Example sentences of "to the [noun prp] [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chaot had reportedly been nursing a damaged rudder stock for some time , but as water was coming into the boat in increasing quantities , Boschmann decided to abandon ship as soon as other yachts on passage to the Caribbean could come to his assistance . |
| 2 | However careful the oil companies are , there is every chance a similar tragedy to the Shetlands could happen off the south or west Wales coasts . |
| 3 | The Association 's calculations indicate that if wine bore duties at the spirits rate , wine imports to the UK would fall by £200 million per annum . |
| 4 | If , as seemed increasingly likely after liberated Italy had declared war on Hitler 's Germany in October 1943 , the Allied powers were to emerge victorious , then Spain 's links with the defeated Axis would count more against it than its passive " defence " of the western approaches to the Mediterranean would count in its favour . |
| 5 | What is happening to the Chesapeake will happen to other estuaries ; they will trap most of what humans put into them . |
| 6 | Rugged , reliable and easy to maintain , harnessing a complex turboprop to the Dak would seem to be going the wrong way . |