Example sentences of "extending the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extending the ban to wedding rings , in the interests of safety , say the company , has upset some workers . |
| 2 | Even after such a long absence from home , Leopold could not bear to waste any opportunity of showing off his brilliant children , so , instead of going straight back to Salzburg , they took a tortuous route through Dijon , Lyons , Switzerland , Donaueschingen and Augsburg to Munich , where Leopold even contemplated extending the trip to Italy . |
| 3 | While Britain had given the United States wholehearted support in Korea , she had also shown her independence by what the Americans saw as over-precipitate recognition of Communist China , and by Attlee 's personal efforts to dissuade Truman from extending the war to mainland China and from using atomic bombs to settle the conflict . |
| 4 | The Assembly also adopted an amendment extending the amnesty to people convicted of slandering the state ( Article 157 ) . |
| 5 | It was not thought worthwhile extending the practice to trams , which continued to follow the L.C.C . |
| 6 | He said legislation extending the vote to expatriates went through Parliament with all-party support . |
| 7 | Debate in the early days of the new Assembly was reported as more lively than previously , and opposition members were said to be testing the government 's receptiveness to reform : 32 members called for the formation of a committee to investigate Kuwait 's failure to anticipate or respond to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] ; several members were said to have demanded an investigation of alleged mishandling of Kuwait 's overseas investments ; and a draft law was introduced that would widen the franchise , including extending the vote to women . |
| 8 | But the alliance , if it holds , would reduce Mr Gorbachev 's options in one crucial respect : he would find it hard , if not impossible , to close down the Baltic parliaments without extending the crackdown to Russia itself . |
| 9 | US Senator Larry Pressler , author of a 1985 amendment to the 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act under which aid to Pakistan had in October 1990 been barred [ see pp. 37764 ; 38726 ] , said in Delhi on Jan. 11 that he would oppose extending the amendment to India as he did not think that the country had a nuclear weapons programme . |
| 10 | The minister also said that the government expected to double the size of the electorate by extending the franchise to women over 21 and to naturalized citizens who had previously been denied the vote . |
| 11 | Yet by extending the line to Plymouth and Torbay the passenger revenue could be doubled , while the length of the line would be increased by only 34 per cent . |