Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Falcone had been one of those responsible for bringing to trial 473 members of the Mafia in December 1987 [ see p. 35990 ] . |
| 2 | Personal papers , diaries and autobiographies are exceedingly valuable for bringing to light how past parents coped with the difficult task of rearing their children . |
| 3 | There are substantial reasons for attributing to Evesham the monuments to Hester Salusbury ( died 1614 , Stansted Mountfitchet , Essex ) ; Robert Rich , first Earl of Warwick ( died 1619 , Snarford , Lincolnshire ) ; Sir Justinian Lewin ( died 1620 , Otterden , Kent ) ; John Troughton ( died 1621 , Ingatestone , Essex ) , and the black stone panel engraved with allegorical devices in commemoration of Guy Carleton ( died 1628 , Cuckfield , East Sussex ) . |
| 4 | Facts appear solid , values fluid ; there are firm reasons for accepting , if only provisionally , scientific laws of nature , none for submitting to canons of taste or to the moral law . |
| 5 | As the major design route passes from analysis , through scheming to manufacturing , it is possible to recognize systems which have their origins in each of these main areas . |
| 6 | Chamber president Norman Campbell acknowledged Darlington had a problem with glue sniffers but praised police for reacting to complaints from traders and members of the public . |
| 7 | Last year , Sony Corp bought a licence to Apple Computer Inc 's AppleTalk network so that Macs could be networked with its News Unix workstations , and it has now taken the logical next step and its computer subsidiary will market Macs for attaching to networks of Sony workstations in Japan , with much of the business to be directed at use within the Sony group companies . |
| 8 | The latter specialise in business computers , word processors and ‘ peripheral ’ equipment for attaching to computers . |
| 9 | The problem is that information and events worth bringing to parent 's attention do n't always occur at regular fixed intervals so the newsletters may frequently have nothing to say and need to be supplemented by successions of ‘ flyers ’ announcing special events . |
| 10 | Codron had gone up to Cambridge to see the show and knew then that it would be worth bringing to London . |
| 11 | Three men of traditional type act as foils to McCunn . |
| 12 | In these circumstances there was much to be said for sticking to forms that were known and accepted ; and in spite of the great list of possible wordings in PS , the Digest does not give the impression that the more obscure terms were much used . |
| 13 | These results reiterate the above finding that the zinc fingers are not as important as the three regions of basic residues for binding to DNA . |
| 14 | The sequence selectivity of the platination of DNA by cisplatin and its analogues has been investigated through a number of approaches , all of which indicate a preference for binding to GG sequences . |
| 15 | Peptides synthesized and tested in the HLA assembly assay for binding to HLA-B53 . |
| 16 | The very nature of public relations means consultants possess a talent for relating to others and , in general , being warm and sociable . |
| 17 | The victimized workers may not have won their jobs back , but they and other workers learned about the value of self-organization at work as well as about strategies for relating to trade unions . |
| 18 | Among those on the run are Alan Lord , 32 , jailed for life for stabbing to death a father-of-three , David Gilbert , in 1981 , and Mark Azzopardi , 23 . |
| 19 | It is therefore worth returning to basics . |
| 20 | However , it can be argued that neither strategy has succeeded in making a significant enough difference in Third World women 's access to information and skills relevant to them and useful for contributing to development in their communities . |
| 21 | However the timescale for contributing to planning and design features has been shortened drastically , and in fact most of that detailed work has to be completed by the end of this month . |
| 22 | The involvement of Welsh grandparents takes a different form : contact may be less frequent and based on invitations to visit or regular arrangements for contributing to childcare one day or one evening a week . |
| 23 | Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’ |
| 24 | A House of Commons report has blamed the World Bank for contributing to rainforest destruction . |
| 25 | This week , Scottish Secretary Ian Lang accused ‘ opt-out ’ parents for contributing to increases in ill- discipline and truancy . |
| 26 | She was now fearful about returning to school , but agreed to discuss this with her tutor . |
| 27 | Write here your first thoughts about returning to work . |
| 28 | Increasingly people are retiring earlier and you know asking about returning to work . |
| 29 | ‘ Nurseries provide the best possible start for children and give women choices about returning to work or returning to training . ’ |
| 30 | They left the fate and wondered for a moment about returning to Ring 's . |