Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 For those of you who feel the need to get away from it all , Edinburgh is uniquely placed to provide access to the untamed magnificence of the Highlands , a mere hop and a skip up the A9 .
2 The Department of Classics at Edinburgh is uniquely placed to provide access to this study , combining the flexibility and breadth of the Scottish degree structure with a range of disciplines not available to the same extent elsewhere in Scotland .
3 First , ‘ listing ’ is intended to provide guidance to local planning authorities in carrying out their planning functions .
4 ( In the SCAN scheme of analysis — see reference 2 — which we have developed to provide feedback to curriculum designers on the use of their material , we call these 1 and 3 levels of teacher guidance respectively , the level of demand is similarly classified unc The classification has been found useful much more widely .
5 Special connector designed to connect pipework to fittings with male screw threads — such as a bib tap .
6 One of the applications demonstrated will be an intelligent desk consisting of a videophone and B-ISDN workstation mounted on a desktop , designed to provide access to multimedia databases and medical information services such as transmission of X-ray photographs and Computerised Tomography Scanner images .
7 Act of Parliament designed to grant relief to or to confer some form of privilege on a private individual or corporation ( ‘ of all kinds and classes of bill … without exception the most unreasonable in its charges ’ , MC 27 ) .
8 Nell half expected to come face to face with Mahon inside .
9 That principle is designed to encourage waste to be disposed of at the nearest available facility .
10 The UK government is expected to halt funding to the Coal Research Establishment ( CRE ) at Cheltenham , part of British Coal and recognised as a world leader in research into " clean " coal technology .
11 James Spader has come to prefer impotence to sexual deception .
12 He was allegedly caught selling heroin to an addict .
13 Police say Depardieu Junior was caught selling heroin to an addict
14 That was why the Congress of People 's Deputies was being recommended to give priority to the government 's report on the economy .
15 Eddie Gilfoyle is accused of murdering his wife Paula a fortnight before she was expected to give birth to their first child .
16 If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before I expressed an opinion .
17 It is a condition that , at the time of insurance becoming effective , the insured person has not booked his/her holiday contrary to medical advice nor is aware of any circumstances which could reasonably be expected to give rise to a claim .
18 If I thought that the present case raised the question which has been held in suspense by more than one writer on constitutional law — namely , whether an assembly can properly be held to be unlawful merely because the holding of it is expected to give rise to a breach of the peace on the part of persons opposed to those who are holding the meeting — I should wish to hear much more argument before expressing an opinion .
19 The resolution , based on a report submitted by the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on May 2 , was expected to give rise to claims of between US$50,000 million and US$100,000 million .
20 Smoking and drug histories were taken although no patient was receiving any treatment that would be expected to give rise to DNA damage .
21 She walked behind the main counter to the flap that could be lifted to give access to the shop itself and , leaning on her forearms , looked down on to her weekly customers and asked , ‘ Well then , what is it to be ? ’
22 The ANC rejected the plans as being specifically designed to deny power to the black majority .
23 Marigold , his wife , he would not of course have permitted to give womb-room to such a foreign body or to take the pill or consider any so-called reversible tube-tyings .
24 TECHNIQUEST is designed to give fun to people of all ages and abilities and is ideal for family outings , school trips , birthday parties , coach trips , business lunches and office parties .
25 As a result , the 1974 Housing Act introduced Housing Action Areas ( HAAs ) , designed to give priority to the improvement of areas for which GIAs are not relevant , where poor physical condition of housing is combined with social stress and deprivation .
26 This was particularly marked in France , where from 1745 onwards Louis XV created a complex mechanism , the Secret du Roi , designed to give effect to his personal policies .
27 Given that revolutionary literature is designed to give pre-eminence to the construction of a new culture , a new man , a new reading public , drawn primarily from the working class , there arises an obvious clash of interests between the revolutionary writer and the bourgeois reading public .
28 It seemed especially designed to give weight to his ineptitudes , lending a ridiculous dignity in space to what he had screwed up , like making a free-hanging sculpture of a broken egg-whisk .
29 Said Chris Alderson , Head of Service Quality Development , ‘ The two schemes were designed to give recognition to staff who provide outstanding service .
30 Two-thirds of the Congress seats were filled by direct popular vote from 750 single-member constituencies organized to include roughly equal numbers of voters and another 750 constituencies designed to give representation to the majority of the Soviet Union 's recognized ethnic groups ; the remaining 750 seats were reserved for members of approved social organizations ( in future elections there will be no reserved seats ) .
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