Example sentences of "and [noun pl] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Madam yeah she complains Madam of er scratches to her arms and bruises to her upper arms where he allegedly grabbed hold of her erm and that really is it , nothing to worry about at all . |
| 2 | ‘ Bring your bottles , paper and cans to your local centre , ’ said Councillor Green . |
| 3 | It was , of course , a conflict fired by material interests ; but it was , above all , a conflict about the ideas and opinions to which those interests gave rise . |
| 4 | The computer automatically lowers the body by 15mm above 75mph for improved stability and returns to its usual setting below 50mph . |
| 5 | After a while , the cat gives up and returns to its familiar territory . |
| 6 | Even if the male is not ready to spawn and chases him away , She swims in this fashion while being pursued , and returns to her chosen mate as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Arthur falls for fun-loving actress Rose Trelawny but she finds his family too stuffy and returns to her old pals . |
| 8 | On the one hand , advisory roles are shifting more towards inspection and quality control , and the accountability of advisers and inspectors to their employing LEAs is being more firmly underscored ( Audit Commission 1989b ) . |
| 9 | By that he meant the rich , using their wealth , are able to manipulate the flow of information and images to their own advantage . |
| 10 | This template , called NORMAL.DOT , is a series of menu definitions , dialogue box settings and styles to which each Word document defaults in the absence of a customised template . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , by selective choice , the articulate , financially secure and politically active can also indirectly contribute to school failure — not perhaps in their district and their child 's school , but in the schools and districts to which such influence is never brought ( or the area from which they have moved away ) . |
| 12 | One especially neat feature — which I have n't seen in other laser printers — is a range of macros adding tinted underlays , lines and borders to your dreary documents . |
| 13 | It avoids the pitfall of trying to be too clever , and thanks to its ice-sharp ingenuity offers entertainment of the highest quality . |
| 14 | And thanks to their accurate quartz movement you need never be behind time . |
| 15 | His father had been an officer in the armies of Napoleon I and thanks to his maternal grandfather , General Dentzel , he had as his godfather Prince Eugène Beauharnais , the uncle of Napoleon III . |
| 16 | It included Readers ' digest , and a host of other benefactors , who have made it possible to restore the house and gardens to their pristine splendour . |
| 17 | But among the more lowly paid members of staff there was a feeling that the sacrifices that they had been urged to make over the previous twelve months — the constraints and pay-freezes and appeals to their better nature — had not been matched by a tempering of Branson 's acquisitive spirit . |
| 18 | While the bawds are deciding to have her forcibly raped she says little , but when Boult wants to lead her away she again rises to verse , her secret weapon , and appeals to his better sentiments . |
| 19 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 20 | He 'll find out his comings and goings to his so-called meetings , twice a week at least . |
| 21 | The ideal pecuniary man is like the ideal delinquent in his unscrupulous conversion of goods and persons to his own ends , and in a callous disregard for the feelings and wishes of others and of the remoter effects of his actions . |
| 22 | He had used words and gestures to their best effect , creating a vivid picture of what had happened more than two hundred years before . |
| 23 | A scene of quite different character is the departure of 600 or 700 of Dr. Barnardo 's boys and girls to their new homes in Canada . |
| 24 | ‘ If I cut my profits and prices to whatever lower level you prescribe — for I assume I shall have your guidance on what that should be — will you advise me about the basis on which I should ration the consumers of my article ? |
| 25 | Digital Equipment Corp says it has added 20 new or enhanced products , services and partnerships to its Polycenter schema for enterprise computing management . |
| 26 | The experiment , which is the first of its kind in mainland Britain , will allow students to send news and letters to their French counterparts via British Telecom 's high speed Information Services Digital Network ( ISDN ) . |
| 27 | These jobs were soon done , and Redpath telephoned for a police car to take the cartridges and clothes to their respective experts . |
| 28 | Reaction among professors and students to his recent elevation have been subdued . |
| 29 | Overseas , the Kuwait operation has made significant progress in managing its contract commitments , whilst seeking new business and extensions to its existing contracts . |
| 30 | This , together with many variants and extensions to its basic pattern , is now at least as ingrained in the popular musical consciousness as the thirty-two-bar ballad form was between 1920 and 1950 . |