Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the decision to lift certain sanctions taken by the Commonwealth heads of state [ see p. 38553 ] , countries relaxing restrictions included Canada which on Oct. 22 began to issue visas to South Africans and India which on Oct. 31 lifted " people-to-people " , cultural and academic sanctions . |
| 2 | Premack 's tests ( Premack 1976 ) to establish that chimpanzees make rudimentary connections between ‘ states of affairs ’ ( in order not to beg the more refined question of objectuality within them ) which to us appear closely connected by virtue of a cause and an effect , or by virtue of an implicit goal or problem and a means or stratagem , seem to the layman to support attributions to chimps of protean correlates of human categories of thought . |
| 3 | An order for payment of money or for the transfer of assets can not be an order intended to restore parties to transactions to their former positions unless it is known in relation to each transaction in question ( a ) who were the parties ( b ) what the nature of the transaction was and ( c ) what assets or money each party to the transaction had paid or transferred to the others . |
| 4 | Labour 's consumer affairs spokesman , Nigel Griffiths , called on the Department of Trade and Industry to issue guidelines to firms disposing of damaged goods to ensure that packaging did not fall into the wrong hands . |
| 5 | The post was much too risky , so sometimes I was asked to carry funds to Parma on my bicycle . |
| 6 | So , from their viewpoint , management 's job is to use the factors at its disposal to provide returns to the shareholders , but also to provide returns to employees . |
| 7 | In fact the Allies were ill-fitted to assume this responsibility and unlikely to find solutions to problems that were largely of their own making . |
| 8 | On the contrary , the TEI community is a particularly demanding one : the purpose of research is to discover solutions to problems that have not yet been posed , and any scheme designed to support research must therefore place more emphasis on flexibility and extensibility to cope with the unforeseen than on highly optimized solutions to well understood problems . |
| 9 | AN ADVERTISING campaign to attract shoppers to Darlington is to be launched by the borough council . |
| 10 | The original Sale of Goods Act of 1893 was intended , not to dictate to the parties what the terms of their bargain should be , but only to provide solutions to problems and questions unforeseen and unconsidered by the parties . |
| 11 | In industrial selling , the salesperson may be called upon to be an adviser or consultant who is required to provide solutions to problems . |
| 12 | The software publisher will prefer to grant a licence because he will want to retain the copyright in the software and be free to grant licences to others . |
| 13 | But generally , the deadline achieved its purpose and we were able to despatch certificates to students much more quickly than in the past . ’ |
| 14 | Public and private sector organisations aiming to encourage visitors to Cheshire will also attend the event which involves specialist workshops , private interviews with representatives as well as general advice on how to raise finance through to sources of grant aid and legal matters . |
| 15 | Koffigoh refused to submit to the demand that he leave the government headquarters where he had taken refuge , and on Nov. 28 asked President Mitterrand of France to despatch troops to Togo urgently . |
| 16 | In addition to academic qualifications they will expect you to demonstrate that you have the intelligence to understand the demands of their businesses , the fluency to communicate ideas to others and the flexibility to develop other people 's ideas . |
| 17 | Victorian editors , embarrassed by the imputation of homosexuality , argued that it was quite customary in the Renaissance for men to write sonnets to men . |
| 18 | This underlined that " You have authority to pass Cossacks to Russians provided force has not , repeat not , to be used . " |
| 19 | Is any of it used to find alternatives to CFCs in the manufacture of refrigerators , foam , and so on ? |
| 20 | What has tended to happen historically , with earlier attempts to provide alternatives to custody , is that instead of moving offenders currently receiving a sentence of imprisonment down-tariff , in this case to some form of punishment in the community , down-tariff offenders — those who formerly were dealt with by a fine or conditional discharge — have been given the new sentence . |
| 21 | Even a relatively liberal and progressive administrator like Saint-Germain was extremely unwilling to grant commissions to parvenus at the expense of poor but military-minded nobles . |
| 22 | Here is Piaget 's most well-known demonstration of the infant 's failure to relate actions to experiences . |
| 23 | That infants fail to search in these situations — although they clearly have the motor skills to do so — is one of the empirical bolsters to the view that what develops is the ability to relate actions to experiences ‘ of ’ them ( again : whatever ‘ of ’ means in this context ! ) . |
| 24 | Many employees are using the excuse of falling sales to impose changes to previously agreed conditions , often using the excuse to impose changes to conditions that have been fought for for many years . |
| 25 | Usually very very pessimistic and always look always look on the on the pessimistic side of things you know all that sort of stuff but you know they are a very important part of the group , you know given given their space to be like they are you know do n't take them too seriously remember their job is to criticise and their job is to pull things to pieces . |
| 26 | The charge that Braudel fails to relate événements to structures is , as we saw , amply justified ; but it comes to seem less destructive once we think of holists and individualists as engaged in separate projects . |
| 27 | Her lawyers are likely to demand changes to Torch Song , based on the romantic bestseller by Judith Krantz . |
| 28 | This section 7(3) required the LTE so to perform their functions as to ensure so far as practicable that at the end of each accounting period the aggregate of the net balance of the consolidated revenue account of the LTE and of their general reserve was such as might be approved by the GLC ; and that if , at the end of any accounting period , the aggregate showed a deficit , the amount properly available to meet changes to revenue account in the next following accounting period should exceed those charges by at least the amount of that deficit . |
| 29 | The following day Maxwell 's sons , Ian and Kevin , resigned from the boards of MGN and MCC after it was revealed that an estimated £350 million was missing from the MGN pension fund and that another £126 million had been used to secure loans to Maxwell private companies . |
| 30 | ‘ TVB hereby grants to [ the taxpayer ] , which accepts , the sole and exclusive right outside Hong Kong and the non-exclusive right in Hong Kong throughout the life of this agreement and upon the terms and conditions of parts 2 and 3 hereof : ( a ) to copy , adapt , and cause to be seen and heard in public ( otherwise than by means of wireless or cable TV transmissions in Hong Kong ) all TVB films , ( b ) to exploit all derivative rights in TVB films ( excluding the hotchpot programmes ) and ( c ) to grant sub-licences to others to do the acts set out in paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) above for periods not exceeding five years unless TVB 's prior written consent . … |