then was of frost and snow ’ . |
| 14 | According to one deponent , the duke had threatened to remove the countess to Middleham , at which she yielded , ‘ considering her great age , the great journey , and the great cold which then was of frost and snow ’ . |
| 15 | Luckily he did worry and , by 1938 , had decided to move the family to England . |
| 16 | It was decided to take the deceased to hospital by car , but on the way she collapsed and a police officer from a local police station made an emergency call urgently requesting an ambulance . |
| 17 | With the failure of the Buckingham Palace Conference in July 1914 the party prepared to redeem the pledges to Ulster of the past three years . |
| 18 | The European Commission has , however , threatened to take the UK to court over its failure to observe community rules on drinking water quality . |
| 19 | Between 1651 and 1653 Worsley served as secretary to the commissioners in Ireland and commissioner-general for the revenue , and then , having failed to be selected to join the embassy to Sweden , he returned to Ireland as surveyor-general of forfeited estates . |
| 20 | It had eventually been decided to limit the statements to accounts of atrocities alleged to have been committed only between June and August 1944 , so that they could be tied precisely to Kesselring 's orders . |
| 21 | Though the new article of the constitution says ‘ those politically persecuted enjoy the right to asylum ’ , in practice the right will be greatly restricted . |
| 22 | Some predominantly immune-driven diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis , and vasculitides such as Behet 's or Wegener 's granulomatosis also show high serum CRP values , and as with Crohn 's disease these may be used to monitor the response to treatment . |
| 23 | Assuming unchanged interest rates , interest on the £50,000 mortgage comes to £4,656 , but if the £10,000 were taken off deposit and used to diminish the mortgage to £40,000 the annual cost falls to £3,564 . |
| 24 | However , B had already agreed to sell the goods to Cahn and , on receiving the documents from S , he transferred the bill of lading ( the document of title to the goods ) to Cahn . |
| 25 | I doubt if anyone ever dared broach the subject to Edwin and sometimes I think he simply believed what he wanted to believe , that the two were his . ’ |
| 26 | The monies allocated to the Training Division will be used to subsidise the cost to Age Concern organisations of courses , training needs analysis and other training services provided by the Age Concern Training Division . |
| 27 | A formula can be developed which may be complicated but under which the purchase price is paid in instalments and the precise amount of the instalments will decrease depending on the extent to which the purchaser has had to satisfy the debts to creditors on behalf of the vendor . |
| 28 | He had even offered to run the boys to school , but , no , she had needed the car . |
| 29 | To date , 30 programme areas of research have been approved committing the Government to expenditure of £183 million or 87 per cent . |
| 30 | Legislation is needed to protect the right to employment of older people by outlawing discriminatory practices in advertising and filling job vacancies . |