Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They paddled out into the middle of a large convoy that was anchored there , attached the mines and returned to Kabrit for breakfast . |
| 2 | A well-thought-out cost breakdown and related coding system will enable costs to be reprocessed through the computer and presented to management in a variety of ways . |
| 3 | Ordinary people regularly broke the rules and resorted to bribery if they could get away with it to obtain essentials or medical care , but then their corruption was a sign of independence asserted against the system , whereas Manescu 's was typical of a deep inner decay of the system . |
| 4 | The scrap was loaded into a narrow boat at the bottom of the incline and taken to North Kilworth for transshipment by rail . |
| 5 | Carbon is taken from the air by plants and stored , made into ethanol , put through the engine and released to air again — no net gain . |
| 6 | The most significant sites in North Shields are Chirton Industrial Estate , originally comprising 110 acres , which was acquired by the council and transferred to North East Trading Estates , and Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate , comprising 132 acres bought from the Duke of Northumberland in the mid-1960s by Property Security Investment Trust Ltd . |
| 7 | ’ there not being in force in relation to the use of that vehicle ‘ This phrase means that there is no insurance cover in force relating to the use of the vehicle as opposed to insurance covering the contents for example . |
| 8 | Rough cider destroys one of the healing vitamins in the body if drunk to excess , and Tich was pickled in it . |
| 9 | The rest were pulled from the water and ferried to safety . |
| 10 | There appear to be no special forms or procedures which are required to be adopted in the county court where someone is found guilty of contempt in the face of the court and committed to prison under section 118 of the County Courts Act 1984 , although no doubt , if such an event were to occur , the court would follow the general approach required by Ord. 29 , r.1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 ( as amended ) which applies in the case of committal for breach of injunctions . |
| 11 | It was as though these managers expected motivation to stem from the organisation as opposed to management techniques . |
| 12 | They had been found guilty of five murders , having entered a house of some neighbouring villagers earlier in the month and clubbed to death five members of one family . |
| 13 | On his way back to the Incident Room Wycliffe had to weave a way through milling crowds who had deserted the beaches and taken to window shopping . |
| 14 | Here one could instance people who go to the theatre as opposed to theatre administrators , people who read books rather than people in publishing , selling or lending . |
| 15 | On the whole , however , it was the powerful who travelled in the Carolingian world , following the economic and political requirements of the seasons : winter would be spent at a home-base , whereas in summer men took the road when summoned to assembly and/or campaign . |
| 16 | Such considerations are important with respect to efficiency , as an alarming amount of time can be spent on the road as opposed to face to face with buyers . |
| 17 | Few of the proposals were contentious , leaving the debate to be sharpened by the emotive issues of corporal punishment , which was included in the Bill as presented to Parliament on Second Reading , and the death penalty , which was not . |
| 18 | After a couple of hours , Zeno had simply lain down on the floor and gone to sleep . |
| 19 | But , in addition , there arose the possibility of some common agreement with industry over the fact that the economy was being run to the advantage of the City as opposed to industry . |
| 20 | The overall structure of the repressor when bound to DNA is little changed from that of the holorepressor ( Fig. 2 a ) , or indeed of the free aporepressor . |
| 21 | For example , although a curie of any radioactive element disintegrates at the same rate as I gram of natural radium ( as found in sea-water ) there is no connection between this and the relative toxicity of the element as compared to radium . |
| 22 | Uzzell was stretchered off the pitch and taken to hospital in Torquay . |
| 23 | He is cradled and cosseted above the earth and introduced to gravity very gently . |