Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun sg] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method is only available for use with virtual storage systems , and offers access to records in three ways . |
| 2 | Using genetic engineering , the company Delta Biotechnology has inserted into yeast the human gene for the manufacture of haemoglobin , the protein that gives blood its scarlet colour and transports oxygen to tissues around the body . |
| 3 | The Centre has its own library and conference rooms and has access to services for oligonucleotide and peptide synthesis and microsequencing as well as to powerful computer and database services . |
| 4 | Values , he argues , select problems and attach significance to items of knowledge and so constitute a basis of meaning that is tied to the social function of knowledge . |
| 5 | Individual partners have contributed in many ways , stressing the point that the school can identify and seek response to needs within a clearly agreed framework . |
| 6 | A key feature of any quality assurance programme should be a system whereby managers regularly review different aspects of the service and provide feedback to staff about their performance and the performance of the unit so that new objectives can be set for the next assessment period . |
| 7 | Securing the suppression of the foreign slave trade might be achieved in part in wartime by naval power but otherwise was mainly seen as requiring lobbying of and consultation with ministers , communicating with British diplomats and naval commanders for information and to provide stimulus to intervention in particular cases and pressing arguments upon foreign leaders , particularly during the Congress phase of European diplomacy in the years following the defeat of Napoleon . |
| 8 | It is Wimbledon men 's finals day , and the television shows McEnroe beating Connors ; the score is two sets to none and match point to McEnroe in the third . |
| 9 | As so many times before , Vologsky carne to the end of the mental games he played with himself , dismissed the last hopeful excuse for his rejection and came face to face with the lonely bitterness of reality . |
| 10 | Then she turned away and came face to face with Emelda Linley . |
| 11 | Returning the chisel to the bench , she turned to leave and came face to face with Leo 's sister . |
| 12 | Then he blundered into the turning he wanted , limped down it and came face to face with the blank grey door leading into the four Turkey Pens . |
| 13 | And came nose to nose with the tortoiseshell . |
| 14 | Could none be found to come back and give praise to God except this foreigner ? |
| 15 | There was a mirror above in whose reflection she saw Ted Tipper advance down the corridor and meet face to face with the police . |
| 16 | In many cases it is she who develops an opportunity for talk with the children , following their interest in the activities provided , and pursues attention to ideas like one-to-one correspondence , comparison and so on . |
| 17 | ‘ A while ago , the Federation of Family Support Groups set up advisers at some courts to distribute leaflets and give help to families of prisoners on the spot . |
| 18 | The pitch patterns of a foreign language applied to English sound wrong and give rise to difficulties of communication . |
| 19 | Unclear guidance on this point could cause confusion over what information should be made available , and give rise to demands for information not covered by the disclosure provisions . |
| 20 | Both Sebokeng inquiries exposed a pattern of unlawful behaviour by members of the security forces and lend weight to allegations of unprovoked use of lethal force by security forces , like in Daveytown on 24 March when 12 members of the ANC were shot dead by the police . |
| 21 | Schlieffen planned to leave his left wing in Alsace and Lorraine lightly manned , while an immensely strong right wing was to execute a rapid enveloping movement through Flanders and Picardy — ‘ brushing the Channel with their sleeves ’ — and lay siege to Paris from the west . |
| 22 | Another Lassus pupil at Munich , Leonhard Lechner ( c. 1553–1606 ) , later a convert to Protestantism , began his career with Latin church music in his master 's style , composed a great tri-choral , 24-part epithalamium , ‘ Quid chaos ’ ( 1582 ) in the Venetian manner , and bade farewell to life in an extraordinary set of fifteen Spruche von Leben und Tod — the dramatic power and profound emotion of which , however , he had already anticipated in ‘ O Tod , du bist ein bittre Gallen ’ , one of his Newe teutsche Lieder ( Nuremberg , 1582 ) . |
| 23 | Taking tap water samples from each of the ten water authorities , he packaged them in the form of a consumer product as ‘ a response to privatisation , and to draw attention to contamination in our water supplies . ’ |
| 24 | On April 26 Shining Path guerrillas had killed 16 ronderos and set fire to houses in the town of Nuevo Progresso in Ayacucho department . |
| 25 | Around 80 demonstrators , angered by the Gatt deal , laid stones across a road and set fire to tyres in an attempt to prevent British cars and coaches leaving the port . |
| 26 | Among other things , these regulations require operators of hazardous installations to draw up on-site and off-site emergency plans and to give information to members of the public who live or work near such installations ( Houston 1987 ) . |
| 27 | He was also made an honorary villager of Guilin , one of the main centres for child artists and his status in China means that he can now travel freely and have access to areas of Chinese life which are not generally open to foreign visitors . |
| 28 | Are we able to relate and apply faith to life without suppressing questions and without unnerving our security ? |
| 29 | She was n't going to run much risk of rounding a corner and coming face to face with him — and , even if she did , so what ? |
| 30 | In the absence of anything so spectacular , the most impressive parts of the speech were those which declared how Germany had successfully surmounted the most severe test in the previous winter , and those indicating the exploitation of the material resources of the occupied territories and giving rise to hopes of improved foodstuff provisioning at home . |