Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | Top BBC leaders rally to defence of Birt |
2 | Now Rotherham coroner Stanley Hooper is to write to President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine . |
3 | And we 're really having to struggle to sort of make ends meet . |
4 | The Law Society was striking various poses in 1968 and 1969 , but from apparently implacable opposition to the original scheme of salaried solicitors contemplated in the 1949 Act ( to depart from the alternative system adopted in 1959 would be ‘ a serious mistake ’ ) and the proposals of Justice for All , it moved to acceptance of salaried solicitors as part of its own proposals for an Advisory Liaison Service . |
5 | erm I do n't think our culture is the worst that 's ever been and I think there 's a tendency sometimes to try to sort of overstate that . |
6 | We think it would be a mistake to try and establish any ‘ consensual ’ version of feminism or of feminist philosophy because we are committed to exploration of the beliefs and views we hold , even the ones which at present seem indisputable . |
7 | They feared that if the union fund was too heavily committed to payment of ‘ friendly benefits ’ , insufficient would remain in the fund to finance industrial action . |
8 | It was also something of a reassurance to conservative waverers frightened of political radicalism ; the Council was committed to evangelization of the Christian gospel . |
9 | Although the party is committed to freedom of information and devolution , it is not interested in proportional representation which would revitalise the political system . |
10 | There does seem to be a case , therefore , for some work in initial training to be based on a general language section or sub- department which is committed to presentation of language issues , and considering their relevance in schools and other institutions . |
11 | The ES is firmly committed to equality of opportunity for everyone . |
12 | Consequently , as Needham has pointed out , in so far as Chinese natural philosophy ‘ was committed to thinking of time in separate compartments or boxes , perhaps it was more difficult for a Galileo to arise who should uniformise time into an abstract geometrical co-ordinate , a continuous dimension amenable to mathematical handling ’ . |
13 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
14 | There is n't a list so that you will need to sort of think it through . |
15 | Rat-1 fibroblasts that constitutively express a chimaeric protein , comprising a full-length c-Myc polypeptide fused to part of the human oestrogen receptor ( Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells ) , show demonstrable c-Myc activity only in the presence of β- oestradiol . |
16 | But often the- when they were in small houses where they had to do everything , erm they tended to find that they were they were expected to sort of skivvy much more . |
17 | This tale of developers who never learn would appeal to Bank of England Governor Robin Leigh Pemberton , who warned in May 1987 about too much property lending . |
18 | Your own four-record set devoted to music of the Second Viennese School was , I know , one of your most cherished projects . |
19 | He rose to chief of intelligence in Panama 's G-2 in 1970 after providing the populist dictator , General Omar Torrijos , the support to defeat a coup . |
20 | It 's very hard work for her er you know she has to sort of get a get all the systems She has to you know it 's it 's very hard work to get the systems going . |
21 | One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something . |
22 | Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China . |
23 | Well now erm what it says here is that you want to sort of talk about possible options for a year out and then relevance of archaeology to career in surveying or land management . |
24 | Particularly where you 've more or less got the idea of it but you think you just want to sort of tidy up a few details an |
25 | But of course that can become quite a complex thing depending on how much we want to sort of use it to produce certificates and things like that . |
26 | gives you a bit more time to decide exactly what you want to talk about cos if if it has go to be in week three or week four , then we really sort of like decide now what you 're going to write about so that n Cos next week is gon na be our last meeting on this topic , so you really want to sort of give a bit of a presentation on what you 're going to say . |
27 | You want to sort of look at the whole picture together . |
28 | Lastly we want to sort of clear up some of the mess that is made by the previous conservative registration . |
29 | Or if you just want to sort of signify a , a quick thank you to someone . |
30 | and er obviously I want to sort of give you the best possible price |