Example sentences of "[vb -s] to the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First seen at the Swan in Stratford last year , the show now transfers to the Barbican 's main stage , with Jonathan Hyde , David Bradley and Joanne Pearce repeating their fine performances as the unholy trinity of con artists . |
| 2 | If the Polish Government adheres to the IMF programme , further loans of up to $1.67 billion over the next 18 months will be available from the World Bank . |
| 3 | Mrs Whitehouse herself has never sought to deny the intellectual and theological debt she owes to the Oxford Group and the MRA , but has been quick to silence those critics who have suggested the existence of more formal links between the NVALA and MRA . |
| 4 | The thinking is that , in a time of fierce economic and social change in Westernised economies , all companies — from home-based one man/woman bands to the ICIs and IBMs — are having to adapt to new organisational structures and ways of working . |
| 5 | The unluckiest punter has to the Reverend Peter Wyld from Oxford . |
| 6 | The modelling of the Gorgon 's face resembles that of the Dipylon head ( fig. 15 ) , and she stands to her perhaps slightly later sister of Corfu very much as that stands to the Delphi twins ( fig. 16 ) : the Attic works have perhaps less charm but more power . |
| 7 | We have no bronze original which stands to the Hestia as the Zeus to the Apollo . |
| 8 | France looks to the Courtauld Institute for its own art centre |
| 9 | It also , more generally , looks to the RUC as the force most concerned with combating the IRA . |
| 10 | Hercegovina looks to the Adriatic , with the valley of the Neretva providing a route from the capital , Mostar , to the sea . |
| 11 | We have chosen to study a biologically relevant DNA sequence , the dodecamer CATGACGTCATG whose central hexamer corresponds to the CRE ( cyclic AMP responsive element ) binding site ( 12–13 ) . |
| 12 | In the end , even Evans succumbs to the Pacific myth . |
| 13 | The European Bureau for Conservation and Development supports this argument , however , and has submitted funding plans to the EC for consideration . |
| 14 | Most SSDs had submitted their implementation plans to the DoH by last week 's deadline , although many said they had merely built on existing frameworks . |
| 15 | This would be a feat of public agitation that he likens to the Anti-Corn Law League of the 1830s and 1840s , which successfully pressed home the case for free trade ( and caused a split in the Tory Party in the process ) . |
| 16 | And if any extra incentive were needed , apart from that of selling a superlative product , you 'll be pleased to hear that our client intends to offer monthly awards — in the shape of all-inclusive weekend passes to the Seraglio . ’ |
| 17 | Near here , trips to the Aran Islands were advertised . |
| 18 | We had bought Rudge Biframe folding mountain bikes specifically to go in the back of the 172 , and trips to the Norfolk Broads , Dartmoor and west Ireland had allowed Anne and I to refine our planning so that not only the flying but — just as importantly for our holiday — the non-flying sections of the trip would be practical and highly enjoyable . |
| 19 | Westward trips to the Dalles increased in frequency , improving trade with North-west Coast tribes like the Yakima , and introducing to the tribe such coastal traits as nose-piercing and the artificial flattening of babies ' heads . |
| 20 | Britain had extensive non-European links to the Empire-Commonwealth , which were practical as well as emotional . |
| 21 | Frans Andriessen , the EC Commissioner responsible for foreign relations , favoured " affiliate membership " for Europe 's " orphan countries " , which would have members in the European Parliament , observer status at the Commission , participation in the EC 's single internal market and links to the EC 's planned single currency . |
| 22 | In the North West links to the River Mersey were established . |
| 23 | Virtually every stage in the firing and aiming process would be supervised by computers backed up by satellite links to the White House . |
| 24 | This links to the Chicago School 's borrowing from Darwin . |
| 25 | April : April 1 : Bessmertnykh discussed in Beijing measures to resolve Soviet-Chinese border disputes , and the reduction of troops on both sides of the border ; April 4 : Polish Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki held talks with Gorbachev in Moscow on the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Poland , the internal situation in both countries , and prospects for co-operation ; April 4 : Romanian President Iliescu arrived in Moscow to sign the Soviet-Romanian Treaty ; April 8-9 : Bessmertnykh , visiting Belgrade , supported the preservation of Yugoslavia 's territorial integrity ; April 8 : Viktor Komplektov named as new Soviet ambassador to the USA ; April 9-10 : Bessmertnykh had talks in Athens with Greek President Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and signed a treaty of friendship and co-operation ; April 16-19 : President Gorbachev visited Japan , the first visit by a Soviet leader , and had a number of ( inconclusive ) discussions with Japanese officials about the fate of the disputed Kurile Islands — the main obstacle to a significant increase in the amount of Japanese aid and credits to the USSR ; April 17 : as part of a $3,000 million aid package agreed earlier in the year , the South Korean Export-Import bank signed an agreement giving the Soviet Union $800 million worth of credits to purchase South Korean raw materials and consumer goods . |
| 26 | He complains to the Vatican . |
| 27 | This short Act amounts to the United Kingdom 's formal approval of the agreement concluded by the heads of government of the Community countries in 1986 and known as the Single European Act , which makes important changes to the Treaty of Rome . |
| 28 | The increasing number of mortgage repossessions , the increasing interest costs to the UK manufacturing sector , the distortion of the foreign exchange market , the wage demands induced as workers seek to maintain their living standards and the large , gratuitous redistribution of income from debtors to creditors result in painful and often irreversible dislocations . |
| 29 | Medical expenses and repatriation costs to the UK ( where medically certified as necessary ) . |
| 30 | The apostles of Jesus were not merely witnesses to the Lord 's resurrection ( clearly an unrepeatable function in the historical sense ) , but also a source of decision-making or pastoral jurisdiction in the early communities . |