Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made persistent phone calls to Lynsey , visited her home , invited her to drinks and dinner — and trapped her in his surgery when he was alone . |
| 2 | ‘ Who made that phone call to the police at the airport ? ’ she asked . |
| 3 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 4 | Bend the pipes to connect each tap tail to the supply pipes |
| 5 | To stimulate regional economic development , the EC agreed advanced technology transfers to offices located in Argentina , Colombia , Chile , Uruguay and Venezuela , and also to support training for small and medium-sized businesses . |
| 6 | But in a game of few clear openings , Gunn coped well and the absence of the Sudbury 'keeper , who took two heavy knocks in the opening exchanges , made little material difference to the pattern of the game . |
| 7 | A flight comprises four vehicles called transporter-erector launchers ( TELs ) , each carrying four missiles ; two launch control centres ( LCCs ) , one to feed the necessary information to the missiles before firing and the other to act as back-up ; lightweight fibre-optic cables which connect each launcher vehicle to the control centres ; long-distance communication links ; and other vehicles to protect against attack by saboteurs or Russian soldiers and for repairs . |
| 8 | Junior education minister William Shelton took the chance to announce a further £9 million cash injection for the MEP , bringing total government funding to £20 million . |
| 9 | To take privatisation further , and bring private business skills to the aid of the public sector . |
| 10 | German Economics Minister Jürgen Möllemann visited India on Nov. 19 , while on Nov. 8 German Economic Co-operation Minister Carl-Dieter Spranger announced that development assistance to India would be cut by 25 per cent in 1992 from its current level of DM395,000,000 ( US$245,000,000 ) because of India 's " excessive armament " . |
| 11 | This has traditionally given lower role status to those who work in the field , but has also made their language learning goal an educational and care one . |
| 12 | Theoretical methods for transforming total intensity anomalies to vector-field anomalies have been studied . |
| 13 | Side chains Lys23 and Thr25 on the ribbon surface of each subunit make direct hydrogen bonds to the edges of base pairs ( Figs 1 b and 2c ) , making the major contribution to sequence specificity in the complex . |
| 14 | In the first of a new series problem-solver , Nigel Colborn , offers some planting solutions to garden hot-spots |
| 15 | Members are reminded that the Banks sold Extended Opening Hours to the Labour Court on the basis of significant additional jobs , to such an extent that the Court , in its Recommendation 13601 states as follows : |
| 16 | On at least one occasion in his reign , in 864 , Charles applied this conversion system to the currency of the realm in an exercise known as a renovatio monetae : a renewal of the money . |
| 17 | In Jobling , the plaintiff might have been able to claim social security benefits to partially compensate for his losses . |
| 18 | German Travel offers daily economy flights to Germany starting from £78 . |
| 19 | The bank estimated that Sri Lanka would require a total of $2,400 million during 1990-92 to finance the current-account deficit , to repay short-term loans contracted during the suspension of the SAF and to restore foreign exchange reserves to an acceptable level . |
| 20 | For my own peace of mind , I have to see this man face to face . |
| 21 | Every tale — depressing as it is in its own right represents another body blow to the leasing industry . |
| 22 | Just as he had done on over 100 occasions during the previous three years , the seller sold some animal food to the buyer . |
| 23 | She pinned old movie stills to the black beams so that the guests could play at guessing what they were from and gazed for too long at a film-still of Peter Finch and a male lover , pondering the nature of sexual passion . |
| 24 | Whether handing over stretches , or allowing light railway lines to be built alongside BR lines , it insists on running special training programmes for the LRT workers to ensure their security on the track . |
| 25 | But why I am pleased that this has been , that the amendment has been accepted is because of the words and that projection 's been made of the eventual revenue requirements to enable proper future provision to be budgeted for . |
| 26 | The system is completely automatic and produces high purity gases to 99.999 per cent . |
| 27 | You know start off and then they 'll drag drag drag and it needs that completer finisher to actually get that close it down and say right that 's done , off it goes . |
| 28 | The VideoVGA 16 Desktop Video Production System , is a hardware-software bundle designed to provide complete production capabilities to personal computer-based video producers . |
| 29 | In fact , the P.A. Consultants ' 1987 review of enterprise zones concluded that the capital allowances in the zones had begun to attract private finance capital to the north and north west , since incentives raise the yields to those levels required by the investors . |
| 30 | Constitutional provisions affirming each Union Republic to be a ‘ sovereign Soviet socialist state ’ with the rights to secede and to enter into foreign relations are honoured faintly in appearance , but by no means in substance . |