Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other idioms may be based on melody of widely different kinds , spanning from almost traditional thematic characteristics to melody which has hardly any element of tradition . |
| 2 | F to M you were undoubtedly snogging ( mouths closed ) . |
| 3 | Turning to the prices of individual stocks , in many cases the price is above par ( £100 ) because of the fall in interest rates , so investors have to take into account the fact that if they hold the stock to maturity they will incur a capital loss . |
| 4 | No erm one or other of them is probably taking Neil to karate I think Friday night 's karate |
| 5 | I refer to your fax of 24 May 1993 asking for comments/answers on various questions to enable you to reply on behalf of the Convener to correspondence he has received from Council Tax payers . |
| 6 | Steam-power meant a new and intense concentration of large-scale industry and of the labour force to man it . |
| 7 | Because of that , the CITB has had to introduce various schemes using its own investment to tide it over what it believed at the outset would be a short recession , but which has now become a very deep and long recession . |
| 8 | At the beginning of the switch to sugar there were about 25,000 Englishmen in the West Indies and the figure rose to almost 40,000 in the 1660s — partly because more islands were captured or settled — and then hardly moved higher for over a century to come . |
| 9 | A top source said in Dublin : ‘ It would make sense for the President to time his visit to coincide with the opening of Barrettstown Castle as Paul 's first camp in Europe . |
| 10 | The Communists claimed that the ILP Member , John McGovern , had weakened the demonstration by trying to present its demands to Parliament himself , rather than allowing the leaders of the NUWM to do so . |
| 11 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
| 12 | Moreover , through their well directed efforts , that vast resource of past literature and scriptures , every item of which is capable of innumerable interpretations , could be saved from that ultimate oblivion and loss to humanity which could result from its sheer overwhelming quantity and complexity . |
| 13 | It 's no accident that Svidrigailov is the only one in the novel to handle yellow paper money , just as it 's no accident that children are frightened of him and run away ‘ in indescribable terror ’ because ( so we understand in our bones ) they smell death on him , or rather the unattachment to life which defeats even Sonya Marmeladov . |
| 14 | But , as Stanyer ( 1976 , p. 55 ) has observed : ‘ It is necessary to understand what a local authority is in legal terms in a particular governmental system only as a prelude to understanding what all local authorities are in behavioural terms ’ . |
| 15 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 16 | There is convincing evidence that a predisposition to alcoholism itself has a significant genetic component and therefore to examine the role of any genetic factors in predisposition to end-organ damage distinct from predisposition to alcoholism , any study should ideally include two groups of alcoholics , well matched for alcohol intake , with and without end-organ damage . |
| 17 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 18 | ‘ We are very keen to host the competition again and determined our bid to stage it will be acceptable , ’ said TCCB chief executive Alan Smith . |
| 19 | ‘ We are very keen to host the competition again and determined our bid to stage it will be acceptable , ’ said TCCB chief executive Alan Smith when he announced recently that three major companies have expressed an interest in sponsoring the tournament . |
| 20 | ‘ There appear to be two parties to date who are significantly interested in the property and we expect an offer very shortly . ’ |
| 21 | Parties to Protocol I undertake to prohibit their nations and vessels from driftnet fishing in the Convention area while parties to Protocol II accept further obligations in waters within their own jurisdiction . |
| 22 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |
| 23 | Many birds which overwinter in equatorial regions rely on a circannual rhythm to time their departure . |
| 24 | Last March , in common with many other small businesses , the Russells needed extra funds to tide them over a difficult period . |
| 25 | Whilst he 's no stranger to discrimination himself , he says the club is entitled to run the event in its own way . |
| 26 | John — uncle of David Moores — was no stranger to controversy himself . |
| 27 | The strict rules of evidence do not apply in arbitrations ( Ord 19 , r 5(2) , Term 3 ) , but , of course , the district judge or other arbitrator may feel that he should give less weight to evidence which is hearsay than to evidence which is direct . |
| 28 | Iain Reekie confesses to entertaining an ambition to stage it ever since his days at college when he played the part of Creon the king , and perhaps this background makes him hostile to any interpretation which would see in Creon a proto-Nazi . |
| 29 | A few years later , mass produced model cars were commonplace , but thanks to Dad my friends and I spent many happy hours with the early version he produced in 1923 . |
| 30 | Pieper warned that some ‘ open ’ vendors were now beginning to backtrack and introduce non-standard elements into their product offerings , in an attempt to lock-in their customer bases . |