Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rugby Union : Hull kicks RAF to victory |
| 2 | Rugby defies slump to inch ahead at £57.6m |
| 3 | City Diary : Sugar link adds spice to story |
| 4 | ‘ Computer has answer to problem . |
| 5 | When scientists perform experiments which demonstrate that brain damage causes disruption to animal behaviour patterns , this does not indicate that the source of instinctive behaviour lies in the brain . |
| 6 | Lang adds £28m to community care cash |
| 7 | This figure covers losses to GDP in Malawi , Zimbabwe , Botswana , Zambia , Tanzania , Swaziland and Lesotho . |
| 8 | Although the screening increases capacitances to earth , these capacitances are definite , and extraneous potential differences are excluded from the arms of the bridge . |
| 9 | Dan Sperber takes Lévi-Strauss to task for claiming that kinship systems should be regarded as a language with the circulation of women taking the place of the circulation of words : |
| 10 | Question : What do you do when your 7000 gallon Koi pond falls prey to subsidence and springs a leak ? |
| 11 | The meaning of intention gives rise to difficulty . |
| 12 | Here the limestone of the Force gives way to peat moorlands pierced by disused coal pits , abandoned long ago but temporarily revived by the villagers during the coal strike of 1926 . |
| 13 | GETI gives access to information contained on any edge . |
| 14 | For example , in Marx feudalism gives rise to capitalism because of the conflict between serf and landlord . |
| 15 | City : National Savings attracts £7.5bn to post record year |
| 16 | But if fear gives way to fury — as has happened with the formation of this vociferous pressure group and watchdog — those feelings need no longer be followed by a sense of frustration and impotence . |
| 17 | If the historical trajectory of the Scrapbook is followed ( SI through Fluxus , Heatwave , King Mob , Jamie Reid , Vivienne Westwood , and the Sex Pistols ) the Situationist role for the intellectual as an informed but passionate critic gives way to philistine incitements to violence ( typified by King Mob in Britain , the Motherfuckers in the USA , and also indirectly the punk phenomenon ) but more commonly a laidback and philosophically weak critique of everyday life . |
| 18 | The Electricity Council is the central co-ordinating body for the industry and the Management Services and Manpower Branch of the Industrial Relations Department provides advice to management side negotiators on specialist manpower issues . |
| 19 | GP loses challenge to advertising rule . |
| 20 | GP loses challenge to advertising rule . |
| 21 | Simon Patiño , the family 's patriarch , who rose from being a clerk in a mining supplies store to owner of the largest known tin deposit , accrued revenues from the manufacture of nearly every tin can and piece of tin foil and was ultimately appointed a representative of the Bolivian government in Paris . |
| 22 | Print check points way to trickster |
| 23 | IBM SHIPS POWERPCs TO APPLE , SAYS THIRD PARTY CHIP SALES ARE VITAL |
| 24 | The problem that my hon. Friend rightly highlights of there being no closing doors on trains between smoking and non-smoking areas exposes children to smoking . |
| 25 | Disease and lack of fitness are closely related — disease causes lack of exercise , but more importantly , lack of exercise increases susceptibility to disease . |
| 26 | We have explained elsewhere in this book that the government sector gives rise to taxation and expenditure flows ( see Chapter 6 ) and that the external sector gives rise to export and import flows ( see Chapter 7 and Appendix 2 to this chapter ) . |
| 27 | In the presence of fibrin , tissue type plasminogen activator converts plasminogen to plasmin , which subsequently cleaves the chromogenic substrate . |
| 28 | Badminton : Hall runs Baddeley to ground . |
| 29 | STENCIL RANGE BRINGS INDIVIDUALITY TO ROOM REDECORATION |
| 30 | Studying the history of other societies from their own perspectives and for their own sake counteracts tendencies to insularity , without devaluing British achievements , values and traditions ; vi ) to train the mind by means of disciplined study . |