Example sentences of "of [adv] [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grand jury documents relating to the forthcoming trial of former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed that , at a Reagan Cabinet meeting in January 1986 , Bush had voted in favour of secretly selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon . |
| 2 | In parallel with the American emergency air lift recently announced , we are offering a supply of badly needed aid to Ekaterinburg , formerly Sverdlovsk — the kind of city of which my hon. Friend is thinking — and details of that British aid are now being worked out . |
| 3 | The Israeli government has a policy of not providing funds to hospitals for capital expenditure so that resources have to be sought elsewhere . |
| 4 | The poem , which many sports people have adopted as a sort of anthem , also advises on ‘ keeping one 's head while all around are losing theirs ’ , of not giving way to hate or dealing in lies . |
| 5 | Written records attributed to the Hittites of Asia Minor of 1500BC contain references to wine , and its use is familiar from Homeric legends onwards . |
| 6 | Bars show the percentage of correctly directed fixations to targets appearing in the left ( LVF ) and right ( RVF ) visual fields , on three successive visits . |
| 7 | CHILDREN of today come face to face with images of the past at an exhibition in a Middlesbrough museum . |
| 8 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |