Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also important to recognise that throughout the 1980s , whilst MDC has received access to substantial financial resources , the government has simultaneously squeezed local authority budgets , particularly Liverpool City Council 's ( Liverpool City Council , 1987 ) . |
| 2 | It is only when the husband , by meeting the liabilities which his wife has incurred ( whether for necessaries or not ) to a particular tradesman , has ‘ held her out ’ as his agent , that the tradesman is entitled to hold the husband liable until he has received notice to the contrary . |
| 3 | The British Technology Group has developed Laserfix to the prototype stage , but will not say how much it cost . |
| 4 | For example , it is used in West Africa to control blackfly which is a carrier of the disease onchocerciasis and which has developed resistance to many pesticides . |
| 5 | Since then she has taught English to foreign students as house guests , under the aegis of a language school . |
| 6 | It 's an easy mistake to make , and one that Cooder himself has fallen prey to … |
| 7 | I 'm afraid Mr Blackburn has fallen prey to some of the fashionable ideas infecting many on the left , in particular to Europhilia . |
| 8 | In Britain , for example , since the late 1960s policing , rather like the National Health Service , has fallen prey to the belief in the ‘ technological fix ’ . |
| 9 | Since then the replica castle has fallen prey to vandalism and decay . |
| 10 | Since then the replica castle has fallen prey to vandalism and decay . |
| 11 | NORWAY 'S Stig Inge Bjornebye has fallen victim to Liverpool 's injury jinx — before he ever appears in a red shirt . |
| 12 | Another provincial Greek museum has fallen victim to museum robbers . |
| 13 | His once trim body has fallen victim to one fundraising lunch too many but he still looks very much the explorer with his classic square jaw and steely blue eyes . |
| 14 | Keynes 's theory of labour market adjustment has fallen victim to widespread ignorance and neglect . |
| 15 | For example in Alcine , Act 3 , scenes 4–5 , as Melanie pines for Astolphe , who has fallen victim to Alcine 's desires ( E minor ) , Alcine 's spurned lover Athlant attempts to console Melanie by proposing vengeance ( E major ) ; as the scene continues E minor becomes ‘ Athlant 's key ’ as he declares he loves Melanie and suggests that her ‘ fickle lover ’ can be punished if she will love him in return . |
| 16 | A company which sells trees and shrubs has been told to tear down its newest greenhouse after a planning blunder.The firm specialises in improving the environment , and has fallen victim to planning rules which have the same aim . |
| 17 | In recent months the company , based in Birstall , West Yorkshire , has fallen victim to a false accounting incident at a subsidiary as well as profits downgradings by analysts and a flurry of rumours concerning the sales of large blocs of shares . |
| 18 | Wembley chairman Sir Brian Wolfson has given permission to the former England captain 's family for a match in his honour . |
| 19 | A Paris conference on the Amazon forests has given publicity to the continuing destruction of the area . |
| 20 | She has given voice to those who thought that previous Conservative governments had been too tolerant or ‘ defeatist ’ about the unions , the welfare state , high taxation , and public spending , and too accommodating to other countries , particularly in the European Community and the Commonwealth . |
| 21 | In this sense it is significant that , unlike in France and Britain , no politician of note has given voice to the growing disquiet in Germany about the move in Europe towards a Federalist state . |
| 22 | Ms Duffield has given money to Dulwich 's education activities in the past ; the present gift is intended to enable the gallery to survive for a year while it coordinates its long-term fundraising activities . |
| 23 | Indeed arguably the only reliable evidence of who has given money to the Tory Party is the honours list which is published twice a year ! |
| 24 | The bitch that whelps her pups beyond the margins of village life has given birth to potentially feral dogs . |
| 25 | He said , ‘ What a breed of people two hundred years of imperialism has given birth to . |
| 26 | A GRANDMOTHER has given birth to test-tube twins . |
| 27 | The new year has given birth to what could be a powerful new combo : AT&T and Novell . |
| 28 | They may go on appearing for twenty-four hours until eventually he has given birth to a thousand or more babies . |
| 29 | The conflict itself has given birth to new violations of human rights , which have , in turn , been the impetus for further fighting ’ ( Hewitt , 1982:153 ) . |
| 30 | TV PRESENTER Anne Diamond has given birth to a boy — her first child since her son Sebastian died tragically in his cot . |