Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [noun pl] to " in BNC.

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1 The counties were always liable as they grew , therefore , to lose their most populous and most highly rated areas to new or expanded county boroughs .
2 Their napkins were kept for them in specially designed pigeon-holes to which they homed on entering , before head-ing for their tables .
3 These forms of behaviour from men to women , while by no means universal , are sufficiently regularly repeated features to be considered institutionalized practices .
4 The forward- facing electors without our campaign exp expertise , back-up and money will not dissolve any deeply held if only recently announced objections to union association , for we all know what 's likely to happen at the party conference in October if the brakes are not applied now .
5 Those companies propose to reduce the hours of the already not well paid workers to below the level where those companies have to pay national insurance and take responsibility for pension payments , sick pay and holiday pay — all the things that we used quaintly to associate with civilisation .
6 Purley depôt was put into use as a store for war damaged cars , plus a few cars in running order , which had not yet received windscreens to the driver 's platforms .
7 This chapter considers two of the more widely reported approaches to budgetary reform that focused on programmes : the planning , programming , budgeting ( PPB ) system , and zero-base budgeting ( ZBB ) .
8 If conditions remain safe , up to 4 Hercules a day will fly in to drop off desperately needed supplies to the city .
9 On Aug. 24 aid officials said that the UN had once more suspended flights to Juba after shells landed near a plane unloading food at Juba 's airport .
10 Among the more well known varieties to be threatened are the cep , the chanterelle and the wood blewits , all of which are prized as culinary delights .
11 After the Turkish conquest of most of Hungary in the 1520s and 1530s the Hungarian nobles who had then fled westwards often still maintained claims to their former lands and even asserted their right to live tax-free on them for a limited period and to levy feudal dues in them .
12 The ballot initiative , which limited State Assembly members to three two-year terms and state senators and most statewide elected officials to two four-year terms from 1991 onwards , was ruled a valid protection " against an entrenched dynastic legislative bureaucracy " ; the court rejected arguments from attorneys representing the legislature 's Democratic leadership that a legislator 's right to run for office and a voter 's right to choose a candidate would be unconstitutionally restricted .
13 In January 1990 new rules for police conduct were released , free of politics and ideology ; they no longer contained allusions to the leading role of the HSWP , and the police would no longer be required to address people as " comrade " .
14 Gloucester 's reaction to this arrangement is unknown , but Lancashire was the one area of the north where Edward failed to endorse his power and the duke may well have resented his exclusion ; recent work has emphasized that he never entirely abandoned claims to grants which he had once held .
15 Gloucester 's reaction to this arrangement is unknown , but Lancashire was the one area of the north where Edward failed to endorse his power and the duke may well have resented his exclusion ; recent work has emphasized that he never entirely abandoned claims to grants which he had once held .
16 We had never consciously allocated days to each other ; it had just turned out that we had grabbed them and put our stamp on them .
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