Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its running expenses are provided by Marburg University , and Volkswagen and IBM are paying handsomely for its computerisation and networking to other institutions . |
| 2 | Scott looks back at it as someone who has learned a great deal and contributed to shifting opinion about private and statutory sector relationships . |
| 3 | In the course of receiving treatment for a heart condition , Hinrich Medau became deeply interested in the work of Dr Ludwig Schmitt , who believed that a healthy state is more likely to be maintained where there is lively blood circulation and breathing to full capacity . |
| 4 | The systematic treatment of modus as trust is a feature first of the Severan period , a movement which began , as Gordian describes , with trusts of freedom but which gained momentum and spread to other types of trust as well . |
| 5 | The exciting outfit were constantly recording John Peel sessions and playing to ecstatic audiences , which often included Gedge . |
| 6 | His last thought before closing his eyes and succumbing to overwhelming tiredness was , ‘ I hope Elizabeth 's got that stewpot on . ’ |
| 7 | Export credit agencies provide insurance against certain defaults to the exporter and guarantees to specified banks against which the banks advance the appropriate currency at a preferential interest rate . |
| 8 | 3. monitor and respond to anti-vivisection propaganda , provide information to the media about the use of animals in research and train speakers to take part in debates , discussion programmes , interviews , etc . |
| 9 | Because of the strategic nature of the services and products provided by the major state enterprises , and because of their monopoly position , industrial conflict may cause widespread disruption and lead to severe political embarrassment for the government . |
| 10 | Germany then rapidly emerged as the greatest industrial and military power in Europe , an object of fear and envy to other states . |
| 11 | If we do , we can banish one of the parties and return to one-party rule . |
| 12 | Nightlife is generally quiet in Scheffau , though as you 'd expect from such a friendly Tyrolean resort , fondues or barbecue parties and dancing to local music in the hotels and disco are all on offer . |
| 13 | Early in 1826 Hoyle wrote again to the Goldsmiths about the School , " setting forth the scantiness of its yearly funds and alluding to various repairs and expenses which have been occasionally borne at his charges , amounting to about £130 , and … the Wardens are satisfied that a very considerable increase has taken place in the Rents of the estates left for the Endowment of the School , affording means to the Company for extending the benefits of the institution " . |
| 14 | Nowadays , people all over the world unequivocally reject the idea of gulags , yet they are still willing to let themselves be hypnotised by totalitarian poesy and to march to new gulags to the tune of the same lyrical song piped by Eluard when he soared over Prague like the great archangel of the lyre , while the smoke of Kalandra 's body rose to the sky from the crematory chimney . |
| 15 | It is equally undeniable that they derive great pleasure from physical confrontations with rival groups of supporters and go to great lengths to evade the authorities and make such confrontations possible . |
| 16 | When this innovation is introduced to its tennis shoes , probably in 1994 , it will , claim Reebok , significantly enhance the performance of the wearer , by allowing him or her to adjust , by inflation of the mid sole , the cushioning in the forefront or heel to suit their weight and to adapt to different playing surfaces . |
| 17 | If not , note indication and apply to airborne indications . |
| 18 | In short , what the figures confirm is that the major achievement of building societies is to take funds from surplus units within the personal sector , to supplement these with lending from other sectors and to lend to personal sector units who wished to go into deficit to buy houses . |
| 19 | Condominium could be a divisive practice and lead to private war . |
| 20 | The phonetic orthography of both the Cyrillic alphabet of Serbia and the Latin alphabet of Croatia and Slovenia made for easier communication and understanding among the Yugoslav peoples and led to common political action . |
| 21 | He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital . |
| 22 | Children as young as six and seven work in textiles and leather , unprotected from fire-risk and exposed to poisonous substances which induce respiratory and central nervous system disorders . |
| 23 | Lett-Haines was complex and sophisticated , a natural organizer and dedicated to expanding recognition of Morris 's art . |
| 24 | I left the hospital with Drew 's warning eating away at my subconscious , but I knew that I must keep faith with Toby and talk to Froggy 's sister . |
| 25 | On the by-elections , Langbaurgh strongly suggests that the Labour party will not have the chance to implement its half-baked proposals for a Scottish Assembly , as proposed by the Scottish Constitutional Convention — it would increase taxes , be a constitutional impossibility and lead to constant feuding between Westminster and Edinburgh . |
| 26 | The ROS membrane was then bleached by continuous white light and subjected to freezing and thawing . |
| 27 | As words are spoken they are identified by the system 's 80,000-word dictionary and converted to digital text which is immediately displayed on screen . |
| 28 | Buzz had read newspaper accounts of old people who had been forcibly removed from their homes and admitted to nursing homes ; such people had been robbed by the very guardians who were legally supposed to care for them . |
| 29 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 30 | Science education was envisaged , as David Layton tells us , by some early nineteenth century radicals like Richard Carlile as undermining dogma and leading to social emancipation . |