Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But times had changed since 1898 ; wartime regulations had rationed liquor purchases to one bottle per month per customer . |
| 2 | This was to come to light two years later when the Football Association appointed a commission to inquire into allegations that Sir Henry had offered financial inducements above the legal fees to attract players to Highbury and that he had diverted club funds to his private account . |
| 3 | A postal strike has stopped mail deliveries to twenty thousand homes and businesses . |
| 4 | The former Master golfer should know , having partnered David Llewellyn to victory in 1987 , and he has the added incentive of trying to equal Jack Nicklaus 's record of three individual crowns . |
| 5 | Bookwatch managing director Peter Harland commented : ‘ We are pleased to have added Cable TV to the many media who use our lists . |
| 6 | Madge has also added SNMP support to its Smart Ringbridge stand-alone Token Ring bridge-router , as well as a Windows-based graphical management application , the TrueView Bridge Manager . |
| 7 | I have always considered drama training to be based on simple precepts , for acting is not a complicated art . |
| 8 | Island Graphics says it has added multimedia features to IslandPresents , the graphics packages it introduced back at Uniforum , and has started delivering it for Sparc-based systems fitted with Open Look and Open Windows 3.0 . |
| 9 | The procedure under section 7(5) , in my opinion , is a procedure sui generis , and that is demonstrated clearly by the facts of this case , the justices having already committed Mr. Bell to the Liverpool Crown Court . |
| 10 | During the switch from publicly owned Water Authorities to privately owned water companies , the government extracted ‘ pre-privatisation undertakings ’ from the Authorities . |
| 11 | Has added race craft to his pace and aggression . |
| 12 | Where only part of the works are to be designed by the contractor , the standard form is used with modifications set out in the Contractor 's Designed Portion Supplement to the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Quantities , 1980 edition . |
| 13 | During the course of the news conference both Assad and Mubarak said that they opposed any renewed military action against Iraq ; Syria and Egypt had both committed ground forces to the US-led coalition which had ousted Iraq from Kuwait in February 1991 . |
| 14 | The money is needed to hire legal and planning experts to present evidence that the consortium believes proves McAlpine 's claimed planning permission to quarry almost 500 acres of limestone habitat , is ‘ void for uncertainty ’ — ie. is not legally valid . |
| 15 | The advent of Windows spreadsheets such as Excel , did , for many people , result in a much friendlier tool , and other leading spreadsheet vendors have added Windows products to their range . |
| 16 | The DUP has added Bill Irwin to its ranks to add to the four sitting councillors . |
| 17 | The skill with which management and employees have responded bears testimony to their commitment and resilience . |
| 18 | I was dialling it when I heard the door of Flat 2 open and I glanced over my shoulder to see Fenella , who had added pyjama trousers to her stripey shirt , and Lisabeth , in an ankle-length woollen dressing-gown , creeping down the stairs like they were doing a commercial for a new edition of A. A. Milne books . |
| 19 | In 1927 the Bledisloe Commission submitted a report which was to form the basis of the 1930 Land Drainage Act , the ground rules of which have dominated land drainage to the present day . |
| 20 | If more people bothered to bring decently designed office furniture to the attention of their office manager , fewer people would be taking days off with bad backs . |
| 21 | Reid , playing in a slightly changed side having dropped Michael Sheron to the substitutes ' bench , was unhappy about an earlier , seemingly accidental , challenge on Niall Quinn by Phil Whelan . |
| 22 | It would have been too much of a coincidence to have expected Tony Cable to be the engineering investigator at the top of the go-team list since he had worked in Seattle for the Boeing Company before he joined AIB ( the ‘ Branch ’ , as it is known by its members ) and his personal knowledge of that company 's products is obviously substantial . |
| 23 | Poland , Russia , Bulgaria , Romania and Afghanistan have all received help thanks to generous donors and benefactors . |
| 24 | The bill would have limited textile imports to a 1 per cent annual increase , and set quotas for most shoe imports at 1989 levels . |
| 25 | A Sunday Life poll has revealed blanket opposition to the scheme which could spell closure for scores of rural post offices across the province . |
| 26 | Those projects already in hand have made progress presentations to the Steering Committee . |
| 27 | Nomura Securities , Nikko Securities , Daiwa Securities and Yamaichi Securities were accused by the national tax authorities of having attempted to conceal the fact that they had made compensation payments to certain large clients who had made losses after taking their investment advice . |
| 28 | The securities scandal , which broke in June [ see p. 38292 ] , centred upon the discovery that the Nomura , Nikko , Daiwa and Yamaichi securities houses had made compensation payments to important clients who had suffered financial losses as a result of taking their investment advice . |
| 29 | His regiment released him again to pass the Staff College in Quetta , and at the start of World War I in 1914 he was made intelligence officer to the Tanga expeditionary force . |
| 30 | FOOTBALL : David Platt has pushed transfer talk to the back of his mind and promised that his only concern is helping Bari to avoid the disaster of relegation . |