Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain . |
| 2 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 3 | Commercial users of grain such as brewers of beer or vinegar or producers of starch were also picked out from time to time . |
| 4 | At Esgair Moel Woollen Mill all the processes of woollen manufacture are carried out from fleece to flannel |
| 5 | The massive amount of activity by developer builders after the mid-1960s , which continues to this day , can not be described as unplanned , given that it was carried out in relation to land-use planning and the provision of infrastructure . |
| 6 | Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science . |
| 7 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 8 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 9 | Wallace saw the great northern continents of Eurasia and North America as the chief focus of progressive evolution from which higher types had radiated out from time to time . |
| 10 | Erm in some ways they 're persecuted bu , but they tend to get pushed around from post to post . |
| 11 | The family may well have moved around from street to street , but by 1785 they were settled in Fountain Lane , that most familiar of Titford haunts . |
| 12 | After Wandsworth Nicholson had moved around from prison to prison , serving his time as surely as any of the inmates in those institutions . |
| 13 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
| 14 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 15 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 16 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
| 17 | What do they say , those bloody know-alls whose wisdom is handed down from generation to generation ? |
| 18 | Dyeing is considered a science , whose secrets are handed down from generation to generation , and when the dyer is working , only other dyers may speak to him . |
| 19 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 20 | TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation . |
| 21 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |
| 22 | It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter . |
| 23 | The bone-setting power is often handed down from father to son . |
| 24 | The centuries ' old recipe has been handed down from father to son . |
| 25 | However , what is also handed down from father to son these days is the importance of seeking a higher-paid and higher-status job elsewhere as soon as possible . |
| 26 | This is a district where old crafts are handed down from father to son . |
| 27 | Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good . |
| 28 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 29 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 30 | A company was set up , a detailed survey was done , and a bill drawn up for presentation to Parliament — the usual procedure . |