Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The very essence of his buildings is expressed through intimately relating ornament to structure so , together , they create astonishing , tautly dynamic , glittering volumes and spaces for people .
2 Scattered around the London suburbs , or in provincial towns like Sheffield , Brighton and Bradford , these pioneers had only limited access to capital resources , and their companies never grew to any real size .
3 Some people lack one colour pigment , and so lose sensitivity to part of the spectrum , usually red or green .
4 THE Soviet space station Salyut-7 made its long awaited return to Earth in the early hours ( 0400 GMT ) of Thursday 7 February .
5 To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later .
6 I would be interested to hear the thoughts of any other Sigma owners , top flight racers or those who are more concerned with club racing , so put pen to paper .
7 It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart .
8 The section is intended to give the police power to impose conditions on ‘ coercive ’ marches which will not necessarily give rise to disorder ; a National Front march through a predominantly Asian district may well prompt many of the citizens simply to board up their properties and remain indoors .
9 If Darlington ( let's change that to Hartlepool ) were lucky enough to win promotion to Division Two they would have until 1994 two years to eliminate standing at their ground .
10 What I am trying to say is that merely paying attention to sex difference — affirming that women exist and are different from men — is not in and of itself a feminist gesture .
11 The insults or stresses which cause the imbalances and so give rise to disease can be of two types :
12 The FMLN has argued that , no matter what type of medicine one practises , if health knowledge , skills and resources are sold on the market as commodities this will necessarily limit access to health care , fragment and distort the nature of the health process , constrain the relation between health workers and users , and undermine people 's control over their health .
13 They thus need only provide care to quality standards which they set for themselves when first agreeing a contract and they can avoid being drawn into the ‘ high volume/doubtful quality ’ trap .
14 I definitely think we 've found a niche , not just in a business sense , but in the sense of providing a much needed service to dog owners , and I think we all need some helpful service nowadays , rather than being told to go elsewhere . ’
15 But in the lives of many people today love and marriage , though ideals , swiftly give way to conflict , strain , unhappiness and divorce .
16 Here purists were deliberately challenging official arguments which opposed fresh legislation or greater public discussion on the grounds that this would only draw attention to sex and incite immorality .
17 Anything goes , of course , so get pen to paper ( or better still , fingers to keyboard ) and write to : Practically Speaking , X or A ?
18 Anything goes , of course , so get pen to paper ( or better still , fingers to keyboard ) and write to : Practically Speaking ,
19 Anything goes , of course , so get pen to paper ( or better still , fingers to keyboard ) and write to : Practically Speaking ,
20 Diminished responsibility has a wider ambit , but its effect is merely to reduce murder to manslaughter , giving the judge discretion on sentencing or other disposal .
21 This did n't necessarily mean hostility to religion as such .
22 In fact , Charles 's highly publicized conversion to vegetarianism can more properly be laid at the door of his former bodyguard , Paul Officer who frequently argued with him during long car journeys about the virtues of a non-meat diet .
23 Detailing for de Cuellar the damage done to Iraq 's civilian population and culture by five days of Allied bombing , Aziz declared , ‘ You personally bear responsibility to history and mankind for the heinous crimes being committed against the noble people of Iraq who are fighting for their freedom . ’
24 Li also pointedly gave support to leftist agricultural policies reportedly opposed by Deng , endorsing collective service networks and ideological education campaigns in rural areas .
25 Greek civilization not only gave rise to philosophy but it also produced , in the fifth century BC , the first real historians .
26 Novell , Lotus and WordPerfect are working together to offer software to computer companies in an attempt to stem the flow of cash heading Microsoft 's way .
27 Essentially what all are saying is that a right to consent to medical treatment , whether required under the common law ( see Gillick 's case ) or under statute ( section 8 ) , must and does carry with it a right not only to refuse consent to treatment , but to refuse the treatment itself .
28 Essentially , therefore , the provisions only had application to income falling within the first limb .
29 They believed in the prospect of a gradual and constitutionally achieved transition to socialism .
30 Only in cases involving ethnic groups does it suddenly forget its much advertised opposition to censorship and abandon its crusading zeal to defend the public 's ‘ right to know ’ .
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