Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Michelin guide to Perigord will reveal a castle either preserved or in ruins at each of these places , though one would need to go off the map to Mareuil-sur-Belle , as well as Vieux-Mareuil , to identify all the three donjons which Pound speaks of in that vicinity . |
| 2 | The sensation therefore was immense when he abandoned cricket , and a life of wealth and ease , to go as a missionary to China . |
| 3 | Well that 's the first first I 've heard about the change to it . |
| 4 | It is often helpful to create several small files ( 5-10 entries maximum ) with varying layouts and indexing as an aid to discussion at the design stage . |
| 5 | This puts industry off voluntary controls and it tends to wait for a law to be brought in . |
| 6 | Does the Minister agree with the view therefore , that nurses that nurses should be given the authority to admit patients to hospital provided there is a bed without having to wait for a decision to be to be made by a doctor ? |
| 7 | Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh . |
| 8 | Speaking before the ASEAN standing committee in September 1984 , the Malaysian Foreign Minister declared that it would be a mistake to wait for a solution to the Kampuchean problem before making attempts to implement the idea of the zone of peace , freedom and neutrality . |
| 9 | I must ask my right hon. Friend to wait for an answer to his question about persistent offenders . |
| 10 | A little struggling lilac tree in the back yard died , because , Belinda said , too many men had pissed on it , out the window , not bothering to wait for the lavatory to be free . |
| 11 | ( 5 ) Because of the exemption for anything done in pursuance of a scheme of arrangement under s153(3) ( e ) , it should in theory be possible for financial assistance proposed to be provided as part of the Court Scheme to be implemented immediately ( because the target is bound by the scheme when it becomes effective ) without the need to wait for the target to be re-registered as a private company and the private company exemption procedure followed . |
| 12 | Firemen had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe . |
| 13 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
| 14 | In the 1920 's a new high altar and reredos was erected as a memorial to those parishioners who had died in the First World War . |
| 15 | The handsome wrought-iron gates of the Palace were erected as a memorial to Edward VII . |
| 16 | Defeated election candidate Paul Rayner has honoured a pledge he made during the campaign to members of Middlesbrough 's Muslim community by writing to the new Home Secretary with details of long delays experienced by would-be immigrants . |
| 17 | The new knowledge is acquired through changes in the prices of resources and of products , brought about by the bids and offers of the entrepreneur-producers who are eagerly competing for the profits to be won by discovering where resource owners and consumers have ( in effect ) underestimated each other 's eagerness to buy or to sell . |
| 18 | Above 200 ° C the flame is self-sustaining , so the igniter is released while the cock is gradually opened further and the hum builds through a howl to a shrill scream . |
| 19 | At each interim valuation the builder will pass the original nominated invoices received during the month to the quantity surveyor for inclusion in the interim certificate and payment . |
| 20 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 21 | This action brings pin 3 of IC2 down to near zero and shuts off the drive to the switching transistor TR1 . |
| 22 | It is unfortunate , therefore , that doubts about the extent to which its character has changed should occur just as Germany has chosen to abandon one of its strongest symbols of guilt , its constitutional right to asylum . |
| 23 | It was only halted after a massive nationwide media campaign orchestrated by conservationists , but nearly every year Arizona congressional representatives push for a dam to be built at mile 238 , which would inundate most of the lower Grand Canyon . |
| 24 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 25 | Not all the crew was impressed with the wild beauty however , although Dave Scadding , my number one really fell in love with Scotland , so much so that he applied for a transfer to Kirkwall on our return to Southampton . |
| 26 | In the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday , a banking syndicate headed by HongkongBank Australia applied for a trustee to be appointed after Mr Bond , 53 , failed to repay about £110 million arising from a personal guarantee he gave on a loan to his former Greenvale nickel project . |
| 27 | Vinelott J rejected the SFO 's argument that it had an untrammelled right to require the production and use of the evidence in the transcript ; that argument had been advanced and rejected when the liquidators applied for an order to examination ( In re Arrows Ltd [ 1992 ] 2 WLR 923 ) . |
| 28 | When the appellant received notice of the order , he applied for the order to be set aside on the grounds that he had no notice of the proceedings and had nothing to do with it . |
| 29 | The adventure story was particularly favoured as a genre to be attempted by the aspiring writer : |
| 30 | We considered various possibilities , but as neither of us could drive far and neither of us could face airport hassle , we decided to go for a week to Wales . |