Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] to [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmworkers led animals to safety as firemen tackled the blaze in a garage and storeroom at East House Farm , Kelloe , near Durham at about 4am . |
| 2 | They would have torn Corbett to shreds if the grille had been raised . |
| 3 | ( In 1985 the IMF stopped aid to Vietnam after the country defaulted on interest payments , insisting that the outstanding $130,000,000 debt be repaid before lending was renewed . ) |
| 4 | Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach . |
| 5 | So confident is BMW of its fuel efficiency and smoothness that fifth gear is now direct drive instead of an overdrive , an interesting move that adds flexibility to performance when pressing on , and the ability to trickle along and pull away in high gear with a minimum of protest . |
| 6 | The family moved south to Devon when she was twelve . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Woolworth to Comet group Kingfisher bounced 3p to 544p as it reported profits in line with forecasts . |
| 8 | Export values rose 7pc to £29.6bn while imports were up 6.5pc to £34.1bn . |
| 9 | Anglian Water firmed 3p to 480p while Thames Water went 3p better to 504p . |
| 10 | His first signings were The Shop Assistants , whom he helped sign to Chrysalis after they notched up several hits in the independent charts . |
| 11 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 12 | A false report of a bid for Williams Holdings by the Barclay brothers sent its shares leaping 55p to 280p before denials saw them crashing back to 239p . |
| 13 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 14 | Marx assumed that the capitalist has access to power because of his position as owner of the ‘ means of production ’ and therefore ‘ buyer ’ of workers ' services . |
| 15 | Export values rose 7% to £29.6bn while imports were up 6.5% to £34.1bn . |
| 16 | It is normal to request respondents to advertisements whether they telephone or write , to : |
| 17 | Depending on how well Very Visual does , it will probably need $5m to $10m before its cash-flow is positive . |
| 18 | Savoy A shares rose 93p to 578p while Forte was unchanged at 173p . |
| 19 | It is the first time all 22 Premier League chairmen have come face to face since the Noades-inspired walk-out last September when the so-called ‘ Platinum Eight ’ clubs blocked a £10million Bass sponsorship deal . |
| 20 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 21 | Rather than seeing responses to questions as simple indicators of factual properties , these theorists saw them as data from which it was possible to make inferences about the dispositional and motivational character of social actors ' behaviours . |
| 22 | It is not a disease in itself , but a condition which may give rise to problems if not controlled . |
| 23 | The division of the insurance money in the event of termination can give rise to uncertainty if not provided for in the lease . |
| 24 | Regions were free to allocate revenue to districts as they wished . |
| 25 | A lot of these queries , or some of it stems from the fact that we 're also conscious of the fact that we ca n't keep passing things to Gary when he 's only got one person |
| 26 | The league said it would not send cats to Coundon as it had heard of a case of a kitten being used as live bait for dogs . |
| 27 | The judgment was the first major decision on the issue since the Supreme Court 's June 29 decision , in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey , upholding the constitutional right to abortion but accepting a state 's right to restrict access to abortion as long as it did not place an " undue burden " on those seeking a termination [ see pp. 38954-55 ] . |
| 28 | It was possible to settle for Canning 's amelioration policy which , if it worked properly ( and about this there was some scepticism ) , should itself bring enlightenment to slave-owners as to their own best interests . |
| 29 | Half-year results from British Gas left the group a penny weaker at 329p although RTZ , the world 's biggest mining group , added 4p to 721p as it produced profits in line with the City 's expectations . |
| 30 | So have to scamper round perimeter of operating roundabout shouting instructions to two-year-old while preventing four-year-old ( riding Prancer ) from taking out small Birmingham person on Tosca next to him with his fists . |