Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety . |
| 2 | Both logistically and procedurally it would be impossible for all four cases to be pursued to trial at the same time , and it was therefore natural for the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. matters to be placed in relative suspense , whilst attention was concentrated on Carrian and B.M.F.L. |
| 3 | On Monday she 's going back to mum for a few days . |
| 4 | Disappointed , we retraced our footprints and were obliged to camp on the same patch of ice as the night before . |
| 5 | These arguments suggest that the biological and/or psychological make-up of women does not predispose them to criminality to the same extent as men . |
| 6 | Pigs in an infected herd become immune to re-infection after a few weeks . |
| 7 | The position was that the plaintiffs effectively retained possession of the surgery premises and the defendant er moved out of the premises and er went and found other surgery premises and er the position as I understand it is that he is carrying on his own practice today from other premises , the plaintiffs are such as now surviving , are still continue to practice from the former part of the premises . |
| 8 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 9 | Although the monastic reformers of the twelfth century frowned on the practice of placing children in monasteries , and the Cistercians forbade it , we may be sure that throughout the Middle Ages many nuns were dedicated to religion by the same procedure as they would have been dedicated to husbands — by parental fiat . |
| 10 | It 's amazing the ideas that can come to mind with a little thought and some extra effort on your part . |
| 11 | This week they will be advertising for one or two extra staff and anticipate moving to bigger premises by the end of the summer , if business continues to boom at the same rate , possibly in the Manningtree area . |
| 12 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't have all my staff out to lunch at the same time . ’ |
| 14 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 15 | Not only have I used whisky instead of the brandy usually specified in pork and liver pâté recipes , which is a question of only about two , but two important , tablespoons to 1½ lb. of the mixture , but I have resorted also to rum ( white rum is especially useful in the kitchen ) and to gin for the same purpose , and the results have been excellent . |
| 16 | Even if they return to work for the same firm when their children go to school their seniority is lost . |
| 17 | Valerie Mitchell lived in the next road and travelled to work on the same bus as Paula . |
| 18 | They decided that they should go to work as no more news could be expected yet and Maureen hurried first to see Sarah . |
| 19 | Even these returned to work within a few days . |
| 20 | This was the ‘ phoney war ’ period and everyone drank to peace in a few weeks . |
| 21 | There was something wrong with the ballcock , and if both taps were turned on to capacity at the same time there was an overflow outside . |
| 22 | I could n't talk to Mama in the same way as I 'm doing now . |
| 23 | Statute and common law of constitutional significance are subject to amendment by the same process as that employed for other legislative enactments . |
| 24 | Specimens of these butterflies are often found with bite-marks in the region of these false eyes , showing that bird predators really are attracted to this part of the body , allowing the insects to fly off to safety with no more damage than a few frayed edges . |
| 25 | Earlier , Darlington magistrates listened to evidence from a former employee of Sturdy who contacted The Northern Echo with new information half way through the trial . |
| 26 | An example of practitioner as researcher , in the field of adoption , demonstrates how a practitioner can enrich her practice and make a contribution to knowledge at the same time . |
| 27 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 28 | Which seems to me to impact on the same thing . |
| 29 | Well it 's just brought out a budget to paper over a few cracks and make it look good because they knew that , they 've got no more chances this is it in n it ? |
| 30 | ‘ I told him you would not be returning to Milano for a few days . ’ |