Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 2 | As well as the reasons given in answer to direct questions , the LFS provides information on the importance of a further reason for taking a temporary job — that of being a participant in a special employment programme . |
| 3 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 4 | ‘ In my judgment the interests of the children are now to be taken into account and to be considered in relation to all the circumstances of the case including in relation to the general desirability that children wrongfully removed from their place of habitual residence should be returned . |
| 5 | ‘ In my judgment the interests of the children are now to be taken into account and to be considered in relation to all the circumstances of the case including in relation to the general desirability that children wrongfully removed from their place of habitual residence should be returned . |
| 6 | would not be applicable in the law of suretyship generally and is an implicit recognition of the special protection given by equity to married women who provide security in support of their husband 's debts . |
| 7 | IF THE TRAUMA and problems involving the Great Warbirds Air Display ( GWAD ) from its established site at West Malling in Kent to Wroughton in Wiltshire were not enough , Elly Sallingboe , her airshow team and all the pilots involved in the show had to contend with low cloud , torrential rain and wind that gusted up to 65 knots on the first day of the show . |
| 8 | For example , the spread ratio may be unity , the ratio of the contract values , the ratio of contract values adjusted for responsiveness to the general level of market prices , or the ratio of contract values weighted by some factor such as p . |
| 9 | The video features promo clips in addition to live , interview and behind-the-scenes footage . |
| 10 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 11 | The support given by knitters to the events which are organised is very good . |
| 12 | In advancing legal arguments and in taking direct political action those active in the peace movement can be reinforced by the knowledge that the hesitant political support given by others to the policies of nuclear deterrence is underpinned only by the belief that their leaders genuinely desire peace and disarmament . |
| 13 | The ULS measured the financial support given by MAFF to individual farms in its 12 study areas against the degree of natural handicap established by their own Hills and Uplands land classification . |
| 14 | The political and military support given by Egypt to the United States-led coalition in the Gulf war was regarded as an important factor in the Paris Club debt relief , which supplemented write-offs of Egyptian debt by the United States and the Gulf Co-operation Council countries in October 1990 [ see p. 37795 ] . |
| 15 | It requires support given by governments to be directed less at propping up declining industries , and more at helping the unemployed to rejoin the workforce . |
| 16 | But many archbishops were delighted by the excuse to go on pilgrimage to Rome ; and one of the first to benefit from the custom was Sigeric , archbishop of Canterbury ( 990 — 4 ) , who has left us a kind of diary of his visit — first of the churches in Rome which a pilgrim had especially to visit and to pray in , and then of the stages on his long journey back to Canterbury . |
| 17 | the coverage given by expansion to the 1st level ( definition ) ; |
| 18 | ’ 1st Level ’ refers to the coverage given by expansion to the first level , expressed as a percentage ( as described above ) . |
| 19 | ’ 2nd Level ’ refers to the coverage given by expansion to the second level , also expressed as a percentage . |
| 20 | The Buid and Semai examples should also serve as a caution against theories about violence and aggression which treat them as typically involving a contest between two balanced opponents competing for access to a scarce resource . |
| 21 | If the QDMs remain within 3° to 4° of each other when homing , or within the same amount of a desired track QDM , then do n't change heading . |
| 22 | In recognizing that child abuse and child care are not discrete areas we should start from the premise that the understanding and skills developed in relation to child care should inform our approach to child abuse . |
| 23 | Since sexuality is so deeply inbuilt in us , it is there from the beginning and only its manifestations change from infancy to old age . |
| 24 | She felt her heart thump in reaction to the stress she had been under . |
| 25 | It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars . |
| 26 | but it skims across the surface of the water and it 's very quick , it only takes half an hour to go from Ramsgate to Dover . |
| 27 | The icons change from level to level , but the effect remains the same . |
| 28 | Peter Monteith 's gallant campaigner ran unplaced on the Flat at Ayr just 48 hours previously but , though still to score on the level , he has now amassed four hurdle wins in addition to 12 over the bigger obstacles . |
| 29 | ‘ proceed to a particular point ’ means e.g. to signal the driver to go from A to B or start a particular line of traffic etc . |
| 30 | Ideologies change in response to material circumstances and needs and the 1970 rock/pop shift was not just the result of some random play of stars and influences . |