Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most often only the problems of the children were given as the significant handicaps to placement . |
| 2 | In the UK , 2462 new HIV infections were reported during the twelve months to 30 June 1992 , bringing the cumulative total to 17,868 . |
| 3 | Omitted from the meaningful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’ |
| 4 | Lower ranks of the army in the troubled Tuareg areas of northern Niger were reported in the four days to Aug. 31 to have imposed martial law , ordered a curfew , and carried out in Agades , Arlit and Tchirozerine , a wave of arrests of alleged members or sympathizers of the Liberation Front of Air and Azawad ( FLAA ) . |
| 5 | It is not known today from the Outer Hebrides , being confined in the British Isles to Skye and Mull . |
| 6 | In one interesting analysis of this issue , Sauvant and Mennis ( 1980 ) argue that the TNCs act as transmission belts along which the contents of what they label the TNC ‘ business culture ’ are carried from the rich countries to the poor countries of the world . |
| 7 | Neighbours would surely have objected in the strongest terms to such a racket . |
| 8 | The first defendants lent a grinding tool owned by the second defendants to the plaintiff . |
| 9 | Having started the day keen for a new look but reticent at the same time , Pamela was overwhelmed by the dramatic changes to her appearance . |
| 10 | The ash cloud reached over 15,000 metres in height and was carried by the prevailing winds to the north-east , into Argentina . |
| 11 | On Feb. 3 the 70-year old Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) was formally dissolved by the 1,500 delegates to its congress in Rimini , and reconstituted as the Democratic Party of the Left ( Partito Democratico della Sinistra — PDS ) . |
| 12 | Above all , they have emphasised the need for higher expectations from society as a whole about what disabled people can achieve , and have argued for the necessary resources to be devoted to helping them achieve them . |
| 13 | In pendentive construction the weight of the dome is transmitted via the four pendentives to the wall angles of the square and efficient abutment is needed at this point to offset the thrust . |
| 14 | Particular questions to be considered include : i to what extent has the emergence of new military technology from the laboratories been steered by strategic interests and too what extent was it an autonomous product of the laboratories ; ii how has the relationship between the work done in the national laboratories to that done by defence contractors altered ; iii what are the pressures for greater commercial application of research ; what effect has this had ? |
| 15 | When the caterpillars are small they can be transferred from the old leaves to the new ones with a paint-brush . |
| 16 | The Act makes it possible for the properties to be transferred from the local authorities to housing associations , tenant co-operatives , or private landlords . |
| 17 | For this valley was scoured out by the most potent of the Pyrenean glaciers , which was fed from the big valleys to the south , of Gavarnie , Cauterets , Gédre and Baréges , and penetrated beyond the point where Lourdes now stands , shaping the topography as it went . |
| 18 | When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres . |
| 19 | Violence on the streets increasingly moved from the Distressed Areas to London , Manchester and other major cities in reaction to the rise of the British Union of Fascists . |
| 20 | The fifth strand in their story is seen in the clear conversions to Christ that result . |
| 21 | A copy of the petition was sent to the Royal College and in the reply to Sir James Graham , dated 27 July 1844 , Thomas Turner , the President , felt confident that he was able to ‘ prove the aspersions made in the two petitions to be entirely groundless ’ . |
| 22 | That fact made nonsense of the description ‘ quota hoppers ’ applied by the British authorities to the applicants ' vessels and accentuated the breach of their rights under those provisions of the Act of Accession 1985 . |
| 23 | Perhaps these were the monoliths worshipped by the aboriginal Gaunches to which they offered sacrifices of milk , honey and sheep fat . |
| 24 | Economic considerations are mediated through the minds of human beings who live in a social world , which means that the impact of economics is crucially conditioned by ideology — a notion which has been explored and expanded by the Marxist theorists to whom we now turn . |
| 25 | In these circumstances , a futures market may convey some more of the information possessed by the informed traders to the uninformed . |
| 26 | Compression or union capillary fittings should be used for the final connections to the cylinder so that it can be easily removed for maintenance . |
| 27 | How much the meeting was told about the previous shipments to Iran is unclear but it is hard to believe that those present were not aware of them . |
| 28 | Some eurobonds have a lock-up period of 90 days before they can be sold through the secondary markets to domestic investors . |
| 29 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |
| 30 | His presence was immediately broadcast in no uncertain terms to all and sundry by the DJ 's who made exaggerated claims that they were being boarded by an unauthorised government vessel . |