Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The games , which have become an annual event , are intended to appeal to weekend sportsmen and women . |
| 2 | In those early days they were expected to go to chapel every morning ; bells seemed to announce every change in the timetable . |
| 3 | The figure of one in four crimes being reported refers to crime in general , and this ratio of recorded to unrecorded crime varies according to the particular crime . |
| 4 | All this time , her cries and weepings had so increased in volume and in duration ( sometimes she cried for five or six hours ) that she was forbidden to go to church , and had to be confessed and absolved in a private chapel . |
| 5 | REACTION TO CAMP ROUTINE AND RESPONSIBILITIES : Lenny can be trusted to carry to completion any task given to him . |
| 6 | The mortgage is fixed for three years at 10.3pc ( APR 10.9pc ) and is designed to appeal to home buyers seeking an affordable mortgage with inbuild stability of payments . |
| 7 | A ministerial meeting planned for November in Copenhagen is expected to agree to phase out ozone- destroying chemicals by the end of 1995 . |
| 8 | That case is not expected to come to court for a few months and Dairy Crest wanted to stop him trading in the meantime . |
| 9 | Surely , as prime evidence of date and function the artefacts must be integrated into the excavation report itself and the artificial division into materials replaced by objects grouped according to function and deposit . |
| 10 | The brief comprised a list of about 80 species for each chart , grouped according to pollution tolerance . |
| 11 | Vehicles might be grouped according to colour , use , whether ‘ broken down ’ , number of wheels , etc . |
| 12 | Use wire plate hangers to hang a collection of plates on the walls , grouped according to colour , size or origin . |
| 13 | However , when the " high use " of temporary workers was examined , there were no significant differences between establishments grouped according to size . |
| 14 | The Southern Slavs argued for ‘ personal cultural autonomy ’ — that is , the inhabitants of the empire would be grouped according to culture ( regardless of where they lived ) , and their cultural-educational affairs directed by an elected national council . |
| 15 | ‘ When the firms were grouped according to similarity of objectives and techniques of production , and classified in order of the technical complexity of the production systems , each production system was found to be associated with a characteristic pattern of organisation . |
| 16 | They produce a leaflet called The Accommodation Barns Guide 1991 which contains useful information and lists of camping barns and bunkhouses grouped according to county . |
| 17 | These were grouped according to theme and accompanied by a variety of tasks . |
| 18 | In practice , however , this is not essential for all species , and in particular those which have come acclimated to aquarium life over a period of many years are remarkably tolerant of what is strictly quite unsuitable water chemistry . |
| 19 | On the basis of a 5-4 majority in a Missouri case judged in July , the cases are expected to lead to expansion of the right of individual states to pass laws regulating abortions . |
| 20 | It is also expected to lead to student transfers between the two centres , distance learning through new technologies and Kirkcaldy running franchised courses for at least the early years of Dundee 's courses . |
| 21 | Second , he was expected to lead to war the king 's benefice-holders ( vassi ) from within his county . |
| 22 | The transitions between word ending states and word beginning states are then modified according to word boundary phonological rules . |
| 23 | The cap badge for all officers will be the coat of arms of the United States , embroidered in gold , modified according to pattern , and will be placed in front so that the top of the badge will be slightly below the top of the cap . ’ |
| 24 | Whatever the time dependences of the signals in a two-terminal nonlinear network , its terminal behaviour can be represented by Moreover , the relationship between sufficiently small signals and , denoted according to convention by lower-case letters i and v , is or where ( , ) is the bias operating point . |
| 25 | While , historically , archaeology departments have been organised according to material — pottery , bone and metals — the new laboratory is organised by processes . |
| 26 | ( A 48-hour lull in violence in the occupied territories ended on June 25 when three Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed in a gun battle in the West Bank , and two Jews were reported stabbed to death in the Gaza Strip . ) |
| 27 | Work on voting behaviour in Great Britain in the 1980s illustrates this , with the class divide much distorted according to power in the market place , which in turn has become increasingly spatially variable : Johnston and Pattie , 1988 , 1990 . ) |
| 28 | Test packages are designed according to job specifications . |
| 29 | Since materials are classified and grouped first by language , all literary forms such as poetry are scattered according to language . |
| 30 | In the early Middle Ages , Lectio , Meditatio and Oratio were all designed to lead to Contemplation , but Contemplatio was not regarded as an esoteric discipline , an advanced state of prayer or the cultivation of an alternative mode of consciousness . |