Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So erm what I 'm trying to say here then is that the federal government is important , the federal government tries wherever possible to guide states into , into good practice and it offers rewards to states to comply with , with federal er guidelines so that , you know , if you want federal aid for er a particular project you have to , if you accept federal money , you have to ensure that you meet certain standards or certain conditions , but a very convenient way of enforcing civil rights er policies . |
| 2 | Harry and Judy will collect guests from the station ( there is also an excellent local taxi service ) and will advise on places to visit and lend maps to walkers . |
| 3 | Studying the history of other societies from their own perspectives and for their own sake counteracts tendencies to insularity , without devaluing British achievements , values and traditions ; vi ) to train the mind by means of disciplined study . |
| 4 | As part of the campaign bidding to reverse the decision and stop up to 140 truckloads a day using roads to Teesside , a 7,033-name petition urging Government action will be presented to the Commons today by Richmond MP William Hague . |
| 5 | Following the decision to lift certain sanctions taken by the Commonwealth heads of state [ see p. 38553 ] , countries relaxing restrictions included Canada which on Oct. 22 began to issue visas to South Africans and India which on Oct. 31 lifted " people-to-people " , cultural and academic sanctions . |
| 6 | A procedure can be viewed in systems terms , ie transforming inputs to outputs to achieve a desired end ( Fig 13.1 ) . |
| 7 | The SFO has earned its reputation for bringing cases to trial with glacial slowness . |
| 8 | It appeared that sympathetic foreign governments regarded exports to Lithuania to alleviate the Soviet blockade as diplomatically contentious . |
| 9 | James Carreras , its salesman , would pitch projects to distributors on the basis of title and poster . |
| 10 | But , as with any archaeological object , such interpretations can be made only when we have a secure idea of when and where a coin was made , and the methods of dating coins and attributing them to mints is therefore discussed first in Chapter 2 , where it will also be seen that the same techniques for dating and attributing coins can sometimes be turned round , using coins to date other objects or to identify places . |
| 11 | Although dating and attributing coins to mints require different methods , the preliminary step is the same in both cases . |
| 12 | Attributing coins to mints |
| 13 | It is called fear — massive , overwhelming , paralytic fear that turns legs to jelly , hands to castanets , and hearts to pumping turbines . |
| 14 | Farmworkers led animals to safety as firemen tackled the blaze in a garage and storeroom at East House Farm , Kelloe , near Durham at about 4am . |
| 15 | As mentioned earlier , social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person . |
| 16 | Premack 's tests ( Premack 1976 ) to establish that chimpanzees make rudimentary connections between ‘ states of affairs ’ ( in order not to beg the more refined question of objectuality within them ) which to us appear closely connected by virtue of a cause and an effect , or by virtue of an implicit goal or problem and a means or stratagem , seem to the layman to support attributions to chimps of protean correlates of human categories of thought . |
| 17 | An order for payment of money or for the transfer of assets can not be an order intended to restore parties to transactions to their former positions unless it is known in relation to each transaction in question ( a ) who were the parties ( b ) what the nature of the transaction was and ( c ) what assets or money each party to the transaction had paid or transferred to the others . |
| 18 | Object Design Inc is getting ready to ship ObjectStore 2.0 , claiming that the enhancements made thanks to feedback from the likes of IBM , SunSoft Inc and NeXt Inc raises the benchmark by which all commercial object database products will be judged . |
| 19 | Sally wins trips to Paris and London to see the fashion shows , and £500 . |
| 20 | But schools and colleges using SEB short courses would make entries to SEB in Dalkeith , the system of moderation would be different to that operated by SCOTVEC , and the short courses would appear on the Scottish Certificate of Education as issued by SEB . |
| 21 | Labour 's consumer affairs spokesman , Nigel Griffiths , called on the Department of Trade and Industry to issue guidelines to firms disposing of damaged goods to ensure that packaging did not fall into the wrong hands . |
| 22 | P-E had on occasions recommended clients to Lyn Brua , an American who had founded the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , and it was through that connection he decided to join the executive search industry . |
| 23 | There are several distinguishable types of foraging behaviour and food preference , varying from tracking and pursuit of prey animals by running them down through stealth and pouncing methods to omnivory or insect eating . |
| 24 | Toshiba will invest some $90m this fiscal year to raise output to 100,000 a month from the present 30,000 and raise yields to 80% from the present 60% . |
| 25 | Introduce Opportunities to parties whose acquisition requirements are a matter of public knowledge ( EXTBUY ) . |
| 26 | During the course of 1990 Mara made trips to China , Egypt , Israel , Malaysia , Singapore , Taiwan , the United States and the UK . |
| 27 | The firm still refers clients to Deacon Gray and Sandra goes back there from time to time for training courses . |
| 28 | The post was much too risky , so sometimes I was asked to carry funds to Parma on my bicycle . |
| 29 | It is possible to convert between annually and semi-annually compounded yields using the following formulae : or between annually and quarterly compounded yields using the following formulae : where rm q rm s : and rm a are respectively the quarterly , semi-annually and annually compounded yields to maturity . |
| 30 | According to a minister of state in the Foreign Affairs Ministry at the end of January 110 companies were being investigated for alleged illegal deliveries to Iraq , of which 11 were being prosecuted , although none involved exports to Iraq after the August 1990 embargo came into force . |