Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The split led to Sankara 's assassination in October 1987 . |
| 2 | In Benjamin 's dualistic conception , allegory refers to bits and pieces of every-day life — often discarded objects , sometimes relics — that together constitute ‘ myths ’ through which individuals in a given historical period understand the social world . |
| 3 | The four-month jail sentence given to Christopher Hart for mowing down nine-year-old Sharon Townsend was a disgrace . |
| 4 | THE ABSURDLY lenient sentence given to Frederic Blancke , the French hospital worker who brutally murdered British school teacher Fiona Jones , is a travesty of justice . |
| 5 | OF course TODAY is pleased that the Attorney General is now looking into the sentence given to Dr Thomas Courtney , the multiple rapist . |
| 6 | It has been argued that corporate efficiency in privatised industries has improved , not just by an exposure to market forces and an acceptance of the profit motive , but by the extra freedom given to managers . |
| 7 | With the wide coverage and freedom given to pupils to develop their own individual lines of inquiry , the identification of a large an detailed collection of keywords was one of the major tasks at the design stage . |
| 8 | I do n't want a bit to go to America now . |
| 9 | This gives the Board an opportunity to report to shareholders and to obtain their approval for resolutions that are voted upon at the Meeting . |
| 10 | The deadlock was broken when a government-appointed conciliator persuaded the Peugeot chairman to agree to talks as soon as a 19-day sit-in at the Mulhouse plant was ended . |
| 11 | There were gossip-column items , too , about such-and-such an amusing practical joke played on William Powell or this-and-that fancy present given to Carole Lombard . |
| 12 | She follows this with a beautifully breathy version of Cole Porter 's ‘ You Do Something To Me ’ ( from ‘ Red , Hot & Blue ’ ) and the Marilyn Monroe classic ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ ( boo boo be doo ! ) and ( next week , fan mugs ! ) you get the chance to buy the second half of this two CD set including the title track ( again ) plus ‘ Someone To Watch Over Me ’ and — wait for it — ‘ My Heart Belongs To Daddy ’ . |
| 13 | While one takes into account the concern of Calvin and the reformers for the balance between the light of scripture and the inner light and direction given to individuals an experience vouchsafe for countless times in both the Old and New Testaments also remembering our lord 's own use of silence in prayer and I believe the increasing use of silence in modern worship and may I also say how very impressed I was by Dr 's prayer at the opening of this assembly in which he asked for the guidance of God and indeed your own equally eloquent prayer on Sunday evening Moderator open to the prompting and leading and guiding of God 's spirit . |
| 14 | well at , at , at the moment our , our defence of course goes to case , the defence by |
| 15 | As usually happens , the ‘ sponsorship role ’ of the Electricity Division led to Murray becoming not so much a controller of the industry as an honest broker between the BEA and the Whitehall machine in general . |
| 16 | ( c ) that any clients referred by the practice of the solicitor to that business are informed in writing that , as the customers of that business , they do not enjoy the statutory protection attaching to clients of a solicitor ; and |
| 17 | ( d ) that , where the business shares premises or reception staff with any practice of the solicitor , all customers of the business are informed in writing that , as customers of that business , they do not enjoy the statutory protection attaching to clients of a solicitor . |
| 18 | ( A ) that any clients referred by the multi-national partnership to the separate legal practice are informed in writing that , as clients of that practice , they do not enjoy the statutory protection attaching to clients of a multi-national partnership , and |
| 19 | ( B ) that , where the separate legal practice shares premises or reception staff with the multi-national partnership , all clients in England and Wales of the separate practice are informed in writing that , as clients of that practice , they do not enjoy the statutory protection attaching to clients of a multi-national partnership . |
| 20 | The proposals were attacked as being too weak and vague , with only the minimum legal protection given to sites . |
| 21 | The Central Statistical Office reported that its longer leading index of economic activity continued to suggest hat the economy turned last summer while its shorter index points to recovery at the end of last year . |
| 22 | It believes that theological colleges and courses must take a new look at the quantity and quality of the preparation given to ordinands for their responsibilities in leading public worship . |
| 23 | A model adhesion cascade has been proposed to explain adhesion of many leukocyte subtypes to endothelium ( reviewed in refs 2 , 3 , 31 , 32 ) . |
| 24 | From the river the trail goes to Beeston Crag , to the west of Peckforton Castle and eventually joins the road above Higher Burwardsley . |
| 25 | One two three four five six not yet seven eight nine no no ten eleven twelve wait thirteen fourteen no ! fifteen not yet ! sixteen wait , wait , wait seventeen wait ! seventeen seventeen eighteen no use nineteen the stuff was Co-ming ! twent — I must have shouted out at that precise moment where exultation turns to disgust , the moment of spilling , of defilement . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the Government was heading for more conflict after its confirmation of a 1.5 per cent public-sector pay rise led to protests from teachers and health workers . |
| 27 | There was however no detailed evidence of the employer 's turnover or size although it was not disputed that the profit under the contract amounted to $10.8 million . |
| 28 | We can add also to the fact that fifteen billion dollars a year right , is lost by er third country exporters , alright so we still add another fifteen on there per year that is erm errr oh yes , same study again erm suggest that in nineteen eighty six , eighty seven the year they look looking at , over forty percent , right of support to U S farmers , forty percent , nearly half of all support to U S farmers , quote merely offset the losses created by policies of other industrialised countries alright so nearly half of the support given to farmers in the U S alright we t to get them to stand still in in er in numerative terms , right . |
| 29 | These can include advisory services for businesses — support for local enterprise centres , such as the support given to Work West for its business information service based at the workshop on the Glen Road — enterprise awareness training and exhibitions and support for courses , such as the Women and Enterprise programme run by Work West . |
| 30 | An example of this occurred in early February when Foreign Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) , meeting in Brussels , agreed that the support given to Iraq by the PLO should disqualify it from further high-level contacts . |