Example sentences of "[verb] to a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A social worker was called in and , with a lot of support , Annie moved to a women 's refuge and then to a small flat . |
| 2 | They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge . |
| 3 | The trader can appeal to a magistrates ' court against the notice and obtain compensation if there has been no contravention . |
| 4 | EXAMPLE Sufficient potassium iodide solution was added to a lead(ii) nitrate solution to precipitate all the lead as lead ( I , ) iodide . |
| 5 | It can be added to a Windows 3 or OS/2 personal computer enabling it to handle a range of multimedia elements , including high resolution colour graphics , sound and animation . |
| 6 | Appeals against the decision of a licensing board in an application relating to a seamen 's canteen licence . |
| 7 | Thorold Mackie , a small companies ' analyst who is highly thought of in the city 's financial circles , has been charged with obtaining and misusing price-sensitive information relating to a profits warning by Glasgow-based Shanks & McEwan . |
| 8 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 9 | Mid-point should be confined to a standards inspection reproducing that conducted pre-trial . |
| 10 | The standard cruise power setting of 18,500 feet equates to a TAS of 260 knots for a dry-tanks range of 300 nm . |
| 11 | The positive EGF staining of Barrett 's mucosal biopsy specimens was graded according to a criteria that we have developed . |
| 12 | Clints have been quarried for rockeries at a markedly increasing rate in the last 20 years , according to a Dales National Park report . |
| 13 | According to a Friends of the Earth bulletin , the company won a Green Manufacturer of the Year Award , and was on the point of signing a $114,000 sponsorship deal to support Green Shopping Day when it suddenly pulled out . |
| 14 | The basic pension is payable according to a contributions formula which stipulates that to gain a full pension , sufficient contributions have to be paid in nine out of every ten years of a ‘ working life ’ ( i.e. paid employment ) . |
| 15 | The details you give are assessed according to a points system and then the bank may check with a credit reference agency to see whether you have a previous record of not paying your debts . |
| 16 | The Queen 's Corgis are officially more popular than her husband , according to a children 's survey carried out by the car firm , Toyota . |
| 17 | The tune is jaunty and unfussy , scooting around strange sitar-sounding violins , crashing through Lennon-esque reverb for the chorus , before diving into fathomless melancholy , when His Master 's Voice spirals to a bonkers Billy MacKenzie-style finale . ’ |
| 18 | Built to a 25½″ scale , the neck carries twenty-four high'n'wide jumbo frets on a rosewood fingerboard . |
| 19 | Built to a 24½″ scale , the necks are maple and appear to have genuine rosewood fingerboards . |
| 20 | Branson was wired to a tape-recorder connected to a police vehicle outside . |
| 21 | The cab driver drove to a police station . |
| 22 | He drove to a Customs depot where it was sealed by Spanish Customs officers . |
| 23 | An application for a warrant should be made to a magistrates ' court unless there are public law proceedings pending in the county court or the High Court ( APO , art 3(3) ) . |
| 24 | Twice former title-holder Richard Corsie advanced to set up an all-Scottish second-round clash with Gourlay when he coasted to a straight-sets win over South Africa 's Bill Moseley . |
| 25 | Both Institutes were replying to a Customs & Excise consultation paper . |
| 26 | The studious intensity of learning a craft together , the long and fanciful discussions about the philosophies of life that were prevalent topics , and the unorthodoxy of their nightlife did not easily transfer to a happy-families home . |
| 27 | This time Seitz , in an otherwise logical column , took Norman to task for going to a sports psychologist and suggested that Levi was ‘ probably ’ a better ‘ all-round ’ player . |
| 28 | Seitz asks readers if they could imagine Ben Hogan or Arnold Palmer ever going to a sports psychologist . |
| 29 | I am likely to be going to a Sports Dinner with my company ( who sponsor Crewe Alexandra ) this month . |
| 30 | She will be visiting Israel on a field trip , as part of a post-graduate course leading to a masters degree . |