Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is possible to convert between annually and semi-annually compounded yields using the following formulae : or between annually and quarterly compounded yields using the following formulae : where rm q rm s : and rm a are respectively the quarterly , semi-annually and annually compounded yields to maturity . |
| 3 | THE Soviet space station Salyut-7 made its long awaited return to Earth in the early hours ( 0400 GMT ) of Thursday 7 February . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They believed in the prospect of a gradual and constitutionally achieved transition to socialism . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Those who preached the crusade dwelt on the significance of Jerusalem and on the death of Jesus , and so roused men to fervour against the Jews who had killed him as well as against the Muslims who had captured his tomb ; and apocalyptic notions of the time associated the conversion or elimination of the Jews with the liberation of Jerusalem , as a necessary prelude to the end of the world . |
| 10 | BORIS BECKER 'S much heralded return to fitness and form last night ran into the buffers at the ATP World Championships . |
| 11 | She 's just given birth to daughter Rosie . |
| 12 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 13 | I have not given way to Opposition Members — |
| 14 | Physically he is unusually sturdy and has not fallen prey to illness during his long confinement . |
| 15 | They are generally arranged back to back , and a rough little relief of Roman date shows that then at least they were so set . |
| 16 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 17 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 18 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
| 19 | A walk through the arboretum soon turned thoughts to life as a lumberjill half a century ago . |
| 20 | I would have suspected nothing if the counterfeit Taplow had not made reference to Purgatory . |
| 21 | Like David , I have not got access to Satellite TV so I am also stuck with teletext and very poor coverage from the BBC . |
| 22 | But supposing X-rays were normally displayed back to front or the way one looked at the person ? |
| 23 | Other recent changes have generally restricted access to unemployment benefit ( Atkinson and Micklewright , 1989 ) and , in particular , they have denied benefit to women who had been eligible to at least some benefit in their own right . |
| 24 | Panel beater Gordon Reid ( 32 ) , had just set fire to rubbish in the old oil drum while clearing up at his car body repair garage at Fenton Barns . |
| 25 | So why not put pen to paper and win a wardrobe of fashions . |
| 26 | In most of Spain , especially in the demoralized countryside , the strike quickly collapsed thanks to ill-preparedness , lack of resolution and determined government action . |
| 27 | We may not have always seen eye to eye in the past but I have great respect for him nevertheless . ’ |
| 28 | Like other frontier peoples , the French Basques have not always seen eye to eye with Paris . |
| 29 | ‘ Angela , ’ he said , ‘ you and me , we 've not always seen eye to eye recently , but we are friends . |
| 30 | Deep dish , frozen multi-portions have always presented difficulties to microwave regeneration as all too often edge burning occurs , before the centre is up to corret temperature . |