Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 2 | He shook hands with the Scotland Yard man , who left to report progress to the one o'clock COBRA committee . |
| 3 | As we have noted , Circular 11/77 asked Regional Advisory Councils to draw up plans for the training of full-time further education teachers and to report progress to the DES by September 1978 . |
| 4 | From the research which they commissioned into consumer attitudes Mintel concluded there were millions of people in Britain living in a fool 's paradise in the 1990s , continuing to borrow money to the very limit on credit cards , store cards , bank loans and mortgages , yet refusing to accept they were ‘ in debt ’ — mainly because of their ignorance of how money was borrowed and paid back . |
| 5 | Even ignoring its importance as a local employer , to say that a sector which earns 15 per cent of GDP , which finances most of the small business start-ups in Scotland , which provides capital for companies great and small , which finances pensions and insurance for thousands of Scots , as well as backing for a quarter of the UK 's institutional funds , does nothing to help the economy , is to carry ideology to the point of folly . |
| 6 | Diego Maradona did most to restore Napoli to the top , creating headed goals ( 18 and 45 min ) for Andrea Carnevale and scoring a virtuoso third ( 84 ) . |
| 7 | The deposed Kuwaiti government established its base in the Saudi mountain resort of Taif , although the Amir and his ministers spent much of their time travelling the world to bolster opposition to the invasion . |
| 8 | But possibly the most satisfying task for the Hercules and its crew is to carry aid to the needy . |
| 9 | One-half of this was to be sold by auction , and the profits above the official price of $ 42.2 an ounce were then to be used to promote aid to the less developed countries , whereas the other half was to be sold back to members at the prevailing official price . |
| 10 | As soon as he knows about it he goes into automatic " crisis mode " , remaining cool and placing top priority on obtaining the key facts and assessing the options to minimize damage to the company and its people while resolving the problem . |
| 11 | The United Kingdom failed to secure re-election to the Commission for a further three-year term , for only the second time in the Commission 's history . |
| 12 | But he has done himself some damage and will need to work hard , and with some care , if he is to secure re-election to the shadow Cabinet in November . |
| 13 | He failed in three attempts to secure election to the Trades Union Congress 's parliamentary committee , but he represented the vellum binders at the foundation conference of the labour representation committee in February 1900 , and was elected to its executive . |
| 14 | Islamic independent candidates failed to secure election to the executive bureau . |
| 15 | Former mayor Marion Barry , who had recently been convicted of cocaine possession [ see pp. 37647 ; 37769 ] , failed in his attempt to secure election to the city council , winning only 17 per cent of the vote . |
| 16 | At Straiton , however , a combination of the grout injection method and the placing of a heavy-duty geotextile membrane at rockhead level was used to provide support to the road embankment over the limestone and Pentland oil shale workings . |
| 17 | It is a responsibility of the Centre to provide support to the academic economist developing programs for new techniques and to make appropriate programs commercially available outside the academic environment . |
| 18 | However , if the fish begin to suffer damage to the scales , which could result in an outbreak of fungus , I would advise you to remove the Plec . |
| 19 | The team , led by Margit Laimer , injected a gene into apricot tree cells which earlier work had shown to provide resistance to the plum pox virus which causes Sharka disease affecting , among others , apricots , peaches and plums . |
| 20 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 21 | Rule 41 of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules ( HC 169 ) provides : ‘ A man seeking to enter the UK for marriage to a woman settled here and who intends to settle here thereafter ’ will be refused entry clearance unless the ECO is satisfied that it is not the primary purpose of the marriage to obtain admission to the UK . |
| 22 | The crucial issue still to be determined was whether the primary purpose of the marriage was to obtain admission to the UK . |
| 23 | Two basic fieldwork strategies were used to obtain entry to the neighbourhoods . |
| 24 | Camdessus also urged the industrialized countries to increase aid to the LDCs and to write off official loans to the poorest countries . |
| 25 | I think that many of his readers would be prepared to bear witness to the sense that somewhere in there among the changing shapes is the usual nonpareil . |
| 26 | The Mutawas , clothed in self-righteousness , were there to bear witness to the appropriate punishment . |
| 27 | It is illuminating that much of Askwith 's article is devoted to Blakemore 's apparent surrender to these demands having himself ‘ invited most of Britain 's leading ophthalmologists ’ to bear witness to the clinical benefits of his work . |
| 28 | The woman began to bear witness to the Jesus of whom she knew almost nothing , and was physically beaten up for her pains . |
| 29 | We are here at the moment when Iran news it pledge to History to bear witness to the immense gratitude of an entire people to you , immortal Hero of History , founder of the worlds oldest empire , great liberator of all time , worthy son of mankind . |
| 30 | Little is left today to bear witness to the past greatness of Aksum , other than some revealing inscriptions , the stone-wrought thrones of the kings and judges , and the giant monoliths . |