Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demonstrators on a march in Hong Kong on April 5 , organized by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democracy Movement in China , were urged by leading liberal Yeung Sum to cherish freedom of speech while they could , and to continue drawing attention to the denial of such freedom in China . |
| 2 | During the political unrest of Edward II 's reign , Eastry sought to restore tranquillity to the realm . |
| 3 | For those of you who feel the need to get away from it all , Edinburgh is uniquely placed to provide access to the untamed magnificence of the Highlands , a mere hop and a skip up the A9 . |
| 4 | Substitutes have been developed in the past but failed to absorb water to the extent that ivory does . |
| 5 | As the discussion of power in Chapter 2 showed , pluralist approaches have explicitly rejected the notion that one can derive a causal explanation of policy outcomes based upon the congruence of the policy outcome with the interests of a particular group or class — that the congruence between the policy outcome and the interests of a group offers strong evidence to support ascribing power to the group . |
| 6 | Islamic independent candidates failed to secure election to the executive bureau . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom failed to secure re-election to the Commission for a further three-year term , for only the second time in the Commission 's history . |
| 8 | It is only when the husband , by meeting the liabilities which his wife has incurred ( whether for necessaries or not ) to a particular tradesman , has ‘ held her out ’ as his agent , that the tradesman is entitled to hold the husband liable until he has received notice to the contrary . |
| 9 | The British Technology Group has developed Laserfix to the prototype stage , but will not say how much it cost . |
| 10 | In Britain , for example , since the late 1960s policing , rather like the National Health Service , has fallen prey to the belief in the ‘ technological fix ’ . |
| 11 | IF THE Queen wants to restore credibility to the royals she should back a ban on blood sports . |
| 12 | Wembley chairman Sir Brian Wolfson has given permission to the former England captain 's family for a match in his honour . |
| 13 | A Paris conference on the Amazon forests has given publicity to the continuing destruction of the area . |
| 14 | In this sense it is significant that , unlike in France and Britain , no politician of note has given voice to the growing disquiet in Germany about the move in Europe towards a Federalist state . |
| 15 | Indeed arguably the only reliable evidence of who has given money to the Tory Party is the honours list which is published twice a year ! |
| 16 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |
| 17 | AFTER a week mulling over Budget proposals for offshore tax reform , British Petroleum has given support to the Chancellor 's moves to encourage more efficient oil and gas production . |
| 18 | But the Banbury environmental research group which has given evidence to the select committee on energy over Harwell says the reasons for the shut-down are more complicated . |
| 19 | The principle of non-intervention has given way to the need for legal response to international wrong-doing , coupled with responsibility for such acts . |
| 20 | The former belief that the Prime Minister was prim us inter pares ( first among equals ) has given way to the realisation that the office-holder is primum mobile ( the first mover ) . |
| 21 | It is in this form that I would express the challenge of the social and medical revolution which has given rise to the modern problem of old age . |
| 22 | Since the 16th century the ease of hybridising all these naturally occurring forms both in nature and by the gardener has given rise to the delightful range of varieties we now grow . |
| 23 | The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign . |
| 24 | This situation has accelerated the user experience of expert systems , and has given rise to the increasingly sophisticated applications in which expert systems can have combinations of simulation facilities , database links , graphic interfaces and speech recognition facilities . |
| 25 | Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation . |
| 26 | In 1972 , 41% of women over 16 were daily cigarette smokers ( a figure that had been fairly constant since the 1950s ) whilst in 1986 that figure was 31% , compared with 52% and 35% for men [ 1 ] : this has given rise to the assumption that women find it more difficult to give up smoking than men . |
| 27 | At no time did the defendants tell the plaintiff of Mr. Perot 's proposed purchase of Vertigo and it is this fact which has given rise to the present litigation . |
| 28 | The most probable outcome of all class struggles , according to this view , is civil war ; and it is the use of the term ‘ revolution ’ in this context by many Marxists , and by other radical thinkers , which has given rise to the close association in modern thought between the ideas of revolution and armed conflict . |
| 29 | The capability of removing women 's eggs and placing them in another woman 's womb , has given rise to the question for the first time in human history who is the biological mother ? |
| 30 | The comparative study of political systems and especially public policy-making has given rise to the belief that the distinction between politics and administration is artificial and that the role of administrators can not be settled by a definition which relegates them to a purely instrumental position . |